Educate me on Musicman basses please

[Gravesend Black]

Well, if the rust is deteriorationg your sound, you use some Q-tips
to clean your ears, and then it will sound louder and more focused.

WARNING: Do NOT stick a pencil eraser in your ears.


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The sound is pretty good. but I wanted to know maybe it will be better with clean PUs, you know. But if q-tips are better to clean ears - ok! that is all I wanted to know)

 

[Golem]

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Rust on PU poles is just cosmetic.
No problem magnetically speaking.

Some companies actually charge
extra for rust .... Fender Custom
Shop and Bill Nash Guitars come
to mind [there's others, too].


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[Gravesend Black]

Yeah, thx again for your explanations.

 

[Holdsg]

rust never sleeps, so I've heard.

 

[Gravesend Black]

It should sound weird but I do not know exact info about SR5 position switch and the knobs.
The knobs from neck to the bridge - vol, treble, mid, bass? Am I right?
The switch: the neck position - neck single coil, middle position - bridge single coil, bridge position - whole humbucker? Am I right?

 

[Golem]

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The only SC is the bridge SC which is ctr position on the switch.
Front and back are humbugging, series and parallel respectively.

The knobs are VTMB front to back. Very easy to identify by ear,
especially V and B



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[Gravesend Black]

Hah, B and V were obvious, bot not the rest) Ty)

Could you tell me more about series position?)

 

[Golem]

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Series is less boomy than parallel ... a bit
less humbuggerish if you're mostly used to
typical no-choice humbuggers since those
are almost always parallel wired. It's not
really an earthshaking difference. Dual PU
SRs and Sterlings are pretty much series
at every setting [maybe all settings ? Not
too clear about 'all' vs 'mostly' there]. If
series were somehow a drastic difference
from 'tradition' then EBMM wouldn't make
the dual PU machines that way, right ?


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[Gravesend Black]

I've noticed that while parallel position is dead silent, the series is a bit noisy and single coil has pretty distinguishing noise. Is that correct in general or it is just mine instrument individual issue?

 

[Gravesend Black]

BTW should SR5 '95 have hum canceling phantom coil or only modern SR's have such a thing?

 

[Golem]

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Your "noise progression" per the 3-way switching is normal,
at least by your stated order of things. As to the degree of
noise, acoarst only comparison to some other same-model
basses would tell you if yours is excessive.

A '95 SR5 has the hum canceling coil, as would ALL 1H SR5's
except for the very earliest pre-ceramic [first version alnico]
years, which are '88 and '89 and maybe '90. I may be fuzzy
about the exactness of '88 thru '90, but '95 is solidly within
the ceramic era, always with the phantom coil.


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[Gravesend Black]

Thanks a lot!

 

[Gravesend Black]

Got a question about fingerboards.

A new maple fb looks pretty white like this

At the same time my old maple is far more darker with the yellow tinge like that

Does maple always go like that when became old? Or my fb is just to dirty? xD

 

[Gravesend Black]

(*/*)?

 

[Golem]

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Your older FB looks better .... it looks great !
Just nicely aged, not grubby. I've had some
grubby ones, with gray-ish residue from my
fingertips, originating from MY nickel strings.
Now that was reeeeallly grungy :-/

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[tbonesullivan]

i've never seen fretboard that "pale". The Tru-Oil and Gunstock Wax used in the finishing process usually darkens the color. Also I guess over time the maple turns more orange.

 

[Gravesend Black]

I've seen a lot of pics with that pale fretboards. Most of them were new.

I like my fb looks like very much. Even concerned should I remove the dirt or not)

 

[tbonesullivan]

A '95 SR5 has the hum canceling coil, as would ALL 1H SR5's
except for the very earliest pre-ceramic [first version alnico] years, which are '88 and '89 and maybe '90. I may be fuzzy about the exactness of '88 thru '90, but '95 is solidly within the ceramic era, always with the phantom coil.

According to the pdf's posted on the EB website, all of the pre-ceramic Alnico SR5s had the phantom coil, stuck on the bottom of the pickup. It seems though like they did not bring that design back, and now the SR5 H AlNiCo has a "filter" that is put on when using the middle position. My SR5 HS Ceramic has some kind of "phantom pickup" but I think that is under the pickguard next to the single coil.