youngthrasher9
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Ok, review time.
First off, I'd like to say this is my first 7 string, and my first Ibanez. It's also my first set of Dimarzio pickups (in this case PAF's).
Ibanez hit it out of the park with this one. It's a no frills guitar, with tasteful appointments, such as a bound body, bound neck, and black chrome hardware. The Gibraltar bridge on this is great, it's comfortable, seems to be very stable and made well. One could probably unscrew it and use it as a weapon to bludgeon someone with if they were playing a show in Detroit or something.
The neck is very comfortable to me, and not quite the skateboard one might expect from Ibanez. Don't get me wrong, it's very thin, but it's still pleasant to chord and shred on.
Now to the the electronics. The PAF pickups in this are very nice. They are what I'd call medium output, however. Those expecting the pickups to rape the preamp like they just escaped from San Quentin are going to be disappointed. The switching, to me, was a pleasant surprise. Instead of the standard 3 way blade switch so common on the double humbucker guitars of today, Ibanez opted for a 5 way blade switch allowing split (single coil) tones from the bridge and neck pickups at the 2nd and 4th positions of the switch respectively. Anyone who knows my guitars well, knows that I put coil split capability on almost every guitar I purchase, so I was very pleased to find out I didn't need to do the work this time.
The body shape of the guitar helps it balances beyond excellently. This guitar is probably in the top 5 most well balanced instruments I've had in my hands. I'm also a fan of the fact that the guitar itself is lightweight- playing this thing for hours standing up would be an easy feat.
Overall, it's a well resonating, balanced, beast of a 7 string and I'm going to enjoy it for years to come.
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First off, I'd like to say this is my first 7 string, and my first Ibanez. It's also my first set of Dimarzio pickups (in this case PAF's).
Ibanez hit it out of the park with this one. It's a no frills guitar, with tasteful appointments, such as a bound body, bound neck, and black chrome hardware. The Gibraltar bridge on this is great, it's comfortable, seems to be very stable and made well. One could probably unscrew it and use it as a weapon to bludgeon someone with if they were playing a show in Detroit or something.
The neck is very comfortable to me, and not quite the skateboard one might expect from Ibanez. Don't get me wrong, it's very thin, but it's still pleasant to chord and shred on.
Now to the the electronics. The PAF pickups in this are very nice. They are what I'd call medium output, however. Those expecting the pickups to rape the preamp like they just escaped from San Quentin are going to be disappointed. The switching, to me, was a pleasant surprise. Instead of the standard 3 way blade switch so common on the double humbucker guitars of today, Ibanez opted for a 5 way blade switch allowing split (single coil) tones from the bridge and neck pickups at the 2nd and 4th positions of the switch respectively. Anyone who knows my guitars well, knows that I put coil split capability on almost every guitar I purchase, so I was very pleased to find out I didn't need to do the work this time.
The body shape of the guitar helps it balances beyond excellently. This guitar is probably in the top 5 most well balanced instruments I've had in my hands. I'm also a fan of the fact that the guitar itself is lightweight- playing this thing for hours standing up would be an easy feat.
Overall, it's a well resonating, balanced, beast of a 7 string and I'm going to enjoy it for years to come.
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