Epiphone EB-0 vs Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Special

The pickups in the neck position so it's lovely and fat and warm sounding. With this mahogany body, mahogany neck in a lovely D shape, rosy fingerboar...

Musicman stingray honeyburst with a black pickguard, maple neck and rosewood fretboard, basically davie504’s bass

If buying a new Epiphone please trust me one this.. Change the strings!!! I could not find and exact match but the closest I found in gauge were all the same except for the A string being .085 in a set of Ernie Ball Hybrid slinky roundwounds - which worked perfectly

You can access the myriad of tonal expression via the combination of a three-band EQ and a guitar style five-way pickup selector switch, and the flexi...

So let's take a listen to it. So tonally it's a very simple affair. We've got one pickup, one volume control, one tone control. So I'll give everythin...

It's... Now the 18-volt preamp also sounds amazing, and that is in part to the new neodymium magnet on the humbucker

If you're expecting the deep rumble of something like a Fender Jazz bass, don't hold your breath because the EB0 is a short scale - it has decent bass, yes, but not that earth moving deep thump. For smaller hands, the EB0 ranks right up there in playability as the Hofner Beatle Bass or one of the short scale Gretsh Bass guitars. I was a bit disappointed that the guitar required so much user attention/interaction right out of the case, but what came out of it was decent enough. I think the $200

The special has such an amazing mid range that means it will fit in the mix much better and has a more vintage tone. I absolutely adore it but I can't afford it yet so instead I'm using a Sterling with the treble cut and pressure wound strings to emulate it. Imo though the stingray special can do the classic stingray sound easily plus more sounds in a way other models can't do as well.

It still played alright, and it wasn’t one of those instruments that’s so bad as to actually make your playing worse, but there was just nothing about it that I especially liked, and plenty that I disliked. The sound was fine but it just wasn’t any fun to play.

Ernie ball music man stingray HH. I have a 2006 and had it since 2008. It’s active and the best bass I’ve ever owned in terms of playability and versatility. Can’t recommend it enough