cheap feeling

they feel cheap because the overwhelming majority of their products are. and even the ones that aren't cheap are usually not worth it.

 

Heh, I'd endorse ibanez if they gave me huge wads of cash and free instruments

 

i wouldn't but that's just me i guess

 

i think both ibanez's and fender jazz basses feel cheap. I'm pretty sure its the think neck. It makes them feel like u could break them at any moment. I really like jazz basses, but i cant get used to the neck. Thats what i'd guess.

 

The Jazz neck is even slimmer at the nut than most Soundgear necks, but it feels much more rigid to me. Soundgear 4 strings are so flimsy that you can bend them up until the fret out or down a whole step, with little effort.

 

Brutal but honest, that's how we like 'em here on talkbass! BTW I agree. I've never liked Ibanez much, there's a reason they're also known as "Ibeenhad". For the same price you can do so much better.

 

Mike slips in to the anti Ibanez camp.

Shh! Everyone's asleep. He glues a poster of a BTB to the tallest tree. (no hammering noise)

He then mounts his trusty steed and after a few seconds, he is lost in the dappled predawn light.
No one heard his horse because, --- I don't believe it! He put gym socks over the horse's shoes!

No signature. Was he even really here? Or was it a dream?

 

If you wanna talk about image over substance, how come most of you base your opinion of Ibanez on the SR series(their most pushed line)?

Try a BTB, an ATK or an Ergodyne and try and tell me they don't have their merits. Gary Willis, Verdine White, Doug Wimbish or Benny Rietveld can't all be in it for the money. In fact, the only one that plays an SR is Gary, and his is a custom with Bart electronics.

 

i've played every make and model of ibanez besides the atk and i either don't like the feel, sound, or look of any of them. but that's just my opinion i could be wrong, what do you think america? call me at 341-LACTOSE. if any of you watch dennis miller live you know what that is.

 

I like the old Ibanez Musician bass and I played a high end Soundgear bass that was really nice at BassNW a while ago. Generally speaking though I don't like their gear.

 

the soundgears do feel real cheap.there sooooooooo light which makes them feek cheap.the neck is super thin.the only reason the soundgears are cheap is because they dont spend much on making them.although my bro's friend got an ibznez soundgear for 109 which is a good deal.

 

i hope that was new and not a used bass.

 

I can't stand their string spacing! I can slap like crazy on my yamaha 5-string, but get me on one of those generic SR series, and I sound like I don't know what I'm doing. And it seems like Ibanez is all most music stores carry, because it sells to young, impressionable people who think it's good because of endorsements. Thank god for this website, or i'd probably still think that a little bit. Of course, I have this same issue with those guitars/amps that it seems every punk band plays (ampeg heads, marshall half-stacks, les pauls, stingrays). These are all wonderful, wonderful equipment, but it just seems punkers play them because they are played by other punkers.

 

Tried an Ergodyne 5, but the string spacing got to me, although I liked the look and the EQ options. I tried an Ergodyne 4 but it had a very prominent note that was DOA. I did buy a Verdine White Signature and found it to be very well made and good sounding. In the old days I owned an Ibanez "P" bass that was the spitting image of the Fender, and they got sued for it, as well as an Ibanez Ric copy. I really don't like their new models all that much, but that's because Peavey has captured my interests with guitars that sound and feel 10 times better than the Ibanez models IMO.

 

They also have very poor quality control. A friend that manages a local store once told me that about 1 in 4 that they get has a serious defect. They've sent more Ibanez back than all others combined.

 

I agree. I've never beem impressed with any Ibanez I've played. Too flimsy, weak and, like you said ,cheap feeling. Ibanez is on my perpetual black list.

 

hey, im young (14 years) and i've got 2 ibanez!! a GSR (my first bass) and an ergodyne edc (second one, no third ) !! and when i bough both of them i didnt knew about the endorsers!!! i bought them because i like the sound and feel of them!!!

so dont say that kind of stuff of young fellas

 

I've never beem impressed with any of their SR's or even Ergodynes. The SR's were just muddy and undefined. They did feel cheap, the neck spacing was crap, and the strings were floppy. Ergoydynes were better in the feeling, but I still didn't like their sound (it was more defined, but it was too bright and clacky for me).

Their BTB series are unlike any other of their currently marketed basses, imo. The neck feels substantial (I love the wide spacing), and it feels like it has enough meat in it so I wont snap it in half while I'm playing. The strings are tight (thanks to the 35" scale), and because of the extra length they're defined and clear. I've never felt a B-string this good on any other of the Ibanez basses.

While I don't like Ibanez for the most part, I do like their BTB basses a lot If only they got rid of the SR line and started making more basses like that