Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay Special vs Squier Classic Vibe Bass VI

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

Guitar plays great, set up pretty well out of the box and accepted a light top/heavy bottom custom Stringjoy set to comfortably play in EAEADF#. Guitar seemed to have suffered some cosmetic and structural abuse, with all of the protective plastic removed from key pieces. Pictured, one can see the pickguard as well-worn immediately after unboxing, as well as the low E (prior to stringjoy set) bent and unwinding towards the higher end of frets. Overall happy with the guitar in terms of playing, cosmetically it simply needed a new pickguard and strings immediately out of the box due to rough transit and having already been opened, played and protective film peeled

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

So that one gives you that pickup This is going into a guitar not a bass amp And you've got this strangle switch it's kind of like a a low roll-off li...

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...

It's a bass but tuned one octave down instead of 2. I can play guitar lines, and the strangle switch works great into like a Fender Princeton Reverb where you don't want to harm the 10" speaker. This is my second Squier from Amazon, the first one was delivered in an open box and NOT in mint/new shape. It had some problems from most likely bouncing around opened for a couple of days