I appreciate that you take stingray models that are, let’s say not perfect enough, so you can justify modding. I can’t mod my 2005 stingray because it’s the classic tone.

Thank you for making these videos. I’ve been wanting to see something like this for months. This will really help me decide on a pickup upgrade for my sub.

Best sounding Stingray i've ever heard..makes a big difference

Can't wait to hear all the other pickups!

Excellent and unexpected video Mr Lobster. Getting to listen to an assortment of boutique pickups and preamp is brilliant and very helpful as I look to spend money I don't have on equipment I don't need - but want!

Excellent, EXCELLENT idea Lobster, thanks a big lot. Can't wait for the rest of the pickups to be tested. In my main bass (I set aside the Cort and made a custom bass with moveable pickups) I have a noiseless Nordstrand '51 Precision and the Nordstrand 4-coil MM. It's a beast but there's always room for improvement.

Another great series - thanks for doing this! There's not a lot of people doing side-by-side comparisons of different pickups on the same bass setup, as it's time and labor intensive to do. This is a real help to folks either looking to improve the sound of their current bass or considering getting a custom bass built.

This is the content we've been waiting for.

I can't wait to see the comparisons 🥳

Great lobster, I really love your SUB mods !!

Trickfish IPA preamp is Fantastic!

Trickfish sounds great!

that really is a Ultimate guide👍

Series/parallel and the narrower “Jazz bass” neck width, is why I love the Sterling more.

Don't mind me, I'm just here for the badass shirt!!! Very nice video!!!

Excellent Crustation man, just what I wanted to see. I have a HB MJ 4-eb that needs a bridge pup and a better preamp. I don't want to spend all too much money on it. Funny thing about this bass is that is sounds dark but played it a few weeks ago in a band setting and it was kind of good.

Awesome shirt. I knew you had to be a rush fan!

This was my first bass, and I’ve just been wanting to put a new pickup in it!

Absolutely loving your mod series, it's giving me the confidence to mod my redsub coliseum with darkglass tone capsule. I'd like to pick your brain about configuration please.

Loving this series so far, Lobster! I was wondering, have you ever considered doing a video comparing the tonal differences of different magnet types in the same passive pickup? For instance taking a P pickup, and swapping out the pole pieces to see how the tone changes (all other construction variables remaining the same)? I saw something like that done on Darrell Braun Guitar’s channel a while back where he got A2, A3, A4, A5, A8 and Ceramic bar magnets and swapped them in the same pickup. Lots of tonal variation per magnet type. Would be cool to see if a similar comparison could be done on a bass.

She sounded amazing!!! Wow!! Any plans for a 5er Ray?!? Would love to see you mod a 5 string! It had such a killer classic stingray tone! As always great job and video lobb!!

Tomorrow I'm getting a Warmoth kit minus all the electronics so this is great. I will have 3 places for pots, 1 side-mount for the output jack. That doesn't leave must room but that DiMarzio will be great if I go with this preamp, which I most likely will since it is mostly solderless. I won't have a control plate, opting for rear-route so unless I want to drill another hole (don't want to), I guess my set up will be like yours: active only. Gonna be a big project for me.

Those big blademans are fantastic! Have a maruszczyk on order with 2 of those beasts in it.

lobster the stingray guru!

Thank you for making helpful videos like this. Typically when you ask Stingray owners about replacement parts, they just give you the good ol boomer take "why would you want to change anything"

@57precision

Жыл бұрын

I think that is because when talking about EBMM Stingrays, most anything you do is going to be a side grade at best. Unless you are talking about the John East preamps.

@ileutur6863

Жыл бұрын

@@57precision People like to tinker, I love the Stingray tone but different humbucker voicings are out there. Plus spare EBMM parts aren't always readily available

Catchy bassline!

Congrats!! you passed 30K.

I personally would have added a football plate for side mounting the output jack and installed a passive tone with a coiltap as well as the active passive mini switch just to get the maximum amount of versatility out of it

Very cool video idea LEL .For a long time there has been quite a few pickup choices for the Stingray. Another cool pickup is "Howard Ulyate pickups".. (His website is terrible though).

Great video and great Rush 2112 shirt. But I have too say its the wrong shirt for the stingray pickup video. Geddy never played a Stingray. Don't recall Geddy ever mentioning MM basses. Was always curious about that. He doesn't mention them in his Big Beautiful Book of Bass either from what I remember. None the less good video. Thumbs up.

Been patiently waiting for those albridge MM style bridges to come back in stock.

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

I love em.

I would have been tempted to use some sort of quick connector for the pickup connections to the volume pot.

My SUB did not have the 4 conductor option and had to replace pickup. This sounds great in parallel and the factory would fix so many issues with this bass if they made this the stock option.

Have you considered adding a Lakland LH3 system to a stingray? I've never seen it done, but they do offer the pickups out of the 44-94 series as stand-alone parts. Peace!

