bizmarckie
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When you want your mustang to hit 8.3 in the 1/4 mile you don't go to the dealership and buy a factory motor do you?
But then it's lost it's Mustang heart...
When you want your mustang to hit 8.3 in the 1/4 mile you don't go to the dealership and buy a factory motor do you?
first off i love my musicman sterling 4 string, made lovingly in 1993 according to the database, but you guys are over the top with the pickup thing.
if they didn't wear out or sound worse over time then ppl wouldn't even be asking you questions about replacements!
if you don't want ppl to buy from other mfgrs then MAKE A REPLACEMENT that ppl can buy when they want to!
The sound comes from the body of the instrument more than anything regardless of what you think.
i've never seen such snobbery as this. ban me block me whatever you want but i call it like i see it. my MM with SD Alnico 3 coil pups kicks major assage in case you care.
.... I'm boring enough at present.
Funny but the 25th that everybody is raving about assumes it is alnico...it is ceramic....
It is a bongo bobbin and cover and ceramic magnet wound to a stingray 4 spec
Hi all,
..........but I am looking for advice here as to how you all think I should try and mimic the tone of my old SR4.
Help!!!
Yes there is. Someone else here told me here how to tell. Ceramic tend to have shiny pole pieces when new. Alnico are a flat gray in color. Next time at GC look at the pole pieces on a Sterling (ceramic) and compare them to a Stingray(alnico). You should be able to see the difference. Hope that helps.I don't know if the pickup was ceramic or alnico. Is there a way to tell by looking at them? I didn't get the serial #.
The SRHH sounded great too. The extra pickup definitely adds a lot of tonal options.
wrong, the Stingray went ceramic only from 2000 to 2008 so yours is alnico, after 2008 it went back to alnico.
I didin't make it up I've learn it here too.
....tried changing back to the original ceramic one and it is very different. Doesn't have the growl or bite of the alnico. Much more refined and polite.