Reviewer	Joe
Experience	9
Email	mclellac@bellsouth.net
Review date	December 01 2003
Manufacturer	Ernie Ball
Model	Musicman 5 string
Price	1800
Item owned for	6 months to 1 year

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Bass type	5 string fretted
Neck join	Bolt-On
Neck construction	Maple neck and fingerboard
Fingerboard	Maple 21 fret
Body	3 piece ash
Finish	natural
Pickups	Duncan now!!
Hardware	Chrome
Electronics	Duncan music man system, pre and PU

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This is an addition to my previous review of the Ernie ball musicman stingray. Ernie Ball continued to give me the runaround and basically told me that they would not help. BEWARE of Ernie Ball basses, they use very strange switching in their stock preamp and pickup!! So forget trying to have anyhting modified, unless you gut it and go with another company's system. I went with Duncan stuff and the bass sounds twice as good as it did before. I will never buy another Ernie ball bass after all the crap they put me through over a stinking schematic!

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Construction	90%
Appearance	90%
Playability	90%
Sound	95%
(Because of the Duncan system!!!)
Customer Service	0%
(They stink, nuff said.)
Value	75%
(because the bass needed new electronics right out of the store!!)
Overall	95%
(It's finall y the way it should be, screw the factory!!!)

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