Ibanez Owners Club

[Killed_by_Death]

 

I owned a SRX2 for years, & a SRX700 for a weekend. I really wanted to love the SRX700 for the Ash body & neck-through design, but I couldn't work out if it was the Ash body, the neck-through design, or the AlNiCo magnets that made it sound subdued in comparison to the SRX2 & my BTB300 with the same pickups. You see, the SRX2 has Ceramic magnets, & yes it does make a difference.

It was probably a combination of all those things, because I've since come to understand that Ash will scoop the sound a little, I like MIDs, & the neck-through design softens the attack somehow.

My SRX2 had loads of bottom, which is why I no longer own it. I really wanted to install a series/parallel switch for each pickup, but they only have two conductors available to the consumer.

the 700 was also a full POUND heavier than the SRX2

but the BTB300 was nearly 10 lbs.:

 

[Killed_by_Death]

23 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

too "shouty" and seemed to lack a full sounding bottom-end without turning it up until it sounded bloated. 

Carol Kaye still uses one with flats, a pick, & a foam mute:

A lot of pros would tell you that you can make an aggressive-sounding bass sound mellow, but you can't make a mellow one sound aggressive.

 

[Lfalex v1.1]

I am not the most mellow of players! Nor am I a "Pro" 🤣

The SRX700 just sounded dynamically constrained- like it was flat out all the time and there was no way to tame it. From my experience with an Stingray 5, I quite like AlNiCo magnets.. 

[Killed_by_Death]

 

Stingray pickups are wired in Parallel.

The PFR (Passive Full-Range) pickups in the SRX are wired in series, so you can why a series/parallel option would be sweet.

It bums me out that Ibanez doesn't do parallel/series options instead of just dropping a preamp into almost everything.

 

[Lfalex v1.1]

The implication being that SRXs are wired in Series? If that's the case,  I'd love one wired in parallel...

[horrorshowbass]

14 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

Most of them are, but IME there's more risk of getting a dud with the Standard series than a Premium, & they've been putting chintzy machine-heads on the Standard Soundgears since 2012.

I wish that one of us had told you about the difference in size of the Nordstrand vs. Bartolinis so you could have ordered custom-sized ones, it's only a $20 USD upcharge, IIRC.

Change the strings on the bass immediately. Those Nordstrands should sound FAR better than the Bartolinis, unless you don't enjoy the high-end zing the Big-Singles have.

They're also more responsive & have something I can't even describe other than Grunt, but Nordstrand calls it Character.

 

Grunt is exactly what I want

ordering new strings today

[Killed_by_Death]

 

Sometimes my odd tendencies pay off. I'm always on the lookout for deals on strings & I will buy them up.

Right now I have a box of about 5 sets, DR & EB.

Now that I'm primarily using the EHB there's no excuse for not changing stings more often, as it's dead easy!

(just looked in the box & there's also 1 D'Addario balanced-tension set)

pronounced duh-dairy-oh

 

Edited April 17, 2021 by Killed_by_Death
D'Addario

[horrorshowbass]

9 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

 

Sometimes my odd tendencies pay off. I'm always on the lookout for deals on strings & I will buy them up.

Right now I have a box of about 5 sets, DR & EB.

Now that I'm primarily using the EHB there's no excuse for not changing stings more often, as it's dead easy!

(just looked in the box & there's also 1 D'Addario balanced-tension set)

pronounced duh-dairy-oh

 

Moooooooo

In all seriousness though, anyone remember the BTB Volo couple of years back? 

33 inch scale 5 string.

Edited April 17, 2021 by horrorshowbass

[Woodinblack]

9 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

Sometimes my odd tendencies pay off. I'm always on the lookout for deals on strings & I will buy them up.

Same here, I have quite a few, but also quite a few basses and haven't been gigging this year. I have some coated strings that I wanted to put on my shuker and couldn't, so not sure where they are going.

9 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

pronounced duh-dairy-oh

I pronounce them duh-darry-oh!

[Killed_by_Death]

 

The local rep. told me they had specific instructions about the pronunciation at their training with D'Addario/Planet Waves.

If you call their number, you can hear the way they pronounce it.

Almost everyone pronounces RickenBACKer incorrectly, as well.

 

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

The local rep. told me they had specific instructions about the pronunciation at their training with D'Addario/Planet Waves.

Not surprised. The could have just called themselves something simpler

2 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

If you call their number, you can hear the way they pronounce it.

Almost everyone pronounces RickenBACKer incorrectly, as well.

Well, that is how I would say it - obviously not using the original german Rickenbacher!

[Killed_by_Death]

 

Ibáñez has drifted the farthest, the original pronunciation was I-Bahn-Yez.

Not Ai for "i", but I as in stIck

 

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Killed_by_Death said:

Ibáñez has drifted the farthest, the original pronunciation was I-Bahn-Yez.

Not Ai for "i", but I as in stIck

Yes, the original spanish. Not that i use 'eye' for the start of it, that sounds like an americanism to me. Mine is ib-a-nez

[Killed_by_Death]

 

They don't do it (eye) in South or Central America 😀

 

[Woodinblack]

1 minute ago, Killed_by_Death said:

 

They don't do it (eye) in South or Central America 😀

 

No, in south or central America, they probably actually pronounce it properly!

[Killed_by_Death]

 

I wonder if Koreans complain that almost no one outside Korea pronounces Samsung correctly.

 

[Woodinblack]

This afternoon I fixed my TLB35. When removing the plastic from the pickguard when I got it, the knobs were stiff on the controls. Pulling them off broke one of the pots (it actually went in and out when you pressed it). So looking inside I saw how cheap they were (I suppose ok on such a cheap bass, although Ibanez aren't great on the more expensive ones either).

Also noticed they were linear, so I got some log alpha pots, for £4 for 2.

I swear it sounds better now although I can't think of any mechanism why that would be the case. however, they are much more useable as volume controls now!

Original knob, pulling the knob out had pulled the shaft away from the rotator in the pot!

With the replacement.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

 

I changed out the same pots in a GSR100EX & could not hear a difference.

The pots in my Premium Soundgear are exactly the same ones that were in in the cheapest model of SRX that I had.

 

[Woodinblack]

Yes, I replaced the pots in my SR1000, and they are knackered again. But a pain to get as they are custom types

[Killed_by_Death]

 

I must have ordered pots THREE times & each time none of them would fit, so I ended up buying the bespoke pots from the local Ibanez dealer, $25 USD for 2, most of which was the FedEx charges.

NOT related to the GSR100EX mentioned above

Edited April 17, 2021 by Killed_by_Death
correction for clarity

[dave moffat]

Have decided to bite the bullet and get a 5er later this year, am currently drooling over the SR5005 unless someone tells me to get a grip and that they're cr@p and as I'm currently only a bedroom bassist I really don't need one.

[dave moffat]

flip!! just looked at the price 😱 oh well it was a nice dream while it lasted.

[horrorshowbass]

5 minutes ago, dave moffat said:

flip!! just looked at the price 😱 oh well it was a nice dream while it lasted.

keep an eye on reverb, they pop up around £800-900 sometimes

[Woodinblack]

50 minutes ago, dave moffat said:

Have decided to bite the bullet and get a 5er later this year, am currently drooling over the SR5005 unless someone tells me to get a grip and that they're cr@p and as I'm currently only a bedroom bassist I really don't need one.

The 5005? Yeh they are.. oh, actually very good

Well, unless you have back issues, they are not exactly light weight!

[itu]

2 hours ago, dave moffat said:

Have decided to bite the bullet and get a 5er later this year, am currently drooling over the SR5005...

String spacing may be an issue, it was for me.