I had posted before about looking at it , trying it now to decide at home , serial # FOO28891 year ?? good weight , about 7.2 pounds ,think I like pretty well , 199.00 a good price ?? only little thing I found was strap buttons would spin around and screws don't seem to tighten up , but I am sure that could be fixed . Figured out pot Vol . and Pickup panning, not sure on other 2 knobs , some EQ I guess . Thought it might be a good candidate in the future to mod to a P pickup only and go passive .
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34" scale.
Other two knobs would be bass boost/cut and treble boost/cut. A little goes a long way on them--I rarely go very far from the center detent.
Strap buttons should be an easy and cheap fix.
Wouldn't mess with the electronics. Ibanez preamps usually have an output level right in the passive output range in my experience.
Switching back and forth on stage with passive basses has never been a problem for me.
Just turn the pickup blend knob all the way to the neck pickup (tap on the covers to be sure) and you'll be all-P, and having separate bass and treble controls grows on you awfully fast.
That's a great price.
Enjoy!
Other two knobs would be bass boost/cut and treble boost/cut. A little goes a long way on them--I rarely go very far from the center detent.
Strap buttons should be an easy and cheap fix.
Wouldn't mess with the electronics. Ibanez preamps usually have an output level right in the passive output range in my experience.
Switching back and forth on stage with passive basses has never been a problem for me.
Just turn the pickup blend knob all the way to the neck pickup (tap on the covers to be sure) and you'll be all-P, and having separate bass and treble controls grows on you awfully fast.
That's a great price.
Enjoy!
Do these look like the SR800 ? Knobs are not concentric , not if that's the bridge I have read about here they have ? no marking I can find saying SR800 ? Even if its a less expensive model its light about 7.2 pounds , play and sounds good, but would like to pin down the model for sure , pickups say DX J and P .
Headstock looks SR.
Poked around some old catalogs online for a few minutes but didn't find this exact bass.
Those rubber knobs and the DX pickups will be helpful in nailing the exact model and year.
I was given a Roadbass that has the rubber knobs (which I hated and replaced) that dates to around 1991. ( <---That's it's fingerboard in my avatar pic).
Saw them in use in a 1994 catalog, as well as DX pickups.
There's a website where you can look up your bass by the serial number, but I never bookmarked it.
Poked around some old catalogs online for a few minutes but didn't find this exact bass.
Those rubber knobs and the DX pickups will be helpful in nailing the exact model and year.
I was given a Roadbass that has the rubber knobs (which I hated and replaced) that dates to around 1991. ( <---That's it's fingerboard in my avatar pic).
Saw them in use in a 1994 catalog, as well as DX pickups.
There's a website where you can look up your bass by the serial number, but I never bookmarked it.
That serial number is from the back half of 2000, which is where Ibanez would have the revisions for 2000 models or the start of 2001 models. I found your bass in the 2001 catalog. It’s a SR640, came in black and titanium ice. The one pictured is titanium ice. http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/2001/01032.jpg
Cool bass, the platform is pretty much the same as the SR800. Cool MIJ Bass!
Cool bass, the platform is pretty much the same as the SR800. Cool MIJ Bass!