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tried an ibanez SRH500 today...

#21
pcake said:
must buy... it... now...

no, no - must be strong!

don't... miss... out...

i don't want to miss out... i mean must hold out!

confound you and your hypnotic frog!

buy... it... now...



tapes, huh? i can't imagine how it could be improved on with those flats. they were scrumdidiliocious!

no sense in hiding - i already don't know where you are :D
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The good thing about GC is the liberal return policy.
 
#22
Whippet said:
I was told it would neck dive.
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So why can't they design a six with a counterbalance weight inside the body?
Under the bridge?

It galls me that the makers don't seem to think of these simple solutions.
It can't be that I'm the only one that comes up with this idea.

Edit:It really wouldn't dive much more than this semi-acoustic sixer.
(This bass,by the way,is unavailable)
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pcake said:
must buy... it... now...

no, no - must be strong!

don't... miss... out...

i don't want to miss out... i mean must hold out!

confound you and your hypnotic frog!

buy... it... now...



tapes, huh? i can't imagine how it could be improved on with those flats. they were scrumdidiliocious!

no sense in hiding - i already don't know where you are :D
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[the sound of frogs as I enter Lion Country Safari on the walk in to Irvine Meadows Amphitheater]

:: ribbet ribbet ::

Observing how tapewounds are the latchkey to the [imprecise adjective] tone I imagined for my semi-hollow body bass has me be present to my own notions about what strings are for me.
 
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#25
I just bought the SRH505 last week and it arrived on Friday. I took it to the gig Friday night (corporate party band I sub with regularly that does "unplugged" alt rock covers). It was from sweetwater, so of course it arrived gig-ready.

The only thing was, the chromes and I are in a love/hate cycle, and ont his bass it was hate. In the mix on stage there was too much high mids (typical with those strings) and if I cut even a little it got boomy. I found my hpf dialed up higher than normal (essential with any piezo pickup bass). Also, the strings got kind of tacky when I started sweating (I know they smooth out eventually).

I have been chasing that "something different" thing for a while, and trying to find warmth and acoustic, upright-ish tones from bass guitars for a while. I just strung some rounds on there, so we will see about that soon. My world changed when I tried out some rick turner renaissance basses last week, but that is a whole other story.

But as for this, my initial review is, it is excellent, well worth the money. The fit and finish is excellent for twice the price point. Playing comfort is superb, and I should especially note that contours are a must for me, and is the reason I cannot do a Rick Turner, etc. The forearm cutout is perfectly and tastefully done, and I did not want any more. And the lack of a tummy cutout, it turns out, actually was a plus when standing up. It balanced perfectly. The fingerboard extension on the bass side is actually a perfectly placed anchor point, and there is a sweet spot right at that point on the strings. I was waiting for a bit to give a more thorough review, but here is my initial thoughts. Oh, FWIW, a while back I played a fretless at Sam ash, and did not like it at all. And even on the official demo video, the fretted one sounded warmer and more like an upright than the fretless.
 
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#26
Watchootognbout said:
So why can't they put a counterweight inside the body?
Under the bridge?
It galls me that they don't seem to think of these simple solutions.
It can't be that I'm the only one that comes up with this idea.
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There is a simple and somewhat quick fix on the user side. Put the guitar Scratch Pad made with velvet on the back of the body. This thing keeps it from slipping around if the neck dive is not so bad.

Honestly, I think this bass is going to get discontinued / replace with the next version later this year. Don't quote me on this but I heard this at the store just a few months ago. The SR30TH might go out / upgrade even faster.

Personally I doubt they want to put more money into this lineup of chambered body basses. I think this batch was a test run and if they do continue with a updated version, they might do something a little extra. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

Remember the Grooveline? I have the G105. Totally kick arse bass. They asked so many people including dealers what they thought was good and they made it. The public just didn't buy it so they discontinued it.
These guys will axe anything that wont sell. Then a few years later they will bring it back to life with some minor change. It is the way Ibanez does things.

That said, the OP should wait since there is a chance this one will get the axe. There should be a huge discount when it happens.
 
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Does anyone have an actual weight on this bass?

Aidil said:
Good point. But it would depend on one's definition of neck dive.

If you categorised neck dive as must have the bass in balance when putting it on your lap while sitting without holding the neck and without putting on the strap, then any Ibanez SR series basses, especially the 6 string ones, would fall into neck dive category.

I regard a bass suffering from neck dive if the neck sunk when the left hand isn't holding the neck while the strap is on. My 2001 built Curbow 6 precisely fell into this category.

The SRH does have a very lightweight body which even lighter than any SR series bodies that most couldn't counter balanced the necks. But since any SR series basses have their top horn strap pin parallel to the 12th fret, thus even the 6 string version doesn't suffer from neck dive as long as it's being played with the strap on.

Yes, it would be a challenge to make a 6 string version of the SRH, especially to make it balanced with its wider and heavier neck despite lightweight body. But with correctly positioning the top horn strap pin, it shouldn't have neck dive. Ibanez have done it with the Ashula SRAS7, which is essentially an SR bass with 7 strings. They counter balanced the heavier neck by moving the top horn strap pin position even further away from the bridge. IIRC, the SRAS7 has its top horn strap pin parallel to the middle of 10th and 11th frets.
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#30
pcake said:
i never got into hollow bodies that much even though i owned a violin bass for a while, but while i was messing with a bass at west l.a. guitar center, my husband handed me a brown ibanez with an f hole and said "try this!"

the first one had one string that had no volume at all, so he handed me a second one. the second one was a huge WOW! it sounded great - really great. it was comfortable to hold, the neck was comfortable and the strings, after doing a little research, seem to be chromes. and the sound is different than any of my current stable.

Electric Basses SR - SRH500 Bass Workshop | Ibanez guitars

and now i'm that state - you know the one - where i really really REALLY want that bass. it's really not in the budget, but let me tell you, it rocked my world...
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That's the ONE Ibanez bass I would consider getting. :)
 
#32
Watchootognbout said:
So why can't they design it with a counterbalance weight inside the body?
Under the bridge?

It galls me that they don't seem to think of these simple solutions.
It can't be that I'm the only one that comes up with this idea.
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Adding counterbalance weight inside the body definitely would make the bass less comfortable with overall weight increase. But seriously, the SRH doesn't have neck dive problem as long as you put the strap on.

Whippet said:
There is a simple and somewhat quick fix on the user side. Put the guitar Scratch Pad made with velvet on the back of the body. This thing keeps it from slipping around if the neck dive is not so bad.

Honestly, I think this bass is going to get discontinued / replace with the next version later this year. Don't quote me on this but I heard this at the store just a few months ago. The SR30TH might go out / upgrade even faster.

Personally I doubt they want to put more money into this lineup of chambered body basses. I think this batch was a test run and if they do continue with a updated version, they might do something a little extra. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

Remember the Grooveline? I have the G105. Totally kick arse bass. They asked so many people including dealers what they thought was good and they made it. The public just didn't buy it so they discontinued it.
These guys will axe anything that wont sell. Then a few years later they will bring it back to life with some minor change. It is the way Ibanez does things.

That said, the OP should wait since there is a chance this one will get the axe. There should be a huge discount when it happens.
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yes, the SRH500/SRH505 and SRH500F/SRH505F wouldn't be in the market for long. They belong to an experimental series which they call Bass Workshop. The series is relatively new, which began in the late 2013/early 2014 with the single cut BTB686SC. Historically, any model within the series only went into production in a single, twice or triple batches, and then they got discontinued.

PaulKaplan said:
Does anyone have an actual weight on this bass?
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My SRH505 is 3 kg (6 lb 11 oz).
 
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