S/B – Bass

The Aristides S/B4 helps you get a little bit more out of your bass. Its carefully designed multiscale layout achieves a balanced & “piano-like” tone with rich harmonics across all strings – the dream of professional bass players! Not to mention the benefits of our proprietary one-piece Arium construction, which we discovered lends itself very well to bass guitars early in our history. The S/B4, like all S/B basses, is available in a wide variety of active & passive pickup configurations to suit multiple genres of music & playing styles; ensuring the S/B4 is as tonally versatile as the instrument itself.

Our original 050 model was a 5-string bass lauded for its clarity in lower registers, so the first prototype for our flagship multiscale S/B Bass Series had to be the 5-string S/B5. 5-string basses & their clarity on the low B string are the standard against which a good bass is measured. The S/B Series underwent years of research & was newly designed from the ground up because we’re dedicated to making Aristides not just “a guitar company that offers a cool bass,” but rather a flagship bass brand with something truly unique to offer. We believe when you try an S/B5 you will hear a clarity that meets & exceeds those standards.

While many 6-string basses can feel like an entirely foreign instrument, the Aristides S/B6 was carefully designed with a focus on playability & allowing the bassist to fully express themselves musically. Not only does the S/B6 exhibit rich sustain & chordal clarity – you’ll find the stable nature of Arium results in an instrument that you’ll rarely have to adjust. All S/B Series basses have 24 frets: so when you have a stable, high-performance, 4-octave instrument like the Aristides S/B6 6-string multiscale bass, you are free to focus on your music.