Ibanez - SR1320SB Premium IVF

The Ibanez SR1320SB IVF Premium is born of the encounter between the deep roar of mahogany and the crystalline bite of sandblasted ash, a woody fusion that gives each note the density of a colour and the persistence of an echo.

Grasp the neck and your palm immediately registers the perfect tension of the slim, substantial Atlas profile. Your fingers glide over the fingerboard like panga panga, a fluidity that the Premium-treated frets transform into a highway for your fastest phrases. Here, every nut is a take-off ramp to the treble.

The first note takes off. It carries the woody duality of the body: the clear, immediate bite of sandblasted ash on the surface, counterbalanced by the warm roar of African mahogany in the depths. Sustain sets in, a tenacious vibration that caresses the body of the instrument and reaches directly into the sternum.

Plug in the cable. Nordstrand Big Break passive pickups don't just reproduce this sound, they amplify it. Their split-coil coils capture the metallic bite of the attack and the organic rumble of the body, without a breath. You feel the raw dynamics of your fingers translated into an electrical signal with absolute fidelity.

Turn the knobs. The Ibanez active preamp is your onboard mixer. The mid-frequency selector lets you tighten the sound's jaw to bite into a metal mix, or expand its chest for a more caressing jazz groove. The bypass takes you back to pure, analogue passive voltage with one click.

In rehearsal or on stage, this bass responds. The relentless stability of the titanium bars in the neck ensures that the tuning doesn't waver, even under the heat of the spotlight. The 19mm string spacing gives you room to roar the B string without drowning out the others.