So many frets, so much fingerboard. Massive thanks to Sweetwater for sending this guitar over and sponsoring the video! More information about the Ibanez Axe Design Lab imp.i114863.net/b3L1nM
Bah, typical guitar players, gets a new 🪓 from 🪓 design: The edge is too sharp! It's a freekin axe design Ibanez, be a man and grow some fingers(after it chops them off)! Great video mate, keep chugging!
@@stopUkrainewar666 sweetwater is real lol. They are the new musiciansfriend. They have many reviews and thousands of youtuber reviews as well and are one of the most trusted online store for guitar players. They are the most trusted for me anyways. More so than reverb. They have great customer service and even have return policies and such. They even have a brand new luthier shop where you can choose to have your order to have luthier work done before shipped out. The luthier work atm seems a bit pricey and a bit basic imo, but their luthier shop is growing and getting better with more options on their list. I always check their luthier shop every now and again to see if they can do sustainiac installs yet. Since this is something very difficult even for the most skilled luthiers and is hard to find even in bay area Ca.
This was the only new Ibanez I saw that I was actually interested in. Black and gold is obviously a win but overall it just looks pretty cool. I tend to find that those super high frets are useless, but that’s just me. Also love Blood Eagle and never liked either of those pickups. Dimarzios just always feel too nasal.
I have had an Rga 121 prestige since 2006. Play it everyday. I have moved multiple times through climate extremes and that guitar is still perfect. Never had to adjust the neck or do any major maintenance. Just changed pickups and tuners. I have 7 Ibanez guitars and will always play them.
@@l0rd_breeigo-sama954 love Warwick’s tone, but they’re product line is pretty lacking. Like just look at Fender or Ibanez Or ESP’s bass line vs Warwicks. Plus Ibanez and other brands offer a wide variety of tonal options, whereas a Warwick is always gonna sound like a Warwick.
How would you even consider those two brands ? They are just selling bling bling stuff… Why aren’t they able to come up with a simple passive precision bass ?
This is BY FAR the best demo you have ever recorded imo. So there might be a good reason to explore you relationship with Ibanez guitars a little more? This really inspired wonderful stuff from you.
I'm a big fan of the Tone Zone/Air Norton combo. It's the pair in my go-to Ibanez prestige that I've used for years. They're incredibly versatile and make it so I can play jazz and death metal on the same axe without sacrificing tone.
2:08 non-rounded fretboards are good. I want as much of the fret-ends intact to reduce risk of strings slipping off IVe seen some guitars with rounded edges where theres almost no space left for the outer strings.
I'm with you on that. I'm pleased if they're rounded over/smoothed into the edge, don't feel like I'm moving over a bunch speed bumps, and I don't have to think about my notes choking out cause the string went over the edges.
@@RobbieTayVaughan Guitars should never come stock with rounded edges. If somebody wants it = get it done yourself or ask a guitar tech to do it. HOWEVER, once its done, its DONE... Theres no going back. I have seen guitars I like but because the edges are so rounded off the strings are just balancing righto n the edge of the fret... I dont wanna buy it!!! Its practically ruined in the factory, Those who wants rounded fret ends/fretboards can easily do it themselves or get it affordably done by a tech. Its just not reversable.
yeah you know how us lot can get with guitar trends, but the obsession with fully rolled off boards has peaked, i hope. +Some frets particularly fender style with a visible tang can sometimes cause a little trouble with fret sprout, but ive found this can be even worse on fully rolled boards, exposing multiple sharp edges to the fret and the usual tang exposure
Kiko Loureiro from Megadeth used to play a Tagima Custom Model with the same configuration and that was a in his Angra tenure. Still it is a cool guitar
Honestly, it seems to be the new space for Ibanez to put any of their "modern" spec guitars, including existing models from previous years. I'd argue it's likely to be a replacement for Axion label as the 'high quality, ultra modern spec' line, which already seems to be on its way out.
I just traded for a 1987 RG 550 made in Japan. I love it. Out of 15 guitars this is a top three. Ive played the Prestigue but I dont need one and I may just get another 1987 RG 550 made in Japan at their finest facility. These guitars are great and are shredding metal !!
