Ibanez - SR1325SB Premium AVL

What makes this Ibanez SR1325SB Premium AVL bass stand out from the crowd is its combination of the precise architecture of a five-string neck and the organic voice of warmly singing wood.

The width of the neck, 45 mm to the nut, immediately creates a feeling of authority in your hand. Your fingers explore a wider territory, where each string breathes with its own space. Playing a five-string chord becomes a precise tactile experience, a harmonic tension that you sculpt with fluidity. The fifth string is no longer an addition, but the foundation of a new language.

The first attack reveals the personality of the wood. Sanded ash brings a clear, immediate bite, a definition that makes every note take off. In counterpoint, African mahogany imposes its warm, deep roar, a rumble that caresses the low frequencies and gives the Bb a palpable physical presence. The resulting sustain is a tenacious vibration, an energy that lingers long after the string has been plucked.

Nordstrand Big Break pickups are hyper-faithful translators of emotion. Designed without noise, they capture the slightest nuance in your playing: the aggressiveness of a pick stroke, the roundness of finger picking, the slap of a slap. The signal they deliver retains all the lively dynamics of an acoustic instrument, ready to be shaped.

The active preamp is your creative dashboard. The mid-frequency selector lets you tighten the sound's jaw so that it bites into a dense mix, or widen its breath for a more caressing groove. The bypass takes you back to the pure, organic tension of passive pickups with a click, for an instant return to your roots.

Built to be fireproof, this reference will stand up to the humidity of a backline and the heat of a spotlight without shaking. Titanium reinforcement bars in the neck guarantee stability, note after note, set after set.