Ibanez

It wasn't me!

Right, I will soon be ordering my new Ibanez off Thomann. An SZ720FM. This will be my second Ibanez, my last one was an RG270DX. I love them. For some reason, I've played a lot of fantastic guitars but I always come back to Ibanez. They do anything. I suppose it's got a lot of a nu-metal image but the guitars are so much more than that. What I want to know is, why are they so underused? From the lightest jazz to the heaviest, most screamingly glorious metal, Ibanez make a guitar that handles the job better than perfectly, but you just don't see a lot of them. I suppose I'm just excited about my new best friend arriving soon! Has anybody got anything they want to say about this?

Doctor J

I bought an Ibanez SR3006E Prestige bass last year, my first Ibanez, and I must say, it's probably the best made instument I've ever played. The fretwork, in particualr, is just astounding. My bass has lower action than most folks guitars

Ibanez make seriously high quality instruments.

ShriekingSheet

You've just given me a good idea!

It'd be GREAT to see ANYBODY in an indie rock band ANyWHERE who doesn't play a telecaster!!!!!






(ps. i love my tele and u can pry it out of my dead fingers )

MunkyHed

I bought myself a cheapass Ibanez GA60bk off thomann 2 years ago, had a wee bit of a problem with the floating bridge mechanism so i just totally disabled it (barely used it anyway) but my god is there some sound off the guitar. Always makes me wanna chug SOAD style! I was thinkin of buyin practically the same guitar, the SZ520. Let us know if the SZ720 is good.

It wasn't me!

I was going to get a 520 until Thomann got a 720. I've played the 520. It's seriously gorgeous man.

MunkyHed

Ya i think i'll be splashing out next pay day!

Mr. CooL ICE

Steve Vai has his own signature model, so to the self proclaimed instrument critics, it's not a nu-metal guitar. A friend of mine who can play 22 notes per second and is a graduate of Ballyfermot music college uses the aforementioned signature model, and it's all he ever uses.

Doctor J

Who said anything about nu-metal?

MunkyHed

Ibanez have a wide variety of guitars for every style. Steve vais sig model is class but Ibanez rule the nu metal sound with guitars like the K7 Korn sig model. 7 strings of pure heavy tone, tom morello also uses an ibanez custom jobby. (i know rage arent nu-metal so dont flame me for that one!)
Give me a job in advertising Ibanez someone!

ferdi

MunkyHed wrote:

the K7 Korn sig model.!

i've played the k5 (fieldys sig bass) and its fookin great link

It wasn't me!

It's lovely all right. I want an SR505 butthat's a few guitars down my list. :rolleyes: I'm having thoughts about the SZ though. I really need an acoustic so I might flog the RG and buy a nice Simon and Patrick and then use the SZ savings for an Epiphone Explorer or something like that.

vengeance52

Well im still a beginner but i got my hands on a RG series and its hardly outta my hands it has the finest sound i have heard. Im actually thinkin about gettin an Ibanez acoustic now to add to my collection, maybe the AEL10 or something like that. Has anyone had any experience on the acoustics cos id love some feedback.

Cheers

-V-

It wasn't me!

They're a far cry from the electrics but they're not bad instruments at all. Very individual sound from them. I'd recommend a nice Simon and Patrick though. I'm getting one soon and they're lovely.

Paladin

LordChessington wrote:

A friend of mine who can play 22 notes per second and is a graduate of Ballyfermot music college

How do you assess something like 22 notes per second? Picking with a plec? Fingers? Strumming? Pulloffs, slides etc?
Ive never trusted facts like that because generally the person giving them has none of the above criteria to base the facts upon.
Acedemically though does anyone know if such criteria exists and if so what is it?

I mean I could tremelo strum whilst sliding a barre down the guitar hitting fuk knows number of notes but I doubt I could count that as 100 notes per second

John

Maybe you can get a picking tutor for the computer similar to those typing tutors that tell you your word per minute count. As for the human ear, it can only define noises as separate if they are at least 100ms (as far as I remember) apart, at 22 notes per second that means the interval is 45ms apart so you can't actually distinguish the notes so it'll sound more like one long note. /nerd

Doctor J

John2 you rock! :cool:

John

*bows*

Mr. CooL ICE

You can record it, put it onto a PC and slow it down to one tenth of its original tempo, then play it, and count how many notes are played in ten seconds.

As for criteria, there is no set rule, but what I've come across mostly (from music magazines analysing guitarists etc) each note has to be different from the previous, so you can't just speedpick a single note. Also, finger tapping isn't allowed/included for whatever reason

And by the way, he used sweep-picking for that test.

Paladin

LordChessington wrote:

And by the way, he used sweep-picking for that test.

Wouldnt fast sweep picking be called, umm....strumming?

22 notes per second would be roughly 4 strums of a six string per second.

You wonder why someone would go to all that trouble of recording onto a PC and slowing it down.
Ah well, everyone to their own I suppose.

I like cake. And rock. But not rock cake. Weird.