5-Piece Neck Through design The neck through design uses a 5-piece maple and mahogany neck sandwiched between the maple on alder body. Contoured Body Both the front and back of the bass body are contoured to provide players with a compact, well fitting instrument that offers greater playing comfort. Pickups The stack type pickups are designed in collaboration with Nathan East. The Alnico V pickups include hum-canceling coils. Individual Bridge Pieces The bridge consists of Individual bridge pieces that reduce interference from other string vibration delivering a purer tone. Active Electronics Active electronics include a special equalizer circuit based on Nathan East’s “Magic Box.” The circuit lets you cut off the selected mid frequency at the touch of a switch for precision sound tailoring. Controls 1.: Pickup Balancer 2.: Master Volume 3.: Bass 4.: Middle 5.: Treble 6.: Mid Cut Frequency 7.: Mid Cut On/Off Switch