I have a rg550 genesis their reissue, my favorite guitar hands down, and bang for the buck 1k for a Japanese Ibanez, would love to get an original in the collection
@@skubadoobie Go getem . Reverb has a few, Ebay. I got mine off of Face book market place. $1000 to $1200 a couple at $800 these are played and kinda rough. Good luck.
The riff from 3:18 was so familiar but I couldn't place it for the longest time... It's the bass line from Baby Got Back. How does it sound so good as a metal riff??
There was a metal bad called eighteen visions that did a cover of it back in like 2003. Way cool for the time, saw them with Avenged sevenfold in 2003, whata show it was.
I’ve been a fan of Ibanez MIJ stuff for a while, and I feel that quality difference you’re talking about in the feel & quality section. Would you say that the difference in the Japan models is as wide between LTD & ESP?
Try a prestige FR6UCS-BKF (yes, I know the name is stupid) and you’d change your mind quickly about ibanez. It literally has everything you’d want from a guitar. SS frets. African mahogany body. Fixed bridge. Bare knuckle pickups. Bound ebony fretboard. Locking gotohs. The neck is a little thicker than a wizard. Not pointy, more of a modern tele shape. I honestly don’t know why no one really knows about this guitar, but they should.
With the Floyd. I always loosen all the the nut all the way across the nut , tune it up, stretch the strings until they are ready ,back the bridge tuner until if will be able to tune the maximum amount and then lock the nut on the neck and most times I don't have to do much with the bridge tuners seldom retune after that maybe 20 minutes
ive fallen back in love with their elegantly carved top s-series, so f'n sleek, definitely gonna put some pups in without the mid-lowmid focus tho. Grew up playing em, and particularly certain eras of the affordable lines have some decent c-shape necks too, particularly on early AX series as well 🤘
ibanez really missed the mark to do something exceptional this year. real shame. with all their shapes at their disposable and people open to now try them if they came back. they instead just rerelease the same ones with slight changes and another 10 rg's. some icemans would've been cool
I hoped for an RGA Prestige. Granted, the one in this video is an RGA, but it's a 27 fret prototype and i was hoping for something like the RG5121 with the RGA body.
@@agufish Seriously it is amazing how easy you make it look. Now, that would be an actual topic that I ´d love to see in one of your videos, teach us mere mortals how to do it.
I know you're not into Ibanii, but I am. I'm not, however, into the RGA body shape. Gotta say I like the look of that one though. Fun fact on the Indo vs Japanese Ibby debate - it's literally a religious war - there's ZERO basis for it, beyond personal prejudice. I've got two Ibanez guitars - an S series from Indonesia (it's not even a premium - just the "standard" line) and a Japanese made RG. And I tell you what - the workmanship on the Indo one was at least as good as the Japanese one out of the box.
Indo Ibanez are more hit or miss just as the other brands but they're getting better. If you catched a good one that's great, not always my experience though and I'll say my jap guitars have always been consistently better than korean and especially indo but exceptions exist
Interesting, I just added these pickups to my tele, but reverse of this guitar. Single coil-sized Tone Zone (which has less bass) and full sized Air Norton. I'm loving them, but definitely not as intense sound as Fishman modern set in my other guitar. Nice review. Curious to hear about that Sterling in the background!
Bro I had a Dustie Waring PRS and instantly regretted selling it the moment I shipped it and now I can’t afford it again! Do a vid on that one in the background so I can live vicariously through you
I do and don't understand why people hate setting up floating trems like a Floyd Rose. If you just dive in and spend 4 hours playing tug-rope between the springs and tuning then you're just doing it wrong. There's a bunch of video's explaining the 'block' method of setting them up: Slip a wedge in the back between the trem block and body. Loosen the springs a turn to hold it there. Change your strings 1 at a time. Re-tighten your springs the 1 turn and the wedge just falls out the back. Fine-tune to pitch. Done... Takes 15 mins.
I keep bumping the volume knob on my RGA, that makes me very sad because I like everything else about that guitar. That makes me keep looking forward to Ibanez RG models that don't have the volume knob there. Like the 2020 premium models, but no way I could have afforded those back then.
I was expecting you to do something crazy with the 27th frets on the demo, this might as well just be a review for any Ibanez guitar if you didn't focus on the main selling point of this model.
