NBD-- Ibanez Mikro lefty from Sweetwater

Greetings TB'ers. Happy Friday. Today I received my new Ibanez Mikro bass left handed. I bought it from Dave Hoffman at Sweetwater. He followed through with the sale and provided delivery tracking. Nice guy and a cool bass player too. First class service. Free candy too!

I had asked him to have the warehouse to pick out the lightest one, per @pcake 's suggestion, and sure enough they sent one at least a pound and a half lighter than my last one! I had to flip the strings as I play left handed but string right handed. The neck is absolutely silky. I know with most of these economy basses the neck will have fret wire issues or dips etc. but this one was perfect. Sweetwater does a 40 point inspection and it did come in nearly perfect. It will be once I adjust the truss and string height.

Playing around with the controls, they are pretty lively. Turning off the P pickup, the bass sounds really like a single coil reminiscent of a J bass, and turning off the J pickup the P pickup gives the bass a nice thumpy P style sound. If I turn on the P-pickup about 25% and the J-pickup 100% surprisingly I get a tone very similar to my EBMM bass. All in all, great purchase for me, great service from Sweetwater. And I'm not an employee! LOLL!

 

Yup! I'm an oddball! I have to flip the nut around because of the string size...

Thanks @StereoPlayer ! I'm imagining when we get back to playing live again I will be trying out this little hot rod!

 

Hey, KBD! Agreed. It sounds pretty good right out of the box. I'm a 40+ year player and I know a good sounding pickup. I'm amazed at the quality of the pickups. Do you know where I can get a Quick Release bridge? Thanks!

Very carefully my friend! I have string nut files and I have to be very careful how much I shave off the string nut. I've done this a few times before. I HAVE to shave down the nut and flip the strings-- I can't play the bass strung left handed LOL.

Thanks, @pcake ! There is no neck dive and once I get the strings properly settled, this is going to be a very fun bass! Thanks for the suggestions and guidance!

 

As @WestyBassBob mentioned, the picture isn't clear enough to show that it uses four bolts.

Yes, @WestyBassBob I'm kind of surprised that Ibanez doesn't use a plate there but it does work as it is. I'm enjoying the heck out of it!

 

Thanks, @JRA !