Ibanez Standard BTB747-NTL Natural Low Gloss

Ibanez Standard BTB747-NTL: Full-length neck and multi-layer body

The heart of the Ibanez Standard BTB construction is undoubtedly the continuous neck, which is made of three parts maple as well as barrier strips of rosewood and walnut. Accordingly, it has a particularly high stability, which ensures a fast response and evenly decaying sustain across all strings. With its flat"D" profile, it also allows any playing technique to be easily handled, whereby the high positions can be easily reached thanks to the wide cutaways of the body wings. These are made in several layers of ash and mahogany with a walnut wood top.

Bartolini pickups and 3-band tone control

The Ibanez standard BTB747 is equipped with two Bartolini BH2 humbuckers for electrical sound conversion. With their firm bass foundation, full-bodied mid-range and silky highs, they offer the perfect basis for almost any musical style between pop, blues, jazz and rock, whereby their extremely lively dynamics support expressive electric bass playing with the most diverse techniques. For further sound adjustment, the Ibanez BTB 7-String is also equipped with an active 3-band tone control which, with its triple-switchable centre frequency and harmonic tuning, allows particularly precise interventions in the frequency response.

hardware

High-quality hardware equipment also puts the finishing touches to the Ibanez BTB747 standard. Accordingly, a total of seven Ibanez Mono-Rail V bridges are used on the body, which not only guarantee perfect intonation and string position, but also prevent mutual influence of the string vibration and thus contribute to the even sound of the 7-string. From the bridge, the strings are passed over the rosewood fingerboard with an extra long scale (35" or 890 mm), in which 24 stainless steel frets in medium format offer two octaves of range. At the headstock, the combination of zero fret and plastic saddle then pulls the strings straight to the precise Ibanez tuners. Another special feature is the Neutrik jack socket, which locks the plug of the intstument cable against unintentional disconnection.

The Ibanez standard BTB747-NTL Natural Low Gloss at a glance:

• 7-String E-Bass
• Three-layer body wings made of ash, mahogany and walnut
• Full-length maple/rosewood/walnut neck
• rosewood fingerboard with 24 stainless steel frets and abalone inlays
• Bartolini BH2 Humbucker, active Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-band tone control
• Ibanez Mono-Rail V single bars and Ibanez tuners