DISC Ibanez BTB745 Bass, Natural Low Gloss

Full Description

Stunning & Unique Body Shape

The BTB745 5-String Bass Guitar features a redesigned body which came about during Ibanez's 2017 upgrades. Unlike others BTB models, this unique addition offers a sleek body shape with smooth contours and a curved bevel, creating an elegant feel and unique appearance. Crafted with ash/mahogany wings, players can achieve a warm tone with a rich response, while the stunning walnut top offers a tight response with a firm low end. The cutaway shape is also incorporated into the BTB745's design, providing flexibility across the whole fingerboard for an optimum tonal range.

Smooth 5-Piece Neck & Jatoba Fingerboard

The unique body is coupled with a 5-piece maple and walnut neck, creating an incredibly bright, smooth tone with excellent sustain and stability. Using two tonewoods together provides players with a combination of stunning tonal qualities and sonic enhancements, as well as an amazing aesthetic quality. The neck is paired with a jatoba fingerboard which enhances the overall projection, offering a strong, hard character to add extra punch and a subtle amount of brightness. Its neck-through-body construction optimises the maximum contact between the neck and body joint, enhancing the natural resonance for an advanced sustain.

Bartolini BH2 Pickups

The Ibanez BTB745 is equipped with a set of Bartolini BH2 pickups, which are designed with a dual-coil style configuration to help maximise the bass’ articulation while offering excellent definition and accuracy. The long blade pole piece is built to expand the pickup’s magnetic field, delivering an incredibly balanced strong-to-string response for a truly stunning performance. These pickups are perfect for a variety of musical styles, offering a tight low-end, punchy mids, and a smooth high-end response.

Ibanez’s Custom Electronics

One of the most unique features of this BTB Series Bass is Ibanez’s custom electronics, featuring a 3-band EQ, volume control, and balancer to provide the maximum control over shaping and crafting the tone of your guitar. The EQ section features controls over the treble, mids, and bass, allowing you to mould every nuance of your sound to create the perfect sound for your playing.

Mid-Frequency Select Switch

In addition to the 3-band EQ, the BTB475 also features a mid-frequency select switch, letting you instantly switch between 250Hz, 450Hz, and 700Hz, the heart of the mid zone, to create a more dynamic and ideal tone when needed.

Mono-Rail V Bridge

This 5-String BTB Bass features a stylish Mono-Rail V bridge, adding to its beautiful aesthetic while improving string stability and sustain. This innovative design offers a wide intonation adjustment range, and each independent saddle provides a maximum string vibration transfer without any interference.

About Ibanez Basses

Over the past 30 years, Ibanez have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Ibanez basses have been used on some of modern rock's most poignant albums of recent years. The preferred instruments of many awe inspiring bass players, amongst them Fieldy from Korn, Paul Gray from Slipknot and Peter Iwers of In Flames, Ibanez Basses continue to be the first stop for learners and professionals alike, no matter what musical genre they exist in.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Top: Walnut
• Body: Ash/Mahogany
• Bridge: Mono-Rail 5 (19mm String Spacing)
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Finish: Natural Low Gloss

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 5-Piece Maple/Walnut w/Graphite Reinforcement Rods
• Profile: BTB5
• Scale Length: 35’’
• Fingerboard: Jatoba
• Radius: 400mm
• Frets: 24 Medium Stainless Steel w/Zero Fret
• Inlays: Abalone Ovals
• Nut: PPS, Black
• Nut Width: 47mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Bartolini BH2 (Passive)
• Neck Pickup: Bartolini BH2 (Passive)
• Controls: Volume, Balancer, 3-Band EQ, 3-Way Mid Frequency Switch
• output: Neutrik Locking Jack
• Tuners: Die-Cast
• Hardware: Cosmo Black
• Case Included: No