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SKU IBZ-BTB1906FNL

Ibanez BTB1906 Premium 6-String Active Bass, Florid Natural Low Gloss, Aguilar Pickups

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Player's Perspective

Music Store Live is proud to offer up this Ibanez BTB 6-string bass with looks that'll stop you dead in your tracks and a sound that delivers a knockout punch.

This is definitely an instrument geared towards the modern day bassist that wants to do more than just hang out in the back and go unnoticed. It can do that too, but this bass was designed to be clear, articulate, and will cut through a mix to be heard, not only felt. The sound is tight, growly, and punchy with enough mid-range to maintain articulation and clarity even when using distortion. The aggressive and hi-fi tone of this bass lends itself well to various styles of playing. The flexibility of the preamp and Aguilar's awesome DCB soapbars help provide a vast tonal pallet to choose from. With a little bit of a mid-scoop, slap tones jump to life on this bass. The Panga Panga fretboard is very responsive and snappy. Fingerstyle tones can range from round and thumpy to barky and growly without you ever having to touch the controls on your amplifier or any pedals.

The construction, from top to bottom, is impressive on this BTB. The fretwork allows for very low action and the flat fretboard makes string skipping a breeze whether you're fretting hand is down in 1st position or if you're noodling around up high on the neck. The stainless steel frets, along with adding some brightness to the tone, also help make it so you can dig in as hard as you want and you won't have to worry about chewing your frets up and needing a crown and polish job anytime soon. We also love the addition of the zero fret. Your open strings will have the same tonal characteristics as your fretted strings. Most bass players will easily be able to tell that there is a significant difference in the sound of your open strings versus your fretted strings. And if you think about it, that makes perfect sense. When you fret the string, you're essentially making that metal fret right in front of where your finger is the new "nut" for your bass while that note is being fretted. So that's basically like having a metal nut, which will sound drastically different from bone, plastic, corian, or even graphite. By adding this zero fret, it's basically like making it so your open strings sound like your fretted notes. The difference is instantly noticeable and we wish this would be commonly found on more basses around the world to be perfectly honest.

With a wealth of versatility under your fingers, this is a pro-quality offering from Ibanez that packs a lot of functionality under the hood without being overly complicated. Whether in active or in passive mode this bass sounds like an absolute beast with thunderous tone that will only sound muddy if you purposefully try to make it so... and even then it'll be hard to. The clear and articulate tone of this bass is awesome!

Specifications

BODY

  • Model: BTB1906 Premium
  • Top and Back Woods: Flame Maple
  • Body Wood: Mahogany
  • Construction: Neck-Through

NECK

  • Fretboard: Panga Panga
  • Neck Wood: 9-Piece Panga Panga/Purpleheart w/Graphite Reinforcement Rods
  • Scale Length: 35"
  • Fretboard Radius: 37" (950mm)
  • Nut Width: 2.12" (54mm)
  • Thickness @ 1st Fret: 20mm
  • Thickness @ 12th Fret: 22mm
  • Frets: 24x Medium Stainless Steel - Premium Fret Edge Treatment

ELECTRONICS

  • Pickups: Aguilar DCB
  • Preamp: Ibanez Custom 3-Band EQ
  • Knobs: Volume, Blend, Bass, Mid, Treble (passive tone when in passive mode)
  • Mini-Toggles: 3-Way Mid Frequency Selector, Active/Passive Switch

HARDWARE

  • Bridge: MR6S (17mm String Spacing)
  • Tuners: Gotoh
  • Finish: Gold

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Case: Ibanez Gig Bag
  • Instrument Weight: 11.4 lbs.

Overall Condition

Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for Ibanez. This  BTB1906 is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer's warranty. Photos are of the exact bass you'll receive.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.