Omg!!!Ben stiller on bass!!!!!

You can hear the Flea Tone in there. It's also nice that you can hear that big bass tone under the effects.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it still cuts! The blend knob is helpful that way too. Most of the sounds I gravitate towards are fully saturated but it does the “light dirt” thing too

Would have loved Cliff to see what Cliff B would have made of this bass. Great playing aswell Amos I wish you did instructional video’s

@mongol5538

2 жыл бұрын

Man I Would love to see Justin Chancellor playing this thing

Just watched this again mate! Easily on of the best demo’s I’ve seen. Audio, visual, and how it’s put together!

Best demo so far for this badass DarkRay, impressive.

Your playing was outstanding. Video and sound quality top shelf. Subbed. EB & Darkglass together makes for a cool bass. Without seeming like a gimmick.

Thanks, i love your musical style, good overview, not long winded, not too short, again like your style, many thanks!

This review is absolutely stellar! Great playing.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Unbelievable intro. Subbed

@RyanRapetti

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Such cool layering

@RyanRapetti

3 жыл бұрын

And I love the reverse echo emulation with the volume knob

What a fantastic demo and screen images. Instant sub.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah. Thanks!

Really great review Man! Amazing bass

I'm loosing my mind watching this and I want this bass so bad! I'm kinda freaking out. I want it!

I love Amos videos. Great video quality, humour, playing, and throwing in a cheeky RATM riff? Killer!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@moonwork4378

10 ай бұрын

Tim is awesome.

I clicked the video for the bass, I stayed (and subscribed) for that intro.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wow, sounds amazing, great riffs as usual.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

OMG the know your enemy tone was surprisingly close! sounded fantastic, thanks heaps for this amos

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah pretty close right??

This thing is totally badass, thanks for making the demo!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

That sounds great! Love Darkglass.

That's a pretty sweet looking and sounding Stingray!! I dig your playing too! Thanks for a great review also, visuals help a lot! I was thinking through the whole video, man, I'd like to hear some Timmy C come out of that thing. I was pretty excited you played a little piece for us at the end, sounded killer!!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not going to leave you hanging like that!

Love the demo!

Excellent review!

VERY cool! I'll have to play one at NAMM this year and maybe make the purchase.

Thank you for this video.

that red setting sounds incredible in every application

Great vid! Music Man is killing it lately. Quality over quantity will always win guitar world!

Awesome review 🤘🏼

Thank You Amos!! Called my dudes @ernieball & I can’t say enough about this Monster: A Lethal Weapon..

Delicious. Can't wait to get one.

Thanks Amos, very interesting.

great bass and great playing....

This is what we all needed in life

I've bought an old OLP 5 string and was planning on taking an Ibanez bass distortion pedal and installing into the OLP, and boom Musicman bring this beauty out.

No slap in a Stingray review? In the Middle Ages they set people on fire for this kind of heresy.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe I let that slip thru.

@overdriverjc8734

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmosHeller just a joke tho. Instant subscriber

@todsimpkins8908

3 жыл бұрын

Thank god for small miracles.

@marcusdavis4575

3 жыл бұрын

We have slap at home.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Definatly buying a couple of these bad boys.

dude your videos are great and you play super well too! subscriber 961!

Great demo. It’s not for me but I appreciate the knob level chart and overall presentation.

Very nice! I’ve been looking at standard stingray specials, but this is a cool collaboration. Would love to see a video someday where you do a “rig rundown” and talk about/play your personal basses. Thanks for all the great content 👍

@dafauxhawk

Жыл бұрын

Joe dart needs one for more versatility. Love all your videos sir

Nice ! I want to try this

Killer bass and great playing! A StingRay is already on steroids and now they've added more!!!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

The lily could stand some guilding after all

Nice crunchy sounds. Your settings graphics at the bottom of the screen were helpful.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad they helped! Took a while...

This is exciting. There’s been gimmicky attempts at something like this, but nothing from the powerhouse brands. Hope this thing sells a few billion units.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I was skeptical at first. But it does the Thing. And a few other Things.

This is pretty damn cool

Damn that bass is a freaking beast!😮

Revisiting this video because I got my hands on one. It rocks. Must...add....to....quiver!

Awesome sound 👌

Great review! Love that Darkglass tone. Now if I could only come up with $2.700 dollars.

Great demo video! You just got a new subscriber, and I just got a new bass! My new Obsidian black DarkRay is being shipped from Sherman Oaks, CA today. I’m beyond excited!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Woo! Welcome to the team! Everyone say hi to Jerry!

