Insanely tight and consistent playing. HUGH THANK YOU I've installed the same thing along with the EMG 2 Band 1 knob EQ. In Hindsight, i'd maybe go the Mid EQ instead.
So I just added an Aguilar AG4M pick up to my Sterling Sub with the stock preamp, I noticed a, lot of that high-end Stingray growl is gone because the pick up isn't as hot as the original pick up. What I do like is everything is smoother especially the E low end, I had the exact same bass a few years back and got rid of it because of the very reason that the lowend was kind flat yet farty at the same time. I've seen that putting the Aguilar preamp with bring my bass fully to life but right now I'm happy with the sound because it still has that Stingray character
Love the EMGs. Sounds really full, almost scooped low end and high end more pronounced very good for slapping, funk, rock, metal and punk. I have emgs on my bass but they are the pj set
It is interesting that the stock pickup at least to my ears sounds much better -- they just seem to be more 'open' and have more presence and growl. In my experience more 'modern' style pickups seem to sound rounder, and maybe 'gentler'. At least this was the case on a Sandberg TM4 with Delano pickups. I'm not sure if one is 'better' than the other, it's just that we are all probably used to hearing a certain sound so anything different than that naturally doesn't sound as good. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is that the high end seems to be rolled off on the EMGs even with the preamp controls at 50%. I wonder if that is normal or it has something to do with the pickups and the preamp together.
Hi. He doesn't have any preamp curcetry with EMG pickup, it's just simple passive Tone control. You should really compare Stock pickup, with preamp controls on 50% (Witch should be neutral preamp position, without any boost or cut in Bass and Trable regions) , vs EMG on Tone 100% (Witch is fully open, not attenuated pickup sound). There is also big volume boost wit preamp on 100%, witch is huge advantage in favor of stock pickup, as a well known psychoanalytic effect in production work, used to persuade listener that something louder, sounds better, as humans hearing perceives louder signals as better sounding. You should really compare 0:27 vs 1:52 Sorry on my bad English.
It took a few times of listening and re-listening, but the EMG's have a bit more clarity on the higher notes. Not sure if I'd go thru the trouble and expense of switching pickups. The stock seems to work just fine. Owners of this bass model complain about the bad stock pickups and pre amps, but I think they work just fine. I picked up a used one and it's one of the best basses I've owned in that price range. I ain't changin nuffin !
Hi Adam. Just a question. All in all are you satisfied with this bass?I'm planning to buy a similar one and I'd like to know your opinion. The stock electronics seems a bit hot to me. Overdriven I mean.
Thank you for doing a comparison of the stock to modded. I think the stock pickup sounds great and that dumping $400 or so into one of these or a SUB is not needed, although there seems to be a cult of crustation lovers hell bent on modding their basses. Good for them but I am not dumping that huge amount of $ into a lower end bass when the stock bass sounds great.
So I've seen countless SUB demos that sounds really good unfortunately they are all directly recorded. I don't do any direct playing all my playing is through an amp which is a Gallien-Kruger 700RB through an Eden XLT 4x10 and Ampeg Classic 1x15, although the SUB had a nice midrange growl unfortunately for me the lowend was flat and farty at the same time which I why I got rid of my original one year's ago and I was playing a different amp so it's not the amp. I recently added an Aguilar Pick up and kept the stock preamp, the bass lowend is way smoother and round unfortunately I lost that midrange growl (because the Aguilar isn't as hot and it's alnico and not ceramic) but not completely. I am happy with the tone but if I find a preamp on the cheap I'll probably swap it out, I got the Aguilar AG4M pick up pretty cheap so I'm not sinking a tone of money into it but in all honesty even if i sank $300 extra it wouldn't be bad because I've played enough Ray34's, 24's and American Stingrays to say these SUB basses are way more consistent in feel than the expensive one's i mentioned above, they are even more consistent in sound with the stock electronics.
Two different concepts . Tone with Coil modes VS 2 band. I know how it sounds, like stock is the stand out leader. But that's for the impatient. Sit back and realize the harmonic range of the EMG and hear how the stock has a narrow or hollow footprint. It would be beneficial to hear different styles on the right hand. But I am going to hazard an opinion. The EMG have more sonic range. The meat is fatter, the treble has more texture and even a bit more of the Pbass squish, or saturated fat. The difference is in the harmonic coloring. The Music man has it's well known character. The EMG takes it from there and fills in the blanks. If you can swing it, hold on to the EMG's and do more AB comparison with different dynamics, finger styles, genres, and with a mix of instrumentation, oh and with some modular effects. Take your time. My money is on the EMG. Easy decision. It's your artistic vision in the end. This is helpful for me , I have a Sterling Music Man with Dark Glass Tone Capsule. I'm going to grab the EMG to pair with that preamp. Thanks to you. 🙏👍😎 P.S. we also didn't hear the Stock with Bass 50-100% and Treble 0-50%. That could give us what the EMG tone knob gives us. The sub tone.
