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I wish Ibanez necks had a standard Fender style 4 bolt hole. I feel like a Wizard neck on a weirdo Fender body would be cool. Also Ibanez headstocks are ugly. But the Wizard style neck is so drat comfortable.
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Jun 5, 2014 04:52
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BUSH 2112 posted:
hehehe i like that for bass, the Fender Precision is always gonna be my top pick unless you're playing metal. that big fat split pickup sound with fresh, thin DRs, you can growl, thump, or snap better than anything. Warwicks have that, there's like a thing bass players are into with natural looking woods and exaggerated shapes, just GIS custom bass and you can fill this thread for days. i've played a few warwicks and never been really moved by one  Ibanez basses get near the fender tone, and generally play way better
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Jun 5, 2014 04:56
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o btw the guitar i commissioned from WDE is still gonna happen, now that he's back around. and i got myself one of these to hold me over
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Jun 5, 2014 05:05
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unlawfulsoup posted:I really really dislike the aesthetics on Ibanez guitars, but I think it is because I mainly associate them with the worst excess of the 80s. Especially the goddamn handle in the body. the lower bout on their superstrat models is slightly angled outward and it's annoying when you notice it like shannon doherty's droopy eye
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Jun 5, 2014 05:09
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my old roommate is a total ibanez fanboy. he owns an RG and now his main guitar is from their artist series. he also wears an ibanez shirt all the time. glad he's no longer my roommate e: and yeah it's true about bassists and Natural Wood Finishes. i'm actually about to have the paint stripped off of my jazz bass and then replaced with a nice red wood stain
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Jun 5, 2014 05:10
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comes along bort posted:the lower bout on their superstrat models is slightly angled outward and it's annoying when you notice it like shannon doherty's droopy eye It's really "Handy" (  ) when u want to put your hand up high
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Jun 5, 2014 05:11
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BUSH 2112 posted:It's funny, I was listening to the first three Korn albums because, I dunno, I was super into them back in middle school, and I was actually kind of impressed by how heavy they are compared to newer bands that try to be 2extreeeeme with crazy shredding and whatnot. And Jonathan Davis has a weird voice that I don't particularly like anymore, but at least their lyrics were real. lol korn but that first album had a neat guitar tone. ross robinson really likes his lovely fuzz since that godawful nu-metal sepultura album they did with him was the same
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Jun 5, 2014 05:23
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Jun 5, 2014 05:29
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I'm in bed, posting from Awful app, and generally lazy, so I won't kick this off, but we should be mining the endless resource that is Terrible Guitar Shirts. All guitar shirts qualify. My first bass was an Ibanez, because I used to think pick guards were for grandpa. I've evolved to the point where anything that isn't Fender-styled or a Ric or possibly a Stingray or Thunderbird makes me barf. This applies to all genres of music, including metal. Major props to the dude from Red Fang for his P Bass.
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Jun 5, 2014 06:02
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So, ugly guitars thread, I would like a verdict once and for all. The Gibson The Grabber  Yes, a Gibson bass from the 70s. Ugly? Elegant? The pickup slides up and down within that square. Gimmicky or brilliant?  The headstock says THE GRABBER on it. e: my buddy bought one a few weeks ago.
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Jun 5, 2014 06:18
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mclast posted:Ibanez makes decent basses and acoustics. Their electrics are silly. They're silly but also really solid guitars, really great to play and priced well. But gently caress just getting standard RGs/JEMs all day long and nothing else, they have some more interesting guitars and why would you only ever play one brand. That said though the best guitar I've ever owned and played was this ibanez:  Mahogany with a maple cap rather than straight basswood, thin and light, really comfortable thanks to that and the carved/archtop. Doesnt look too metal thanks to again a carved top and a nice finish instead of solid colour. Best hard tail bridge I've ever used, stock pickups that weren't utter trash (which is rare for ibanez), kept tuning like a boss and I got it for like £450 used. Godly guitar. Thread thoughts on my bass? Is it terrible? Standard natural wood bass because I am a bassist.  It was £250 new and plays incredibly well, I just wish the spalted top one was the one on sale rather than this burled top  edit: Ferroque posted:So, ugly guitars thread, I would like a verdict once and for all. I loving hate this bass, we had one on hand for recording our EP, ended up using my cheap rear end LTD above instead because the grabber is literally the most uncomfortable bass I have ever played. The body is just ridiculously big and a completely poo poo shape. Also utterly hideous. Stux fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 06:21
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That Gibson is good because it's Totally Peavey, RGA 121 is good and I have one, and LTD bass is pretty sweet expect for the F headstock because it doesn't match the body very well
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Jun 5, 2014 06:23
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Yeah the headstock isn't the best, but for the price it was no where near a deal breaker. I had the 6 string version of it a few years ago when I was an idiot and the headstock was simpler and nicer. It was the heaviest bass on the planet though, neck through and built out of merbau with a maple/mahogany neck. Could not play a gig with it, and 6 strings are for dicks. I love how cheap bass is compared to guitar though. That rig cost me £750 all told, with everything but the head brand new (and the head was ungigged and came with the flight case). My guitarists meanwhile have spent thousands.
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Ferroque posted:So, ugly guitars thread, I would like a verdict once and for all. I played a Ripper once, same shape with fixed pickups and a Varitone switch. Weird, fun to play though! Actually oddly ergonomic. Weren't they a Gene Simmons signature model first?
