FrankyBoy
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Hey there guys! :cool2:
I sold my Schecter Hellraiser Tempest this weekend and I now have this slimmy Ibanez S470DXQM (Could the name be longer?) with the Zero Point System double locking tremolo. I traded my Schecter to get this Ibanez + $$$ (for me), because I wanted to try something else and especially because the neck of the Schecter was kind of too fat for me, I was not sure I liked the 24,75 scale and the EMG sounded horrible in clean settings and they gave me no response to pick attack. As I didn't want to swap the pickups, I wanted to try an other brand of guitar and here I went with Ibanez!
This is my first double locking tremolo guitar and today I went on a quest to analyse and setup this little baby. So here are some medium quality pics of my journey. :friday:
The finish is called Red Viking, Sounds manly enough to me!
So here I noticed the frets were a bit diggen by the previous owner. I tried to snap a photo of it. I wonder at what stage I should consider having to level them... Some advice would be nice on this!
So here it is all clean and wearing some tonefuls Beefy Slinky (11-54) for my Drop-C tuning. Only need to check up intonation with the ZR tremolo, sounds like it'll be fun...
I was impressed with how thin this thing is! It still weights a lot, impressive...
I dig the body shape a LOT! So confy with it. The Wizard neck does it for me, really fast neck for sure. The action is medium low, just how I like it.
I took the time to play around with it and the pickups are... meh I don't know. In standard tuning the bridge pickup sounded great and had a lot of punch. The cleans were overall quite good, the neck and middle pickups together give me wonderful clean tones. It really is full sounding. However, the bridge pickup in Drop-C with high gain engaged all sounds like mudd. Even tho I have enough tension with my string gauge, I have no definition, no crisp and no punch. It's pretty weak...
The EMGs 81/85 from my Schecter were way up there. The JB from my PRS SE Custom sounds best to me for Drop C. I am planning on swaping the pups in this Ibanez with the extra money the guy gave me, but I'm not sure what I want to try...
It has mahagony body with quilted maple top, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.
I am not saying no to the idea of going active (with blackouts for exemple), but I'm scared I'll loose some response to my pick attack. What do you guys think? Would a Distortion in the bridge fit the job perfectly or anything else? I mostly play heavy rock/metal/metalcore type of stuff.
Thanks!
I sold my Schecter Hellraiser Tempest this weekend and I now have this slimmy Ibanez S470DXQM (Could the name be longer?) with the Zero Point System double locking tremolo. I traded my Schecter to get this Ibanez + $$$ (for me), because I wanted to try something else and especially because the neck of the Schecter was kind of too fat for me, I was not sure I liked the 24,75 scale and the EMG sounded horrible in clean settings and they gave me no response to pick attack. As I didn't want to swap the pickups, I wanted to try an other brand of guitar and here I went with Ibanez!
This is my first double locking tremolo guitar and today I went on a quest to analyse and setup this little baby. So here are some medium quality pics of my journey. :friday:
The finish is called Red Viking, Sounds manly enough to me!
So here I noticed the frets were a bit diggen by the previous owner. I tried to snap a photo of it. I wonder at what stage I should consider having to level them... Some advice would be nice on this!
So here it is all clean and wearing some tonefuls Beefy Slinky (11-54) for my Drop-C tuning. Only need to check up intonation with the ZR tremolo, sounds like it'll be fun...
I was impressed with how thin this thing is! It still weights a lot, impressive...
I dig the body shape a LOT! So confy with it. The Wizard neck does it for me, really fast neck for sure. The action is medium low, just how I like it.
I took the time to play around with it and the pickups are... meh I don't know. In standard tuning the bridge pickup sounded great and had a lot of punch. The cleans were overall quite good, the neck and middle pickups together give me wonderful clean tones. It really is full sounding. However, the bridge pickup in Drop-C with high gain engaged all sounds like mudd. Even tho I have enough tension with my string gauge, I have no definition, no crisp and no punch. It's pretty weak...
The EMGs 81/85 from my Schecter were way up there. The JB from my PRS SE Custom sounds best to me for Drop C. I am planning on swaping the pups in this Ibanez with the extra money the guy gave me, but I'm not sure what I want to try...
It has mahagony body with quilted maple top, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard.
I am not saying no to the idea of going active (with blackouts for exemple), but I'm scared I'll loose some response to my pick attack. What do you guys think? Would a Distortion in the bridge fit the job perfectly or anything else? I mostly play heavy rock/metal/metalcore type of stuff.
Thanks!
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How would you guys compare the D-Sonic and the Distortion? From the tone chart they are ver NOT alike.
