The 5-piece maple/walnut neck offers tonal clarity and superior attack. The graphite reinforcement rods ensure massive sustain and excellent stability.
The neck-through construction contributes to massive support and easy access to the upper positions of the fingerboard.
The rosewood fingerboard provides a solid and well-balanced tone, with well-focused mids.
The stainless steel frets are durable.
A beautiful poplar top with an okoumé/ash wing body offers bright and solid tones with rich sustain.
The Nordstrand™ "Big Single" pickups concentrate a meaty single coil in a soapbar-style pickup, producing a bold, powerful, and aggressive tonal texture while retaining the characteristic clarity of single-coil pickups.
The 3-band equalizer from Ibanez Custom Electronics is our latest refinement of the simple, direct, and no-frills EQ control concept. The Boost and Cut of the Mid Control are both centered on slightly different frequencies, an innovation that offers a predefined range of the most favorable bass sounds.
The MR5S bridge features adjustable saddles for variable string spacing of +/- 1.5 mm, thus meeting the specific string spacing needs of each bassist.
