The SR5006E is a six string 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 SR5006E features a swoopy, double-cutaway Soundgear body with a wenge top and back on a mahogany body bolted to a wenge and bubinga SR6 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 16.5mm string spacing, a Graph Tech TUSQ XL 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-6 HP neck with KTS titanium reinforcing rods. The knobs were changed in mid-2013.
The SR5000E and SR5005E are four string and five string versions, respectively. The SR4006E is a similar model with a solid mahogany body without the wenge top and back.
The SR5006E was discontinued after 2014 and replaced by the similar SR5006.
