Name: Ibanez BTB Standard BTB946 6-string Bass Guitar - Cosmic Blue Low Gloss
Brand: Ibanez
SKU: 14258
Availability: BackOrder

Ibanez BTB Standard BTB946 6-string Bass Guitar – Cosmic Blue Low Gloss

Seismic 6-string Subterranean Sonics, Engineered to Enthrall With its BTB Standard BTB946, Ibanez has crafted a no-holds-barred baron of basses that blends a hexad of high-performance tonewoods with a suite of sonic sculpting capabilities worthy of bedroom-wall wide-eyed wondering. Its comfortably contoured poplar burl-topped body is teeming with character and even more tone-crafting possibilities, and…

Seismic 6-string Subterranean Sonics, Engineered to Enthrall

With its BTB Standard BTB946, Ibanez has crafted a no-holds-barred baron of basses that blends a hexad of high-performance tonewoods with a suite of sonic sculpting capabilities worthy of bedroom-wall wide-eyed wondering. Its comfortably contoured poplar burl-topped body is teeming with character and even more tone-crafting possibilities, and once it’s in your hands, you’ll be filled with low-end traversing tenacity that’s only multiplied by the dyad of Ibanez and Nordstrand electronics. A quick overview reveals a tonewood assemblage fully endorsed by AJ’s Music & The Music Man’s Guitar Workshop: a layered ash-over-okoume wing design beneath the poplar burl top, with a solid 5-piece maple and walnut neck running the full length of the instrument that is topped with a shimmering rosewood fretboard. Add a 6-piece Mono-rail V bridge to the mix, and you have sustain for days with ideal string-to-string isolation. When you add in the onboard 3-band active EQ, you’ll have no trouble crafting the bass tones you love.

Nordstrand-fueled low-frequency fury

Considering the bass’s constellation of tonewoods, Ibanez wisely chose a Nordstrand suite of circuitry capable of capturing its dimensional depths. A bombastic brace of Big Single soapbar single-coil pickups arm you with an unassailable armature of Alnico V-fueled ferocity, blending brawling brightness fuzz-friendly fervor into a pliable, punchy powerhouse pairing. What’s more, a custom-crafted configuration of Ibanez electronics comprising a 3-band EQ, per-band control knobs, and a dedicated Balancer is supplemented by an EQ bypass and a 3-way mid-frequency switch, allowing you to sweep mids and hone tones with unrivaled detail and dynamism.

Enduring sustain and resounding neck-through resonance

You can trace the history of the neck-through design all the way back to Les Paul’s famous 1941 “The Log” solidbody guitar prototype or to Rickenbacker, who gave us the modern version in 1956. Either way, generations of innovators and top-tier manufacturers have relied on neck-through designs for superior sustain. Pick up an Ibanez BTB Standard BTB946, and you’ll experience everything neck-through construction has to offer, with full-spectrum 6-string sonics felt vibrating clearly through its ultra-stable 5-piece maple and walnut neck, right down to the strap peg. The extended sustain doesn’t just add body to your tone, it provides greater tonal balance that you’ll hear in every note you play. What’s more, the increased dimensional stability and harmonic depth of its 5-piece construction are augmented by graphite-reinforcing neck rods, reducing weight and maximizing playability, with greater resistance to twisting and warping.

Enhanced definition and superior presence

Premium materials are always a treat, but nothing is as important as the way an instrument performs. To that end, the bridge — an important appointment that can tend to be overlooked — received the exacting attention for which Ibanez is renowned. The company selected a top-quality Mono-rail V bridge for the BTB Standard BTB946 — unlike single-body bridges, each Mono-rail V saddle is completely separate from the others, resulting in two impactful sonic enhancements. First, since they aren’t connected, the saddles create minimal sympathetic vibration, preventing un-played strings from muddying your mix. Second, each saddle is double anchored, allowing energy to transfer efficiently between the string and the body. As a result, the Ibanez BTB Standard BTB946 is teeming with clarity, sustain, and power that easily endures the most brutal of bombastic bass brawling.

Tech Specs

Number of Strings: 6
Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
Body Shape: BTB946 BTB Standard
Color: Cosmic Blue
Body Material: Okoume/Ash (wings)
Body Finish: Satin Polyurethane
Neck Material: 5-piece Maple/Walnut
Neck Shape: BTB6
Neck Joint: Neck-through
Radius: 37.4″
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay: Dots
Number of Frets: 24
Scale Length: 35″
Nut Material: Plastic
Tuners: Ibanez
Neck Pickup: Nordstrand Big Single pickup
Bridge Pickup: Nordstrand Big Single pickup
Controls: 1 x volume, 1 x balance, 3-band EQ
Strings: .032-.130
Manufacturer Part Number: BTB946COL

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