MM SR4 Refin

[Matt R.]

I just got the body of my recently acquired Stingray refinished in sonic blue. I had it done by Marty Bell. I'm on vacation and he emailed me the pix the other day, so I will get it together sometime next week. It'll have a mint green pick guard. I think it looks pretty damn good:

http://imageshack.us/a/img163/7770/gbae.jpg


(I will of course be spamming you with pix of the completed project ASAP).

[Matt R.]

Here it is all stock and whatnot:

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/7669/sjq2.jpg

[iozz]

Wooo nice choice of color!

[fivebass52]

It did look good stock... so I'm reserving judgement for the re-assembled upgrade....

[Matt R.]

Yeah it looked good to begin with. The pic looks better than real life honestly. The grain was super boring.

[Sec-Def]

that pic looks kinda instagramish, took it with an iphone?
those things are saturated as fuck, it's like over compression of music but with pictures.
that's why we keep getting pictures of salads and shit in our facebook feeds. i
it makes a lettuce salad look awesome. let alone the grain of a guitar.

[Matt R.]

Yeah the pic of it in natural was taken with my phone

[Matt R.]

and thar she blows:

[Frenchy-Lefty]

Looks like a classic. I like the cream guard. Sometimes I miss my Stingray but then I remember the infamous "weak G"

[Matt R.]

It's actually a mint green guard. Those guards are hard to photograph. I'm thinking of maybe trying a Seymour preamp to see if it cures the G problem.

[fivebass52]

Looks great Matt! Just curious - what's the back-story behind the "infamous weak G"? Just how weak is it?

[andrew]

and thar she blows:

Yeah baby!!!

That looks cool as hell.

[Matt R.]

Thanks guys, I think it's pretty damn cool.

RE the weak G issue- The G string on SR4s are notorious for sort of getting lost in the mix. When you play the bass by itself, there's no problem and the volume seems even, but as I said, in the mix the notes sort of lose "body" in my opinion. I don't know for sure what the cause is. But google it and you will find volumes of posts on the issue on all kinds of forums.

[andrew]

Thanks guys, I think it's pretty damn cool.

RE the weak G issue- The G string on SR4s are notorious for sort of getting lost in the mix. When you play the bass by itself, there's no problem and the volume seems even, but as I said, in the mix the notes sort of lose "body" in my opinion. I don't know for sure what the cause is. But google it and you will find volumes of posts on the issue on all kinds of forums.

My EBMM definitely had that issue, but swapping the preamp and pickup helped with that quite a bit. I've read different theories on it's cause and it also doesn't seem to be a universal issue, just on some people's basses, so it's hard to get a precise answer on how to fix it.

[Matt R.]

Yeah. I've had it on every SR4 I've played but not my SR5s as long as I run the selector switch toward the neck. I have a Seymour Duncan preamp coming for this bass, so we'll see if that does anything.