9:47 You'd maybe have to mod it with pickups made for a guitar, but imagine if you strung the fretted strings like the bottom 4 of a standard 7 string, then the 3 fretless like the low strings of an 8, 9, and 10 string. Not sure what the scale on this is but maybe you could even do it like the bottom 4 of an 8 and do the fretless even lower, but then again you're probably not far off from the way the bass is tuned at that point, but the point would be more so guitar tones if you modded the bass and swapped it for guitar pickups instead. If I had the time and money I'd so do that, or maybe just get the GNG Shen 10 at that point. I suppose you'd have to mod the bridge in some way too or replace it lol.
Honestly, every review of the Prestige Ibanezes I see just reinforces to me how good the Premium models really are for the price. I have a RG1070, with the Flame Maple top in natural finish and gold hardware, including the full-fat Edge trem... and it's the best playing guitar I have, even beating out two fully custom made-in-scotland guitars that cost me well over 2k each at the time x.x
@@the_hippykiller22 That is going very company run by humans, but when you are spending that much money, the misses should be few and far between. When a guitar costs that much, you are paying for the workers to have enough time with the individual instruments at each stage of the production cycle. If the instrument is cheap, they have to keep things moving, etc. etc. etc.
@@smeagle3295 1) Primarily because *I* built them both, on a course in which a master builder guides you through the process of building it all from scratch, exactly to your spec. 2) Who said they weren’t perfect? My Ibanez Premium is nearly effortless to play, but it’s also completely different compared to the 2 custom guitars in design and intended use. The first one is an HSH Tele-shaped PRS style guitar with a floating trem and a piezo pickup, made when I was doing a lot of gospel gigs. The second is a Semi-Hollow Flat Top Tele with an enlarged body, P90 neck pickup and the fattest neck I could manage.
The thinnest necks Ibanez has and characters ultra thin necks are too thin. 20mm as the thinnest I can go on a neck. But I prefer 21-22mm to 23-24 personally. Epiphones profile on the LP custom and Jackson's Speed profile are the best profiles to me. I like D shaped profiles like those the most.
I love Ibanez guitars, but I hate the terms! I own two Japanese Ibanez guitars, and one of them had the old locking trem. I had it replaced with a Schaller lockmiester, and it's much better. I hated the way the arm always dropped down. But not with the new trem!
Does anyone else say Ibani?! It’s grammatically incorrect. It should be Ibanez’s (singular belonging to), Ibanezes’ (plural belonging to) or Ibanezes (plural) from what I’ve determined with my colleagues (I was a long time tutor at a major NYC university). The only time one uses an “I” at the end as a plural is for some words ending in “us.” The typical example is alumnus (singular), alumnus’ singular belonging to), alumni (plural), and alumni’s (plural belonging to). Walrus is another solid example. I realize Ibanez kind of sounds like it should be changed to an “i,” but I’m sorry to report that this grammar rule doesn’t work for a proper noun ending in “ez.” While it’s totally endearing to hear Hunter totally botch his grammar, it drives me batty every time he says it. I keep wanting to circle his mouth with red pen, lol. ⭕️ 🖊️ I feel much better getting that out of my system. Let’s see if Hunter actually stops saying Ibani now, lol. Prob not gonna. Love ya, Hunter - I have watched nearly every video for like 2-3 years despite this Ibani thing lol. ❤️ 🤘🏻🤘🏻
See, your error is thinking I take anything seriously lol. Both Pete Cottrell and I independently started saying it, and when we met the European Ibanez rep he allowed it. Much to your chagrin, I’m sticking with Ibanii (as in the ii plural used in cactus or radius because why the hell not 😂) Or I’ll just play the “I grew up in China card” lol
I really thought there would have been more dog comments. All you need is a JEM, Universe, RG 550 and 570s. Yeah they have really thin necks it does feel like a toy compared to a nice Les Paul or a Dean.
In march 2022, I ordered an AZ2204. The 2204 NW MGR. I paid more that 2000$ for it at the time. Sadly, after I received it, I discovered major problems with the fretboard. The lower side, the high E was really well shaped, but the other side looked like the craftsman was drunk while sanding or filing. I ended up returning it, as the importer found in unacceptable quality-wise, as I did too. Yeah, I will stick with my perfect ESP Eclipse.