Szia! Az EMG MM-HZ az, ami teljesen passzív, de az szerintem nem felezhető. Amúgy ehhez az MM-TW-hez is jár minden elektronika, vezeték és poti, ami kell, semmit nem kell külön megvenni.
Hello, I have a question, I have a bass very similar to yours, did you physically modify the bass or did you just replace it in the circuit, does the bass with this pickup stop being active? thank you!
Hi! No special modifications are necessary, I just removed the factory pickup and electronics, then installed the EMG pickup and electronics. The EMG electronics and the pickup are also active. (The stock pickup is passive)
Stock sounds better. People waste their time thinking theres always better out there. Best players in the world could make anything sound good, its all smoke and mirrors, people trying to flog you things you dont need..
Its a reason we buy a musicman because of its one-of-a-kind tone.
Insanely tight and consistent playing. HUGH THANK YOU I've installed the same thing along with the EMG 2 Band 1 knob EQ. In Hindsight, i'd maybe go the Mid EQ instead.
So I just added an Aguilar AG4M pick up to my Sterling Sub with the stock preamp, I noticed a, lot of that high-end Stingray growl is gone because the pick up isn't as hot as the original pick up. What I do like is everything is smoother especially the E low end, I had the exact same bass a few years back and got rid of it because of the very reason that the lowend was kind flat yet farty at the same time. I've seen that putting the Aguilar preamp with bring my bass fully to life but right now I'm happy with the sound because it still has that Stingray character
Wow the the EMG sounds softer and more rounded. Not what I expected at all. Stock wins: More punch and more clarity
Love the EMGs. Sounds really full, almost scooped low end and high end more pronounced very good for slapping, funk, rock, metal and punk. I have emgs on my bass but they are the pj set
Sounds like a full bass!!
The cat in the couch left when he was about to play using the EMG. Lol.
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It is interesting that the stock pickup at least to my ears sounds much better -- they just seem to be more 'open' and have more presence and growl. In my experience more 'modern' style pickups seem to sound rounder, and maybe 'gentler'. At least this was the case on a Sandberg TM4 with Delano pickups. I'm not sure if one is 'better' than the other, it's just that we are all probably used to hearing a certain sound so anything different than that naturally doesn't sound as good. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is that the high end seems to be rolled off on the EMGs even with the preamp controls at 50%. I wonder if that is normal or it has something to do with the pickups and the preamp together.
Hi. He doesn't have any preamp curcetry with EMG pickup, it's just simple passive Tone control. You should really compare Stock pickup, with preamp controls on 50% (Witch should be neutral preamp position, without any boost or cut in Bass and Trable regions) , vs EMG on Tone 100% (Witch is fully open, not attenuated pickup sound). There is also big volume boost wit preamp on 100%, witch is huge advantage in favor of stock pickup, as a well known psychoanalytic effect in production work, used to persuade listener that something louder, sounds better, as humans hearing perceives louder signals as better sounding.
You should really compare 0:27 vs 1:52
Sorry on my bad English.
Good comparison! Thank´s!
I think, the EMG TW combined with the EMG BQC Preamp would be superversatile and very easy to install !!!
I have the BQC System on my Spector Euro5, it is great with the 3 band EQ and the parametric mid control. I really recommend it!
It took a few times of listening and re-listening, but the EMG's have a bit more clarity on the higher notes. Not sure if I'd go thru the trouble and expense of switching pickups. The stock seems to work just fine. Owners of this bass model complain about the bad stock pickups and pre amps, but I think they work just fine. I picked up a used one and it's one of the best basses I've owned in that price range. I ain't changin nuffin !
This has confirmed my suspicion that a tone and a VMC would be the perfect pairing for this pickup
The emg made it sound more like a g&l. Very interesting...
Hi Adam. Just a question. All in all are you satisfied with this bass?I'm planning to buy a similar one and I'd like to know your opinion. The stock electronics seems a bit hot to me. Overdriven I mean.
Get the double humbucker version and replace one of them with the EMG and now you have the best of both worlds and some nice sound to mix.
Which would you put on the bridge vs the neck i wonder
Thank you for doing a comparison of the stock to modded. I think the stock pickup sounds great and that dumping $400 or so into one of these or a SUB is not needed, although there seems to be a cult of crustation lovers hell bent on modding their basses. Good for them but I am not dumping that huge amount of $ into a lower end bass when the stock bass sounds great.
