Gotta be honest. Absolute snore. Lots of held notes with little phrasing relevance, little shredding, and total lack of interesting rhythms. Reeks of corporate slapped together bullshit.
IMO it's a staple of their style, but it's awful. It might not even be their tone really, it's just the album mixing sounding like it was done by a bat using earbuds. I think they totally make it work and I love their stuff, but it's not "good" as I would otherwise subjectively describe it.
Serial # and a five minute phone call with Ibanez would go a long way. Considering it seems to be in the wrong place and the wrong format I wouldn't hold my breath.
Edit: Also pretty sure the control routing is wrong as well.
Between the low quality top and the absolutely unique 12th fret only inlay I've not seen on any of the hundreds of J Custom models I am familiar with, plus the neck through, I'd say 100% chance this is a total fake.
@megadeth1391 Yea I dunno if that's exactly what they have used, but it's at least really close for an out of the box match when set correctly. It's really the octave setting that sets it off imo.
Vol 1 and IDR were my shit back in the day. An Answer Can Be Found was pretty meh but glad to have gotten it. Always loved their tone and vocals, I think it's a licorice pedal on the guitars.
Reaper all the way. Been using it exclusively since Cubase did me super dirty. Haven't looked back. I have Studio One, I think Artist, I kicked around in it for about an hour then said shit on it and went back to Reaper.