A Boutique Bass That WON'T Break The Bank // Ibanez BTB806MS
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025
- Prepare to cover a ton of sonic ground with this six-string Ibanez bass. Its multi-scale construction offers unparalleled intonation and even string tension.
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As a BTB1205 owner, always loved the BTB's 35" scale low B tone. But that 37" low B is just another world. It sounds like a f...... piano. I need a BTB805MS!
why would you like a bass that sounds like a piano? is a bass it not suppose that sounds like a piano
@@uuskateyou don’t know what he means then
@@uuskate tell that to John Entwistle.
Wish they had some 4 string versions of the modern BTBs. I love that body shape.
Finally a proper review of this bass. Thanks dude !
I have the T1 pickups in my EHB1006MS and they are by far some of the best pickups made to date. They are so versatile you can get EMG clean, Ken Smith (Peavey Cirrus) bell tone, and even P-Bass tones from them. Simply amazing!!!
You weren't kidding, you really did have a BTB video coming soon!
I ordered the Ibanez BTB 806 MS through zzsounds ( I use them exclusively great company) coming in March ( back ordered) can't wait!! Thanks for the sound review! Awesome channel!!
I've had my eye on this one for a while. I've had a BTB but it had Bart pups and after sometime I've come to just not gel with Barts. They sound kind of hollow, almost soulless
I liked that Ibanez went with different pups for this one. That thing is Warwick levels of gorgeous! Holy moly!
I've been thinking about this one or a Spector. I'd probably like a Spector more since I'm a Warwick fanboy and they both sound fairly similar.
I just got a 5-string one used for $1,000 and it's amazing! When looking around I initially passed up Ibanez but eventually found this one after trying a BTB745 in person and falling in love with it because of how amazing the neck felt. Now I am considering getting a Premium SR because I want a 4-string with tight string spacing and can handle C-Standard.
I love how Ibanez make Boutique w/ top tier popular electronics and wood for their basses at the correct reasonable price. All those other boutique basses like Fodera, F-Bass, and Specter sell at a ridiculously high scamming price. Fender basses doesn’t even run that high unless it’s an antique
The guy with the red cap, that's exactly what I like to play.
Tension must be crazy on this bass !
They got the frequency response curves too! Nice!
This bass was a little heavy but played very nice and the tone versatility was pretty dynamic I thought!🤘🏼🤘🏼
Killer bass 😎🤘🏻🎸 normally I’m a 5-string player and I have tried and owned out 6-string basses before. I would like to get this if I ever wanted to add a new 6-string bass to my arsenal
The pickups are really interesting. I love Ibanez. Never owned a BTB though. Really good looking bass.
I was quite impressed by it
I own Ibanez’s Cerulean blue BTB-605MS 5-string multiscale bass and was hesitant about ordering it because of the T1 pickups since they are kind of an unknown quantity and effectively impossible to upgrade due to the unusual shape. But now that I have the bass, I love it and think the pickups and preamp sound great. They sound very similar to the much pricier Aguilar 5J HC / 5M AG / OBP-3 setup on my ESP BB-1005QM bass.
I got myself an Srms806 just around a month before this was announced, I kind of wish I had waited a bit more. Well , hopefully in a not so far future I'll be getting one. Great video!
Yeah I feel kinda the same way. I just got my srms806 last year..... and then like 5 or 6 months after Ibanez announced they were releasing these this year lol
Similar here. Got my SRMS806 in 2020 and thought to myself, "Watch Ibanez release a BTB multi scale to piss me off"...then they did. And I finally just ordered one today.
@@kharybaker868 Yeahhhhh I think I may end up getting the btb805ms like next year.... I swapped the Bart bh2s for US Bart classics and the preamp for a Bart ntmb+f and added switches for series/single/parallel for both pups in my srms806 so I've been thoroughly enjoying it for now lol
@@Zakkunie I modded my srms806 similar to yours; Nordstrand Audio Zen Blades with Audere 4 band Pro Z plus two dpdt switches for parallel/single/series(sounds so good now)...and I got the btb806ms about 3 weeks ago! Get the btb805ms, I guarantee that you won't be disappointed!
@@kharybaker868 Oh hell yeah, does that pup model have the option for clean and clear/warm and wooly? If so which ones did you get and how aggressive are they? I was really close to getting the Nords and ended up getting the Barts but I keep thinking in the back of my head that should've gotten the Nords lol. Another related question, how are the T1 pups in the BTB? Nice attack and a good amount of treble presence? That's the only thing that sort of puts me off a little bit, because if I don't like them then I don't think there's any replacements, as of right now anyway... I just like having plenty of hi mids and treble because it can always be taken out easier than it can be put in lol
I will be getting the 805ms in the future. Saving up for it!
That's a beautiful bass in sound and looks
Wow! 0:26 to 0:42 how did you get that sound!?
So clean!! Love the channel btw.
I got the srms805-tsr, now I’m going to get this beauty!
That low B tho damn
saving up for this bass and this video just made me drool more. just wondering if i can handle its overall length haha I had a btb1906 before and that was already a bit of stretch for me. i can't imagine having 2 more inches in the scale haha
it looks like the first three frets are the widest after that the frets are practically parelell. so the 1-4 would the the toughest strech and any higher up it would be just like your other bass. and thats only for the low b-e the other 4 strings are practically 35inch scale
You are right. But it sounds awesome!
I love that at 1:00-1:45 is like some cool freestyle rap
HA!! that's great =0)
The distortion Sound @3.20 is awesome. How did you generate that?
