Wife's NBD - Ibanez content

[MidlifeBeginner]

I posted an explanation of the powertap some time ago. It taps a coil with a high pass filter. It equals highs of single coil blended with lows of humbucker. I often like the mode.

One gripe I have on the electronics is the cheap battery clip. You only deal with it when changing batteries.

They are nice basses. Cort does great fretwork on the Indonesian Ibanez basses.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

So every now and then, my wife gets a wild hair to learn to play bass.

I have a Lakland D55-01 from her first attempt about 20 years ago, and an Olympia Thunderchief copy from another attempt a few years after that.

She got the itch again and couple of weeks ago, and ordered one of these.

Ibanez SR400EPBDX

Very pretty little bass! Here are a few pics, impressions in next post.

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Mine would have repossessed the Lakland as well as the cash to buy another bass…LOL!!

 

[embellisher]

The Lakland was too big and heavy for her. I tried to warn her when she ordered it.

It's such a nice bass that I bought her an Xbox and several games in exchange for letting me have the bass. Great backup 5 string, amazing neck and killer B string.

 

[MonetBass]

Beautiful bass! And +1 to the signed King's X pic!

 

[CascadeBass]

I really like this new finish, as well:

 

[jVilla76]

Really hard to beat the quality and playability of the Ibanez SR line for the $. I played a SR 370E for about a year and it definitely exceeded my expectations for the price.