A quality, budget priced Bass Guitar from ESP, the B50 has two separate active pickups for a variety of powerful bass sounds, quality black Nickel hardware and cool looks. A perfect combination!

ESP have a reputation for making great rock guitars, and although the B50 is conservative by their standards, it still has plenty to offer you metallers out there.

The headstock is a curvy, tapered shape, gloss black to the front with ESP's LTD logo in silver. The rear is a satin finished Maple, with the ESP logo, serial number and 4, 2-a-side, ESP branded mini bass machine heads, finished in a cool black Nickel.

The long Maple neck has the same satin finsh, giving good and smooth playabilty. It narrow, but pretty round, a C profile, nut width is 39mm.

The 24 fret Rosewood fingerboard is unbound, with small white dot inlays, and ESP's 12th fret Abolone block marker with the model number displayed.

Fretwork is, as ever, excellent, well polished and smooth, as is the board itself, very dark, a tight grain and well buffed up giving a slippery, waxy finish. Action height is about 3mm across the board at the 12th fret.

The neck is bolted onto the Basswood body, joining at the 19th fret on the bass side, 22nd on the treble, the deep cutaway here giving good access to the full 2 octaves.

The mirrored black body itself is not too heavy, and has a bit of chamfering on the top where your right arm moves across it, and on the back, giving a decently comfortable playing position.

The B-50 has 2 separate pickups, both feature ESP's ATB, Active Tone Boost, powered by a 9v battery, that gives good, clear response into the amp. At the neck, the split coil, LDP (precision style), and the bridge is the bar type LDJ (jazz style).

The bridge pickup is quite bright and cheerful, a good clear tone, whereas the split coil neck pickup is a fair bit more moody and deeper, better for rock and metal, no so good for jazz and funk.

The 3 controls and bridge a re all in a cool, black Nickel, very smart, you get a master volume and tone, and pickup blend. It's all finished off very nicely, a pretty impressive guitar for under ?250, good pickups, a versatile range of sounds, quality all round, and an excellent name on the headstock. Well recommended.

• Body Basswood
• Neck Maple, bolton, 34" scale, thin U contour
• Nut width 40mm
• Fingerboard Rosewood, dot inlays, 24 X jumbo frets
• Hardware Chrome, ESP DB4 bridge
• Tuners ESP tuners
• Pickups ESP LDJ (b) and LDP (n) with ATB1 (Active Tone Boost)
• Controls 2*volume, 1*tone

In Stock
All products on our website are in stock unless shown as 'Call 08452222603 To Order', this means we can deliver your order to you very quickly, subject to payment authorisation. The next dispatch date is shown against each product, and below is an indication of when you can expect your purchase.

All Guitars are Checked Before Dispatch
All Guitars go through our 12 point checking procedure to make sure that it passes our standards before shipping. This helps ensure your guitar will reach you in perfect condition. All guitars are checked against our 12 point check list and once passed, have a Guitarbitz quality control sticker attached. In addition to this we want to ensure that no harm can come to your guitar on the journey between us and you and so we have a rigorous packing procedure involving multiple protective layers. If you notice that this packaging is damaged when delivered by our courier, it is important to check the goods and if damaged, refuse the delivery and call us immediately. For your peace of mind, we have outlined the 12 point check below to show how we are passionate about your instrument.

1) Finish checked for imperfections or damage	2) Strings tuned up and tested for tone and playability	3) Neck checked for bending or humps
4)  Truss rod adjusted for correct positioning	5) Frets examined for playability	6) Bridge checked for position and hold on strings
7) Strap buttons tested for secure fitting	8) Neck joint examined	9) Machine heads turned and tested for secure grip on strings
10) Nut tested for secure fitting and correct string height	11) Switches, volume and tone controls tested for faulty connections	12) Pickups checked for responsiveness

For more details on our checking and packing procedure, please see our 12 Point Check and Packing Procedures page.

When You Will Receive your Order

Guitar accessories - strings, straps, stands, tuners and other small items
• Orders weighing less than 2kg are posted via First Class Royal Mail on the dispatch date shown.
• Orders weighing less than 2kg with a value over £30 will be sent First Class Royal Mail Recorded Delivery on the dispatch date shown.
• We cannot guarantee a delivery date for these orders, but First Class post usually takes 1-2 days.

Guitars, Amplifiers and larger items
• Orders weighing over 2kg are sent via our next working day courier service.

Interlink Express Courier Delivery
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When Interlink Express deliver:
• You are given a one hour delivery window
• You are notified of this by email on the morning of delivery
• If not convenient you can use the email to change the delivery date

International Deliveries
We can deliver to the following European countries,
• Zone 1 - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Spain - £15 (including TAX) per order.
• Zone 2 - Finland, Portugal and Sweden - £25 (including TAX) per order.
• Zone 3 - Switzerland and Norway - £50 (excluding TAX) per order.
Please note that we can only deliver international orders to the billing address of the credit card used. These orders typically take 3-5 working days to be delivered, you can still track your orders via the Internet in the same way.