Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? This StingRay5H is ready for anything at anytime. I don't know of a better bass guitar!!! This is a pro grade level bass. A 10+. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Thee best resonant and sustainable, highest grade quality woods are here. The componants are solid, nice and tight, jack plate is sturdy, and I LOVE the 6 bolt neckplate. The tuning keys are precise. The bridge saddles are very stable, the intonation and action are perfect and the pickup is H-O-T!!! If I could add a feature to this babydoll, it would be...a standing ovation. General Your general opinion of this product. Without a doubt, a superior, a perfect 10!!! Thee KING of bass guitars!!! I have owned/played Spector, Ovation, Peavey and Fender Precision basses, and I now have my first lady!!! Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Bright, tight and thick, smooth and clearly distinct. Easy to control and shape your voicing to the farthest of reaches. You can get everything that you could possibly want. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? FLAWLESS, PERFECT, and DURABLE.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Is a really dependable Bass. Only issued is that from time to time it gets out of tune, and sometimes, the neck bends overnight. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? The H pickup and the coil setupo switch gives you a wide variaty of tones, that makes it useful for almost every kind of music style General Your general opinion of this product. the only reason i give it a 4 is because i need to tune it more often than my other basses. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? is real balanced. good highs, great mids and lows. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? great paint job. everything you will expect from Ernie Ball

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Yes very well made and in America too. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? the amazing tone and craftsmanship. Its easy to get just about any bass sound you want with the pick up selector and the preamp. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? You can make this bass sound snappy and bright, out of phase growl, deep and dark its just that versatile. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? spotless..I just looked at It for hours. beautiful bass.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? I hear old-timers gripe about how MusicMan isn't the same since Ernie Ball took over. IMHO, that's just silliness: I've played the old models. I like this one better. Time's marched on & EB's kept up with that in terms of updated electronics, better QC, etc. Dependable? Unless you use your basses as hardball-bats, you can count on this one like no other. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Contrary to the (hopefully dying) CW, this is anything but a one-trick-bass. Yeah, I got turned on to it because I used to play in a funk-rock band & flea's one of my heroes...but I'm a big boy now, & I've branched into all sorts of styles. And the EB MM Stingray5 H can handle them all. That's right--the classic configuration of just one humbucker is perfect, b/c it sits in the "sweet spot" of the axe. With the mega-QUALITY 3-band onboard EQ, you can funk it up with scooped mids, heavy bass & bright treble. Yep, but we all know about that. What I never knew was that I could use said EQ & 3-way toggle switch to dial up wooly, old-school P-Bass sounding phat tones, growly J-bass/Warwick sounds, etc. Like the other reviewer, this is my #1 bass, in a five-string stable that includes, as you've guessed, I'm sure, a Warwick (Corvette Standard), Fenders (P & J), & other classic basses. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? As I wrote, you can get any tone you like. Heck, Cliff Williams (AC/DC) puts flatwounds on his Stingray. Not my cup-of-tea, but that just goes to show you that there's something for everybody in this bass. You name the tone, you'll get it if you've got the faintest clue. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Don't touch it...don't even look at it, to quote Nigel Tufnel (young 'uns--Cf. Spinal Tap). Mine's black & blonde: (a) Jet black bod & guard, which I like even though I don't use picks; it just looks beautiful to me; (b) maple board & neck, w/the neck "unfinished," which in MusicMan-speak means, "hand-finished with gun -oil [!] & -wax." For those of you who perspire a lot due to aggressive playing or just overactive glands, this neck will anchor you in place anyhow. I like my "finished-neck" basses too: They've got their place. But I love the secure feeling of playing a bass with this type of neck, because you don't need to worry about losing your grip if you're, like me, not a player who stares @ his/her fretting-hand position too much. The finish is also perfect, & I'm obsessive about finish on anything with finish. I looked for bubbles, rough spots, you-name-them, but I gave up: Nothing but perfection. So that 1st ding's going to hurt, but you'll get over it.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? I'm the owner of a Rickenbacker, an Ibanez sr1500, and many other near 2000$ basses and this is more solidly built than any. I also own a classic stingray 4 an the only quality difference is that this stingray doesn't have the shiny Birdseye neck. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Can't imagine a sound that couldn't be produced with a little tweaking from the controls. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Nice Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Beautiful. Classy. Want to hang it up in my living room.