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Fretless Electric Bass

  • Fretless
  • SR Series
  • Body: Okoume
  • Top: Exotic maple
  • 5-Piece bolt-on neck: Maple / Walnut
  • Fingerboard: Panga Panga
  • Off-set Abalone Dot and luminescent Side Dot fingerboard inlays
  • Fingerboard radius: 305 mm (12")
  • Scale: 864 mm (34")
  • Nut width: 38 mm (1.5")
  • Plastic nut
  • Pickups: 2 Nordstrand Big Break Humbuckers (neck and bridge)
  • Active Ibanez 2-Band EQ
  • Active tone control for piezo system
  • 2 Volume controls
  • Piezo volume, bass, treble and piezo tone controls
  • AeroSilk MR5 bridge
  • Black Ibanez machine heads
  • Strings: DAddario ECB81 Flatwound .045, .065, .080, .100
  • Finish: Matt Polyurethane
  • Colour: Brown Topaz Burst Low Gloss
  • Available since June 2024
  • Item number 582067
  • Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
  • Lefthand Model No
  • Colour Brown
  • Number of strings 4
  • Body Okoume
  • Neck Maple, Walnut
  • Fretboard Panga Panga
  • Scale Long Scale
  • Pickup System HH
  • Elektronic Active
  • Incl. Case No
  • Incl. Gigbag No
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SZFT 04.07.2025
I own a few other fretless and also built a couple of them myself. This SRD900F is nothing short of stunning. The flamed maple top (doesn't look like it is a veneer) and semi hollow body, matching headstock, the exotic wood fretboard, and overall build quality, are all worth mentioning. Sound-wise, 2 electric pickups and a piezo that can be blended in, gives tons of tone options. The tuners are butter smooth and stay in tune effortlessly, a nice upgrade from the lower tiered Ibanez basses. The nut is cut properly to the right height, such that the first few "frets" don't go out of tune when you fret them. I have noticed the lower-tiered Ibanez fretless basses uses a normal nut, intended for fretted basses. This sets the string height too high.

The one I got has a really stunning flamed top, if only Thomann allows attachment of photos...

Some not so good points: The strings are D'Addario Chromes, one of my favs. But I think they have been left on the bass with tension for too long, and have no life anymore. They can't be intonated properly, and I have to shell out another 40bucks to change to a fresh set. This seems to be a common issue, as I bought a Sire from Thomann, also with Chromes, and same intonation problem.

Also, the surface of the whole bass is open pore, and there are some bumps that can be felt catching on my hand, especially on the neck. This is not a major issue, and I think the neck portion will go away with more playing.

The abalone inlay on the fretboard is beautiful, but they are confusing. The side dots are located on the lines, while the inlays are in-between lines. So they sometimes throw me off when play. I have to learn to focus on the side dots when playing, or black out the inlays with a marker (not going to do that).

Conclusion: I believe this is the flagship fretless from Ibanez, and it is being sold at a very reasonable price. There are other brands in the market that are non-flagship, with much less features, and are sold at much higher prices. If you have the budget, go for it, its worth the money.
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Ibanez SRF 900F - Kontrabass-Ersatz?
Bass90 12.08.2024
Ibanez hat hier ganze Arbeit geleistet. Ein tolles Gesamtpaket mit toller Klangvielfalt, noch dazu toll verarbeitet.

Da ich einen Kontrabass zum Vergleich habe, muss ich wirklich zugeben, dass der srd mit ein bisschen Feintuning der piezos durchaus klanglich gut in die Richtung eingestellt werden kann, wenn man das möchte. Eventuell wären dann thomastik flats aber nochmal besser geeignet.

Spielen lässt sich der Bass wie alle soundgear Modelle hervorragend, der Korpus ist sehr leicht, nochmal deutlich leichter als der SR300, vermutlich wegen der semi-hollow Konstruktion. Die voreingestellte Saitenlage ist nicht ganz optimal, eventuell etwas zu flach, dadurch funktioniert das tapping nicht so gut, ist aber dank des Werkzeuges kein Problem. Die Umstellung von fretted auf fretless ist etwas herausfordernd, da die Inlays nicht gut zu sehen sind, reinweiß wäre vermutlich besser gewesen, ebenso wie besser sichtbare fretlines. Da das aber von Anfang an auf den Produktfotos gut erkennbar ist, dürfte das hinterher eigentlich nicht zu Beschwerden führen.

Wer andere soundgear Modelle gewohnt ist, wird den etwas dickeren Korpus bemerken, im Vergleich zu anderen Bässen/Marken jedoch weiterhin verschwindend.
Für mich ist es tatsächlich der "praktischere" Kontrabass, insbesondere klanglich überzeugt der srd in den unteren Registern (Walking Bass).
Bei dem Preis hätte insgesamt vielleicht nochmal ein gigbag dabei sein können und thomastik infeld flats.
Ich habe auf jeden Fall meinen Traum fretless gefunden.
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