Beautiful Bass, I hope you enjoy it. However its the Bart PUPS that make all MTD's MTD's. As apposed to Ken Smith, His sound is genuine, with his own PUPS. And they sound like Butter. Don't get me wrong, MTD's sound like Butter too. To me Ibanez makes the BTB with the same Bart PUPS that Mike uses and that BTB sounds just like the MTD for 1/3 the cost for MTD's. If your thing is the comfort of having a MTD, its all good, but if you wan't the sound, the truth be told, you can get many basses with those Bart PUPs and make it sound like a MTD, but that Ken Smith can't be imitated. Now I don't have a Ken Smith, thats just my 2 cents I play a Peavey Cirruss which does not compare to niether the MTD or Smith. Nevertheless Nice Bass....