If your technique is bad, ibanez s-type guitars will not agree with you. I’m not talking about you, just speaking generally. Balled/rounded fret ends can be a feel thing but its mostly an aesthetic thing. A non-issue if the fretwork is actually good
The axe design lab can be interesting but one is a fake tosin abasi sig, an s series with more frets for no real, a combination of a q and s series guitar and 3 modern metal chug/djent machines. Do something wacky like the fender paranormal or ultra luxe series
I don't know this demo wasn't one I'd say I loved. Just my opinion but I don't really think the guitar was really up to par. I'm just thinking that Ibanez was just trying to stuff out to try and compete with other brands,Ormsby maybe? Sadly this is probably the first time I've been disappointed in Ibanez since maybe 2018. Thanks but...I think I'll stay with ESP and lust over some PRS guitars as well.
Nice but these prices are getting out of hand…find yourself a used prestige for half or just an older mij ibanez…they’re still out there. If you don’t need a tremolo, the ibanez s classic is mij and cheap n classy
So many frets, so much fingerboard.
Massive thanks to Sweetwater for sending this guitar over and sponsoring the video! More information about the Ibanez Axe Design Lab imp.i114863.net/b3L1nM
Interestingly enough, your tone was crushing with that bridge pickup! I was definitely digging it!
Bah, typical guitar players, gets a new 🪓 from 🪓 design: The edge is too sharp! It's a freekin axe design Ibanez, be a man and grow some fingers(after it chops them off)!
Great video mate, keep chugging!
So sweetwater is real !!! Their website is build like a scam hoax design .... i thought i was buyingmilk
@@stopUkrainewar666 sweetwater is real lol. They are the new musiciansfriend. They have many reviews and thousands of youtuber reviews as well and are one of the most trusted online store for guitar players. They are the most trusted for me anyways. More so than reverb. They have great customer service and even have return policies and such. They even have a brand new luthier shop where you can choose to have your order to have luthier work done before shipped out. The luthier work atm seems a bit pricey and a bit basic imo, but their luthier shop is growing and getting better with more options on their list. I always check their luthier shop every now and again to see if they can do sustainiac installs yet. Since this is something very difficult even for the most skilled luthiers and is hard to find even in bay area Ca.
@@monitorlizard9971 nah ! The best musician friend is "used"
This was the only new Ibanez I saw that I was actually interested in. Black and gold is obviously a win but overall it just looks pretty cool. I tend to find that those super high frets are useless, but that’s just me. Also love Blood Eagle and never liked either of those pickups. Dimarzios just always feel too nasal.
Bro I feel like I see you in every single TH-camr I watch as well lol.
Yeah man i was super stoked on my ormsby’s extended upper range but the timbre is just plinky, with anything but an unreasonable set up
@@AyoJesse I consider this really fun homework. Learn from the best.
@@andrefludd I love your Parker vids.
Hey when is the next strandberg experience vid coming?
I have had an Rga 121 prestige since 2006. Play it everyday. I have moved multiple times through climate extremes and that guitar is still perfect. Never had to adjust the neck or do any major maintenance. Just changed pickups and tuners. I have 7 Ibanez guitars and will always play them.
As a bassist Ibanez is absolutely killing it. Best bass brand by far right now in my opinion.
Well
except for Dingwall…
Always thought from a non-bass player’s perspective that warwick had some of the best ones?
@@l0rd_breeigo-sama954 love Warwick’s tone, but they’re product line is pretty lacking. Like just look at Fender or Ibanez Or ESP’s bass line vs Warwicks. Plus Ibanez and other brands offer a wide variety of tonal options, whereas a Warwick is always gonna sound like a Warwick.
How would you even consider those two brands ?
They are just selling bling bling stuff…
Why aren’t they able to come up with a simple passive precision bass ?
@@r3b0rn80 Cuz you go to Fender for that? Otherwise Sandberg has some cool P-bass models.
They killed the game all the way back when they released the SR body style imo
Uga Buga Caveman Metal is my new favorite genre.
This is BY FAR the best demo you have ever recorded imo. So there might be a good reason to explore you relationship with Ibanez guitars a little more? This really inspired wonderful stuff from you.
