Alistair R
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Hi Guys,
New member here but long time Musicman owner/player from Australia.
I recently purchased a Classic SR5 from Cream City Music in Wisconsin and had it shipped to me in Australia. I really wanted the Diego blue colour and as it was discontinued and none left in Australia, I searched abroad and managed to find one of the last examples left worldwide in the US.
Upon receiving the instrument I noticed the tone was slightly different from what I expected. As I had not heard a classic stingray in person, I viewed several youtube videos to check the tone was that 'classic' stingray tone. The bass sounded as if it was in series mode, producing a similar tone to my standard SR5 with the 3-way coil switch in series mode. I would describe the tone as half-way between parallel and series.
I took the bass to my local bass shop for an pre-amp inspection as I believe the pickup may have been wired in series rather than parallel, but this was not the case. Upon further inspection, we discovered that the rear coil was dead as shown in the video below.
As you can hear the front coil has a much great output than the rear one which would explain the tone sounding like series rather than parallel, so effectively the bass is running in single coil mode with some slight hum (as expected for single coil.) I've tried to capture the difference in tone in the video below and as you can tell the rear coil has little to no output.
Questions: 1. Has anyone had a similar issue? If so, was the pickup fixable, or was a replacement required?
2. How hard is it to get a replacement pickup from musicman? I assume there is some sort of warranty in place from business I purchased from, but since I purchased internationally this may not be the case?
It would obviously be far too expensive to ship the bass back to the shop in the US. I have sent an email to the business but am still waiting a response so I thought I'd post on here to see if anyone has had a similar issue.
PS: Bass is absolutely fantastic otherwise!
If anyone has any tips, advice, experience etc your help would be much appreciated.
New member here but long time Musicman owner/player from Australia.
I recently purchased a Classic SR5 from Cream City Music in Wisconsin and had it shipped to me in Australia. I really wanted the Diego blue colour and as it was discontinued and none left in Australia, I searched abroad and managed to find one of the last examples left worldwide in the US.
Upon receiving the instrument I noticed the tone was slightly different from what I expected. As I had not heard a classic stingray in person, I viewed several youtube videos to check the tone was that 'classic' stingray tone. The bass sounded as if it was in series mode, producing a similar tone to my standard SR5 with the 3-way coil switch in series mode. I would describe the tone as half-way between parallel and series.
I took the bass to my local bass shop for an pre-amp inspection as I believe the pickup may have been wired in series rather than parallel, but this was not the case. Upon further inspection, we discovered that the rear coil was dead as shown in the video below.
As you can hear the front coil has a much great output than the rear one which would explain the tone sounding like series rather than parallel, so effectively the bass is running in single coil mode with some slight hum (as expected for single coil.) I've tried to capture the difference in tone in the video below and as you can tell the rear coil has little to no output.
Questions: 1. Has anyone had a similar issue? If so, was the pickup fixable, or was a replacement required?
2. How hard is it to get a replacement pickup from musicman? I assume there is some sort of warranty in place from business I purchased from, but since I purchased internationally this may not be the case?
It would obviously be far too expensive to ship the bass back to the shop in the US. I have sent an email to the business but am still waiting a response so I thought I'd post on here to see if anyone has had a similar issue.
PS: Bass is absolutely fantastic otherwise!
If anyone has any tips, advice, experience etc your help would be much appreciated.
