Pic Request

[prickly_pete]

I have been searching for quite a while and I cannot find a picture of a HS Stingray 4. I have found pics of the HH 4 and 5, and the HS five, but no HS 4. Could someone post a picture or a link to a thread with a picture. Thanks.

 

[todd4ta]

Here is one from the summer NAMM, this is one of the prototypes without the control plate

 

[prickly_pete]

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

 

[TheDirtyMoocher]

are the pickup covers changing on all basses?

 

[prickly_pete]

are the pickup covers changing on all basses?

To the person who knows the answer to the above question, will the production models have the compensated nut?

 

[bdgotoh]

I'm not an expert on these things but I recall these questions being asked before and I thought the answers from the experts were:

Yes on the compensated nut

No on the pickup covers. The new HS and HH Stingrays and Sterlings are new beasts with new pickups hence the cover change. The original Stingrays and Sterlings will continue with their original pickups and covers.

I could easily be wrong here, if so I'm sure someone will come along and correct me!

 

[bovinehost]

Everything will have the compensated nut from here on. (Well, basses will, anyway. I can't keep up with those other things.)

 

[hankSRay]

Everything will have the compensated nut from here on. (Well, basses will, anyway. I can't keep up with those other things.)

Hey Jack, do you think my sterling is gonna have the compensated nut? that would be an added bonus on top of the dude lick lol

 

[bovinehost]

Prolly so. I didn't notice myself, but one of the detail-oriented guys said that during the factory tour, they saw basses with regular nuts and basses with compensated nuts and that the Big Change was underway.

 

[DBD-Bass]

This might be a dumb question, but what is a compensated nut?

Also, I got to play a SR5 HS at NAMM. It was very nice. I kind of regret buying my SR5 after I played that one. But I still love mine... I will have to get another one.

 

[hankSRay]

Prolly so. I didn't notice myself, but one of the detail-oriented guys said that during the factory tour, they saw basses with regular nuts and basses with compensated nuts and that the Big Change was underway.

Sweet. Thank you sir

 

[Mantaray]

a HS Stingray 4. I have found pics of the HH 4 and 5, and the HS five, but no HS 4.

I do not know of such things... You must be wrong. Stingray lookalikes perhaps, but definitely not Stingrays.....

 

[anthrobassist]

This might be a dumb question, but what is a compensated nut?

Also, I got to play a SR5 HS at NAMM. It was very nice. I kind of regret buying my SR5 after I played that one. But I still love mine... I will have to get another one.

someone who is on workers comp for being crazy...

i can't tell you what it exactly is but i can tell you what it does....helps the bass be in tune better.

 

[Oldtoe]

Dude and I were having this conversation and we wondered how the compensated nut would affect any notes other than open stringed ones. Once you fret the note, doesn't the compensated nut become a non-issue?

 

[SteveB]

Ben,

Yes, I do believe you are correct. The nut does nothing for fretted notes, it just improves the tuning of the open strings.

 

[skabassist13]

I thought it was for the intonation of the first few frets and not the open strings.

 

[NorM]

It will help intonation on the "cowboy frets" most noticeably. Changing the overall length of the string will effect the intonation for the entire instrument.

Fretless and Floyds don't get comp nuts. Dudley said he might be able to do a comp nut conversion for a floyd and I hope he can. On a fretless it just doesn't matter.

 

[tkarter]

They are putting Floyds on basses? Guess a dive bomb would get one a little more relief.

tk

 

[Dr. Nick]

They are putting Floyds on basses? Guess a dive bomb would get one a little more relief.

tk

I seem to recall that, back in the days when hair-metal bands roamed the earth, that Kahler offered an after-market locking trem for the bass. I think Carvin and some others actually offered it on production models, but it never seemed to catch on. Can't imagine why.

 

[hankSRay]

Well theres gotta be some kind of improvement with the compensated nut, even if its a small one. I mean EB isnt really the kind of company that does things just to make a sales point. :: cough, s1 switch, cough ::