Best Bass for the Bucks!!! The Sterling SUB Series RayHH5 Limited Edition 

Congrats! That's a killer bass and a killer deal. Enjoy!

You got a deal for $300. It's two years later and now, that same bass is $449. Even at $449 it's still a great price. Excellent review showing the different pickup settings. I'm really torn between this base and the Sire Marcus Miller V3. I tend to like rosewood fingerboards because I tend to play fingerstyle vs slap bass. The used Sub Ray5 HH bases now higher than $300. Great purchase! Getting close to making a decision on which bass. My current bass is a 1984 Ibanez MC888 Bean 4 string bass - still in great condition :)

I have owned this bass for approximately 1 year. The bass has a decent sound. The B string is surprisingly good. It stays in tune, intonation is good. Its a little heavy and suffers form a dive when standing. My only real complaint is the string spacing. And its not very good for slapping, due to the pickup placement. But, you can get used to it with practice. I generally used this bass for gigs when im in a shady area and wont be too mad if it gets stolen or damaged lol!!Great budget bass and i would recommend this bass.

I have a left-handed sub ray 4, the same model but with the old logo and 4 strings. The bass sounded distorted and it was practically impossible to get a decent EQ. I installed a Seymour Duncan SMB4DS combination, with the ceramic pickup. The improvement is amazing, it sounds like another instrument. Greetings from Chile.

Excellent comprehensive review. Thank you sir

very nice review! I am shopping for a new bass for my upcoming birthday this summer... this one sounds beautiful!

I've owned a Ray 4, 34 and classic US Stingray and I think I'm going back to a Ray4. Great basses

I recently went to Guitar Center looking for the boss katana go and saw the Ray 4hh in Chopper blue. Came back the next day after reading about it ready to buy it if it sounded good played it for a while loved it but there was an issue with the electronics. So I started looking around found a single humbucker model Walnut stain satin finish played it for a while bought it took it home set the intonation and action and was blown away but how great this bass sounds and plays!!! I'm almost 100% sure Ibanez is making these basses in Indonesia. It has a bartolini humbucker and an Ibanez preamp. I love the four so much I ordered the bass your reviewing here. Should be here in a couple of days can't wait

Great video man! Just an observation it would be awesome if you could bring the camera more to your right so you're looking at us instead of away.

This was a very good post. I am waiting to get my Sterling Ruby Red 5HH bass in the next few days. I'm just buying it for my studio to have handy in a pinch for whoever needs to use it.

When I saw the price I couldn't pass it up mine should be in this week. Thanks for your review!

That’s a great looking bass and sounds like a beast!!👍🏽

Bought mine for about 350 and didn't regret it for a second, I play at my church and the timbre on this shines through in the mix especially for CCM. She is a pretty beast for sure.

Got this exact bass 2 months ago. It's a really good one!

Sold!!! Just found one at GC for $350, free shipping. Thanks for the great review!

I had one I loved it! I love all my stingrays!! The spacing is tighter on these than the stingray! I also had to lower the pickups to make it less hot! Them ceramics are no joke!! I personally don’t prefer the matching headstocks, I think you got a beautiful buy there!!

It was about 2 years ago I bought a Sterling 5 string, single P/U. I started playing in about 1968 and then there was nothing as good as these Sterlings (or /Squiers, too) that were as of as a high quality. You really had to invest in a Fender to get a decent sound. My Sterling 5 is shockingly good for the old stuff I play. I still have my 50-odd year old Fenders but, IMO, the sounds I get from this Sterling they can are better than they can give. Wonderful instruments.

Just bought this bass. I love it .

I'm about to buy the same one I think. I'm looking at a couple different ones but this is high on the list.

Nice bass for $300.00. I had a 4 string Sterling for the same price. Musicman basses are the most fun to play.

Fantastic bass. I bought two. Had one converted to fretless.

Higly recommend this bass. I picked one up second hand in olive green which is sadly the ugliest colour in my opinion. I filed and sandpapered that mother for 8 hours and ebonised the wood, now its the prettiest bass I own.

how has this held up? basswood bodies always fall apart on me within 2-3 years. screw holes strip and all that fun stuff, output jack, and in one case the pickguard just eventually came off. and the denting...oh god the denting, would dent just by looking at it wrong lol, anyways, im curious how this has held up for you? im really considering giving basswood another chance!

Bought the red ray5 hh recently and the d string is quiet compared to the other strings. Any issue with your d string being quieter. Almost like a slight compression on the d.

Did your bass need much adjustment when you got it? It's not a skill area for me, so I want something that comes pretty much ready to play.

I will be stringing mine E to C

can you use this bass as passive and active? if you dont have a battery at the time

great review. what's it weigh?

Where can i find the owner's manual for it? Mine didnt come with one

We’re you just playing clean? Or through any effect pedal?

Wrong about several appointments.. the truss rod adjusting wheel .. you use the holes with a small screwdriver or Allen wrench and you can adjust it as the USA Stingray’s

Did he play it

What about the string spacing?

how much does this weigh exactly?

I am actually shocked that you would excuse the preamp distortion. That is like buying a new car, having it designed from the factory to run rough and shaking, and excusing it because you don't mind the shaking and stuttering. I can't even play mine in good music because of the distortion. I Don't think even Glarry or Hard Luck would sell something with such a terminal fault. I love everything about it except this distortion. New preamp install coming up...

He lost me when he said he had to talk to his wife, smh

Jamás suena como el Stingray.

Not a guitar