Ibanez BTB846SC Terra Firma 6-String Bass, Deep Twilight Gloss

Full Description

Unique Body Shape

The Ibanez BTB846SC is crafted using a selection of poplar burl, ash, and mahogany, delivering a warm tone with plenty of clarity. This unique body shape features an extended upper horn, which offers excellent stability and sustain. The back of the bass is also sculpted with a smooth, elegant neck heel, providing easy access to the higher frets and allowing the player's palm to move up the neck with minimum effort.

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. A zero fret is also included, providing accurate intonation along with consistent resonance across the whole fingerboard.

Bartolini BH2 Pickups

The Bass Workshop BTB Bass 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 the BTB846SC 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 Ibanez Bass 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 6-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: Poplar Burl
• Body: Ash/Mahogany
• Bridge: Mono-Rail V (17mm String Spacing)
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Finish: Deep Twilight Low Gloss

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 5-Piece Maple/Walnut
• Profile: BTB6
• Scale Length: 35’’
• Fingerboard: Jatoba
• Radius: 950mm
• Frets: 24 Medium Stainless Steel
• Inlays: Abalone Dots
• Nut: PPS, Black w/Zero Fret
• Nut Width: 47mm

Electronics & Hardware

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