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Stux posted:Yeah the headstock isn't the best, but for the price it was no where near a deal breaker. I had the 6 string version of it a few years ago when I was an idiot and the headstock was simpler and nicer. It was the heaviest bass on the planet though, neck through and built out of merbau with a maple/mahogany neck. Could not play a gig with it, and 6 strings are for dicks. aw gently caress i just looked again it's not even the original F series headstock it's the one they used to replace the cockstock with when they thought eveyrone hated the cockstock, poo poo
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Jun 5, 2014 06:33
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I quite like the artist series though the gold hardware is sorta dumb. also they have the guitar with the best name the ibanez ar420
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Jun 5, 2014 14:24
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My dad had one from the 70s, it weighed a ton and felt like it was made of granite
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Bread Dragon posted:I'm in bed, posting from Awful app, and generally lazy, so I won't kick this off, but we should be mining the endless resource that is Terrible Guitar Shirts. All guitar shirts qualify. I've played with a lot of bassists over the years and the best players with the best overall sound were always Fender P or Jazz bass guys. The few others that walked in with some kind of Ibanez or carved-top glossy body with exaggerated curves or angles all sounded like garbage.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:31
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Rippers are cool, can't say I ever played a Grabber but they look dumb
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Jun 5, 2014 15:44
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Absalom Baird posted:Rippers are cool, can't say I ever played a Grabber but they look dumb I played a Grabber II in guitar center once and was impressed because I've never liked how a Gibson bass sounded or played before. Shame it wasn't $800 cheaper and not a limited run
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I Might Be Adam posted:I've played with a lot of bassists over the years and the best players with the best overall sound were always Fender P or Jazz bass guys. The few others that walked in with some kind of Ibanez or carved-top glossy body with exaggerated curves or angles all sounded like garbage. Bread Dragon posted:I'm in bed, posting from Awful app, and generally lazy, so I won't kick this off, but we should be mining the endless resource that is Terrible Guitar Shirts. All guitar shirts qualify. That's not evolution that's just getting old. Good job grandpa
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Jun 6, 2014 02:10
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Nothing wrong with a Fender bass for metal.
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Jun 6, 2014 02:22
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I recommend doing what feels good, than doing what sounds good
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I Might Be Adam posted:I've played with a lot of bassists over the years and the best players with the best overall sound were always Fender P or Jazz bass guys. The few others that walked in with some kind of Ibanez or carved-top glossy body with exaggerated curves or angles all sounded like garbage. Yeah, I don't think I'd want to play in a normal rock band with my bass. I'm more into the Les Claypool style of bass playing. I do love J-basses, though. P-basses do nothing for me, for whatever reason. They sound kind of wimpy imo.
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Hi thread. Here's my all-Ibanez collection.  Judge me please. The guitar on the left is an SZ350 or something. It's from 2006 and has Seymour Ibanez pickups, which means they're Seymour Duncans made just for Ibanez, I think. Pictures don't really do it justice- it's sparkly gold. Has a strange neck on it, it's thin like all Ibanez necks, but it's also wide at nut. It's also neck-through, same with the big Destroyer on the right. The 5 string is a BTB, it now has EMG's in it.
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bitchtard posted:I recommend doing what feels good, than doing what sounds good I recommend doing what sounds good, than doing what feels good. Then after that, what looks good. BUSH 2112 posted:Yeah, I don't think I'd want to play in a normal rock band with my bass. I'm more into the Les Claypool style of bass playing. I do love J-basses, though. P-basses do nothing for me, for whatever reason. They sound kind of wimpy imo. I went through a hard enough Claypool phase that I used two A strings and two G strings in standard tuning. And yet, we are forever enemies because my strongest musical opinion is that P basses own.
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I like those P-basses that have a J-bass pickup as well the split single coil. So, maybe we can be like Russia and China or something.  Also, that Iceman bass owns bones.
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Jun 6, 2014 05:16
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i think basses with goofy lumpy bodies and no pickguards and natural finishes all look dumb as poo poo, no exceptions. i guess that's a minority bass player opinion? to be fair, this is what i play, i feel like its dumb and goofy in a cool way, not a victor wooten way. e: not my pic, i haven't taken my bass out on a picnic at the park also i think krist novoselic is the only person who could pull off a gibson grabber/ripper, you have to be the size of frankenstein's monster to make that body look normal. shiksa fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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shiksa posted:i think basses with goofy lumpy bodies and no pickguards and natural finishes all look dumb as poo poo, no exceptions. i guess that's a minority bass player opinion? I like your bass, although I would change the pickguard because I REALLY hate tortoise pick guards (pearloid too).
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i probably would change it, but "jaguar bass pickguard WITHOUT control plate WITH single coil pickup" is really hard to find, and i don't really feel like paying for a custom pickguard. e: wait it isn't if i actually search for this model. why didnt i try that before hah.
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shiksa posted:i think basses with goofy lumpy bodies and no pickguards and natural finishes all look dumb as poo poo, no exceptions. i guess that's a minority bass player opinion? rick danko managed to use one of them without it looking too silly, but this is a dude who would actually regularly play an ampeg baby bass - that strange fretless solid-body creation with f-holes and a scroll head. it was a different time.
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ZombieParts posted:That's not evolution that's just getting old. Good job grandpa I sealed my own fate when I bought a Telecaster. With a maple neck. Anyway, here's some godawful shirts for guitar autists to wear proudly around town in lieu of having a personality:      And this didn't even take any digging, these were all in the first 20 google results. Forty-year-olds of the world, open your wallets!
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Jun 6, 2014 14:07
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I'd wear that button up.
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Carnaticum posted:Hi thread. Here's my all-Ibanez collection. bad bad bad good
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Declan MacManus posted:bad bad bad good
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Carnaticum posted:Hi thread. Here's my all-Ibanez collection. Purchased when you were: 33, 20, 18, 17. Why the long gap?
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i can't stand ibanez headstocks for some reason
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I humbly submit my Ibanez bass for judging. Going for the 70s coffee table look, have I gone too far?
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