The SR5000E is a Soundgear series solid body electric bass model introduced by Ibanez for 2009. It was made in Japan by FujiGen as part of the upscale Prestige line.
The SR5000E features a swoopy, double-cutaway Soundgear body with a wenge top and back on a mahogany body bolted to a wenge and bubinga SR4 neck with a 24-fret wenge fingerboard with mother of pearl and abalone oval position markers. Components include individually mounted Mono-rail IV bridges with 19mm string spacing, a Graph Tech Black TUSQ nut, and Gotoh tuning machines. Electronics consist of a pair of custom Bartolini passive soapbar humbucking pickups feeding an Ibanez Power Curve III preamp with a three-band EQ allowing ±12dB adjustment of bass, mid or treble, along with a "Mid Q" control to adjust the position of the mid-frequency crossovers, powered by a 9 volt battery and feeding a ¼" stereo output. The volume and balance controls employ beehive-style knobs with rubber grip, the truss rod cover has an embossed gold "Prestige" logo and a hard shell case is included.
For 2010 it got the new Atlas-4 HP neck with KTS titanium reinforcing rods. The knobs were changed in mid-2013.
The SR5005E and SR5006E are five string and six string versions. The SR4000E is a similar model with a solid mahogany body. The SR4500E is a related model with a light ash body and a maple and bubinga neck with a maple fretboard.
The SR5000E was discontinued after 2014 and replaced by the similar SR5000.
