{"id":8206,"date":"2016-01-05T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2018-03-25T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:04:48","slug":"what-upgrade-options-are-available-for-a-sterling-by-music-man-s-u-b-ray4-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/electronics\/pickup\/what-upgrade-options-are-available-for-a-sterling-by-music-man-s-u-b-ray4-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"What upgrade options are available for a Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. Ray4 bass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<font color=\"#ff0000\">UPDATE:<\/font> Yes, we can also give you fantastic upgrade options for the 5-string model S.U.B., just email or call us and ask, we can help.)<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this writing, the Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. Ray4 model has a street price of about $300 USD.<\/p>\n<p>We do routinely get requests asking what upgrades are available for an inexpensive instrument like this. And for this specific instrument, the question usually is something to the effect of, &#8220;How do I get that pre-Ernie Ball Stingray sound?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where we can help you out is with the electronics. Namely, these two items:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/mc-4-al.htm\"><img title=\"mc4al\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mc4al\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/mc4al.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"216\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/mc-4-al.htm\"><strong>Delano MC4 AL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/mmsr-v-b-t-preamp.htm\"><img title=\"east-mmsr-v-t-b_front\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"east-mmsr-v-t-b_front\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/east-mmsr-v-t-b_front.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/mmsr-v-b-t-preamp.htm\"><strong>John East MMSR<\/strong><\/a><br \/>(note: control plate <em>not included<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>These two items are a significant upgrade to stock electronics that the S.U.B. Ray4 comes with. The pickup will really bring out low and middle range response, and provide a much better top end to cut through the mix. It also works very nicely with the right preamp, and that&#8217;s where the John East MMSR comes in. These two items when used together make one heck of nice upgrade for a S.U.B. Ray4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you buy these two together, we&#8217;ll give you a discount<\/strong> &#8211; but only if you ask. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/contact.htm\">Email or call us direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(UPDATE: Yes, we can also give you fantastic upgrade options for the 5-string model S.U.B., just email or call us and ask, we can help.) At the time of this writing, the Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. Ray4 model has a street price of about $300 USD. We do routinely get requests asking what upgrades &#8230; <a title=\"What upgrade options are available for a Sterling by Music Man S.U.B. 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Ray4 bass?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}