Oooooh, that explains a lot. Kinda cool.
Ibanez 2024 NAMM
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Oooooh, that explains a lot. Kinda cool.
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odibrom
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Well, at least that's what I've been finding always through out the years when disassembling ibanez guitars. The thing is, all coils in series is a sound with way over-the-top of everything and might be a bit hard to tame into something usable, hence the mix in parallel... but there are other sounds super interesting, like having the mix in series but each humbucker is in parallel wiring.
I've found that the more coils there are mixed in pot, the more compressed the tone will feel, this is valid for all parallel, all series or a mix of both wiring methods.
In this specific scenario of this Quest model, positions 2 and 4 are outer and inner coils in parallel, but their series mix is superb, in my opinion and I do like the inner coils in series as it sounds better than the common "both pickups on", sounds more natural, less compressed and a perfect "in between" tone between bridge only and neck only, both hums are in series wiring. It doesn't lack in power nor in tone...
... and that's a tone the Hyperswitch from Seymour Duncan can't achieve... unfortunately...
jwade
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kriff
You've failed me for the last time, Admiral
I've got one of the QX series in six string and despite the fact I've no idea what any of the controls do, it's so nice to play. I do wonder if I'd get more mileage from the controls if I swapped it all out for some Fishmans but it sounds pretty good as it is.
GASing real hard for that new pale moon ebony seven...
GASing real hard for that new pale moon ebony seven...
First they switched the Q series from EVO gold frets to stainless steel and now they bring a new model with EVO gold frets. Isn't that a bit weird?
first thing I noticed
HeHasTheJazzHands
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I thought EVO frets were discontinued? Or are they a knockoff?
Do we know if it's Jescar EVOgold™? Because Hosco and Stewmac are both doing gold fret wire now.
Moongrum
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Dang, I was in the market for that lefty AZ 4 years ago. Hopefully other lefties will buy it so it doesn't reinforce Ibanez attitude of whats-the-fucking-point-of-making-more-lefties
HeHasTheJazzHands
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It straight up says Jescar. So Idk if they just had a surplus supply or what?
Interesting. Must be surplus if the rumor that the metallurgy factory stopped making it *allegedly* is true.
It's Ibanez, it could just as easily be a flub of the spec sheet.
They do look gold on the photo.
Are they similar hardness or do we just know they also have gold color?
Rumor is the hosco stuff has similar hardness. Can't speak for the stewmac stuff, but I think stewmac only offers it in medium size @ the moment.
IIRC the frets on Ibanez Q are medium not jumbo.
aWoodenShip
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I basically want Ibanez to just re-release this guitar again. A premium AZ with a HH configuration without chrome covers. A simple roasted neck and fretboard. No pickguard. A solid color matte finish that isn’t blue or black.
It's hard to tell, once polished EVO doesn't look very gold, at least enough to tell apart on what is a brown background (fretboard) on a processed photo.
Not to mention these are product pics taken months ago of a prototype.
These are EVO frets posted by the Jescar Twitter account:
I have consecutively failed to notice gold frets while looking at those certain guitars, even those guitars right next to steel/nickel fret guitars. It's definitely not obvious unless you're looking for it IME.
That said, it does look better on a lot of brown/sunburst/black guitars.
That said, it does look better on a lot of brown/sunburst/black guitars.
It's the first thing I saw, I think it sticks out especially because the hardware is not gold. Also I'm not the only one it seems:
Maybe it depends on the screen colors they do look very gold to me.
Also if you check the other product pictures they have all changed the pictures from gold to silver color frets with the switch to stainless steel.
