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Ibanez K5

5+ string bass guitar from Ibanez belonging to the Fieldy series

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«  ibanez k5 versatile »

Published on 03/26/12 at 09:40
5 string active bass, made in Korea.

Two active humbucker ibanez ADX

Eq3 three bands with micro mixer

Channel 24 frets

Black finish, gold hardware.

UTILIZATION

The neck is fine, played nice and provides good access in acute. Reversal of Fortune, the rope pulls a lot of IF above, it is advisable to relax the rope actually avoided to repeat the round of working too much and prefer a light pull.

The bass is light and allows toy of hours without feeling its weight.

SOUNDS

I use it mainly for the metal toy (MEGADETH, METALICA, ...).

Next two micro electronic ibanez humbuckers with active 3 band eq, which are nice enough at first to play in all registers, but the borough's making it too heavy and not very clear. For the lover of her like the, this should be filled. I replaced the electro mine with EMG 40 CS-X in round 40 and DC-X bridge and veered into the eq and the sound is much better, clear and punchy.

I usually play through headphones with a little mark tube amp or an Ampeg B115 of 1973.

OVERALL OPINION

This bass is a good tool and very easy to toy with its lightweight reasonable, but which have been treated a little more especially finishes, fittings accuses the neck of time. Electronics are nice but not worth a good asset kit. If I had to redo this choice I probably do it again for its homogeneity or I will be leading some to be another model Ibanez for their fine run which is a real pleasure.