Rib13 Bass – Whats The Deal With Ibanez SOUNDGEAR Basses? #bass #guitar #ibanez #soundgear #viral
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My observation of Ibanez SR Series Soundgear basses. I own two: I have already reviewed my SR505….review of my SR2605 coming soon
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Originally posted by UCcX69Nqf6t0VLfLqGdahoXg at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPJz4pO6Og
4 minutes before he gets to the point.
My fender elite precision kills my BTB. I love my Ibanez, but it is no P.
I’m selling all my Fender Jazz basses, because I found “The One” an Ibanez SR1800 NTF. I’ve owned many Ibanez basses over the years, and I wish I had kept my Ibanez Grooveline G104. That bass was insanely nice. But now, I’ve found this SR and it just fits. It’s perfect.
I owned an ibanez SR305 and nothing plays like that neck. I found the sound kind of lacking and went back to my peavey Grind 5 for everything. This was years ago.
I didn't know Bas Rutten played the bass
The SR Series has Narrow string spacing not regular
I have a high end SDGR five and a midrange SDGR 5 string fretless. They're both very good. They don't have the killer tone of a jazz bass, but coupled with my MarkBass rig they sound great. I also have a fretless jazz bass. The Ibanezs are more reliable. The jazz bass neck keeps moving and the electronics aren't great – but it has 'that' sound. The SDGR fretless is now my go to instrument. Great playabillity and action, solid intonation. Only downside is they need a great amp to sound their best.
I have an Ibby bass it is very versatile and a very nice guitar.
Ibanez use of poor quality plastic tone control knobs and apparent sloppy controller installation sabotage what should be a great family of basses
Great video! Love the historic background 🙂
i had a cheaper sound design blue n black burst. didn't compare to my deans. glad it was stolen. my dean skull crusher, crushes. ???? ????
I kept noticing that there are more Ibanez Sound Gear basses being sold on kijiji than any other bass…
I still have my first bass SR305 and still going strong all these years. super fast and it has its own sound.. sounds way different from any of my other basses.
Love your channel. How is the SR2605, if you had to review it in one line?
Been planning to get one. Looks very attractive and spec'd out. Do the Big SIngles hum a lot?
Unfortunately, they have really ugly head stocks..
Me carrying what is probably the most comfortable 6 string I've played.. the BTB806MS. (Ok.. not SR.. but I am hoping for a SRD906F… )
Good sound, sleek, fast.. beautiful.
I’ve played almost exclusively Ibanez basses. Have had a few other brands, but sold them. Nothing wrong with the actual instruments.
I’m so just used to how Ibanez’s feel and play. I only have 2 right now. One is my Ibanez GSR 206, was just a cheap 6 string for me to try it. I still love it. My main driver is an SR605E.
I found myself not using the high C string much with the music I write, so I went back to 5 string. I do have a cheap Rogue LX205b. Was 80 bucks on sale, so I use that as my practice bass when I travel. Not exactly how I like basses to feel, but if something ever happens to it, it’s not too much of a big deal.
But yeah, I learned on Ibanez basses and guitars. It’s not so much brand loyalty. It’s really a matter of feel, as I said before, and familiarity. I understand their weird model names and all the things that come with Ibby’s. Their guitars are hit or miss, but I’ve yet to play any of their basses, cheap or explosive, that didn’t play and sound great. Best bang for buck instruments on the bass end.
My most recent ones that I sold were the standard 200, and 200 Mikro basses. Wish I didn’t, but I needed the extra money to fix my car lol
For me it’s Schecter guitars and Ibanez basses.
I’ve owned a lot of basses. And the Sound Gear series of basses by Ibanez are by far the most ergonomically comfortable instruments I played to this day. Best quality and sound? Probably not. But they don’t suck by any stretch. But it’s the COMFORT and FEEL that wins it for me.
I own three my self: a 4 string, a 4 string fretless and a 5 string fretless. Love ‘em. They are light, the necks are thin and are on the affordable side.
That was excellent. Thank you.
A year and a half ago I went to a music store to check out one of the new Fender Ultra Precisions with the special Umbra finish but couldn't justify paying the $2800 price tag. I ended up walking out of the store with a new Ibanez SR400 in Tropical Seafloor finish instead for $550. Must've made the salesman's day, eh?. A quick change of the pickups to a set of Aguilar Super Doubles and added a Hipshot D-Tuner and it's my #1 goto bass now for everything.
I had a really nice turquoise active SR Bass. I ended up selling at after about 2 years as it had too many knobs and switches on it for me. It looked pretty much brand new when I sold it, even had the tag and the plastic plate explaining the knobs. About a year later the person who bought it was selling it on FB market place, it had strings and a string saddle missing and one of the plastic knob covers had been pulled off.
Love this video. Personally I'm always tired of seeing the same old content on bass youtube about the same technique tips. Would love to see more bass history content whether on gear or on evolution of the trends in music.
I’m glad I stumbled on this, mythical pull.
This explains everything. Dang boomers got their grubby little fingers in everything…
GREAT AWSOME VIDEO!!! not an Ibanez bass fan , I would like to one day demo an SR5005.
My first bass was a '97 SR300DX in Jewel Blue. Sold it when I was young, and regret it almost daily. Loved that guitar. Took a 2 decade hiatus to raise kids, and just recently got back into music. Curently playing on a little Gio GSRM20 Mikro in Roadster Metallic Orange just for kicks, and it's been a blast. I will be acquiring a new SR300EDX in Cosmic Blue Frozen Matte, among several others of varying pedigree soon. I'm just as much into collecting as i am playing. May even pick up an RGB in matte black for that old school metal vibe, or a BTB. Ibanez is by far my favorite maker. Fenders and Music Mans sound great, but their designs are decades old and stale. I can't imagine playing on anything without the Ibanez name on the headstock, except maybe a Kubicki if the time and price are right someday. Ibanez is always fresh and funky, loaded with innovation at reasonable prices. Hard not to love them.
Thank you for giving the SR basses an honest assessment. Ibanez is constantly innovating and providing more options to the beginners, the working musicians, and the professionals. As a lifelong Ibanez guitar player, their is a reason why I am such. With Gibson and Fender, I can buy 8 guitars and have everything that they have to offer. With basses, I could by 5.
'80s and '90s Sr. Series. Incredible quality. Now that they're all beat up, they go for a fraction of the cost. 20 years ago I bought a musicman and the brand new sound gears were the same price. I mean next to it
Great video man❤. I'm mainly a guitar player but I also like to play bass especially for my backing tracks and sometimes out jamming with others. I bought one of these 4 years ago with active bass boost. It surprised me no hum from the active part. I wasn't surprised by how well it played and sounded. It's an Ibanez and I expected it to play and sound great. I've been playing Ibanez products since 1976 and have always been satisfied .
I had a SR bass way back in the early 90’s and was in a very busy cover band. I remember I liked the neck and light weight, it just sounded kind of generic….it was missing a unique or signature sound I wanted. I was listening to a lot of RHCP at the time and sold it to fund a Stingray, which I still have.
More than half of my collection is made up of Ibanez basses, three of which are SR’s. I just love to play them.
I play an Ibanez for my church…and it brings the FONK on Sundays!
Nicely done as usual Rib!
I love my Soundgear 5 string. My favorite bass I’ve ever had.
I still have my 1996 SR-405. Still love it, too!
I'm drawn to the sr500 series. Can anyone with practical experience, I'd like to hear your opinion.
The premium and prestige models are very well made basses. I’d buy a prestige over a Stingray any day.
They made some carbon fiber cousins of the Soundgear called Ergodyne.
I have 3.
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