Hi guys, I'm new to the forum but I wanted to start a post on how you came to play and/or buy your first musicman. A year or two back I was lucky enough to go to my local guitar center who I knew the head tech(left to start his own guitar shop), and after seeing me fall in love with an american standard jazz, pointed me towards the clearanced musicman stingray. After playing it I still had my mind on the jazz bass, but respected the musicman. The next day when I was going to make a down payment on the jazz bass, he pointed me towards the stingray again. They clearenced it all the way down to cost at 1100 with the case.
I respected the bass but didnt fall in love with it like I did the jazz until I realized why. The ampeg classic svt amp I was playing on had its gain down to have of what I was use to. I reconsidered everything and rematched the guitars including the american standard p bass. After having multiple people tell me to snag it before I noticed my stupid error, I started to realize why.
I appreciated the cut through tone that was produced on the jazz bass, but with added gain, it really only emphasized a brighter sound. Messing around with the Stingray's versatile 2 band eq, I started to notice an array of sounds that are some of the most beautiful tones I had ever heard. After taking a few days and having the store put the musicman behind the counter(don't want anyone to steal it out from under me), I finally made up my mind to put the down payment on the musicman. Everyone at the store did not understand why it had the most beautiful flamed vintage lacquered neck on it, but after I had recieved the down payment reciept I understood why.
Not only was this a classic musicman created in around 2008 in a beautiful butter cream with tortoise shell pickguard and rosewood fretboard, but it was one of the originals created of that series, as it was first known as the Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray Classic Deluxe. The icing on the cake was that this very bass guitar appeared in the Guitar Center Plantinum series guitars at a whopping $2567. The reason they marked it down was that it had stayed in the store for +3 with very little interest due to its substantial price, being lowered from 2500 to 2300, to 2000, to 1800, to 1600(first clearance I saw where I believed the 1300 dollar jazz seemed to be a better fit), all the way down to 1100.
After paying it off from working 3 jobs during the summer time, I was able to get it back home in 10 days, right in time for my first gig with a band called bad swing. Hearing it through my vintage 4x10 + 1x15 Fender ampstack with an acoustic b300H head proved to me that it would forever be my favorite bass guitar.
I respected the bass but didnt fall in love with it like I did the jazz until I realized why. The ampeg classic svt amp I was playing on had its gain down to have of what I was use to. I reconsidered everything and rematched the guitars including the american standard p bass. After having multiple people tell me to snag it before I noticed my stupid error, I started to realize why.
I appreciated the cut through tone that was produced on the jazz bass, but with added gain, it really only emphasized a brighter sound. Messing around with the Stingray's versatile 2 band eq, I started to notice an array of sounds that are some of the most beautiful tones I had ever heard. After taking a few days and having the store put the musicman behind the counter(don't want anyone to steal it out from under me), I finally made up my mind to put the down payment on the musicman. Everyone at the store did not understand why it had the most beautiful flamed vintage lacquered neck on it, but after I had recieved the down payment reciept I understood why.
Not only was this a classic musicman created in around 2008 in a beautiful butter cream with tortoise shell pickguard and rosewood fretboard, but it was one of the originals created of that series, as it was first known as the Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray Classic Deluxe. The icing on the cake was that this very bass guitar appeared in the Guitar Center Plantinum series guitars at a whopping $2567. The reason they marked it down was that it had stayed in the store for +3 with very little interest due to its substantial price, being lowered from 2500 to 2300, to 2000, to 1800, to 1600(first clearance I saw where I believed the 1300 dollar jazz seemed to be a better fit), all the way down to 1100.
After paying it off from working 3 jobs during the summer time, I was able to get it back home in 10 days, right in time for my first gig with a band called bad swing. Hearing it through my vintage 4x10 + 1x15 Fender ampstack with an acoustic b300H head proved to me that it would forever be my favorite bass guitar.