That's a beautiful dog.
Pringle is objectively the bestest girl
"Cave man uga, booga brain" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I'm a big fan of the Tone Zone/Air Norton combo. It's the pair in my go-to Ibanez prestige that I've used for years. They're incredibly versatile and make it so I can play jazz and death metal on the same axe without sacrificing tone.
Yep..they come stock in quite a few Ibanez guitars..I have them in my Prestige RG 652 ahm AWB and they sound awesome !
Pringle at 8:24 is the best part of this demo. Dogs rule.
"Not saying everything should be a baseball bat..."
I beg to differ.
Discord SQUAAAAAD 🤘
squash of the millennial
What a great track
Thanks! Went a bit crazy with the tapping but I think it turned out pretty aiite 👍
Glad to hear Jesse Cash from ERRA get some credit here
6:15 that’s what she said😂😂😂
2:08 non-rounded fretboards are good.
I want as much of the fret-ends intact to reduce risk of strings slipping off
IVe seen some guitars with rounded edges where theres almost no space left for the outer strings.
I'm with you on that. I'm pleased if they're rounded over/smoothed into the edge, don't feel like I'm moving over a bunch speed bumps, and I don't have to think about my notes choking out cause the string went over the edges.
@@RobbieTayVaughan Guitars should never come stock with rounded edges.
If somebody wants it = get it done yourself or ask a guitar tech to do it.
HOWEVER, once its done, its DONE... Theres no going back. I have seen guitars I like but because the edges are so rounded off the strings are just balancing righto n the edge of the fret... I dont wanna buy it!!! Its practically ruined in the factory,
Those who wants rounded fret ends/fretboards can easily do it themselves or get it affordably done by a tech.
Its just not reversable.
yeah you know how us lot can get with guitar trends, but the obsession with fully rolled off boards has peaked, i hope. +Some frets particularly fender style with a visible tang can sometimes cause a little trouble with fret sprout, but ive found this can be even worse on fully rolled boards, exposing multiple sharp edges to the fret and the usual tang exposure
Hunter! you should demo a Cerberus Guitar, they look Sick.
That carve top looks pretty nice.
11:22 made me suddenly remember The Offspring uses Ibanez guitars and also made me grin
Fish u need to get your hands on a K720th !!!
Kiko Loureiro from Megadeth used to play a Tagima Custom Model with the same configuration and that was a in his Angra tenure.
Still it is a cool guitar
I see the Axe Design Lab not as a series. But a collection of experimental guitars Ibanez putting out to gauge the market
Honestly, it seems to be the new space for Ibanez to put any of their "modern" spec guitars, including existing models from previous years. I'd argue it's likely to be a replacement for Axion label as the 'high quality, ultra modern spec' line, which already seems to be on its way out.
I just traded for a 1987 RG 550 made in Japan. I love it. Out of 15 guitars this is a top three. Ive played the Prestigue but I dont need one and I may just get another 1987 RG 550 made in Japan at their finest facility. These guitars are great and are shredding metal !!
I have a rg550 genesis their reissue, my favorite guitar hands down, and bang for the buck 1k for a Japanese Ibanez, would love to get an original in the collection
@@skubadoobie Go getem . Reverb has a few, Ebay. I got mine off of Face book market place. $1000 to $1200 a couple at $800 these are played and kinda rough. Good luck.
Love this demo and also watching you work out riffs. Just excellent.
Dude, that demo track was fucking FIYAHHH! 🤘🏻👊🏼🔥
That Tone Zone in the bridge sounds sick for modern playing applications!
Can you review more extended range at some point, would be awesome
I love the writing process section, you had so many Mastodon-y sounds in there that went unnoticed cool shit
Like for The VINES!!!
ALL my Ibanezs' are Prestige. Nothing but the best. This black beauty is on my hit list
The riff from 3:18 was so familiar but I couldn't place it for the longest time...
It's the bass line from Baby Got Back.
How does it sound so good as a metal riff??
There was a metal bad called eighteen visions that did a cover of it back in like 2003. Way cool for the time, saw them with Avenged sevenfold in 2003, whata show it was.
“I like big chugs and I cannot lie…”
I’ve been a fan of Ibanez MIJ stuff for a while, and I feel that quality difference you’re talking about in the feel & quality section.
