Ibanez 2024 release disappointing

[BioDriver]

This is kind of par for the course with their releases. IMO nothing spectacular enough to make me give them another shot

 

[Thegreatzambini]

This is kind of par for the course with their releases. IMO nothing spectacular enough to make me give them another shot

Awww, you no buy?? now they have to shut down production

 

[Thegreatzambini]

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Ibanez are absolute BUTTHOLES for releasing this finish on a parallel fret and not multiscale... What in the actual shag?!?!
This finish is insane!

It is sweet. It looks similar to the finish I had on my 2010 BTB, and I think the wood they used on top is Poplar Burl

 

[Maxi Funkl]

Why should Ibanez fall on this sword when no other manufacturers have.

 

[Rib 13]

They did two iterations of a BTB with those specs from 2015 to 2021.

BTB33
BTB845V

Yep, and obviously sales didn't warrant keeping them in the lineup.

I own a BTB 845v and converted mine to standard BEADG.

 

[jd56hawk]

Seems like if you want a highly niche instrument that clearly doesn’t have the market appeal for a major manufacturer to invest in you should just have something made to your specs.

Somebody somewhere is wishing Tesla would make a diesel truck.

Exactly.
Nothing more needs to be said.

 

[Prodigus Filius]

The Ibanez quirky SRC6 and SRC6MS should have been a 4 string SR 30" scale bass. A 4 string 30" short scale is a glaring omission in the SR range and should be rectified. No good hiding one away in the low selling SRC6 and the probably equally as low selling SRCMS. Which is basically a pairing of the Mikro and SRC6. No excuses. Git it done Ibanez

 

[Prodigus Filius]

Exactly.
Nothing more needs to be said.

Show the stats about market appeal of the SRC6 and the SRC6MS. Ibanez will put out stuff appealing to quirksters. It's not always about markets. I challenge anyone to deny a 30" 4 string SR bass would sell. 4 string short scales are booming

SR 4 string Scale Basses
34" scale SR .tick
32" scale SR .tick
30" scale SR . Empty
28.6" scale SR. Tick

 

[sonojono]

… There’s always modding the Mezzo.

 

[jemerpi]

I agree, I'd love for Ibby to have more short scale options across multiple price ranges. Now it's either a TMB30 for 200 or an EHB for 1000+. Give us one in the 500-600 range, where the Mustang used to rule until Fender started to ask 700+ for it. They even have the perfect base in the TMB500/505. Slap a TMB30 neck on it and you have a winner, active short scale that does things that it's competition can't.

It isn't what you are looking for, but Ibanez has invested quite a bit in semi-hollow short scales that tend to be mid-range priced.

Indeed, I grabbed one of the few such fivers known to humanity before it went extinct.

 

[Root 5]

What disappoints me about Ibanez is the perpetual lack of colour choices for someone who doesn’t play death metal, thrash, doom metal.

 

[Luigir]

Is there a webpage with a consolidated list of what's new for 2024?

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[Adam Felix]

If I want an E string and a C string, I'll play my 6. And I couldn't care much less about a short-scale with or without a C string. Just not appealing to me in any way. So I'm not at all disappointed that Ibanez didn't release an unappealing and not-real-useful instrument.

Maybe it’s not something that appeals to you, but you can’t deny that it would be a variation instead of more of the same, like the majority of the sound gear line.

 

[Adam Felix]

Ibanez has an efficient production set up specifically because they don't manufacture what a minuscule segment of the market may want. Doing that is the opposite of efficiency.

But they do, they are exactly the type of company I would expect to make these things hence my disappointment. They make weird hybrid fretless fretted basses.

 

[IvanBassist]

IMHO Ibanez is the most adventurous of the bigger companies. Look at what they’ve done with the workshop series the last 10-15 years, pretty wild stuff.

This.

 

[jemerpi]

IMHO Ibanez is the most adventurous of the bigger companies. Look at what they’ve done with the workshop series the last 10-15 years, pretty wild stuff.

Absolutely! Affordable, contemporary, innovative awesomeness. What's not to like?

 

[BAG]

You may not like what Ibanez has released, but this gets my gas going really bad.

It's a pity that I'll probably never see one here downunder and if I do it'll be around $4000 (NZD)

 

[Yahboy]

34-35 multi scale BTB . Nice looking , but not my tone....

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[iTzPrime]

Whatever they do or don't introduce, I'll never complain about Ibanez, who easily builds the widest range of bass guitars of anyone else out there. Certainly not all to my taste, but I got to give them big props, especially as they are willing to try new and even oddball stuff instead of simply making the same things over and over in 'this year's bold new colors!'.

And do that for a great price and great quality control!

 

[Adam Felix]

God forbid they make what they can sell. And did you really try to compare Ibanez to Fodera? Pathetic.

If you’re referring to my comment, I wasn’t comparing. My point was to make niche options like short and medium scale 5 string accessible to people who wants a medium priced instrument.