NBD: 1991 Ibanez SR886

I was on the fence about this bass for a long time — I think I first saw it listed three months ago. I did some homework and one review I read on TB panned the pickups. But after finding this video, I decided I disagreed with those posts.

The woman I picked it up from had a matching black 886 with a Les Claypool “Bass Sucks” autograph, which was cool and worth the extra dollars but so went with the less expensive offering.

This bass is more comfortable than my Tune, which was just too much of a monster for me, no matter how amazing it sounded. This feels much more comfortable. I’m looking forward to a new set of strings and doing a little setup tweaking.

 

❤️

 

Clearly stoked

 

I have that SR885 in black. I think I like these pickups in the 886 better.

 

my #1

 

I like them too. Kind of a classic “modern” look.

I am intending on using this hiatus and quarantine to finally work up a decent thumb pop technique And these pickups definitely create a lot of space for me to try different techniques and see where my hands work well with popping the D, G, *and C*

There is a white Heartfield on Reverb that I covet. I like to play white Basses on stage but it was $1k... This was the local inexpensive alternative.

I’ve been researching the pickups. The 1991 catalog posted here lists them as Lo-J6 but the 1992 catalog is different. My 885 has the AFR and they’re ok but I feel like these are better. I have to A/B them once I throw some fresh strings on this baby.
Here is a review that seems to indicate that the 1991 Lo-6 pickups are EMG’s sirius1o1's review - Ibanez SR886

This bass has a very nice straight ahead two band active jazz tone. I am liking it a lot, even with these old strings. Prev. owner seems to have the neck pickup lowered a bit.

 

Yes, opening for Max Creek

 

She had two of them! The other had the Les Claypool autograph lol. She and her husband brought out both for me to check out. I didn’t pick up and try out the Claypool one. I should have!

 

Ha! Veterans for sure. Our guitar player gigs around with Mark Mercier — and Scott Murawski has offered to produce our next album. We’re kind of in the Max Creek orbit. There’s a great New England jam band scene. I can’t wait for things to clear out.