Yes I'm do excited for this!! I want to mod my stingray! :) 🤘🏻

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Zachary! This is going to be a great week :)

What's the bridge on the bass? Did I miss that episode?? Looking for a plug&play swap-out for mine...

Have you ever tried Seymour Duncan SMB-4A? Really enjoying these mod vids, thanks Lobster

Oh yeah.

Hi, Lobster! I have a Rogue Violin Bass that I want to replace the pickups but it seems like there are virtually no people who make replacements/modifications for Hofner-esque pickups that I could find. Do you think you could make a video similar to this for violin basses? (If possible?)

Of all the mods you've done on Ray4 SUB, what is in your opinion the best value upgrade? What mod gave the most improvement for the lowest cost? What is the easiest mod for a beginner to perform?

It sounds much better with the mids lower and the bass and treble boosted, I'm not a big fan of mids anyway. It does sound great though.

running to check if my ray 4 has 4 wires 🏃🏿‍♂️💨 brb

I'm meh over MM style, but The Turner Gordo Solo pickup is incredible.

I think one of the main secret ingredients of the Stingray sound is missing here. There should be a 2.2 nF cap connected directly to the pickup between the pickup’s hot and ground wires. This trick was used on the original ebmm 3 band eq stingrays. It rolls off the glass-like highs and shifts the pickup’s resonance peak to somewhere around 3-4kHz.

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this little tidbit of info! Very helpful!

@Eugensson

Жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster btw RobbieK (Rob Mods) has a lot of knowledge on it.

Hmmm...a lobster installing a fish in a stingray

I missed the point on Jonny knobs approval... I usually watch his videos. Can't remember if you are referring to one of them.

As far as I know 250k pots are recommended to use with MM pickup. 500k shows up more high frequencies and we can hear how much shrill string noise is in this demo. Correct me if I'm wrong or that was in specs for this preamp, anyways great video!

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

I think you might be right, and I see DiMarzio makes a 250k stack... Oof :( hahaha oh well, all the content is coming with 500k pots.

@AVeelcheck

Жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster No problem, that's a subtle difference though

@AVeelcheck

Жыл бұрын

You can try to make a hi cut roll-off in post production but I don't think this will be needed that much. It's up to you ofc and it still doesn't ruin value of the video! ;)

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Looking more into it, some pickups prefer 500k, some prefer 250k. Stock stingray is 250k as you said. Fear not, the other pickups sound great with this pot, though one does sound a bit too bright because of this.

@AVeelcheck

Жыл бұрын

​@@LowEndLobster You can make a comparision video with different value pots or their combinations like 250k and 500k in one wiring. Just another cheap way to fine-tune sound of the passive bass. I like the idea from this video with MM pickup in series wiring and 500k pot. Big and chunky mids + retained lively highs

K N O B S

When demonstrating, as a baseline, suggest that all controls are at 100% full on, then 50%, then off before you demonstrate EQ of jump around between series \ parallel. Keep the audience in mind. Thx for the review.

@ileutur6863

Жыл бұрын

Who the hell leaves an active preamp at 100%?

Awesome video! Is there any chance of you doing this with P Bass pickups?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@sexytrashpanda

Жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster If I could ask/suggest inclusion of the geezers, the DMarz model P and a quarter pounder, plus anything else you fancy? These are the 3 I'm sort of hovering around and would love to hear these in direct contrast without having to guess differences between multiple videos from different creators. Love your work, thank you xx

Great vidéo. What is that bridge? Rétrofit ? No need to drill new hole, fit originals holes?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Albridge, I had a separate video that was going to go before this that I had to cut because there's no room

After trying all these pups, would you swap out the pickup on an American stingray? If so, which one?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

I did! Vid is coming, you'll have to see which one I picked ;P. What's your guess?

how do I remove the string noise without turning down my gain/volume? I got the same levels in the video. As soon as I press the string, there is this noise, like the ones shown in the demo.

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

It's the pickup, it really picks up a LOT of string noise. You'll see all this week with the other pickups how different and less noisy they are.

Awesome. Quick question? Can my Harley Benton MB-4 stock pickup be ran in series/parallel? I was wanting to buy the DiMarzio push/pull pot.

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Great question Chance. Yes! It's stock wired in parallel with a separate vol for each coil. You'd probably lose the V/V functionality with a series/paralllel, but TBH doing Vol/Switch/Tone would be a solid setup for that bass.

@bordinco90

Жыл бұрын

@@LowEndLobster Awesome! Thanks for the quick response. Congratulations on 30k subs!

Is this the original Bridge or already modified?

@LowEndLobster

Жыл бұрын

Albridge bridge... I had to cut that video because MODcember is so saturated with content lol.

Route the entire body so you can put all the pickups in. 👍

Shame you don't get a nice free bottle of IPA, with the pre-amp to celebrate finishing the build🍺

Hmmm.. A Science Asylum fan.

'Bass line base-lines'.

The Ray4 stock pickup (in parallel) sounds as good as the Seymour Duncan SMB-4a. It also sounds good without an preamp. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mIp_yamOo5vNiZM.html