@goosegaskins

2 жыл бұрын

You digging your DarkRay? I'm seriously considering making the DarkRay my first Stingray ever... which may be nuts on my part. LOL

Man they really slapped together the peanut butter and the jelly on this one. Amazing

@henryfreeman7748

3 жыл бұрын

Peanut butter, jelly and totally bananas on a Ritz, baby!!! 😎 🕢 crazy 🐉

How long of a waiting list for this one omg 😳 totally getting this !!!

AWESOME!!

Shared on our website!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I need a 5 string version of this

@josh_ari

2 жыл бұрын

There is one now

I need this bass. Period. I also need the 2500 bucks to buy it sooooo... sounds AWESOME! Love this bass!

Aye! Lovely

Tim Commerford tone right there.

I would play the heck out of that, in fact that would be a dream bass for me if only they didn't leave out a mid knob. and honestly, on a bass, I would take a mid knob over the other two, as mids are extremely important for being heard in a mix. I wonder if they intended for the distortion to be what helps you cut through. I would really like to hear this in a live setting.

Este es el mejor demo de esa colaboración entre Ernie Ball y Darkglass... Lastima que no le colocaste opción de subtítulos

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll try to address that in the future! Thank you for mentioning it.

This is one of the reasons I need to stay away from Amos Heller's demo vids, he's so good at them and makes everything sound so great, that I'm all like "I need to take a serious look at this thing", even though I have zero desire for another StingRay-esque bass. This thing sounds pretty good, and the on-screen graphics were awesome! Unfortunately, I gotta keep watching his demos, they're just so good. DARN YOU, AMOS HELLER, AND YOUR EXCELLENT DEMO VIDS!! ;-)

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I accept the blame! I’m so sorry! 😜

What's the Meguiars product on the amp at about 2:10? Y'all using that to get fingerprints off for the b-roll?

As soon as I started watching this I was thinking to myself "Has Tim Comerford felt a disturbance in the force?". Later in the video, the planets seemed to align themselves 😆 guess what one of the main reasons for me playing a Stingray is? Great video, let's hope I can find enough pennies down the back of the sofa to purchase one of these mentalist noise generators. Thanks my friend, new subscriber incoming 👍

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to have you! And yes-I simply could not let a vid about a driven Ray go by without daring the lawyers at RageCo to come after me. Which they still might? Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the kind words and the sub!

Great video as always, Amos. If the bass sounded like my B7K, I would dig it. To me, Stingrays need a jazz neck pickup. Lows are in the wrong sonic spot for me.

Hi! Do u think the dark ray is a good bass in order to play new wave style of Music? Joy Division or Interpol genre?

Only wish they would have kept a the 3 band could have had a stack knob it’s so cool they worked with musicman, “ my favorite bass company “ they could have easily went with the Dingwall again, there’s nothing like a stingray special! I’ve owned 4 and still have two can’t have enough of them!! GET ONE! Lol

Joe Dart needs one for more versatility. Love your videos Amos

Awesome…….but why not have the headstock in black to match the body? Or some figured roasted maple for the neck? I guess it’s just a matter of opinion…I may order one of these babies for my collection!! Thanks for the video, I subscribed…

Can you disable the light?

We need a 5string version of it!

@PhilosophicalCat

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I actually emailed Ernie Ball with that suggestion (with a 35-inch scale) . You should do it too - they might make a 5-string version if enough people are interested.

@bassimprovjams3772

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilosophicalCat yes 35” I kno the released one now but not black, so black 25” string through with classic bridge 🤘

Whats the difference from a sterling darkray besides American made and the price?

This is a cool concept. If i had won the lottery id get one. I'll settle for just picking up an alpha/omega darkglass pedal for $300

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Also a viable option!

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

AO’s are so good

Settings at 7:40 doing RATM riff please? That sounded fantastic

Great video. I have a Stingray and an Alpha Omicron, so really have no need for this bass ... although as I'm watching this demo, I can literally feel the money floating out of my bank account.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I know what you mean. We’re way beyond “need” out here...

Very cool option for people who hate pedalboards :) The only thing that is lacking is an option to blend fuzz and distortion like on alpha-omicron pedal for example

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah-it’s one or the other here. I like them both but when I use AO drives I tend to like them in the middle.

I heard Geddy Lee tried Stingrays according to one of his bass techs Russ Ryan (joined Rush in the later years of touring) which he said they're good but wasn't enough to impress him, probably because of personal preference and it reminded him of his Wal I guess, might have sounded thin to him since he was still looking for his own tone, he's more into the Rickenbacker neck sound he was after switching to his 1972 Fender Jazz bass and his Tech21 gear helped him to emulate that. Imagine someone gave him this instead, especially with that distortion setting! The setting to my ears is kinda close to his Tech21 gear particularly the YYZ pedal with those distortion settings!

game changer

The problem with putting onboard drive is that it puts it first in your effects chain which isn't usually where you want fuzz and overdrive. It's fun, but I don't see this catching on.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not for everyone, and there are situations where a pedal is a better solution. As I said in the video, if you rock a dirty tone all night and don’t need a clean line this could stand in for a pedalboard altogether. I found it to be a lot of fun, and it made me realize how much of a chore reaching down to tweak pedal settings can be.

