Ibanez SRMS805 Upgraded Multiscale with USA Bartolini Pickups and Preamp in Deep Twilight. £695 Gloucester

[Sean]

This is going to missed. It’s had a few Basschat owners and I’ve had it about 18 months. It’s an absolute peach but an incoming bass means this has to go. I’ve sanded the neck up to #2000 grit and treated with Montypresso so it’s like glass, it’s slippery. 

 

The body is Mahogany and Poplar, the fingerboard is Panga Panga. 

 

Cursive/italics is a cut and paste from previous ads. 

 

This is a really special bass, so versatile. Definitely not just a metal bass, it can do it all. Neck is lovely to play, body is nice and comfortable and it balances great on a strap.

Condition is excellent. A couple of headstock dints.

 

This one has the Twilight finish with some lovely grain poplar burl.

Stock Ibanez preamp and its seriously average Chinese licensed Bartolini BH2 pickups were removed and replaced with US Classic Bass Soapbars and a 3 band Bartolini HR-5.2AP/918 preamp.   Configuration has changed from stock to make this the ultimate tone machine and works as follows:-

• Volume - Push Pull Active/Passive
• Blend
• Treble
• Mids - Push Pull Frequency Selector
• Bass
• Toggle Switch 1 - Series/Coil Tap/Parallel Bridge Pickup
• Toggle Switch 2 - Series/Coil Tap/Parallel Neck Pickup
• If you've played a stock SRMS805 before, this one will play the same but tonally it really is an entirely different animal.  Its fantastic and the array of different tones you can get from all the different coil arrangements is wonderful.

 

It’s about 3.8kg

I’ve got proper packaging so if you’d like it posted I can do that for whatever the cost is. I’m in Gloucester if you want to try it through a Mesa or GK amp with BF cab or bring your own. I urge anyone even remotely interested to try one of these.

[Kev]

I'm the original owner and commissioned the modifications on this one, and it's no exaggeration when I say it, totally transformed the bass tonally.  Night and day, the licensed barts ruin these basses.

 

GLWTS!