Ibanez ATK 305 Made in Japan 1999 - sound demo

Описание: A brief demo of the sound of the Ibanez ATK 305 5 string bass. SN F9912837 (Production: March 1999; FugjiGen factory, Gakki, Japan)

The bass was recorded via PreSonus Studio 68c card directly into the OBS software without any effects, equalization, compression, normalisation or postprocessing. This is the most clean sound I was able to get directly from the instrument.

0:00-0:44 fingerstyle, parallel, bass/mid/treble at 12h
0:46-1:25 fingerstyle, neck coil, bass/mid/treble at 12h
1:26-2:10 fingerstyle, neck coil with filter, bass/mid/treble at 12h
2:10-2:30 fingerstyle, neck coil with filter, bass/mid/treble at 12h
2:31-2:46 fingerstyle, neck coil, bass/mid/treble at 12h
2:47-3:05 fingerstyle, parallel, bass/mid/treble at 12h
3:06-3:25 slap, parallel, bass/mid/treble at 12h
3:26-3:51 slap, neck coil with filter, bass/treble at 12h, mids -30%
3:52-4:12 picked bass, neck coil with filter, bass/mid/treble at 12h
4:12-4:30 picked bass, neck coil, bass/mid/treble at 12h
4:31-4:48 picked bass, parallel, bass/mid/treble at 12h
from 4:49 chromatic notes on all strings, open string sustain

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Technical details and comments:
Quite a large, but still a comfortable ash body with a glossy honeyburst satin finish. 3-ply maple neck, matte, with a maple fretboard.
A triple coil pickup with a 3-way switch. It is hard to find a wiring scheme but most probably: The bridge position engages both coils in parallel; the fron t position engages the neck coil; the middle position engages the neck coil with a filter. When once coil used, it is in a combination with a hum-cancelling phantom coil so that all combinations are hum-cancelling.

Controls: Master volume, three-way equalizer (bass-middle-treble), switch for engaging the bridge coil/two coils/neck coil of the pickup.
String spacing 5-17mm. Strings thru or topload options. Unknown stainless steel strings. Approx. 4.8 kg. Well balanced, no neck dive.

The bass is really playable, it has a a variety of useful sounds for any genre. It sits well in a band mix even with distorted guitars, also with keyboards. Great craftmanship. Definitely recommended.