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NBD: EBMM Roasted Content

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georgestrings

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I just picked this up yesterday - it's an SR5 HH, Honey Burst, Roasted Neck, Ebony Board, Ball Family Reserve... Please excuse the crappy pics - I typically blow my money on music gear, not photography gear...

Anyways, here it is:

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JeanBG said:
very nice!
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Thanks - the pics really don't do it justice - it really is a looker... It also plays great, , and the construction, fit, finish, fretwork, etc... is top notch... Tonally, between the HH pups, 5 position switch, and 3 band EQ, it'll cover an awful lot of territory...

I sold an Ibanez Prestige sr3005 SOL, and am also selling a '96 American Standard P Bass to fund this, but I could spare both of them without any trouble... This is my 1st EBMM - I'm looking forward to gigging it...

- georgestrings
 
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P. Aaron said:
WOWEEWOWOW! I'd play that all day! Congrats on a beautiful bass!
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Thanks - I played it for awhile last nite, and fine tuned the setup for my tastes - it plays really, really well... Although it's a bit heavier than my Prestige was, and the neck's a bit chunkier, I'm sure I can get used to it... Besides, these days I'm only playing about 1/3 of the night on a 5er, and if it gets to be too much, I still have an sr905 I can switch up to...


- georgestrings
 
#17
JoshuaTSP said:
Hey, George....what's your main bass or was your main bass?
Is this very different from what you're used to?
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Well, I don't really have a "main bass", per se - I have a few that I gig with, a few that I use for rehearsals and general practice, and a couple that I'll trot out if I'm unsure of the gig conditions... My current band plays around 50 songs in a typical night, in alot of different tunings - so here's what I have been gigging:

'08 American Standard Jazz in standard tuning, with a hipshot for drop D

'76 P Bass, or a Schecter Hellraiser-4, tuned half step down for Eb stuff

Either an Ibanez sr3005 SOL Prestige, or sr905 - for anything that goes below D tuning: for us, that means anything from Db to low B...

I sold the Prestige, and yeah - the sr5 is a little different from my Ibby 5ers, in that it's a bit heavier, and the neck is both a little wider and a little thicker than the sr 5 string necks I have been using... I don't think it'll cause me any trouble, as the string spacing is very close to what I'm accustomed to, and I used to use Spector 5ers - which definitely had bigger necks - before switching over to Ibanez for that sort of thing...

Truth is, although the Prestige 5er was a really nice instrument, tonally it wasn't working for me as well as the slightly more aggressive sounding sr905 - so, I'm pretty sure the StingRay will work well in the same situation...


- georgestrings
 

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