Would you say that the difference in the Japan models is as wide between LTD & ESP?
I e had a couple Ibanez Prestige Guitars and they were awesome!!!
Great playing. This track sounds a bit Wes Borland influenced. Love it! Keep rocking dude!🤘🏾
Try a prestige FR6UCS-BKF (yes, I know the name is stupid) and you’d change your mind quickly about ibanez.
It literally has everything you’d want from a guitar. SS frets. African mahogany body. Fixed bridge. Bare knuckle pickups. Bound ebony fretboard. Locking gotohs. The neck is a little thicker than a wizard. Not pointy, more of a modern tele shape.
I honestly don’t know why no one really knows about this guitar, but they should.
As always, Well done my friend!🤘
That demo song turned out great
My gold Pia doesn’t have locking tuners either.
Good review bro.
Greetings from NZ 😎🎸🤘
that multitool is sick
With the Floyd. I always loosen all the the nut all the way across the nut , tune it up, stretch the strings until they are ready ,back the bridge tuner until if will be able to tune the maximum amount and then lock the nut on the neck and most times I don't have to do much with the bridge tuners seldom retune after that maybe 20 minutes
ive fallen back in love with their elegantly carved top s-series, so f'n sleek, definitely gonna put some pups in without the mid-lowmid focus tho. Grew up playing em, and particularly certain eras of the affordable lines have some decent c-shape necks too, particularly on early AX series as well 🤘
I've been subbed to you for a while now and your vids never pop up in my subbox
Disappointingly I hear that a lot. Make sure you’ve got notifications turned on and TH-cam might let you know when I upload!
Gorgeous guitar, Ibanez kills it again! Same case my JS1200CA came in.
ibanez really missed the mark to do something exceptional this year. real shame. with all their shapes at their disposable and people open to now try them if they came back. they instead just rerelease the same ones with slight changes and another 10 rg's. some icemans would've been cool
The past couple years too tbh
I hoped for an RGA Prestige. Granted, the one in this video is an RGA, but it's a 27 fret prototype and i was hoping for something like the RG5121 with the RGA body.
Master class on how to write riffs from scratch
Man, I really appreciate that!
@@agufish Seriously it is amazing how easy you make it look.
Now, that would be an actual topic that I ´d love to see in one of your videos, teach us mere mortals how to do it.
That neck tone get me feeling Warrant - Sometimes She Cries
Your ever-flowing mead awaits you in the halls of Valhalla! Lol. Great video & playing man.
Even if you arent vibing with it this ibanez sounds sick! Good review. Honest as always!
change the bridge pick up for a seymour duncan alternative 8 and the in the neck position a seymour duncan hot rails.
Ooouaaaaou how you get all that many bro you are so lucky, and this ibanez is absolutely amazing
I know you're not into Ibanii, but I am. I'm not, however, into the RGA body shape. Gotta say I like the look of that one though. Fun fact on the Indo vs Japanese Ibby debate - it's literally a religious war - there's ZERO basis for it, beyond personal prejudice. I've got two Ibanez guitars - an S series from Indonesia (it's not even a premium - just the "standard" line) and a Japanese made RG. And I tell you what - the workmanship on the Indo one was at least as good as the Japanese one out of the box.
Indo Ibanez are more hit or miss just as the other brands but they're getting better. If you catched a good one that's great, not always my experience though and I'll say my jap guitars have always been consistently better than korean and especially indo but exceptions exist
So sick!! I’ve never played a floyd rose type of tremolo guitar before, but would love to try one out like this!
Josh Pippin is your agent?! Awesome dude.
playing rgs since 89..
there is nothing else
if you dont like it..
send it my way lol
but i bet it grows on you
Interesting, I just added these pickups to my tele, but reverse of this guitar. Single coil-sized Tone Zone (which has less bass) and full sized Air Norton. I'm loving them, but definitely not as intense sound as Fishman modern set in my other guitar. Nice review. Curious to hear about that Sterling in the background!
Hey did you mention how many frets this guitar has?
Bro I had a Dustie Waring PRS and instantly regretted selling it the moment I shipped it and now I can’t afford it again! Do a vid on that one in the background so I can live vicariously through you
I do and don't understand why people hate setting up floating trems like a Floyd Rose.