The big triangular area of fretboard past the nut kinda bugs me, i understand not working out the angles for the headstock chamfer to match the nut angle probably saves some money but if they can make the fretboard transition to the body look pretty i'd expect the same at the headstock, its just really offputting
Just put a fret wrap 😂
It’s great with a fret wrap
Buy it not😐
5 string Multiscale bass shootout??
Will you demo the "single coil" tone by lowering one half of each pickups of the way down?
I ordered one.. but from Thomann. :)
I blame your review for it! Sort it out with my wife! :D
does it have active/passive switch? or is always active? and in that case, can i play it even without 9v battery inserted?
The pickups are passive and the eq can be turned off from the switch, he talks about this around five minutes in
This bass seem's nice but I already have the EBH1506MS. I am trying to make up my mind does it make since to get the BTB as well?
I don't see a lefty version anywhere online
I played one of these in a Sam Ash recently. Great build quality, playability etc, pickups were a deal breaker. Way mid scooped, very vague and flat tonal presentation. Basically it's a metal unitasker bass, IMO.
Looks awesome, buttt as good as those pickups seem, I don't like the inability to swap out pickups if you wanted (not saying I really would)... Ibanez lines have been really short lived lately, so it's not like other pickup manufacturers are going to cater to these.
I guess what I'm saying is just with Ibanez they seem to be locking you in, which is find if you like what comes stock.
If I had the spare cash I'd probably invest in one of these. Though would be nice to know how it would handle lower tunings like G# or F# etc.
Same here
My band plays in drop g and while I'd love a Dingwall boy would that be expensive
@@jackdanielholt-ellison8658 i played a dingwall back to back with the btb805ms and i actually much preferred the ibanez the dingwall didnt come close in my opinion
Where I seen this kind of logo :D ah DARKGLASS :D
Please can we get a Dingwall shoutout with this.
Thinking about picking this bass up to play some Periphery, and tune down. Think that with some thicker strings this bass could handle it?
Yeah probably. It has the same scale length as a dingwall for those lower strings.
@@pat8437 that’s what I was thinking. I think I’ll get the BTB605MS because it’s cheaper then file the nut and put some thicker strings to tune down to G.
Can’t find these anywhere….
Quite a few available on Reverb now...that's where I got mine recently. Stores...not so much.
@@kharybaker868 oh heck yeah! Thank you just ordered from reverb. Never used them before!
@@Chingon6969 no prob!
had a btb 456 with the bart mk1's. $200 in a pawn shop sold it ,it was replaced by a gibson eb5. you should see my gibson lpb-2 amber. (beautiful bass).
Which Distortion is used at 3:10?
He has this in the description: "When distortion is present, it's the Darkglass B1K."
Just wanted to say, I got that bass.
Minor qc issues here and there. Annoying? Sure. Would i send it back? No way in hell. The amount of premium features on this bass, just amazing. The sound, the feel, the looks.
I was looking at basses ranging from 1000 up to 3000 usd. Let me tell you, could not find the sound, the looks and all thoose cool features, and i got one for 1400. Thats basically stealing. Very good decision. Imagine having qc issues at 3000 price point.
I would take indonesian built ibanez with qc issues all day compared to other brands for the reasons mentioned above.
Looked at sandberg at somepoint, matching headstock will cost you about 300 usd extra. How about no?
I like my sr805ff
Man the 0 fret is pretty unique i have never seen that before. I like it but 37"-35" scale is a bit long for me unless i was going to downtune this thing. A 35" c string isnt right in my opinion.
looks great but sounds a bit muddy to me
Kinda don't like that you'll have to route if you wanna swap the pups and at that point can't really go back😭😭😭
Seems like a pretty wobbly B string for that scale. My 35" btbs string doesnt move that much ^^
Downtuned maybe? Also shutter speed of the camera will effect "wobbliness"
that's almost definitely from the high shutter speed - for extra drama =0)
@@jakeycakes3502 Must be the shutter speed. It is tuned to B
What about weight? It looks huge
it’s an Ibanez there lite
and shiitty
Sorry for sounding a bit thick but is the bass active? It is battery powered, no?
Sure is
Late answer, but active preamp and passive pickups.
It has a switch to bypass the battery powered preamp. It'll work without a battery but only volume, pickup blend and passive tone on the first half turn of the treble knob would be used.
That Low B is way too floppy especially for being a multiscale.
It's less floppy irl. The floppy is an effect from the camera
You’ll hate me for this, the bass has the looks and all, but I just can’t like the sound at all…it’s kinda lifeless and dead unlike maybe a Spector NS Dimension or even the earlier Multiscale Ibanezes (ibani?) from 2017-2018.
never really liked the way those stock ibanez pups sound, and the new design makes it even harder to replace them
Шестиструнный бас? А это вообще легально?)
This bass looks great, but I had a BTB 20th anniversary 6 and the neck was an absolute bear to keep buzz free. I won't buy another one.
3 different bass players and none slap / play funk? 😢
Yeah that is a major selling point. Very useful to know how the string spacing & tension affect slap technique. Especially on a 6.
These beginner bass players are very basic like flat soda at best ….
@@inspectorbudget There are a hundred thousand 6 string models and a million 6 string players that can slap on them. I play a multiscale 6 very similar to this one and can tell you for sure you can slap on it just fine with practice. Tosin Abasi is slapping and popping on 8 string guitars these days, I don't think a review needs to cover that topic anymore