I wanted a Stingray Special LH and I felt so excited when i read that is available in left handed version in the Spanish version of the website. Now i read you and I dont know what to do...
I think i will buy the new Sterling lh bass, but i have some questions because i live in a village and I cant try any left handed bass in stores:
- Is the sound very different?
- The ceramic picks sound very different?
Both basses costs the same, more or less, so It might be a good option. I mostly play rock/punk/ska
A Sterling sounds like a StingRay 5-string,
if the StingRay 5 is at least several yrs old.
Those are the ceramic PU SR-5s. The later
[and current] production has alnico PUs.
There are plenty of those ceramic SR-5s
in use, and in shops. Play one if you can.
Avoid the B-string and you will hear what
a Sterling 4-string sounds like
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There were SR5 players, some years ago,
who loved the SR5 sound but did NOT at
all like the SR4 sound. They played SR5s,
even if they didn't need a B-string, just to
get that sound.
Ultimately, EBMM built a 4-string for those
players who would play
only SR5s ... for its
sound, but
NOT for the B-string. That new
bass was called the Sterling 4-string and it
exists today, unchanged.
So, there's really two different versions of
"StingRay sound" ... two modern versions.
Then there's your old pre-EB StingRay, yet
another version. So just WHAT IS StingRay
sound anyway ? Clearly not just one sound.
I expect you'd really love a Sterling 4 as a
partner to your pre-EB SR4, and want to
bring both to every gig.
My sincere sympathy to you as a brother
in left handedness, and sincere thanks to
the brother who taught me to play right
handed from the very beginning !
