cyril233

If you are interested, please PM me to try and collect it before Apr 11th. The bass won't be for sale after that. 

A demo recorded with this bass: 

Selling this bass as I am switching gears. It is a limited SR sold in 2020, similar to an SR2605, but with upgraded specs, including a 15-piece neck, roasted maple fingerboard, poplar burl top, matched headstock, and wooden pickup covers. It's a great bass with solid B string and the sound fits many genres. The headstock finish is chiped, and there are a few dinks on the bottom of the body, but those dinks are barely visible. 

Full specs here: https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/SR5PBLTD

Comes with an Ibanez gig bag. Strung with Elixir strings. Pickup in London only. 

Edit April 2nd: Fret edges are rounded, string action can be set to very low, although I followed Patitucci and Gwizdala and intentionally set them high. Smooth neck, stiff knobs. Weighs 4kg. At this price point it's very hard to find a bass with better specs. I'm selling it at £675 before I move houses on Apr 11th. Otherwise I'll travel with it and close this ad.

would you consider posting to London

2 hours ago, Paulhauser said:

@cyril233

I would add the following to your list:

- Spector Dimension 5 and Dimension 5 HP : 34"-37", both models sound great and are in the same price bracket as the DW NGs

- Ibanez BTB805MS : 35-37", priced closer to 1K than to 2K and based on clips it is a seriously good sounding instrument. Had a BTB before and was great but it wasn't the multiscale version

- Spector Euro 5LX : I have used them with drop A and standard A tunings and they sounded killer. Some of the best B strings in the business.

 

I have a Warwick Thumb 6NT which does have a great B string but dropping it to A doesn't sound as good as on the Spectors. 

I personally haven't tried a 36" scale bass but I did use a Dingwall AB5 for a while that had a 37" B string and it was a breeze. (All my other basses are / were at that time 34" or 35")

I'm not a fan of the Korean Spector body shapes, Euro 5 seems great (but is 34" though?).

43 minutes ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Have you considered Warwick? The 5 string Thumb I used to have had a tight and defined B string with overall clear-as-a-bell clarity.

 

PS, have you tried a 36" scale bass? I'm not sure I'd get on with one, but then again, I'm only 5'7".

Thanks I'll try a Thumb sometime. Love the tight rear pickup sound.

I never tried any 36 inch basses. I assume at least it would be easier get use to compared to a Dingwall.

Hi all, I'm currently eyeing a used 5 string bass at 1-2k price range for playing in a djent/metalcore band. Having searched around, it seems the best options are:

- Dingwall NG2/NG3

- Overwater Progress 36-inch

- Some basses with great remark for their low B string (Lakland 5502, Ibanez BTB) 

- Some mobern models (Ibanez EHB)

Tuning would be either standard or dropping by a whole step. 

I wonder what you think about these options? And could anyone share your experience with 36-inch basses? I have never tried one, and comparison videos seem quite rare.  Thank you.

Did he reopen the business? I'm quite interested in the 2-string basses he built. Great value for price too imo.

Could anyone who knows about this product help me with this - The guitar/bass sound is not picked up very well by the phone unless played really hard, and it sounds like a noise threshold gate is applied, and when volume is below threshold, all sounds are muted out?

I'm trying to record bass on my Samsung S22 using the default camera app. Phone is connected via 3.5mm-USBc cable, and the Roland mixer is powered by USB-USBc cable by another device. 

Hi, are you interested in a trade for an Ibanez SR5PBLTD? I am located in SE London.

great sound on the B string