Anyone try the Harley Benton Stingray clone? I heard it was good and saw some decent demos on it.
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Cover of Norwegian Wood on Solo Bass 
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Quite interesting. Well done I must say.
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Very well done!
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Gorgeous Ibanez. Love the tone. Perfect for this song. Well played!
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Very nice @trygh,
The surrounds suited the song, plenty of getting around the fret board 
Your playing style is similar to Alan Anton from Cowboy Junkies, very cool 
Cheers Brian
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Paul McCartney plays with his thumb too 
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have you seen the Lowend Lobster review?
He reviewed it once
then he reviewed it with upgraded pick up and pre-amp.
The thing is, yeah, it is pretty great for the price, but if you want it active, and you want to dump the $200 into it to get the pick up and pre-amp, you might just get a Sterling Ray4
I put a $119 Aguilar pick up in my Ray 4, and it sounds killer, sometimes it sounds better than my Music Man Stingray with Music Man pick up.
But even then, you are looking at $420 for Ray 4 with Aguilar pick up
or
$190 with shipping, plus $119 and $153 for Aguilar pick up and pre-amp total would be $463 (roughly, I think the harley benton is $130 and about $60 to ship)
so its a little more then $420. difference is you get Aguilar pre-amp, I left my Ray 4 pre amp stock
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Before upgrades, out of the box
After the pick up and pre-amp
My mistake, looks like he just upgraded the tone monster pre-amp
that is around $100 I think, so if you donāt want to do the pick up, and just the pre-amp, yeah, you are about $300 total
He did that mod just to make it an active pre-amp, because the bass comes passive.
So if you want an active stingray and donāt want to upgrade a pre-amp
(including routing our your own battery compartment, it does not have one, so you need to drill for it and cut the pocket for the battery receptacle to fit into
Just trying to give you all the info quickly.
I donāt have anything against getting a passive one, but if you do, its not really a stingray (well, a short scale stingray is passive) until you make it active.
So if you want the stingray bass, without all the hassle, Ray4 is way to go.
If you like passive, and / or like the modification job, then this is a nice instrument.
And a Ray 4 is worth it a million times over. I think it is one of the best, if not the best production bass on the marked for $299. There may be some others better, or better suited for other players based on style, pickup options, ergonomics, etcā¦ but price point is usually $400, or maybe $359
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excellent cover @trygh , original, very well played, with a great tone and even the video location is quite impressive.
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Another early New Order track, āDreams Never End.ā
Wow, this one came together fast. Partially due to it being in my vocal range - Hooky sings this one and my voice and his are not so far apart in range. Mostly due to it being fun as hell to play.
This one is right at the edge of my abilities - three minutes of chord (octave) work, and it was originally played on a 6-string bass in EADGBE tuning, so making it work on a 4-string was funky
I really think my friend killed it on guitar in this one, too. Heās definitely carrying me a bit here.
As usual:
Bass: Yamaha TRBX604FM
Guitars: Gretsch 5120
Drums: Steven Slate Drums 5
Mic: Shure PGA-58
Plugins: many (can describe if anyone is interested, some really interesting mixing work in this)
Tracked and mixed in Reaper.
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Nice man! Guitar was cool in that, but donāt sell yourself short on bass! Was that a drum program? Nice work though, I actually hadnāt thought about doing a cover in a DAW.
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Wow @howard I really enjoyed listening to that, even though itās not my typical genre of music. It was great!
Is that you singing AND playing bass? You did a great job. 
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Thanks!
And yeah, all my covers are basically full covers done by my bandmate and I. I usually do drums, bass, synth, and vocals, and he does guitars and provides a second set of ears for mixing and mastering. Heās also our original singer so will likely pick that up again too.
I use Stephen Slate Drums 5 for drums, I really like the sounds the plugin is capable of. I reproduce the drum track in the original song (this is not too hard for me, been doing it along time, pretty trivial now that thereās often drum tabs out there.)
The intro melody is bass, not guitar, and was probably actually the trickiest part for me.
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Thanks Pam! Yeah, me singing. Slowly getting more confident. Canāt sing and play at the same time though
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Thanks Joe!
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Nice Howard @howard,
enjoyed it all.
Cheers Brian
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Thanks Brian!
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Oh nice. Yeah my ear was tricked there to think it was guitar.
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