Just got my Ibanez SR406 in the mail today, and I gotta say, I'm loving it! This is my first 6 string, and honestly before hand had never even played one, and even then only twiddled on a 5 string a handful of times, but I'm finding it to be pretty natuaral feeling for me. Right now I have it tuned up standard BEADGC, and the B feels great, no buzz and pretty tight, I just keep on trying to use it as my E... 
It didn't come perfect though, the previous owner who I bought it from did a refinish job on it, and though at a distance it looks great, closer inspection shows that he used too coarse sandpaper and is covered in scratches, but all of this I was warned about in the ad, so thats cool, and honestly I still prefer it to a plain black paintjob, the scratches don't bug me at all. What kinda bugs me that wasn't mentioned is what I'm guessing is some grounding and jack issues. Whenever I plug it in, it takes a little fiddling to get it to stop cutting out and I have to be careful whenever I move it to avoid it cutting out too. I figure this is probably an easy fix, but I admittedly am a little out of my comfort zone with the pre-amp. When the jack went out on my 100% passive Destroyer, it was a super easy re-solder fix, and well, with the preamp, theres just alot more going on.
Also whenever plugged in without me touching the jack or strings, the thing buzzes like a madman. Pretty annoying, but again, I figure it to be an easy fix. A couple more things is that when put back together, a the truss rod cover was put on wrong/crooked, and its missing a few screws, like 2 in the back plate cover and one in the trussrod cover. The last thing is that I just figure its gonna need a good setup, right now the action is way to high for me. He said after he re-finished it, the low B had started buzzing so he slapped a string retainer which fixed the problem, its just now, seeing it irl, I think it looks ugly as hell. Hopefully with a good setup, that can be fixed too so we can get rid of that thing.
But really, aside from all those issues, I really took a liking to the overall feeling of this bass right from the get-go. The string spacing feels great to me and the neck is pure sex, so I do think that putting a little bit of TLC and money into it is totally worth it.
New family pic:
Her on the left and her older sibling on the right.
It didn't come perfect though, the previous owner who I bought it from did a refinish job on it, and though at a distance it looks great, closer inspection shows that he used too coarse sandpaper and is covered in scratches, but all of this I was warned about in the ad, so thats cool, and honestly I still prefer it to a plain black paintjob, the scratches don't bug me at all. What kinda bugs me that wasn't mentioned is what I'm guessing is some grounding and jack issues. Whenever I plug it in, it takes a little fiddling to get it to stop cutting out and I have to be careful whenever I move it to avoid it cutting out too. I figure this is probably an easy fix, but I admittedly am a little out of my comfort zone with the pre-amp. When the jack went out on my 100% passive Destroyer, it was a super easy re-solder fix, and well, with the preamp, theres just alot more going on.
Also whenever plugged in without me touching the jack or strings, the thing buzzes like a madman. Pretty annoying, but again, I figure it to be an easy fix. A couple more things is that when put back together, a the truss rod cover was put on wrong/crooked, and its missing a few screws, like 2 in the back plate cover and one in the trussrod cover. The last thing is that I just figure its gonna need a good setup, right now the action is way to high for me. He said after he re-finished it, the low B had started buzzing so he slapped a string retainer which fixed the problem, its just now, seeing it irl, I think it looks ugly as hell. Hopefully with a good setup, that can be fixed too so we can get rid of that thing.
But really, aside from all those issues, I really took a liking to the overall feeling of this bass right from the get-go. The string spacing feels great to me and the neck is pure sex, so I do think that putting a little bit of TLC and money into it is totally worth it.
New family pic:
Her on the left and her older sibling on the right.
