Hi all,
Lurked around here for a while but this is my 1st post.
For many years I owned a 1991 SR4 Black Maple which I loved. It got stolen, I had it replaced thru insurance with an SR5 Ash Maple with ceramic Pole pieces. Eventually I got my SR4 back when it was recovered and I sold it to a friend of mine as I had my SR5.
Fast forward 3 years and I have borrowed back my SR4 and am in love with the tone - especially the meatiness when playing Slap/ Pop.
I have restrung my SR5 with Slinky's so it is the same as my SR4 but it still doesn't sound as good. I assume the main difference (besides the Ash body vs Alder) on these 2 basses is the Pickups.
I know the SR5 is now coming out with Alnico again since the release of the Sterling, but I have rung numerous shops to get an SR5 Alnico Pup but I am told Musicman will not supply them.
I am considering the Seymour Duncan Alnico replacement, 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!!!
Cheers
Steve
I certainly wasn't trying to argue whether alnico or ceramic magnets were better, just trying to help answer the original question, about getting a tone closer to a SR4.
I said the ceramic was more polite, not polite. The difference certainly isn't chalk and cheese, but there's no question that they sound different.
Wow! i don't visit my own post for 6 months and 2.5 pages of feistiness have been added!! I ended up finding a 94 SR4 and added it to my arsenal! The SR4 and my P bass became my go to basses for my covers gig.
In looking back - in 97 I borrowed a Ash Maple SR4 for a CD launch I did as a spare for my 91 SR4 I had back then. I used that Ash SR4 for the whole gig and almost cried when I had to return it! Maybe that it my ultimate SR tone for me!
It's good to be back....
Hi friends!
Sorry if i`m repetitive, but I've searched at the forum and doesn`t find my answer.
I have read a lot of different informations about how the PUs are wired at StingRay5s HH at position 1.
Some say series at Alnicos and parallel at Ceramics, anybody here has the real information?
Are them wired different at SR4s and SR5s?
The site only provides information about the current models.
Thanks a lot!
Actually, the SR5 pickups were alnico from 87-92, then ceramic from 92-08, then alnico from 08-present.
Oh! So much verbiage. And here comes Rohan from faraway Australia [who more lately lurks in Philadelphia], with mud for these clear waters..Hi all,
Lurked around here for a while but this is my 1st post.
For many years I owned a 1991 SR4 Black Maple which I loved. It got stolen, I had it replaced thru insurance with an SR5 Ash Maple with ceramic Pole pieces. Eventually I got my SR4 back when it was recovered and I sold it to a friend of mine as I had my SR5.
Fast forward 3 years and I have borrowed back my SR4 and am in love with the tone - especially the meatiness when playing Slap/ Pop.
I have restrung my SR5 with Slinky's so it is the same as my SR4 but it still doesn't sound as good. I assume the main difference (besides the Ash body vs Alder) on these 2 basses is the Pickups.
I know the SR5 is now coming out with Alnico again since the release of the Sterling, but I have rung numerous shops to get an SR5 Alnico Pup but I am told Musicman will not supply them.
I am considering the Seymour Duncan Alnico replacement, 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!!!
Cheers
Steve