Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Special vs Ibanez SR305

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

Neck had a bad back bow, I was barely able to make it play-able. Also fret board was suppose to be made of Jatoba and it looks like rosewood to me. !!! Also Ibanez need a different bridge design, on how the bridge holds the strings, I have 3- 305 bass guitars and the first one I bought the strings just slip right through the bridge, it has bent with age from stress. Was not a good design from the start !!!

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

It features an SR5 5-piece maple rosewood neck, a rosewood fretboard with white dot inlays, 24 frets, an AccuCast B125 bridge and PowerSpan dual-core ...

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.

This bass has a, this bass, I think it's a preamp, this knob here, it's not a volume knob but it's more like a power knob or something, I'm not real s...

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 we've got a power tap, a series and the tap and then volume and then obviously front pickup and back pickup. The pickups are amazingly powerful in ...

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

This is my first 5 string bass and it sounds really good for the price point. If you want that Fieldy (Korn) clanky bass sound, this is great for that (turn your mids all the way down and lows/highs all the way up and detune a full step down)..