Der Oberherr
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Been wanting one of these for a while, and finally got one today! Ibanez's answer to the 6 string bass concept, the SRC6MS. It's my first fan fret instrument, which was surprisingly easy to get to grips with. It helps that the instrument was set up well out of the box, nice neat fret ends too.
Plugged it in to my Laney Ironheart to see what it sounded like, both driven and not. It's interesting, is all I can say with about 10 minutes of playing. The pickups are fine, nothing particularly special imo. It has a nice girth when played clean, and is a nice blank canvas that you can really tweak with all the knobs (or pedals, it plays well with them too). When distortion is applied it starts to growl, but sounds best on the bridge pickup. If you blend the pickups it's bass character comes out and you get a weird sort of honky tone once you get beyond the 12th fret, something I've noticed before when distorting basses.
Overall, this is a unique instrument, and will take some getting used to, especially when figuring out how to use it 'in context'. Should be fun though!
Plugged it in to my Laney Ironheart to see what it sounded like, both driven and not. It's interesting, is all I can say with about 10 minutes of playing. The pickups are fine, nothing particularly special imo. It has a nice girth when played clean, and is a nice blank canvas that you can really tweak with all the knobs (or pedals, it plays well with them too). When distortion is applied it starts to growl, but sounds best on the bridge pickup. If you blend the pickups it's bass character comes out and you get a weird sort of honky tone once you get beyond the 12th fret, something I've noticed before when distorting basses.
Overall, this is a unique instrument, and will take some getting used to, especially when figuring out how to use it 'in context'. Should be fun though!
