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NBD: It's a Sixer!


grayn
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I'd been hankering for another 5-string.
Even put an ad in Basschat for a decent fiver.
Last saturday I went over to Promemnade Music, in Morecambe.
Spent a couple of hours, trying a bunch of quality basses, including Pedulla, Shuker, Cort, Fender and Warwick.
But I couldn't make my mind up and went home, empty handed.
But whilst there, I'd had a very quick go on a Cort A6, 6-string.
It didn't feel as hard to play, as I'd feared.
So a seed had been planted and I returned to Prom again, today.
There were 4, very promising sixers to consider.
The Cort A6, a Yamaha TRB1006J (both new), a custom, US Carvin & an Ibanez SR1206 (both used).
After a lot of time playing all 4, acoustically and amped up, I narrowed it down to the 2 used models.
Both were really nice to play and had great tone.
The USA Carvin was twice the price and was a real class act, with great woods, finishing and hardware.
It even had locking tuners.
The Ibanez is a discontinued model and was in, as new, condition.
Although very differently styled, the wood combinations of wenge, bubinga, mahogany and ovangkol, reminded me a little, of Warwick.
That, with the top class Nordstrand Big Single pickups, created a gorgeous sounding bass, with a very comfy neck.
I don't really like switches on a bass but the active/passive and mid-boost switches are useful.
So the Ibanez came home with me.
Housed in a rather nice, hard foam, Ibanez case.
You also get a rather nifty, swiss army style, multi-tool.

My apologies for the pics., I found the satin finish hard to photograph, without getting annoying reflection.



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Good score! Those Big Singles are very nice (I had them on an SR1605) and the premium Ibbys are very well made. The frankly brilliant case and awesome tool are very much the icing and cherry on top of a very nice cake. Enjoy.

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Thanks guys.
The newbie sure is a looker.
I put looks 3rd in my priorities,
2nd is tone and with these woods and fabulous Nordstrand pickups, I'm loving it.
1st is feel and after just a few hours of playing, I'm finding my way around this bass, very nicely, thankyou. :mellow:

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  • 3 weeks later...

Update.

I finally go this sixer to a full band rehearsal, last night.
I'd bottled out before, as we had gigs coming up.
Anyway, apart from a couple of times, when my fingers got a little lost, the sixer was a resounding success.
The Nordstand pickups have a lovely growl to them, with a thick, full sound that still has the bite, to cut through the mix.
Managed to use the sub bottom-E notes, on a couple of songs, to great effect.
Even got up to the high-C string, for a couple of trills.
And most importantly, no hand strain.
Tha band loved it and so did I.

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Same bass as I'm borrowing at the moment. Seems decent for the price, well made and sounds fine (probably the Nordstrands to thanks for that).
I kinda feel that the BTB range probably suits a 6er a little more, the substantial neck is kinda at odds with the smaller SR body.....IMO of course.
But generally, very nice bass

Si

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