Ibanez BTB33. 33" w/Ramp

[Grand Moff Tim]

Like the title says...

Comes tuned EADGC from the factory.

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Tempting. Very tempting.

 

[wvbass]

I really have to hand it to Ibanez. They seem to be really experimenting in some interesting directions. I hope they sell enough of these (and the portamento, and the fanned fret) that they keep doing stuff like this.

I like this one. I've been very curious about 33" scale; I have never spent any time with this.

 

[wvbass]

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[Persona87]

It's been a goal of mine to get a five string exclusively for high C tuning and chord playing, and a slightly shorter scale would make it easier to play like that. This would be my fifth bass if I got it, but then I'd have all my bases covered (pardon the expression).

 

[laklandplayer]

I wonder if it could be converted to a low b? Warwick introduced a med scale 5 that is impossible to find in the USA. Med scale seems to be the perfect scale for eliminating dead spots.

 

[CoarseBass]

Ibanez...great instruments, terrible marketing. Ams has new poplar btbs, the PJ SRs, and a completely new jaguar style bass family.

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[laklandplayer]

Ibanez is killing me, I just bought a btb675. They have a new sr5 with nordstrand pickups and the btb33. Time to decide which of my current basses to sell.

 

[laklandplayer]

AMS has removed all of these new basses from their web site "page not found".

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Maybe Matt Garrison can pick up some swag, and help Ibanez market this as his signature bass. It's not like Fodera will lose market share.

 

[Willy Franklin]

Yeah.... I see that the 33"er isn't on AMS site anymore... Maybe after the NAMM show??

 

[El Papa]

This is on my list big time!! Seems too good to be true. Anyone know the price?

 

[Willy Franklin]

This is on my list big time!! Seems too good to be true. Anyone know the price?

Looks like it's ~650 British Pounds... So ~$1,200??? ish.....

 

[spade2you]

Kudos to Ibanez for trying new and different things.

 

[Willy Franklin]

Kudos to Ibanez for trying new and different things.

You're not kidding.... A couple of years ago, they had a 6 string bass that had two D and G strings on it... So strung low to high, E A D G D G... The seconde D and G strings had no frets under them... The "Ashula"

 

[groovebass5]

The bass looks great. Between the Portamento last year and now this I really intrigued by what Ibanez is doing. It's cool to see a large scale company like them taking some fun chances. I definitely want to check this bass out!

 

[gabal]

Anyone know which is the strings spacing? It would be perfect with 16,5 mm

 

[Willy Franklin]

Anyone know which is the strings spacing? It would be perfect with 16,5 mm

No string spacing (and I HATE when they don't put the string spacing at the bridge, and the Nut width...), but:

- BTB5 5pc Maple/Bubinga neck-thru
- 838mm/33” scale
- Ash top/Mahogany wing body
- Rosewood fretboard w/Abalone dot inlay
- Medium frets
- Graph Tech BLACK TUSQ XL nut
- Mono-rail V bridge
- Bartolini BH1 pickups
- Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band eq
w/Mid frequency switch
- Black matte hardware
- String Gauge: .032/.045/.065/.085/.105
- Factory tuning: 1C,2G,3D,4A,5E

 

[gabal]

BTB's string spacing is 19mm for 5-strings, and 17mm for 6-strings, it says on the website of Ibanez about the string spacing in the Mono-Rail Bridge on the BTB's, but I hope that the space change in this model, at least 17mm........

 

[PrimitiveMan]

Hope they announce this one in the US soon, I definitely want to try it!

 

[PrimitiveMan]

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New images from Ibanez website, they have added the bass to their catalog

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