Ibanez - MDM1605 Natural Mocha Low Gloss + Housse

With the MDM1605 5-string bass, Ibanez reveals a solid construction with a steamed Maple neck designed to maintain its stability when the temperature varies and the lights heat up your stage, helping you to keep a consistent and precise touch even when your playing gets tense because every structural detail has been designed to maintain an even feel throughout the length of the energetic instrumental scale.

When you pick up the MDM1605 Natural Mocha, you'll enjoy a Poplar Burl top combined with an Alder body that creates a clear response with structured mids, and you'll feel how the whole thing reacts to your dynamics as each vibration flows with appreciable regularity, giving your playing an expressive breadth that gains in presence as soon as you press a little harder, encouraging richer nuances and more controlled articulation in every conceivable stage configuration that you explore with different attacks and different intensities according to your mood.

Its Sonitech S preamp gives you access to a very wide tonal sweep thanks to its two selectable midrange banks and its additional passive control, and you'll immediately feel how the 3-band structure allows you to fine-tune your grain as the variations follow one another seamlessly and enhance both the discreet passages and the moments when you really push the overall dynamics of your favourite instrument even further.

The Delta S5J pickups offer a defined attack with a full midrange and a bass that remains taut even when you increase the pressure on the wrist, and you'll soon realise that this HH configuration offers an interesting balance between bite and roundness because each position brings a colour that can be used in a studio context or on stage, giving your lines a natural breath that evolves according to your touch and accentuating the legibility of the complex passages you regularly come up against when you slightly adjust your attack according to your musical intentions.

The MR5S bridge features an adjustable gap setting that helps you adapt the feel under your fingers with enough amplitude to alter your playing comfort, and you'll notice that this system improves overall balance by distributing tension evenly, allowing for a more intuitive approach when you alternate fast passages with deeper rests on the lower strings too.