MM SR4 Refin

Matt R. · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 2:24 am

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. · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 2:29 am

Here it is all stock and whatnot:

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

iozz · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 4:17 am

Wooo nice choice of color!

fivebass52 · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 5:39 am

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

Matt R. · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 6:37 am

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

Sec-Def · **Joined:** February 20th, 2013, 4:42 am **Posts:** 217

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. · **Posted:** July 16th, 2013, 9:05 am

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

Matt R. · **Posted:** July 19th, 2013, 5:23 pm

and thar she blows:

Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** July 19th, 2013, 6:29 pm

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

Matt R. · **Posted:** July 19th, 2013, 6:33 pm

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 · **Posted:** July 20th, 2013, 4:31 pm

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

andrew · **Posted:** July 20th, 2013, 5:33 pm

Matt R. wrote:

and thar she blows:

Yeah baby!!! :shock:

That looks cool as hell.

Matt R. · **Posted:** July 20th, 2013, 8:13 pm

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 · **Posted:** July 21st, 2013, 1:20 am

Matt R. wrote:

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. · **Posted:** July 21st, 2013, 5:17 am

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.

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