2 usable tones, like having a stingray and a percision in one. In a flick of the switch you can go from super bright to round. The brighter two tones are aggressive without being brittle. I've owned a few basses including a stingray, and the brightness on this ibanez is more useful then the musicman's. The middle position pickup gives you a decent mix of neck and bridge at all times. This axe has lot of output for a passive guitar. Also, i notied that for an affordable axe, it's not too noisey. hmm.

Simple, but useful for the must part. there's a volume and a three position tone selector. If you like a bridge tone, this is not the axe for you. That's pretty much the only thing it won't do. But it will give you both a rolled off and a super bright sound in a heartbeat. Heck, Alemdivc used to do that with the Elan, i believe: switchable boosts for quick tone change. and here you have the same feature in a a bass under $200. It's MEDIUM SCALE, But still has a pretty nice low E, one tends to sacrifice that in most shorter scale basses. I've had some, and i wouldn't have picked up this bass if that was the case again.

poorly dressed frets. I cut myself playing this bass when i first got it. You can tell this a machine job all the way. But this is easly remedied with a little follow up sanding down with a small file. (Make sure to tape of the fretboard properly, though.) I'll say this though: the hardware itself seems on par with higher priced ibanez axes. Actually, when i picked this guitar up, i played a few soundgears, and they had MORE rattle in the headtoack/tunes area. That would drive me crazy. The GAX was more quiet, tighter.

THis is the most unbelievable deal EVER. You get decent hardware, great sound and a bass the handles like a guitar for an unreal price.

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nothing affordable is ever sexy. it's just a fact. Appeal is often an unfortunate function of unattanability. Hence we fair to protect the most valuable and irreplacable of all resources: the enviroment. go figure.

semi pro for 18 years

rock

Sounds like a $500+ bass. Crystal clear, no static, very good overall sound. Recording studio quality.

The guitar has a knob where you can control three tones. There is also a sound control on the front.

Very nice finish, no problems yet.

I wish I could give it an 11. The place i got it from was local and the price was good. I could sell this to a friend with a different name on it and he would buy it for more than 500 dollars.

Theres a 1 year warrenty on the guitar which is nice. The place i bought it from told me that I could bring it back there if I had any problems.

It's got the axe shape cut and a mirror black finish, very nice.

Band Member

Metal

Very versatile sound, simple yet effective selector switch for pickup tones. Running bass through a art tube pac pre-amp compressor, art 351 31 band equalizer, directly into a mackie DFX board, on a PA studio system with subwoofer. Top of the line sound.

Top notch construction.Metallic red finish dazzling-web pictures do NOT do it justice. Very nice bass for the price. Love the short scale-feels more like a lead guitar-not heavy at all.

Top notch all the way. NO complaints of any kind. Would hold up wel on the road but it is being used in home studio

Kick-butt all the way. The best bass for under $200.00 anywhere

Not needed it yet, but expect good service from the parent company

Will probably buy the metallic blue one just to have an extra-it's that nice looking

37 year long hobbyist

mostly rock