Few years after the first appearance of the Bongo bass, Musicman released the 25th Anniversary basses in 2009 inheriting the 4 band EQ, and put a few push buttons on top plus a passive tone knob as a bonus ! It was another innovative design since the 80s’ imo after a bunch of weird stuffs .. and looked like EBMM had made a decent success with the 25 Anniversary instruments and decided to put them into production in 2010 given the name Reflex.

 Specs:

- Solid white finish in polyester with matched headstock
- Maple neck / Rosewood Fingerboard
- Ash body with maple top and Mahagony tone block
- Single H pickup w/ ceramic magnets
- Series / Parallel switch
- Active / Passive switch with passive TONE knob !!!
- 18v 4 band active EQ (Think EBMM Bongo)
- EQ freqency are at: 40Hz / 400Hz / 2.5kHz / 6.3kHz +/- 18dB
- near 9 lbs on bathroom scale
- 34" scale length / 22 frets / 1 5/8" nut witdth / 19mm string spacing
- Currently strung with Ernieball cobalt flat
- Comes with generic padded gigbag

Just like the 25th Anniversary bass without the fancy wood top painted in solid colour.

Playability / Sound:
My personal favor settings are series in passive mode with tone roll of for that open and old rnb sound, and of course parallel in active for the classic Stingray thing. These are the 2 modes in the test drive video. Top notch EBMM quality, 19mm string spacing with Stingray like neck makes it easy to adapt to. 4 band eq are very efficient .

Thoughts:
Music man had perfected modern electronic for electric basses, and this is a perfect example. This is the single H version at the sweet spot for that Stingray, and the TONE control in passive mode is basically a dream come true for many stingray players. Active mode basically turns this guy into a beast with its efficient preamp/EQ design. The bass is near 9lbs, it’s well balanced on both strap and sitting. The single H model imo is alot more easier and intuitive to understand than the multi pickup models, lease are just better sometimes.

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