Had a bit of a gear haul in the past month or so.
First off the Ibanez TMB100M.
I've been on a traditional P-Bass kick lately. Ever since I bought a Squier 70s Classic Vibe Precision, I've been using it a fair bit for random recordings, but I wanted an Ibby representative for live use, and a recent private gig was as a good excuse to get new gear.
I've been eying the Talman basses for some time and the maple board with the mustard finish sealed the deal.
So far it's bone stock and and sounds like a good PJ should, certainly great during the gig. And after years of playing 5 stringers, there's something fun and a lot of primal joy to pick up a 4 string no nonsense bass and just rock out. Of course I may do some mods later down the line. At first I was thinking putting an SD Lightning Rod PJs but after realising that the stocks are passives connected to a preamp, I changed my mind. might consider changing the P pickup to a Custom Shop 62, and the J... probably a CS 60s. When it comes to the Fender style instruments I seem to gravitate to the 60s variants so I might just do something similar here.
Next, the Ibanez SRF705
From said gig also needed a fretless bass with those 5 extra notes. I was set on using my SRH505F but unfortunately didn't cut it on the rehearsals. Being a piezo only instrument, that bass was just too 'acoustic upright' sounding hence I bought the SR705. I've always said that the Bass Workshop division of Ibanez is where all their weird cool stuff happens lately and this is no different. Right out the box it sounds magnificent. My first foray into Bartolinis and they're great, and it also comes with piezo (same Aerosilk bridge on my SRH) so I can get a similar sound while blending it with the standard pickups. This will probably be my main fretless bass from here on in tandem with the SRH for those quasi 'upright' moments.
And something different: an electric Turkish Baglama Saz
Among the more weirder acquisitions, saw this cheap on the usual used pawn shop at a decent price and couldn't resist. There's a lot to unpack just looking at it; 7 tuners but set up for 6 strings, guitar pickups a ton of phase switches... I'm assuming this is a mutt, but I know absolutely below zero about these kind of instruments, and turns out neither does my usual tech. Thankfully there's a store near me that specialise in these and other assorted world instruments so I've currently got them getting this set to playing condition. The guys at the store told me that these kind of Saz's are common builds so that was nicely assuring. They also have an Irish Bouzouki that I'm GASsing hard for, so don't be surprise if I end up buying that too.
First off the Ibanez TMB100M.
I've been on a traditional P-Bass kick lately. Ever since I bought a Squier 70s Classic Vibe Precision, I've been using it a fair bit for random recordings, but I wanted an Ibby representative for live use, and a recent private gig was as a good excuse to get new gear.
I've been eying the Talman basses for some time and the maple board with the mustard finish sealed the deal.So far it's bone stock and and sounds like a good PJ should, certainly great during the gig. And after years of playing 5 stringers, there's something fun and a lot of primal joy to pick up a 4 string no nonsense bass and just rock out. Of course I may do some mods later down the line. At first I was thinking putting an SD Lightning Rod PJs but after realising that the stocks are passives connected to a preamp, I changed my mind. might consider changing the P pickup to a Custom Shop 62, and the J... probably a CS 60s. When it comes to the Fender style instruments I seem to gravitate to the 60s variants so I might just do something similar here.
Next, the Ibanez SRF705
From said gig also needed a fretless bass with those 5 extra notes. I was set on using my SRH505F but unfortunately didn't cut it on the rehearsals. Being a piezo only instrument, that bass was just too 'acoustic upright' sounding hence I bought the SR705. I've always said that the Bass Workshop division of Ibanez is where all their weird cool stuff happens lately and this is no different. Right out the box it sounds magnificent. My first foray into Bartolinis and they're great, and it also comes with piezo (same Aerosilk bridge on my SRH) so I can get a similar sound while blending it with the standard pickups. This will probably be my main fretless bass from here on in tandem with the SRH for those quasi 'upright' moments.
And something different: an electric Turkish Baglama Saz
Among the more weirder acquisitions, saw this cheap on the usual used pawn shop at a decent price and couldn't resist. There's a lot to unpack just looking at it; 7 tuners but set up for 6 strings, guitar pickups a ton of phase switches... I'm assuming this is a mutt, but I know absolutely below zero about these kind of instruments, and turns out neither does my usual tech. Thankfully there's a store near me that specialise in these and other assorted world instruments so I've currently got them getting this set to playing condition. The guys at the store told me that these kind of Saz's are common builds so that was nicely assuring. They also have an Irish Bouzouki that I'm GASsing hard for, so don't be surprise if I end up buying that too.
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