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11-28-2012, 06:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | SIX STRING IBANEZ GROOVELINE !!!
Oh boy . . .  |
11-28-2012, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | That will be one awesome six! Those Groovelines balance absolutely perfectly. It looks like it has 18mm spacing like a Grooveline 5 too. The only downside is that it probably costs about $2,300.
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11-28-2012, 09:39 PM
|  | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Saw one at my local GC. Damn now I wish I had tried it!
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I bongo, you bongo, he she me....bongo?
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11-29-2012, 05:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: manchester nh | | | WOW
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11-29-2012, 05:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Milan, Italy | | | Not my cup of tea
Yamaha TRB6P or
Ibanez SR5006 Prestige
if only I felt in love with 6ers again
Cheers,
Wallace
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11-29-2012, 05:54 AM
| | | Always wondered if they would make one!!  Awesome!!
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I walked in, I looked around and I didn't spot anything special.. So I left the place again..
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11-29-2012, 05:58 AM
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inevitable I guess. I swore I'd never like a 'weird' looking bass, but I'm sold on the ergonomics and balance logic - it works both sitting and standing. And my god the tone of those things - fat fat active Jazz tonal ranges.
Another purchase for my imaginary collection 
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11-29-2012, 07:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | I'll need to try one of those out 
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11-29-2012, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Earth | | Personally, I can't get my head around the looks of this model. I'm sure they play well and sound great. But IMO - they're ugly!  |
11-29-2012, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Root 5 Personally, I can't get my head around the looks of this model. I'm sure they play well and sound great. But IMO - they're ugly! | +1...I put this in the same category as a Bongo. I think it'll sound fantastic, but I think it's ugly as sin. Looks like something that belongs on the Starship Enterprise. |
11-29-2012, 07:47 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Atlanta, Ga. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Root 5  Personally, I can't get my head around the looks of this model. I'm sure they play well and sound great. But IMO - they're ugly! | ^This^ |
11-29-2012, 10:41 AM
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Endorsing: Happy Jacks Pawn | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Saskatchewan Canada | | +1 ^
They could at least include a matching headstock....sheesh....  |
11-29-2012, 02:42 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | I'd love to try one of these! I was wonderinf too if they were going to make a six string model.
While I agree with everyone, it is rather "ugly", however I'm drawn to it for that reason. I always think of Les Claypool saying how when he saw his first CT in the pawn shop it was the ugliest thing he'd ever seen!
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11-29-2012, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | Ugly... maybe. I get the impression that aesthetics were not even a consideration in the design of these though; function and sound were.
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11-29-2012, 02:51 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada | | | If it plays like the BTB, I'd get a BTB. The Grooveline's looks remind me of a Wooden Curbow
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11-29-2012, 02:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: New York, NY | | | I dig the body shape...it just feels like the neck, pickups and bridge should be shifted a couple inches to the left. Oh, and too bad Ibanez won't do 19mm...if my BTB1006e was that spacing it'd probably still be my main bass. |
11-29-2012, 06:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by awilkie84 If it plays like the BTB, I'd get a BTB. The Grooveline's looks remind me of a Wooden Curbow | Those 6 string BTBs are awesome, especially the old prestiges but boy they can be heavy . . at least in my case and seemingly others on TB. If you can sit down during your gig they're must have but if you have to stand for 3 + hours, you may need a chiropractor.
The Grooveline is designed to avoid that.
Last edited by tercesyrev : 11-29-2012 at 06:37 PM.
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11-29-2012, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Modesto, CA | | | I think it looks good, except for the lower dong....err.....horn. They should have matched it with the upper.
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11-30-2012, 06:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | Is that a pre-NAMM shot? That bass isn't on Ibby's website yet.
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11-30-2012, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by pflash4001 +1...I put this in the same category as a Bongo. I think it'll sound fantastic, but I think it's ugly as sin. Looks like something that belongs on the Starship Enterprise. | I completely disagree. It retains enough classic lines to be functional like the longer upper horn so there isn't a bunch of neck dive and yet wanders off far enough from tradiational bass guitar shapes so it's clearly identifiable as something new and distictive. I especially love the carved shape on the laminated wood that gives the very nice two tone outline. In my opinion FEW basses of this carved type have a carving giving an overall look this nice. And the lower "horn" to me gives a final distinctive "look". I see it like the Upside down T-bird which became a classic look, but unlike that bass, this one is actually functional as well.
And while I haven't heard or played one, so far the only thing I DON'T like about it is the $2500 price tag. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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