The first thing you'll notice about this bass is its jaw-dropping sparkle finish. As you move the guitar, green hues shimmer through the orange sparkle, creating a truly stunning effect. It's one of the most beautiful and unique finishes ever seen on an instrument!
StingRay Meets DarkGlass
Custom Darkglass® clean 2-band active preamp
The DarkRay is equipped with a new modern 2 Band preamp that Darkglass specifically designed. The preamp is extremely clean and quiet with adjustable volume, gain, bass, treble, and blend controls to achieve the desired tone.
Alpha and Omega
The Darkglass preamp offers two highly regarded drive circuits, Alpha(tight distortion) and Omega(fuzz). Both distortion circuits are fully mixable via an onboard gain knob and blend control manipulated to the user’s preference with no low-end loss. Via the 3-way lever switch, a bright color-coded LED ring is illuminated, signifying which mode the bass is in.
DarkRay = StingRay
The DarkRay bass is every bit a Stingray Special with neodymium humbucking pickup, roasted maple neck, comfort contoured body, 22 stainless steel frets, all black hardware, and the familiar 3+1 headstock configuration.
DarkRay Preamp
The 2-band preamp includes volume, treble, and bass controls with a separate blend and gain knob to achieve the desired tone and output.
Roasted Neck
The DarkRay features a roasted maple neck, ebony fingerboard with stainless steel frets, and matte black hardware.
5-Bolt Neck
The neck is secured by a 5-bolt attachment with perfect alignment and no shifting. A special Darkglass logo is applied to the neck plate to signify the Darkray edition bass.
General
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Model: DarkRay Bass
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Size: 13-1/2" wide, 1-5/8" thick, 44-7/8" long (34.3 cm wide, 4.1 cm thick, 114.0 cm long)
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Scale Length: 34" (86.4 cm)
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Frets: 22 - High profile, wide
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Left-Handed Availability: No
Body
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Wood: Select Hardwood
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Finish: High gloss polyester
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Pickguard: Black
Neck
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Wood: Roasted Maple
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Fingerboard: Ebony (Roasted Maple on Gold Bar)
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Radius: 11" (27.9 cm)
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Neck Width: 1-11/16" (42.86 mm) at nut, 2-1/2" (63.5 mm) at last fret
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Fret Markers: Dot Inlay
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Finish: Gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend
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Colors: Roasted - Obsidian Black; Color Matches Body - Granite Stone
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Headstock Size: 8-3/4" (22.2 cm) long
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Neck Attachment: 5-bolt, sculpted neck joint
Hardware
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Bridge: Vintage Music Man® top-loaded black-plated steel bridge plate with vintage black-plated steel saddles
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Tuning Machines: Custom Music Man, lightweight with tapered string posts and ergonomic clover design
Electronics
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Pickups: Single humbucking with Neodymium magnets
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Controls: Custom Darkglass® 2-band active preamp with two distinct distortion circuits (Alpha and Omega)
- Volume, Gain, Blend, Treble, Bass
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Switching: 3-way lever distortion selector
- Preamp Only
- Preamp + Alpha Distortion
- Preamp + Omega Distortion
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Electronic Shielding: Graphite acrylic resin-coated body cavity and black-plated aluminum control cover
Strings
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Gauge: 45w-65w-80w-100w (Super Slinky Bass #2834)
Weight 9.2 lbs
