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Ernie Ball Music Man introduces the DarkRay II Bass

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Ernie Ball Music Man proudly introduces the DarkRay II bass, expanding on the aggressive, modern foundation of the original DarkRay with fully integrated, polyphonic octave-up and octave-down…

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