I'm actually a drummer who sometimes plays bass, mainly acoustic 5-string. I wanted a multi-scale electric bass with a neck through. For enthusiasts like me, this multi-scale bass is a very good choice, especially if your arms are not very long. Some other multiscale bass 37" vs Ibanez 35" is a significant difference. The multiscale of this bass is not very wide and does not require retraining.
The guitar craftmanship is very good, no question about that. I like the (semi?)matte finish. The electronics do what they are supposed to. Even the passive mode have a fairly wide range of sounds, combining pickups and tone button.
But there is one thing that didn't allow me to give it 5 stars in conclusion. This is an MR5S bridge. The bass tunes well, although when intoning, some of the saddles are in the max short position. But on the A and E strings there was a high pitch metallic overtones or aftersound, like some kind of resonance. Annoying one. I checked that all the bolts are properly tightened. The screw that adjusts the length of the string is not loose. No help. Removed springs from bridges. No help. After long search, the problem was in the metal piece on the bridge saddle that the string goes over. When the A and E strings are aligned exactly in the middle of the saddle (as set by the factory), a this metallic aftersound is in the guitar body. This problem did not occur with other strings. I unscrewed one bolt (string left-right adjustment) and moved the string off-center. And the metallic aftersound disappeared. Interestingly, there isn't much information about it online, even though the MR5S bridge is used on many Ibanez models.
In summary, the setup took a quite lot of time, but the result is very good.