So I've seen countless SUB demos that sounds really good unfortunately they are all directly recorded. I don't do any direct playing all my playing is through an amp which is a Gallien-Kruger 700RB through an Eden XLT 4x10 and Ampeg Classic 1x15, although the SUB had a nice midrange growl unfortunately for me the lowend was flat and farty at the same time which I why I got rid of my original one year's ago and I was playing a different amp so it's not the amp. I recently added an Aguilar Pick up and kept the stock preamp, the bass lowend is way smoother and round unfortunately I lost that midrange growl (because the Aguilar isn't as hot and it's alnico and not ceramic) but not completely. I am happy with the tone but if I find a preamp on the cheap I'll probably swap it out, I got the Aguilar AG4M pick up pretty cheap so I'm not sinking a tone of money into it but in all honesty even if i sank $300 extra it wouldn't be bad because I've played enough Ray34's, 24's and American Stingrays to say these SUB basses are way more consistent in feel than the expensive one's i mentioned above, they are even more consistent in sound with the stock electronics.
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The single coil mode sounds f'g excellent to me.
Sounds like Stock was better. In my experience, aguilar for MM style pups and/or preamp is the way to go
The stock was good only with its eq boosted at 100% though. The EMG sounded good on its own with only a tone knob
Two different concepts .
Tone with Coil modes VS 2 band.
I know how it sounds, like stock is the stand out leader. But that's for the impatient. Sit back and realize the harmonic range of the EMG and hear how the stock has a narrow or hollow footprint. It would be beneficial to hear different styles on the right hand. But I am going to hazard an opinion.
The EMG have more sonic range. The meat is fatter, the treble has more texture and even a bit more of the Pbass squish, or saturated fat. The difference is in the harmonic coloring. The Music man has it's well known character. The EMG takes it from there and fills in the blanks.
If you can swing it, hold on to the EMG's and do more AB comparison with different dynamics, finger styles, genres, and with a mix of instrumentation, oh and with some modular effects. Take your time. My money is on the EMG. Easy decision.
It's your artistic vision in the end.
This is helpful for me , I have a Sterling Music Man with Dark Glass Tone Capsule. I'm going to grab the EMG to pair with that preamp. Thanks to you. 🙏👍😎
P.S. we also didn't hear the Stock with Bass 50-100% and Treble 0-50%.
That could give us what the EMG tone knob gives us. The sub tone.
EMG always good signal
After hearing this i put a Seymour Duncan in mine 😍
Smb4 I assume - Alnico or ceramic?
the low notes on stock pickup sounds so heavy, almost brutal kind of way. i would love if my bassist use it, compliment heavy guitars nicely.
The EMG sounded really good with the tone up on especially on single coil but I wouldn’t call it a massive upgrade, wouldn’t be a necessity.
Szia!
Van olyan Emg humbucker, ami telljesen passzív és nem kell elektronika sem, csak tone meg felező poti van?
Szia!
Az EMG MM-HZ az, ami teljesen passzív, de az szerintem nem felezhető. Amúgy ehhez az MM-TW-hez is jár minden elektronika, vezeték és poti, ami kell, semmit nem kell külön megvenni.
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Hello, I have a question, I have a bass very similar to yours, did you physically modify the bass or did you just replace it in the circuit, does the bass with this pickup stop being active? thank you!
Hi!
No special modifications are necessary, I just removed the factory pickup and electronics, then installed the EMG pickup and electronics.
The EMG electronics and the pickup are also active. (The stock pickup is passive)
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From my ears the stock pu seems to have more punch and reasonance. Also the emg seemed to brighten up as the tone knob was turned up.
i do like a stock one
however , i didn't mean the EMG is bad.
Stock sounds better all round! 🤣
0:49 stock
1:52 emg
0:28 (0:33) 1:31 1:52 (1:58)
emg sounds like a blanket over the stingray tone lol
What kind of settings did you use on your line6 ?
Hi! I don't remember the exact settings, but I used the Deluxe compressor, Ampeg SVT head and Ampeg 810 cab.
@@LisztmajerAdam Thanks ! I'll have to check these out, the 50/50 stock pickup part you played just sounds incredible to me.
What strings do you use?
The bass had factory strings (maybe Ernie Ball)
Whats the song he played?
The groove is based on "Got to be real" by Cheryl Lynn
Sounds like save your money and stick with the stock.
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lol why does that matter?
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stock 0:28
emg 1:32
It lost that Stingray growl
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The groove is based on "Got to be real" by Cheryl Lynn
Them stock pups sound perty good..jus sayin 😅
Tuning?
If I remember correctly it was tuned in standard D (DGCF)
Stock all day 👍
I've done exactly the same thing.
Stock by a mile
STOCK.
Stock better
Stock
Stock pickup sounded better by a mile IMO
Stock sounds better. People waste their time thinking theres always better out there. Best players in the world could make anything sound good, its all smoke and mirrors, people trying to flog you things you dont need..