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Ibanez SR300M Electric Bass Guitar Reviews
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Average Review: 3
Manufacturer: Ibanez
Price: $349.99
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About the Ibanez SR300M Electric Bass Guitar
The SR300M features an Agathis body, SR4 neck, maple fingerboard and 24 medium frets. The B100 adjustable bridge keeps the tuning stability well and the 3 band active EQ provides a variety in tone. The SR300M's battery box is easily accessible on the fly and the bass includes 2 EXF pickups that are arched for better string-to-pickup spacing and offer balanced tone and sound among each string.
Ibanez SR300M Electric Bass Guitar Reviews
First, I have to give a big thumbs up to Zzounds.com for their customer service. I'd previously shopped for a case to fit a weirdly-shaped guitar and the Zzounds rep must have spent at least an hour with me on the phone. We weren't able to find anything suitable then, but I made it a point to do some online shopping with them in the future. This bass order was the first I'd done with them, and I'm sure I'll do more. As for the bass itself, I was looking for something inexpensive, around $300 to serve as a backup to my heavy but awesome sounding custom bass, and also as a grab-and-go bass for jams and open mic's. After doing a lot of testing, the SR300 stood out as the best option I could find, and definitely like the light weight. The usual suspects at this price point were OK, but the Ibanez just seemed more flexible tone-wise. The hardware overall is a solid OK. The tuners are very smooth, and the bridge is a step up from bent sheet metal. It will be interesting to see how the knobs hold up over time and transport. There's a lot of tone shaping available with just the pickup blend, treble/bass, and style sweep thing. I need to go from bump & thump to snap over the course of the evening, and this delivers it well. Plenty of tweaking capacity available. I did have a warranty issue that came up, but that was easily fixed locally. When the bass was assembled, one pilot hole for a pickup mounting screw wasn't located properly, and the factory just muscled the screw into the wood inside the cavity. The screw wouldn't turn, but Joe from Service Guitar Repair in Tacoma fixed it quickly. Now I'm able to set the pickup height to match and balance the other pickup. Bottom line is that I couldn't build a bass for what I paid for this one, and I'm happy with how it's working out.
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