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Product Ref: 103227
The ESP Stream Bass is constructed from a solid white ash body and flamed maple top, offering an enhanced low end to deliver extra layers of depth. The flamed maple is perfect for creating a visually stunning and unique aesthetic, providing the bass with an eye-catching look suitable for the stage. While white ash shares many properties with its swamp ash cousin, delivering a classic rich, warm tone, it also features more treble and bright characteristics to create an incredible amount of sustain. The use of ash and maple together infuses the ESP E-II with a strong midrange and a crisp, warm bass, making it ideal for a variety of playing styles.
The ESP bass guitar features a 3pc maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard to deliver warm, bright tones. The maple offers roundness to the tone, providing bright characteristics and an excellent amount of sustain. The rosewood offers sweetness to the tone, smoothing it out and furring up the harsh edges of the maple. The maple and rosewood combination creates a sparkling, sizzling high-end, an open midrange with a snappy attack, and a thick, firm low-end.
Its set of EMG pickups offer an incredible range of tonal possibilities, featuring the broad tonal frequency of the 35J at the bridge and the wide sonic palette of the 35P4 at the neck. The EMG 35J is designed with ceramic magnets to offer a tight midrange punch and a dynamic high end, with its coils placed closer to the bridge to deliver a sweeping harmonic overtone. The pickup provides the E-II Stream with classic jazz bass characteristics, while its broad tonal frequency range and low ratio of resistance to inductance creates extra dimension and clarity with an increased low-end response. The EMG 35P4 pickup is designed with ceramic magnets and short, squat coils, delivering a brilliant high-end articulation with plenty of low-end punch. This pickup’s wide sonic palette of classic and modern bass sounds is ideal for the versatile bassist, offering an incredible natural presence, superior dynamics, and a low-noise operation.
The addition of the Hipshot A style bridge provides the ESP Bass with an incredible intonation, allowing each string to vibrate freely while keeping them locked and secure. The bridge has been precision machined for the perfect performance, offering a fully adjustable groove-locking saddle design to ensure there is no-buzz tone transfer. Apart from its sleek modern look, the Hipshot A style bridge can accommodate either a string-through or top-load setup, while its quick load slots offering quick and easy string changes.
ESP is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975 under the name Electric Sound Products, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their product range will suit a wide variety of budgets and playing styles, with their popular Signature, Standard, Original, Graphic, Xtone, and Left-Handed series' guitars. The company has a growing number of high profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, Jeff Hanneman and many more.