Ernie Ball Music Man's Joe Dart Signature bass is a streamlined one-knob wonder

By Richard Bienstock
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Collab with Vulpeck bassist sports a natural finish over an ash body, single Music Man passive humbucker with volume control

(Image credit: Ernie Ball)

Ernie Ball Music Man has reintroduced the Joe Dart Signature bass guitar following a limited run last year.

Designed in conjunction with the Vulfpeck bassist, the model features a Sterling-shaped lightweight ash body, and a figured maple neck and fingerboard with 22 stainless steel frets.

Other features include a single Music Man Custom wound Sterling Bass pickup with a ceramic magnet, parallel coils and no phantom coil, a five-bolt neck joint and Schaller BM tuners with tapered string posts.

The streamlined aesthetics include a velvet natural finish, one passive humbucker and just a single oversized volume knob for the bass' control set.

(Image credit: Ernie Ball)

The Joe Dart Signature Bass is available for $1,999.

For more information, head to Ernie Ball (opens in new tab).

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Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.