If you just dive in and spend 4 hours playing tug-rope between the springs and tuning then you're just doing it wrong. There's a bunch of video's explaining the 'block' method of setting them up:
Slip a wedge in the back between the trem block and body.
Loosen the springs a turn to hold it there.
Change your strings 1 at a time.
Re-tighten your springs the 1 turn and the wedge just falls out the back.
Fine-tune to pitch.
Done... Takes 15 mins.
I keep bumping the volume knob on my RGA, that makes me very sad because I like everything else about that guitar. That makes me keep looking forward to Ibanez RG models that don't have the volume knob there. Like the 2020 premium models, but no way I could have afforded those back then.
Yo…..was that “It ain’t like that” by AIC when you started playing?
That fan fret S series looking fine though
I would love to see a review of the squire contemporary series especially the jaguar and telecaster
I was expecting you to do something crazy with the 27th frets on the demo, this might as well just be a review for any Ibanez guitar if you didn't focus on the main selling point of this model.
Did you miss that the fact this demo track can only be played on a 27-fret guitar?
Looks like a beast of a guitar
I love Ibanez
9:47 You'd maybe have to mod it with pickups made for a guitar, but imagine if you strung the fretted strings like the bottom 4 of a standard 7 string, then the 3 fretless like the low strings of an 8, 9, and 10 string. Not sure what the scale on this is but maybe you could even do it like the bottom 4 of an 8 and do the fretless even lower, but then again you're probably not far off from the way the bass is tuned at that point, but the point would be more so guitar tones if you modded the bass and swapped it for guitar pickups instead. If I had the time and money I'd so do that, or maybe just get the GNG Shen 10 at that point. I suppose you'd have to mod the bridge in some way too or replace it lol.
Would you pick this or the prs Dustie Waring???
I could hear my neighbours stankface when i turned up on the demo track
A prestige with no stainless frets and standard air Nortons is a real bummer. Id just got for the jake bowen model and get a way better setup.
Specs Sound and price, the guitar didn't make it onto my shortlist despite MIJ 🤷♂️
Honestly, every review of the Prestige Ibanezes I see just reinforces to me how good the Premium models really are for the price. I have a RG1070, with the Flame Maple top in natural finish and gold hardware, including the full-fat Edge trem... and it's the best playing guitar I have, even beating out two fully custom made-in-scotland guitars that cost me well over 2k each at the time x.x
Premium Ibanezes are still hit & miss though, Prestige are perfect almost everytime especially when it comes to fretwork
Why did you buy a second Scottish guitar at 2k if the first one wasn’t perfect? At that price point, you can afford to be picky.
@@the_hippykiller22 That is going very company run by humans, but when you are spending that much money, the misses should be few and far between. When a guitar costs that much, you are paying for the workers to have enough time with the individual instruments at each stage of the production cycle. If the instrument is cheap, they have to keep things moving, etc. etc. etc.
@@smeagle3295 1) Primarily because *I* built them both, on a course in which a master builder guides you through the process of building it all from scratch, exactly to your spec.
2) Who said they weren’t perfect? My Ibanez Premium is nearly effortless to play, but it’s also completely different compared to the 2 custom guitars in design and intended use. The first one is an HSH Tele-shaped PRS style guitar with a floating trem and a piezo pickup, made when I was doing a lot of gospel gigs. The second is a Semi-Hollow Flat Top Tele with an enlarged body, P90 neck pickup and the fattest neck I could manage.
The been stuck on that tone zone/air norton combo for 20+ years its time for a change in my opinion
The thinnest necks Ibanez has and characters ultra thin necks are too thin. 20mm as the thinnest I can go on a neck. But I prefer 21-22mm to 23-24 personally. Epiphones profile on the LP custom and Jackson's Speed profile are the best profiles to me. I like D shaped profiles like those the most.
I'm starting to think ozzy Osborne is just Dracula
They should reissue the Musician series from the late 70s / early 80s.
They bore people as a pointy strat but they fucking slap I have three ibani and love em
Is the plural of Ibanez: Ibanaii?