After this intro i bought a bass

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

No way! Hope you enjoy!

Are the active eq’s still available when the Darkglass circuits are bypassed? Great demo, thanks.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. The “first” position of the selector switch (light off) is clean but with the EQ still active.

Great video, I really like the tone with subtle grit added. I’m wondering though, is there much of a reason to buy this bass over a regular ray with a 3 band and a dark glass pedal?

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Good question. It depends! As I said in the vid, if you get a gritty sound and use it all night, this might let you skip the pedalboard. OR have on-hand drive options to fill out a variety of sounds. The sculpting ability is limited-drive and blend aren’t a TON of control over a drive sound, and there is no mid control. Like anything, I guess it depends how you want to use it.

@notoriouszeb3337

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, especially because a lot of people (me included) like to put a compressor in front of distortion/overdrive pedals, especially in recording scenarios . I really dig the DarkRay, but I’ll stick to my classic sting

Damn!!! can I buy the record?!!

I want this thing. But I already have an AOU. maybe I just go get stingray

Niceeeeeeeeeeeee

How heavy is it, please?

$3,000? Thats ridiculous

My dream revision to this bass: neck humbucker and a second clean preset with a mid cut for slap

I NEED a 5-string model!!!

@henryfreeman7748

3 жыл бұрын

Christmas🎅 is coming jack, maybe if I'm a really good boy a shiny new MusicMan DarkRay 5string bass will be in my stocking?😎🌈🎄

@PhilosophicalCat

3 жыл бұрын

Send them an email - I did a few months ago and they responded. Maybe if enough people express interest in it, they'll make a 5-string version

@josh_ari

2 жыл бұрын

The darkray 5 is out now

04:50 is amazing!!

That intro needs to be a song

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

So the blend is dry and wet, but you can’t blend the alpha with the omega?

@AmosHeller

2 жыл бұрын

That’s right.

Nice bass but I'm curious if they will sell the electronics separately, or at least a scaled down version with the drive knob.

@josh_ari

3 жыл бұрын

I've emailed ernie ball on that and, no.

@Brotesque89

3 жыл бұрын

@@josh_ari Sad

Amos, what would you think about someone getting this as their first Stingray? I love distortion/fuzz on bass, but I worry I'd miss that good ol' mid knob. I mean, I know that a Stringray Special is a different beast than the "classic" Stingray, anyway, but I'm guessing the Special gets one closer to that Stingray sound than the DarkRay...? Thanks for such an amazing video and review!

@pb25193

Жыл бұрын

Get the mid knob

@goosegaskins

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I did! 😃

Is a DarkRay 5 strings planned ?

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of?

Can probably pull off Do I Do tone pretty good!

@AmosHeller

7 ай бұрын

Ooh good call

The concept is interesting and you got some sweet tones out of it but how easy to activate / deactivate the tone? I have a Stingray 5 special and love it. And yea, the tuners are great and being lighter there's no neck dive really. The downside I see on this one though... With an onboard pedal, I can't disgust my guitar player with another pedal on my board that he calls "an abomination" lol. I add pedals to it just to stress him out haha. Btw... I really dig your reviews. Good usable info and tasty licks to go with it. I picked up the Alpha Omega Ultra and Microtubes X pedals based on your reviews. It was good to hear them in other styles other than driving rock or metal. They deliver today. Can't wait to add them to the "Abomination" haha.

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

It’s honesty harder to do quick switches than having a pedal (for obvious reasons). But the switch is easy to grab and has solid movement. But yeah, you can’t horrify guitar players with it as easily. Big downside. :) Glad you like the reviews And thanks for stopping by!

Cliff Burton approves

@lonewarrior1549

3 жыл бұрын

Anastasia (Pulling Teeth) \m/

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think he would

This would be a great bass for doing Muse songs I presume

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

How do u not have more subs, what

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

One at a time!

Great bass...will I have to sell my car just to get one?

Need a six string bongo version

I love everything about this but I would turn your bass up a bit in the mix

@AmosHeller

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!

ok it's cool but limited to 100 worldwide ................ But really cool video good work !!! ^^

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And yeah I just saw that too! Well I hope this video is helpful to 100 lucky people.

@francoishtzl157

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmosHeller I say wrong things about it... It's just the gray color that are limited but the black one are not

@AmosHeller

3 жыл бұрын

Good to know!