{"id":10753,"date":"2017-03-07T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10753"},"modified":"2017-03-07T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:21:43","slug":"would-you-play-a-frettedfretless-hybrid-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/would-you-play-a-frettedfretless-hybrid-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Would you play a fretted\/fretless hybrid bass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New from Ibanez (video demo is below) is the 7-string Ibanez SR &#8220;ASHULA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about this bass &#8211; other than the fact it&#8217;s a fretted\/fretless hybrid &#8211; is that the fretted strings are set up like a standard 4-string in E-A-D-G tuning, and the fretless is tuned A-D-G (no low E). So while it is true you&#8217;re dealing with a 7-string electric bass, this is definitely something that a 4-string player could actually play <strong>without<\/strong> the feeling of, &#8220;Oh, wow, I have to learn the bass all over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for whether this Ibanez is a simple instrument, no it&#8217;s not. Advanced electronics are present (shown below), which includes an Aerosilk piezo for the fretless area and the SRAS &#8220;Super J&#8221; set for the fretted area. <\/p>\n<p>To make things even more interesting, this bass comes stock with flatwound strings for fretless and roundwound for fretted! <\/p>\n<p>For those interested in string sizing and tuning, this is how Ibanez ships it (remember, the 1 string is the treble side thinnest string):<\/p>\n<p>Fretted: 1 &#8211; G &#8211; 0.045<br \/>Fretted: 2 &#8211; D &#8211; 0.065<br \/>Fretted: 3 &#8211; A &#8211; 0.085<br \/>Fretted: 4 &#8211; E &#8211; 0.105<br \/>Fretless: 5 &#8211; G &#8211; 0.045<br \/>Fretless: 6 &#8211; D &#8211; 0.065<br \/>Fretless: 7 &#8211; A &#8211; 0.080<\/p>\n<p>What do the controls do? They do this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"46\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"46\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/46.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"623\"><\/p>\n<p>As for weight, the only thing Ibanez says is &#8220;lightweight body&#8221; and that&#8217;s all. No official weight is stated. What is known is you&#8217;re seeing a Poplar Burl\/Ash top\/Mahogany body and a Purpleheart fretboard (fretless)\/Rosewood fretboard (fretted) neck.<\/p>\n<h3>Video demo<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H8dKIDM8AgI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>What do you think?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Does a hybrid fretted\/fretless bass seem like a good idea to you? Post a comment with your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>On a final note, if the Ibanez seems like a little too much to handle, but you like the idea of piezo (and there are many who do), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/?cat=0&amp;q=piezo\">check out what we offer<\/a> as we have a very wide selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New from Ibanez (video demo is below) is the 7-string Ibanez SR &#8220;ASHULA&#8221;. What&#8217;s interesting about this bass &#8211; other than the fact it&#8217;s a fretted\/fretless hybrid &#8211; is that the fretted strings are set up like a standard 4-string in E-A-D-G tuning, and the fretless is tuned A-D-G (no low E). So while it &#8230; <a title=\"Would you play a fretted\/fretless hybrid bass?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/would-you-play-a-frettedfretless-hybrid-bass.html\" aria-label=\"More on Would you play a fretted\/fretless hybrid bass?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}