[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:28:25 -0500 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:15:56 -0500 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_1 POSTED: 03/13/2007 09:56am]]> Comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:56:41 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_2 POSTED: 03/13/2007 05:43pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:43:07 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_3 POSTED: 03/13/2007 11:19pm]]> Comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:19:28 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_4 POSTED: 03/14/2007 12:05am]]> Comments Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:05:04 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 09/12/2007 11:04pm]]> Comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:04:00 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_6
POSTED: 12/08/2007 07:59pm]]> Comments Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:59:45 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_7 POSTED: 08/20/2008 02:45pm]]> Comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:45:54 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_8 lcblvr13 wrote:

I have played this bass before. It is great for jazz and slap. It also sounds good with a low hard rock or metal.

ummm great for jazz and slap? this bass is best for metal and low end sounds.

But anyways this bass is amazing has an awesome sound, great EQ, and the neck is so fast and comfortable.
POSTED: 02/26/2009 04:02pm]]> Comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:02:08 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_9 POSTED: 02/27/2009 05:57pm]]> Comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:57:09 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_10 If you want a badass metal bass I would say go for the SRX700series they have a 2band eq and passive pickups (i believe) where this SR500 has active bartolini's and a 3 band EQ.

The SRX had prescooped midrange and lets you control the bass for a lot of oomph and the treble to adjust your percussive sound. Where this SR lets you control the full soundrange more precisely. In my opinion this SR500 is a superb allround bass where the SRX lets you jump on stage and jam away more quickly. So tooltillidie, you might be right but the SRX would be an even better choise for metal.

Anyways, the finish is great nice wood feeling, the 5pc neck is very stable and it's SOOO "IBANEZ" fast, thin, smooth... very good. And were not even talking about the prestige series.
It balances very well, I've had different basses in my hands at the shop and this one has a rather thin body, wich makes it more lightweight of course.
You might want to know: it has a 24-FRET neck bolted on the body where as the SRX has a 24fret necktrough construction.

I would also keep the elixir strings, it comes standard with them (in europe at least) and man these strings are so good...they just don't wear off it seems.
I would give this bass a 9.5/10 given the fact it's very allround, has beautiful design, very stable, accurate tuning, high quality wood, bartolini pickups... impressive bass at a reasonable price.
POSTED: 10/02/2009 02:36am]]> Comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:36:13 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_11 Metallica798 wrote:

moo moo who?
POSTED: 03/19/2012 04:39pm]]> Comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:39:14 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/bass_guitars/ibanez/sr500/index.html#u_12
Otherwise, I don't think you could get more features and quality for the price. It sounds and plays great, the two pickups and EQ cover most of the sounds you'd need (the only thing I can't get it to do is the obvious rickenbacker tone and p-bass with flatwounds tone). Its miles ahead of the SR300, much better detail on the fretwork and the electronics are silent as the grave when you're not playing (can't say that about the 300).
POSTED: 11/07/2012 08:15am]]> Comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:15:56 -0500