I love Ibanez guitars, but I hate the terms! I own two Japanese Ibanez guitars, and one of them had the old locking trem. I had it replaced with a Schaller lockmiester, and it's much better. I hated the way the arm always dropped down. But not with the new trem!
still rolling over esp/ltd
Why does the neck PU angled ?
They didn’t use gotohs bcse I doubt they would fit in an 100 something gauge string.
My 7 string has gotohs and I barely fit a 70 for drop g#.
That neck pickup should just be called a middle pickup
How much price
Does anyone else say Ibani?! It’s grammatically incorrect. It should be Ibanez’s (singular belonging to), Ibanezes’ (plural belonging to) or Ibanezes (plural) from what I’ve determined with my colleagues (I was a long time tutor at a major NYC university). The only time one uses an “I” at the end as a plural is for some words ending in “us.” The typical example is alumnus (singular), alumnus’ singular belonging to), alumni (plural), and alumni’s (plural belonging to). Walrus is another solid example.
I realize Ibanez kind of sounds like it should be changed to an “i,” but I’m sorry to report that this grammar rule doesn’t work for a proper noun ending in “ez.”
While it’s totally endearing to hear Hunter totally botch his grammar, it drives me batty every time he says it. I keep wanting to circle his mouth with red pen, lol. ⭕️ 🖊️
I feel much better getting that out of my system. Let’s see if Hunter actually stops saying Ibani now, lol. Prob not gonna. Love ya, Hunter - I have watched nearly every video for like 2-3 years despite this Ibani thing lol. ❤️ 🤘🏻🤘🏻
See, your error is thinking I take anything seriously lol. Both Pete Cottrell and I independently started saying it, and when we met the European Ibanez rep he allowed it. Much to your chagrin, I’m sticking with Ibanii (as in the ii plural used in cactus or radius because why the hell not 😂)
Or I’ll just play the “I grew up in China card” lol
I have a 7 string prestige. Didn’t like the DiMarzio so I had abasi fishmans installed.
I really thought there would have been more dog comments. All you need is a JEM, Universe, RG 550 and 570s. Yeah they have really thin necks it does feel like a toy compared to a nice Les Paul or a Dean.
Good review! Was interested in these but after watching I'm glad I went ahead and put my pre-order down for a stallion white Pia!
In march 2022, I ordered an AZ2204. The 2204 NW MGR. I paid more that 2000$ for it at the time. Sadly, after I received it, I discovered major problems with the fretboard. The lower side, the high E was really well shaped, but the other side looked like the craftsman was drunk while sanding or filing.
I ended up returning it, as the importer found in unacceptable quality-wise, as I did too.
Yeah, I will stick with my perfect ESP Eclipse.
I wish somone did a copper hardware...
If your technique is bad, ibanez s-type guitars will not agree with you. I’m not talking about you, just speaking generally. Balled/rounded fret ends can be a feel thing but its mostly an aesthetic thing. A non-issue if the fretwork is actually good
The axe design lab can be interesting but one is a fake tosin abasi sig, an s series with more frets for no real, a combination of a q and s series guitar and 3 modern metal chug/djent machines. Do something wacky like the fender paranormal or ultra luxe series
i was pretty let down with this years release. theres 1 hardtail from last year inthe RG prestige lineup.. i saw none for this year
What a cool guitar actually, but somehow that 26 fret makes me feel insecure lol...
hasn't esp/ltd been doing this guitar for years?
Which Ibanez is the one with the super thin body?
Ibanez s series
I don't know this demo wasn't one I'd say I loved. Just my opinion but I don't really think the guitar was really up to par. I'm just thinking that Ibanez was just trying to stuff out to try and compete with other brands,Ormsby maybe? Sadly this is probably the first time I've been disappointed in Ibanez since maybe 2018. Thanks but...I think I'll stay with ESP and lust over some PRS guitars as well.
Ibanez still not shipping their top shelf guitars with locking tuners, huh?
It’s pretty for sure but I’m with the guy that called the pickups nausely 👃
Nice but these prices are getting out of hand…find yourself a used prestige for half or just an older mij ibanez…they’re still out there. If you don’t need a tremolo, the ibanez s classic is mij and cheap n classy
ibanez prestige is a meme for a reason.
nothing plays better for the money than a japanese ibanez rg