Satrugar

Sabian bought a Glockenklang preamp from me. Friendly communication, fast and easy transaction, no problems whatsoever. Highly recommended! Thanks and all the best, Janis

Since I had some great transactions here over the last 2 years or so, I thought it may be time for my own feedback thread. So feel free to write about your experience if you bought/sold something from/to me. Cheers Janis

Bought a nice Aguilar GS112 from Ben, very happy with the transaction! Great communication and an absolute pleasure to deal with. Highly recommended. Thanks Ben! Cheers Janis

[quote name='geilerbass' timestamp='1353859238' post='1879046'] That SR7005 is truly stunning! I've not seen the maple wings before, so maybe what I thought was a 7005 was actually the old 5005 - I think that had mahogany wings. Either way, I agree that these 'custom made' basses from the mid-90s were probably the pinnacle of the SR range. Those old MIJ SR's are definitely worth a shot if you can find any. [/quote] Yes, definitely. Those basses are really undervalued these days. I believe there were different versions of the 7005, so you could be right about the mahogany wings....but I don't really know as there are so few of them around. Also the main difference to the 5005 seem to be the upgraded custom bartolini pickups and electronics, while the bodys/wings came in different woods. [url="http://ibanez87.it/english/gallery/models/bass/sr7005-figi.html"]Here[/url] is one that seems to be mahogany.

Just wanted to mention that the 4 ohm-version of the 212MBE isn't available anymore...

[quote name='Inti' timestamp='1352841931' post='1868353'] Satrugar, thats a VERY nice SR, maybe the finest I've seen. I pulled back in the last second today, sat and played the 5 stringed version and could never feel well with the position the right hand "gets" on it naturally. Unbalanced in a strange way because it really shouldn't! But it is...strange design. [/quote] Thanks, I also quite like it (although mine has a bit more wear...). Well, if you didn't feel comfortable with the premium SR then it can't really be helped. Although maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it.... For example I normally play basses with 19mm stringspacing and at first it felt weird to play the SR with 16,5mm, but after a week or so I started to adapt to it and now I don't have any problems with that any more. Actually it's pretty comfortable now...

[quote name='geilerbass' timestamp='1352752655' post='1867084'] An SR7005? The one with the walnut tone block? Those are really rare. In fact, I thought that was a custom shop model? Certainly that and the original SR5005 (not the Wenge faced ones that came out in 2009) were always the holy grail of Soundgear basses. [/quote] Exactly, walnut toneblock with maple wings and wenge/bubinga neck with wenge fingerboard. Custom Bartolinis and 3 band Bartolini NTCT electronics with 3x switchable mids module, i believe it's called MCT-3MC. It's exactly this model, those are the only pics I could find on the net: And you're right, those instruments seem to be extremely rare....when I bought it I was told it was a custom endorser model made for the bass player of Melanie Thornton sometime in the 90s... And I have to agree once more, I found the newer wenge-faced SR5005s to feel and look quite a bit....hm, "cheaper" compared to the older series. Anyway, I'm very happy with my SR7005.

I also find the premium SRs pretty nice... But just as geilerbass said, I'd be on the lookout for a used Ibanez Prestige. They are greatly undervalued on today's used market. For example: A few months ago I found a extremely nice SR 7005 MP from the mid-90s for a pretty good price. It's a fantastic instrument, I definitely like it better than the premium instruments.