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IBANEZ SR2405W-BTL

Ibanez www.ibanez.com

We’ve been suitably impressed by various basses from the Ibanez camp over the years—and the sumptuous finishes keep on coming. This SR five-stringer exhibits a rather fetching low-gloss topcoat, somewhere between a high-gloss finish and the smoothness of a satin surface. The hardware looks top-notch, and the electronics package should in theory give the player all the tonal options they could need. But does

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