OLP Stingray Bass (with modifications)

An OLP Stingray Bass fitted with a few modifications:

1. An internal Audere Classic 4 Band EQ preamp, the stacked knobs are: volume/pickup sweep, hi mid/lo mid, treble/bass - battery is located under the scratchplate just below and in front of the pickup, the internal cavity has been slightly expanded to accommodate the preamp and larger pot fittings.
2. A Seymour Duncan Basslines SMB-4a Alnico pickup (not 3 coil)
3. Fitted with La Bella 760 flatwound strings
4. Internal shielding throughout
5. Improved higher gear ratio machine heads for better tuning (bought them secondhand, not sure of make but so much better than the standard fitted heads)

The bass is running through an Ashdown LG1000 head into an Ashdown Superfly 48 Neo cabinet. The drum pattern is actually running from an iPod app called Instantdrummer 'Heartbreaker' featuring the drumming talents of Jason McGerr. Recorded direct to camera with no editing. Enjoy :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• OLP
• Stingray
• MM2
• Musicman
• Audere
• Preamp
• La Bella
• Seymour Duncan
• Basslines
• Alnico
• SMB-4A
• Flatwounds
• Funk

[fourfingerfunk]

@lothianbass @basslinerxx I think it's important to remember that this was recorded with a mic in a digital camera. So the tone will be missing a lot of the low end fundamentals. I always use La Bella flats, can't beat them for feel and tone. But yes, tone is highly subjective. I don't have any of this gear now anyway. Plus, a lot of the gear was being unused, so it was a simple experiment that proves that good tone is easy to achieve with little relative financial outlay compared to the cost o

[nightshadetheexorcis]

awesome sound man!!! what pickups are those?

[fourfingerfunk]

@nightshadetheexorcis See the information about the video, evrything you would need to know is listed there :)

[tjmon666]

i was thinking about buying a olp yesterday are they still good even if you don't mod them? but i might any way

[fourfingerfunk]

@tjmon666 The electronics are a little flat. Original Stingrays have better EQ systems obviously, but the the OLP's are just a cheap copy. So no active EQ etc. Modding them is quite inexpensive compared to the cost of a new Stingray and you get a really good tone for little financial outley.

[RandomTuber782]

thats what i like to see, a cheap bass moded into a gem. hats off man

[fourfingerfunk]

@RandomTuber782

Cheers mate, the OLP's are great basses for very little money, so modifying them makes sense :)

[935GuitarMaster]

I got this bass yesterday from my cousin, its the same thing but mines black with a blue pickguard, has same knows, pickup and the whole deal. Plus, he gave me a coffin case for my guitar, so i was about to explode with hapiness

[somboku]

wow can i have the tabs please? i want to play this

[jdub7604]

@piledriver89 John East makes very nice (and expensive) preamps. Hold onto it!

[basslinerxx]

@LothianBass While I don't really enjoy the sound from my speakers here either, it's not because of the flats at least. In any case tone is completely subjective, one guy likes scooped mids slap, I personally hate it...To each his own, right? Kept my OLP pretty much stock aswell, modded it to single vol/single tone with a parallel/series switch for the pup, which is probably the easiest and cheapest thing you can do to it (and I have to say I find it very useful). And going to try flats on it :P

[kacbart1]

whats the name of this song or its yours??

[LothianBass]

Why on earth did you go through the trouble of modifying your bass extensively (with REALLY choice components), to then go and ruin the sound by using flatwounds??? I've got a 100% stock OLP with Ernie Ball roundwounds that sounds a lot better!

[piledriver89]

ive just got one of these basses off of ebay after years of searching but it comes with a john east preamp pickup ive never heard of a john east preamp can anyone tell me about them please

[IsuckYoungBlood]

Really good job there! I'm considering buying the same pick-ups for my OLP. Which are the differences between the SMB-4a and the 4d?

[bogorobot]

@alangummybear def fix it if you can