Ernie Ball Music Man Unveils the Pino Palladino StingRay Bass Collection

The Artist Series: Signature Feel, Legendary Tone 

Inspired by Pino’s original fretless StingRay, the Artist Series models deliver the essence of his tone, feel, and style in both fretted and fretless options. Featuring a poplar body finished in ’79

Burst, a dark-tinted hard rock maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, and a custom asymmetrical neck carve, these basses offer a player-focused blend of comfort and authenticity.

A vintage-style Alnico pickup and hand-wired 2-band preamp (voiced with a 500k treble pot like Pino’s original) capture the warmth and detail that defined Pino’s sound on countless records. Additional features include:

• Brass saddles with a string-through-body bridge and adjustable mute pads
• Bullet truss rod and 3-bolt neck plate with micro-tilt adjustment
• GraphTech NuBone hand-shaped nut
• Fretted model strung with Pino Signature Flatwound Strings
• Fretless model strung with custom Slinky Nickel Wound Strings .036, .055, .065, .090
• Each bass ships in a MONO case with an Artist Series neck plate