That funky stingray tone!!

[bassmonkeee]

I don't use tab... not sure that's because I'm lazy.

I don't use TAB, either. My point was that I'm weary of any "teacher" who dismisses theory as boring, and even talks about how TAB is too much trouble.

Any teacher showing you shortcuts to flashy techniques without any foundation is worthless as a teacher. It might give you some impressive Guitar Center licks, but it's never going to help you on a gig.

I'm a big fan of ears. In fact, I'be got a 4 hour gig coming up in a couple of weeks where I'll meet the guitar player when I show up that night. 4 hours of playing follow the leader. Should be fun!

 

[bassmonkeee]

why dont you post something of your own?

Your first post in 3 weeks, and this is the best you can do? Someone pee in your cornflakes?

 

[dlloyd]

I don't use TAB, either. My point was that I'm weary of any "teacher" who dismisses theory as boring, and even talks about how TAB is too much trouble.

Yep, point taken and I'd agree. A few years ago I took on a couple of students before appreciating that teaching was a little more difficult than it looks I had enough trouble convincing them of the importance of theory without having them exposed to moronic "get-flashy-quick" schemes.

 

[Mantaray]

Mantaray,

I really don't think he's doing anything special to achieve this tone. Try setting your rig up so that you have a good amt. bass and treble place the mid on about 4 and then use the sweepable mid on your Ray to get this sort of tone. This shouldn't be too difficult.

Hope this helps,

Flywheel

Thanks for the assistance! The thing is that actually I own a 2eq SR so no mids control here. I'll 'play' with the amp a bit.

 

[StevieStingray]

well, i know this response is a few years late, but...

i was searching the forum, and this thread came up in the hit list, and i figured i'd add my $0.02

i'm not exactly sure what tone you're looking for, but i'll tell you one factor some slappers prefer: the guy has a maple fretboard [as opposed to rosewood], which tends to be a bit "brighter"

 

[RobertB]

Mantaray,

I really don't think he's doing anything special to achieve this tone. Try setting your rig up so that you have a good amt. bass and treble place the mid on about 4 and then use the sweepable mid on your Ray to get this sort of tone. This shouldn't be too difficult.

Hope this helps,

Flywheel

What sweepable mid on his Ray? To my knowledge, there's no SR with sweepable mids. You can, of course, cut & boost the mids, but "sweepable" means that you can set/manipulate (with one control) which mid frequency range to cut or boost (with a second control).

And as for the differences in his tone & yours, Mantaray, I would say yeah definitely, it's attributable to the Sterling/SR differences - for example, ceramic vs. alnico pup magnets, and maybe the eq is tweaked differently between them as well - not sure. Interesting question - comments on that anyone?

Also, as someone else mentioned, another factor is his maple board, though I don't think that difference is huge - not as significant as the electronic differences.

Later!
Robert

 

[bovinehost]

We like to say that maple is "attackier".

 

[oli@bass]

Forget Maple. Go Graphite.
Attackinesspalooza!!

 

[strummer]

Mantaray,

I really don't think he's doing anything special to achieve this tone. Try setting your rig up so that you have a good amt. bass and treble place the mid on about 4 and then use the sweepable mid on your Ray to get this sort of tone. This shouldn't be too difficult.

Hope this helps,

Flywheel

Sounds horribly difficult, since he probably does not have a sweepable mid range
But yeah, a little mid scoop should do it
So, a little treble boost, a little bass bost and you are all set

 

[73jbass]

OKAY OKAY!!


Now can somebody tell me how to achieve this sound?

Ancient Chinese secret...

 

[carpedebass]

To each his own, I suppose.

 

[INMT]

Slaping is an Olympic event for pimps and "popping" went along with "locking" in the late 70's.

 

[T-bone]

i'm not exactly sure what tone you're looking for, but i'll tell you one factor some slappers prefer: the guy has a maple fretboard [as opposed to rosewood], which tends to be a bit "brighter"

I've always heard maple is "brighter" and rosewood is "warmer" which is why both my balls are rosewood. But when I think about it, doesn't the string rest on the fret? So I could see where a fretless might make a difference in tone. Or is a matter of:

The fret is connected to the fretboard
The fretboard is connected the neck
The neck is connected to the...........

tbone

 

[carpedebass]

To each his own, I suppose.

Don't get me wrong. I love the sound of a Stingray. I just particularly get annoyed at people wanting to slap and pop all the time now...it's a tool that needs to come out of the box for the right occasion...that said, I really didn't see what was so special about his tone either...maybe I'm missing something...it happens all the time