It's all good. Thought it was a functional thing.
I'm the same way with string trees. Just don't dig them.
Ibanez 2019 New Stuff
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It's all good. Thought it was a functional thing.
I'm the same way with string trees. Just don't dig them.
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Yeah, maybe you should inform that Michael Angelo guy not to anchor his picking hand, it's bad technique
diagrammatiks
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Yeah, maybe you should inform that Michael Angelo guy not to anchor his picking hand, it's bad technique
let's not beat around the bush. if some random guitar hero of yours was sucking dick for crack you'd be next in line.
That’s what I mean though! The only people I see going on about wanting an Ibanez RG with a neck single are on here... so I guess the rest of the Internet is happy with HH...
Those HS RG anniversary models from a few years ago sold incredibly well. So I don't think the want for the HS pickup configuration is that far skewed.
Albake21
Ibanez Nerd
Yeah if anything I feel like more people outside of SSO prefer the HS config over everyone here. I've been gassing for an HS config for a while now.
HS (or HSS) is the most practical configuration there is for this style of guitar IMO. If I care about a neck humbucker tone, I’m sure not gonna get to get it with a 24 fret, 25.5” scale bolt-on with a trem. I’d rather have a more traditional neck single option than such a compromised (relatively speaking) approximation of what I want from a neck hum. That’s not to say I think there’s anything wrong with HH, and if I only had one guitar that would probably be my choice. But I think HS offers a more idealized option when it comes to super Strats.
Ordacleaphobia
Shameless Contrarian
Definitely a HH guy myself but I absolutely would not be opposed to an HS guitar; that sounds like it could be fun. 
See I think the Ibanez neck humbucker sound is the ‘right’ one, because that’s the sound I grew up with and associate with that position. As much as anything probably Petrucci on Images and Words and the Live in Tokyo ‘video’ (yes I had it on vhs)...
All the grandpas with their old fashioned Les Paul malarkey just don’t cut it to my ears.
The I realise I’m in my 40s and passion and warfare was 30 years ago!!!!!!!
All the grandpas with their old fashioned Les Paul malarkey just don’t cut it to my ears.
The I realise I’m in my 40s and passion and warfare was 30 years ago!!!!!!!
Richter
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HSH rule, love that spanky second position (or is it fourth?) for that Intervals type of sound.
I use middle, 2, and 4 all the time (or series/parallel on SS guitars). So does most of the music community outside of djent. YMMV
WTF I just discovered this...
But it's $1500 for a MII with a gig bag? WTF? And I don't like that the fact that it's MII (or Premium series) is not on reseller sites or listed on the Ibanez site (that I could find)?
But it's $1500 for a MII with a gig bag? WTF? And I don't like that the fact that it's MII (or Premium series) is not on reseller sites or listed on the Ibanez site (that I could find)?
WTF I just discovered this...
But it's $1500 for a MII with a gig bag? WTF? And I don't like that the fact that it's MII (or Premium series) is not on reseller sites or listed on the Ibanez site (that I could find)?
It says Premium on it, but it's on the back of the headstock. Same as how the Prestige ones don't say it on the front either.
The naming convention gives it away too, along with price, but you'd have to be an Ibanez fan in general to pick up on it.
As a general rule: "How do you know an Ibanez is made in Japan? Don't worry, they'll tell you."
BigViolin
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It's a sig model from one of the Chon dudes.
Yeah but didnt the online Ibanez catalog separate Premium guitars from Prestige last year? And didn't they usually say Premium in the title? Just weird. It reminds me of how with EVH it got to the point you had to have the reseller like MF open the box and look at the back of the headstock or sticker to see country of manufacture.It says Premium on it, but it's on the back of the headstock. Same as how the Prestige ones don't say it on the front either.
The naming convention gives it away too, along with price, but you'd have to be an Ibanez fan in general to pick up on it.
As a general rule: "How do you know an Ibanez is made in Japan? Don't worry, they'll tell you."
Listening to Chon is more effective than Tylenol PM.
Signature models always appear separately from the non-sig. models.
The actual catalog has "Premium" right next to the model name:
http://www.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pdf/ibanez/catalog/2019USA.pdf
The website shows the Premium branding on the back of the headstock as well:
Signature models always appear separately from the non-sig. models.
The actual catalog has "Premium" right next to the model name:
http://www.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pdf/ibanez/catalog/2019USA.pdf
The website shows the Premium branding on the back of the headstock as well:
That's different than their website though that doesnt seem to list it other than recognizing nomenclatures/numbering conventions.
Nor do resellers seem to be making it "obvious":
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ibanez-am153qa-artstar-series-electric-guitar
^ lists country of manufacture
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/gui...l-signature-electric-guitar?rNtt=eh10&index=1
^ does not
I don't see Premium, country of origin, or anything that hints this is not a MIJ.
And a picture of the back of the headstock that clearly says "Premium" and "Made In Indonesia".
That picture of the back of the headstock is pulled directly from the product page on the Ibanez website.
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