Are Sterlings typically brighter than Stingrays?

[prickly_pete]

Just a question or three here. Is click desirable when slapping? Isn't click on a fret the most complained about thing ever?

Funny how different we each really are isn't it?

I think noisy fretting would surpass any difference in woods on the neck.
Conclusion. Anyone that hears a difference prolly has a setup problem. LOL JK it could be EQ settings on the amp or maybe the choosing of round wounds when everyone should know flats are the strings supposed to be on a bass.


tk

I, perhaps, was not clear regarding my impression of the difference between rosewood and maple fingerboards. By "click" I did not mean the fret clicking one gets when playing finger style; clearly this kind of clicking is a result of setup and string type -- low action and light roundwounds, for example. The kind of click I'm referring to is noticable when slapping the strings at the base of the neck with the thumb; here maple has a more defined attack and rosewood has a more "woofy" tone. Again youe mileage may vary as to whether you can hear the differences between fingerboard woods. As an aside, I doubt that anybody on this forum has a truly scientific understanding of any guitar; all of us are just using our ears.

 

[skabassist13]

maybe it has something to do with wood density? isnt maple a harder wood than rosewood? if so it could be that the softer characteristics of the rosewood make it "absorb" more of the high frequencies while the harder maple doesnt "absorb" them as much making it seem brighter. thats my theory. but i really have no clue.

 

[Bluesbob]

I think... therefore I am... I think.

I always wanted to use that line somewhere. But I think it has to do with how the fret wire couples with the wood, and the frequencies that are attenuated (or not) by the resonances therein. I think.

 

[bovinehost]

I think lighter colored basses, like yellow and stuff? Those are brighter.

And darker basses, like brown or black? Definitely warmer.

It's the paint. Don't tell the others.

 

[Morrow]

.....ah

*smiling*



...sunburst

 

[skabassist13]

hey morrow. is your bass honeyburst? if so do you have a big picture of it somewhere on the forum?

 

[Mantaray]

I repeat!!!

Is there anybody interested in exchanging his maple neck with a rosewood?


Jongitarz is there a suggestion you can make to help me in my problem(apart from buying another musicman)?

PS

and apart from ebay

 

[philthygeezer]

Well, I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. I have two inputs to my Ampeg combo so I put one in the -15db and one in the 0db jack. Then equalized the volumes.

They sound way closer to each other than I thought. However there is a definite difference. The Stingray sounds more passive and subdued, while the Sterling is more in front and 'out loud'. When I adjust the 3 band EQ to make the Sterling sound like the 'ray it gets very close, but loses a little life in the process, making it sound less complex than the flat eq'd 2-band Stingray. So the Sterling has the same tone, but is more 'in your face' and less relaxed than the Stingray sound.

Does this description make any sense?

 

[Morrow]

hi Skabassist13 I did have one up earlier that had been tarted up in photoshop but it's been taken down. My Ray is pretty pedestrian....honeyburst/rosewood/plain white guard but that's the way I like em. I think it's a gorgeous bass.
( edit ) ....there is a pic of me with it in the" what do you look like" thread but it's not a great bass pic