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This is a Tobias Toby-Pro-5-string bass. It has a translucent red finish, black hardware, two Tobias soapbar humbuckers, a 2-band active EQ (volume, blend, bass boost/cut, treble boost/cut), and is strung BEADG. The Pro series Tobias basses were made for several years under Gibson ownership of Tobias as mid-range bass in comparison to the several-thousand-dollar US-produced Tobias basses. They have famous Tobias body and headstock style, but are made out of more common types of wood (maple and bubinga, with a rosewood fingerboard, I think, but don't quote me on that) as opposed to the purpleheart and birdseye maple and wenge on the higher-end ones, and have pickups and preamps that are not the Bartolini customs normally found in the high-end Tobias basses. The bass feels very light and easy to play but is quite solid and well-constructed. It is neck-through and the neck is a 5-piece multi-laminate.

I bought this bass new about 7 years ago for $600. Since then, it has not been played nearly as much as it should have been; I never got used to that 5th string (I'm just too uncoordinated). It's been recorded with a couple times using home equipment (i.e. plugging it into a direct box), and never been gigged with, smoked with, had stuff spilled on it, etc. It comes with its original padded Tobias gigbag (which is also still in fantastic condition as it hasn't been to any gigs!). The only thing that needs any fixing is that the E-string JUST BROKE a couple days ago (you can see in the picture), so that string would need to be replaced . . . it's strung with nickel D'addarios, so that should be pretty easy.

Sound-wise, it sounds somewhere between that fat, smooth Bartolini sound and the more "modern" sound of the Ibanez Soundgear basses . . . the active EQ and blend knob really affect the tone, pushing it from thick thumping hip-hop-bass tone all the way to a very treble-heavy snarl on top of a deep low end, the sort of thing you might hear in modern alt-rock and alt-metal. I mostly used it to play Dream Theater and Trivium, and actually the tone I got from it that I used most could best be described as similar to John Myung's tone on "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence".

Anyway, the bass is in fantastic condition, it looks beautiful, it plays really well, it sounds great, comes with its original gigbag, and all it needs is a new E-string. Perfect if you wanted to get a really nice 5-string bass for less than what a new one costs.

Please email me at the provided address if you're interested or want to make an offer and we'll work stuff out. Thanks!

-Robert

• Location: Ann Arbor
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