Ibanez GSR205B-WNF 5-stars Reviews

My review

I’ve had this bass for a year, the sound is a bit muddy on the lowest string. The bass is comfortable to play, neck feels nice, bass is light and easy to use with strap. I like the natural look on this bass. For the price this is worth it, in my experience Ibanez has the best instruments for low price. I recommend this bass for beginners, the 5 strings does take a bit time to get used to but it plays nice.

honest review

I am a guitarist, bought this instrument to have some fun. I strated my music adventure from playing a bass guitar and after many years I decided to buy myself a bass guitar. I am a person who doesn't like to spend his hard earned money unwisely. I spend hours and hours listening to demos and reviews of different bass guitars in this price range and finally found one!!! I borrowed Ibanez gsr 200 from my friend for a few days and after that I fell in love with this one. I wanted to experience something different so I purchased 5 string model. I am honestly very glad I made this decision. This guitar sounds huge, I like the active battery driven equaliser that gives more kick of sweet punchy bass sound. Slap and finger style sound awesome. I cant believe that for that money You can have such good sounding instrument. I like the color too, thin coat of stain and thin coat of satin laquier. Which is great, because the bridge sits on the wood not on the laquier.

pros:

- well balanced, light body

- very thin coat of laquier

- very good machine tuners, stays in tune amazingly

- very good quality hardware, they look expensive, chunky bridge

- lovely pots, great feeling when You turn them

- good pickups (passive)

- overall finish is very good

- sort of basic but very well manufactured instrument

- highly recommended, 10/10 in price/quality ratio

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cons:

- for some people thin coat of laquier could be

dissaponitment ( wasn't for me )

- would be great if it comes with a gig bag ( I know price is a factor)

I would buy this guitar again if I had to make this decision again

Great value

I bought this for recording some bass tracks. I was not expecting anything too great considering the price of this instrument but I was okay with it as I didn't have too much extra money (I am primarily a guitarist so my money goes there) and needed to record some bass tracks.

As soon as I received the bass and gave it a try, it blew my mind. It's very light. The neck is fairly flat, straight and feels great. I would not probably go gigging with this though, I'm not sure if this would survive rough handling. But for studio use this is great.

But when I got to try this with an amp I noticed the pickups are not that impressive. This has a knob that adds some boost to bass/treble but this also distorts the sound so I prefer changing EQ in the amp.

Considering the price though this was still a great purchase and I strongly recommend this to anyone looking for an affordable studio bass maybe for a spare. Or for someone interested in starting to play bass.