Buy Ibanez SR500 Electric Bass - Brown MahoganyIbanez SR500 Electric Bass - Brown Mahogany Product Description:
- Thin, fast, 5-piece SR4 neck crafted of wenge and bubingaSculpted mahogany bodyRosewood fretboard with oval abalone markers or maple fretboard with black dot inlays24 medium fretsAccu-Cast B20 bridgeBartolini MK1-4 neck pickupBartolini MK1-4 bridge pickupBlack chrome hardware with black pickupsBartonini MK1 active 3-band EQ
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The Ibanez SR500 Bass is an incredibly well-crafted and equipped bass for its price. It features a slim, fast SR4 5-piece wenge and bubinga neck on a sculpted mahogany body. The rosewood fretboard is fitted with medium frets and has oval abalone markers, while the maple fretboard version boasts black dot inlays. The Accu-Cast B20 bridge offers easier string changes, single-screw saddle and height adjustment, and improved stability. For pickups it sports 2 Bartonlini MK1s which integrate perfectly with its active Bartolini MK1 3-band EQ. It's a bass that will excel in any style of music.
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By Flavius
Sweet Jesus! From a beginner's point of view, this bass is like I said, 100% beginner friendly. When i said beginner, i meant that I'm still finding my way through scales, chords, triads and so on. I have never played an instrument before. I've had one Tenson bass before this but it was wicked heavy, the neck was thick and wide, the frets were absolutely HUGE (after practicing for one hour I've had the impression that with a little determination i can hold the A string on the C fret with my index finger and with my pinky i can scratch my knee), the action was sky high, the passive electronics were producing just one tone no matter how much I was fiddling with the tone and pickups knobs. BUT! Enter Ibanez SR500! Light as a feather (seriously, it's just silly how light this thing is: 6 lbs!!!), toothpick thin neck, tiny frets (well they're not that tiny but compared to the Tenson ones...), the strings are close to each other on the neck but there is plenty space between them in the pickups area. Even as a beginner, there's little chance one will "confuse" them and pick the wrong string. Since it is made after 2010 (it says it's made in Singapore in october 2012) it has a Mid Freq switch thingy which has quite a big impact on how the tone sounds (I think it has something to do with slapping, but I am not sure). Also, it has 3 band EQ pots: low, mid and highs. Add one more for the pickups selection and you get a plethora of possibilities. Seriously, I've spent a good 30 minutes listening to some songs, hearing the bass in them and then i was fiddling with the pots and i have managed to get that particular tone from my SR500. I had some issues getting a particular tone once but then i have realized that they have invented THE PICK! Haha. Since i have not heard a Fender, Gibson or other giants of musical instruments (or maybe I did in those songs) i cannot say "oh, but it can sound like a Fender P or J, no problem!". I dont know. But I am quite sure that this bass has it's own sound somehow. It sounds too damn good for it to not have his own "thing". I like bass. Many of us say that. Well, turn the low pot all the way up and you get more than you can imagine. Turn the bass pot down and increase the highs and mids: your bass will sound so crisp, like a regular 6 string guitar. The pickups are so sensitive, even the slightest movement of your finger on the round-wound strings will get through and you will hear it on your amp. It is probably a bit too sensitive. Again, I dont know. It comes with some Elixir strings. I think they are 50 - 105. They sound great! But i decided to replace them with a set of D'Addario 50-120 BT (Balanced Tension). That E string is waaay too thick for me. These ones sound better than the Elixirs but I can't cope with the thickness of the 120 E just yet. A shame... Ive put back the Elixirs. From a beginner's point of view, i have the following remarks about the setup:The action is low. It is so easy to play. The neck has just the right amount of relief so the strings do not touch the fret so i did not need to set the truss rod. The intonation was off on all the strings. Not by much, but it was off. Since it has 24 frets and i am a perfectionist, i have tried to tune it for both 12th fret and 24th. Well, it is doable but it took ages. You get the 12th one to sound fine and 24th is off. You get 24 to sound fine and 12 is off. And so on. I doubt anyone can have both in perfect tune but i have made a compromise where both are off just by a tiny bit. And it sounds great! If i was wrong in my judgement it doesnt matter! I am a beginner :) The tuning machine heads: a delight to use. Oh, one more thing: if you turn the volume up and put the bass on a stand (or whatever, if you do not touch the strings), you won't hear a thing! I was floored by how silent this thing is. Nothing! Not a peep comes out of it if you dont touch it. Others hiss, humm, buzz. But this one is silent as a fish. Ok. What else... It uses a 9V battery for its active electronics. So far im on my 8th day of playing it, about 2 - 3 hours a day. The battery still goes strong. The volume pot was moving inside the but i have fixed that by tightening the screw thingy. Oh, all the pots (except volume) have a "thing" in the middle of the setting which help you to find the balance you want (between the pickups for example). The looks of it, WOW! Exquisite! The pictures (on Ibanez website, here on Amazon or any other website) do not do justice to this guitar. It just doesnt. You will handle it with care, no matter of how prone on breaking or dropping things you are. It will heal your ADD! It looks that good. Even if you are a millionaire and you can afford some vintage 12,000$+ guitars, you will handle and appreciate this one to the same extent. Those people in the sanding department paid so much attention to details. Not even a single flaw i found. The color is uniform. The rosewood is so cool and the inlay dots are made from "mother of pearl" thing and they look great! I will stop praising this bass now. It is just great in my opinion. I found no flaws in its construction. It sounds amazing, it plays amazing. It looks like a million dollars. My advice if you are a beginner and you want something that sounds and plays great for this price? Get SR500!PS: i found it weird that my former bass (Tenson - 100$ value) came with a strap and this one did not. I was so sure it will come with one, i did not buy one. I got some nifty Ibanez guitar picks but no strap. Why isnt a strap included? I dont know? Do i care? NO! :) I love it the way it is! 5 stars from me!
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Got wrong amp
Won't fit in the car
Good for Short Trips; Majorly Lacking in Padding
