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Bass Guitar
Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
Price: 170 EUR – 279 EUR
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An affordable bass companion to Ibanez's retro-styled Talman guitar line, pairing a split P pickup with a J-style bridge pickup and an onboard 2-band preamp.
About the Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
The TMB100 borrows its asymmetric double-cutaway silhouette from the Talman guitar series, which Ibanez originally introduced in the 1990s as a retro-flavored alternative to its more angular production lines. Bodies built since 2018 use poplar rather than the mahogany of earlier production, paired with a bolt-on maple neck and a jatoba fingerboard (rosewood on pre-2018 examples) carrying 20 frets.
Electronics combine an Ibanez Dynamix P split single-coil at the neck with a Dynamix J single-coil at the bridge, run through an Ibanez custom preamp with 2-band EQ rather than left fully passive. That active circuit, together with the B10 bridge and open-gear tuners, positions the TMB100 as a budget-friendly, tonally flexible P/J bass distinct from Ibanez's more scooped-sounding SR series.
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Sound character of the Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
Pairing a Dynamix split-coil P-style pickup at the neck with a Dynamix single-coil J-style pickup at the bridge gives the TMB100 access to both the thicker, rounder thump of a P pickup and the brighter, more articulate bite of a J pickup, with the active 2-band EQ adding further shaping on top.
Technical data for the Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
| Body | Poplar (mahogany pre-2018) |
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| Neck | Bolt-on maple |
| Fretboard | Jatoba (rosewood pre-2018), 20 frets |
| Pickups | Dynamix P (neck) / Dynamix J (bridge) |
| Electronics | Active 2-band EQ preamp |
| Scale | 34" |
Price history for the Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
Cheapest seen: 170 EUR · Most expensive seen: 279 EUR
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The history of the Ibanez TMB100 Standard Talman Bass
The Talman name dates to Ibanez's early-1990s retro guitar line; the TMB bass models joined later as short-scale-adjacent, vintage-styled companions built to a value price point.
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