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On 11/08/2023 at 11:09, MuseMatt said:

Decided to pimp my nearly 19-year-old RD600 and boy am I happy with the results. Put in an Aguilar noiseless J4 neck pickup and MM4 pickup, OBP-3 with active/passive switch, mid/range control (push/pull), stacked treble/bass, and added passive tone control. The latter was honestly not a bad choice at all - sounds amazing and the passive control adds a lot, making it great both active/passive mode. Just waiting for my new stacked knob (the other size didn't fit on volume/tone)
 

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The Aguilar pickups & preamp sound fantastic, don’t they.  Got the PJ set & OBP2 in my SR. 

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On 18/08/2023 at 01:52, xgsjx said:

The Aguilar pickups & preamp sound fantastic, don’t they.  Got the PJ set & OBP2 in my SR. 

 

It's honestly a super balanced and clean sound, really lifts this from a midrange instrument into the (cheaper) high-end sound range. You might lack the growl from something like SD QPs, but I really dig this. Feels like this bass will become my go-to when I don't need a straight-up J or P sound. The MM sound is really passable, though the position is slightly too far back in comparison with a true MM. But still very happy with the results. 

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On 07/06/2023 at 16:15, Wilco said:

Got my additional 5 string need sorted by picking up this mighty fine BTB1905 Premium off eBay.

 

Through experience, have become a huge fan of Ibby Premium’s & now have three.

 

 

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Those certainly are pretty.

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On 11/08/2023 at 11:09, MuseMatt said:

Decided to pimp my nearly 19-year-old RD600 and boy am I happy with the results. Put in an Aguilar noiseless J4 neck pickup and MM4 pickup, OBP-3 with active/passive switch, mid/range control (push/pull), stacked treble/bass, and added passive tone control. The latter was honestly not a bad choice at all - sounds amazing and the passive control adds a lot, making it great both active/passive mode. Just waiting for my new stacked knob (the other size didn't fit on volume/tone)
 

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Not seen one of those before. Looks like a pre-evolution of the Grooveline series. Full marks to Ibanez for bass innovation and experimentation over the years.

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On 20/08/2023 at 20:24, visog said:

 

Not seen one of those before. Looks like a pre-evolution of the Grooveline series. Full marks to Ibanez for bass innovation and experimentation over the years.

 

It was not a series that was continued much beyond 2005 I believe. There are some lovely RD900s out there that caught my eye (they have a two-part light ash body, the RD600 have a mahogany body with maple veneer and a maple top). The neck on the RD900 seems a bit nicer too with some binding around the neck. 

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3 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

I started out with an Ibanez SR300 and after going through Fender, Epiphone, Squier, Peavey and Musicman, I'm back at Ibanez again. This time it's an SRMS805. I'm really liking it. It plays beautifully and I'm getting some evil distorted sounds out of it. 

 

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Headquarters of beauty.

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16 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

I started out with an Ibanez SR300 and after going through Fender, Epiphone, Squier, Peavey and Musicman, I'm back at Ibanez again. This time it's an SRMS805. I'm really liking it. It plays beautifully and I'm getting some evil distorted sounds out of it. 

 

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Oh yes. I'm same although with my cheap ibanez and yamaha. Ridiculous basses for the price.

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16 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

I started out with an Ibanez SR300 and after going through Fender, Epiphone, Squier, Peavey and Musicman, I'm back at Ibanez again. This time it's an SRMS805. I'm really liking it. It plays beautifully and I'm getting some evil distorted sounds out of it. 

 

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That’s a nice bass. 
My go to bass is an Ibby SR1000. Had it for 33 years & over that time, numerous basses have came & went.  It’s just such a comfortable bass to play & since changing the pickups & pre, it sounds even better. 

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19 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

 

Very good, but fairly heavy, well mine is

 

Awesome 

I had a 2400 for a while sold it and bought it back and sold it 😆 

Couldn't get on with it for some reason 

A well set up 300 or 600 feels better than a 2400 to me for some reason. Maybe I'm a weirdo...

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Here are my 3 SR700's

Right is a 2012 model, centre is a 2000 era which I had defretted and piezo bridge installed, wired in place of the bridge pickup, the left hand one is a 1993 vintage which I've had from new and was my main bass for many years, still plays well but is in semi retirement now.

Great work horse basses

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14 hours ago, Wilco said:

Having used the BTB all of my last gig, took out both SR’s this afternoon. So light & easy to play, as well as sounding fantastic!

 

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Nice basses, which model is the four string in the right photo?

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It is indeed a 2600.

 

Intriguingly both those basses have inherently different core tones. The 2405 has a very dark tone, whilst the 2600 is naturally very bright. There is the same pre-amp in each, but that is flexible enough that I can get ‘my’ sound easily out of each instrument no problem. 

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