Ibanez SRC6 Crossover Electric Bass, 6-String

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Is it a baritone guitar or 6-string bass? Whatever you call it, you'll be hooked once you get your hands on the SRC6's 5-piece jatoba/walnut 30" scale neck.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Mahogany body Rich, warm, focused sound; added sustain
Tight End R bridge Increased stability and ease of use
EMG 35HZ Pickups Low-noise with plenty of clear output
3-band EQ Control bass, midrange and treble individually

The SRC6 Crossover is born of that place where guitar intersects with bass. With its 30" scale neck, some might even label it a "baritone guitar." Categorize it as you will -- what's certain is that the Crossover, like all the instruments in the Bass Workshop series, is designed to expand your creative canvas.

The musical possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Straight ahead bass lines, mixing up bass and guitar frequency ranges, jazz harmony explorations, or laying into it palm-mute guitar style to The End The Universe As We Know It are just a smattering of musical possibilities.

The Crossover features a 5pc SRC Jatoba/Walnut neck that guarantees stability. A jatoba fingerboard, appointed with Abalone inlays, and medium frets is expertly treated to give your chording hand the smoothest ride possible. EMG 35HZ pickups are designed to deliver both clarity and "throb."

Discover how the Ibanez SRC6 Crossover Bass gives you the best of both the worlds in this video from Ibanez:


Features:

- Mahogany Body
- 30" scale 5pc SRC Jatoba/Walnut neck
- Jatoba fingerboard
- Abalone inlays
- EMG 35HZ pickups

- Neck type: SRC 5pc Jatoba/Walnut neck
- Body: Mahogany body
- Fretboard: Jatoba fretboard w/Abalone oval inlay
- Fret: 24 Medium frets
- Bridge: Tight-End bridge (10.8mm string spacing)
- Neck: EMG 35HZ neck, Passive
- Bridge: EMG 35HZ bridge, Passive
- Electronics: EQB-IIID 3-band eq
- Factory tuning: E,B,G,D,A,E
- Hardware color: Cosmo black
- Scale: 762mm/30"
- Width at Nut: 42mm
- Width at Last Fret: 58mm
- Thickness at 1st: 19.5mm
- Thickness at 12th: 21.5mm
- Radius: 400mmR
- Misc: 762mm/30" scale
- String Gauge: .024/.034/.044/.056/.072/.084

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-669-8262
Web: https://www.ibanez.com/usa/support/

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (5 ratings)
Submitted February 3, 2017 by William P in Conway, AR

"Magnificent, very well done."

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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It's incredible what Ibanez is doing in Indonesia these days. Coming from the guitarist side of the "crossover" - for me this instrument feels and plays like a guitar. But also a bass - I mean it is really right down the middle - but leans toward guitar with how playable it is. It's officially a bass, as designated by its Ibanez bass headstock. But it has the tone of a FAT sounding guitar. Indeed it opens new creative avenues. You can even start by playing a riff that you've written before and are now rendering in the deep register of the src6. There's something about it - it's a different song now - with a different power and weight. It's heavy without distortion. Playing it shows you how 'heaviness' lay primarily in the density of a sound. Combine that density with the angularity of a riff-line, and you get 'heaviness'. I put it through a peavey xxl 212 (imo the best most tubelike solid state amp that won't break the bank) and it rings, shrieks, or weeps (you choose). I cannot imagine a tube-based amp like a Legend r&r50. Visually it's beautiful with the walnut mahogany and bubinga crafted into the Ibanez bass form. The only thing I don't like about the design - (and this is simply a physical attribute of the Ibanez bass architecture which is not a problem at the larger scale of a traditional bass) - is how the placement of the (wonderfully useful) pots/knobs make it difficult to employ a palm-mute at times.I replaced the knobs (not push-on FYI) with a shorter, flatter shaped read more set, and then it suddenly became quite useful to have the volume/pickup pots so accessible during a palm mute. Bottom line, don't be afraid of this guitar if you're coming from the guitar rather than the bass side. I own traditional 6-strings and also 7-strings. I own an Ibanez 8-string (walnut finish as well) and these two complement one another like sister guitars battling for my primary spot but in the end they get equal time. (I really don't mean that as a euphemism, truly)

Musical Background:
20 years playing guitar, use of piano for composition (mostly writing for string orchestra).

Musical Style:
I write metal with an ancient, meditative sensibility.
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