Recent content by sixtyneedles

First of all i cant say anything about the xavier but i can say that my vm jazz is a realy solid instrument. Also id like to second the music store trip if you feel that many choises might confuse you try a precision and a jazz to compare necks and then have a look at basses with diferent...

2010 almost all boutique bass builds has a spalted maple top. 2011 its buckey burl. Cant wait to see what top is "in" for 2012!!

Sexy!!!

i hope your not posting because you are out buying this bass

Sell it get a bandsaw a cheap cab and some ketchup . Then make a thread asking about the best way to saw a cab full of ketchup on stage.

Dan Atkinson a member here and an awsome bass builder has some soundclips of diferent pickups body woods and strings on the media section of his site Invalid Link Removed

Had the same problem with my german $$ pluged in to my cheapo practice amp the but i was as much to blame because i lowered the action and left the pickups to close to the strings so try lowering your pups if you dig in to much, you can also run it in the active chanel it will probobly fix the...

The poplar burl one is one of the sexiest tops i have ever seen :bassist:

Hey maybe someone wants to go boutique and still have the ibanez Neck/look/feel. The point with ib is that they have good solid instruments in all the price points if you include those basses. they had the realy cheap and mid priced point well covered so for me it stands to reason they...

I also asked in the ibanez club but it dawned on me that this is a more apropriate place for this question . So i want to change electroincs on my SR705 WNF it is an 02 model and it has the older dx5 pickups that look like EMG 40`s but i cant realy find much info on them. As far as preamps...

Greeting fellow Ibanez players !! Back in 02 I got my second bass and being so satisfied with my first I went ahead and bought a Sr705 WNF and I was pretty happy with it for many years used it as my main bass until 08 when I decided to go back to 4 strings and got my Warwick . Now I want...

Second one looks so awesome!!! everytime i see it my jaw drops first then i spend the next 10 to 15 minutes trying to imagine how it sounds!

Hey i used to hate Fenders/squiers and im rocking my VM jazz now and im loving it but seriusly i woodnt mind counter sugesting but dont bash ppl for buying them !

i have been guilty of gasing for basses that i can only see my self using in realy limited ocasions and stuff that i woold never use in a band content but gasing over a bass i know il hate ? no but i dont hate that many basses to begin with so ....

Bah i got my sr 705 in 2002 and it has been a love hate relationship ever since it might spend a year or two in the closet but it will eventualy come out :) Also realy disagree about the feel the neck is awsome string spacing though thats another thing