Product Overview
The Ibanez BTB605MLM elevates your playing experience with an impressive design focused on optimal sound, feel, and versatility. Featuring neck-through construction and a multi-scale layout, this professional 5-string electric bass guitar offers substantial sustain and smooth fingerboard access. The flexible preamp and pickup configuration unlock a spectrum of highly adaptable tones suitable for both stage and studio settings.
Ibanez BTB605MLM Features:
- 5pc Maple/Walnut neck with Graphite reinforcement rods: The 5pc Maple/Walnut neck provides tonal clarity and superior attack.The Graphite reinforcement rods provides massive sustain and excellent stability.
- Neck-Through Construction: The neck-through construction contributes to massive sustain and smooth access to high fretboard positions.
- Flamed Maple Fretboard: The beautiful Flamed Maple fretboard imbues this model with an exotic appearance.
- Medium Stainless Steel Frets: The Stainless Steel frets are durable and long-lasting
- Okoume Wing Body: The Okoume wing body provides a bright and solid sound.
- T1 Pickups: The T1 pickup is a humbucker with two separately mounted coils, delivering a tight bass response, punchy mid-range, and clear high-end. Its flexible voicing suits various genres, allowing nuanced adjustments to the tone by individually setting the height of each coil. The rounded edges enhance ergonomic comfort, especially when used as a thumb rest. The unique design, with individually mounted coils positioned slightly offset, ensures that the pickup surface where the player rests their thumb is directly parallel with the strings. This distinctive feature, uncommon in most multi-scale basses, significantly enhances instrument comfort and playability.
- Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band EQ w/Mid frequency switch: The Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band EQ represents our latest advancement in simple, straightforward, and no-nonsense EQ control. The Mid Control features Boost and Cut, each centered on slightly different frequencies, offering an innovative preset range for the most favorable bass tones.
- MR5S Bridge: The Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band EQ represents our latest advancement in simple, straightforward, and no-nonsense EQ control. The Mid Control features Boost and Cut, each centered on slightly different frequencies, offering an innovative preset range for the most favorable bass tones.
- 3-way Mid Frequency Switch: The 3-way Mid frequency switch allow players to change the mid-tone between 250, 450, and 700 Hz.
- 35-34 Inch Multi Scale: 35-34 inch multi scale construction allows the higher strings to be played more easily, while still having adequate tension for lower strings.
Ibanez BTB605MLM Specifications:
- Neck type: BTB5 for Multi Scale / 5pc Maple/Walnut w/Graphite reinforcement rods / Neck-through
- Top/back/body: Okoume wing body
- Fretboard: Flamed Maple freboard / Abalone dot inlay
- Fret: Medium Stainless Steel frets
- Number of Frets: 24 (+ zero fret)
- Bridge: MR5S bridge
- String Space: 19mm
- Neck pickup: T1 neck pickup (Passive)
- Bridge pickup: T1 neck pickup (Passive)
- Equaliser: Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band EQ w/EQ bypass switch (passive tone control on treble pot), 3-way Mid frequency switch
- Factory tuning: 1G,2D,3A,4E, 5B
- Strings: D'Addario® NYXL45130SL
- String gauge: .045/.065/.080/.100/.130
- Hardware color: Gold
- Color Variation: Pearl White Matte