Ibanez SZ520QM

feylya · 04-03-2005 6:20pm #1

Nice guitar, isn't it. I know I like mine.

jcoote · 04-03-2005 6:25pm

not a million miles away from my edr 470 body...sweet guitar how does it play (don't say with your hands) :rolleyes:

feylya · 04-03-2005 6:27pm

Loud. Oh so very very loud. Absolutely gorgeous. My ears are still ringing. Jamming session tonight with a new drum kit

jcoote · 04-03-2005 6:30pm

nice one what u run it thru.. i only have a marshall mg head tryin to get money to change

feylya · 04-03-2005 6:31pm

ME-50 into a Fender FM212R 100W 2x12"

jcoote · 04-03-2005 6:34pm

good stuff.me-50 any good.. i play mine thru a gt-6 and the mg head on top of a 1960a4x12.. nice sound have a telecaster too

feylya · 04-03-2005 6:34pm

I like it. There's a couple of annoying things but you learn to deal with them and get round them.

jcoote · 04-03-2005 6:38pm

yeah like the gt-6 its great n all but it does lack the versatility of the single pedals..

It wasn't me! · 04-03-2005 8:21pm

Nice, you got it. Lovely guitars. Not as fast as I would like but I imagine one adjusts quite quickly. How are you findsing the neck/fret size?

feylya · 04-03-2005 8:22pm

The neck is perfect. Absolutely spot on for my hand. Fret work is lovely, inlay is lovely, pickups are lovely, finish is lovely. It's a fantastic guitar, especially for €450 shipped.

It wasn't me! · 04-03-2005 8:29pm

the neck is a lovely piece of work. Could play it for hours on end and not feel it. The frets are a little small for my hands but I imagine I'd adjust quite quickly. Mahogany body too, so it has that lovely deep, rich, warm tone.

feylya · 04-03-2005 8:30pm

Metallica clean tones are so easy to get. Me likes. The neck joint is absolutely crazy. Gotta bring it and my other gear (Fender and teh ME-50) down to a drummer's later. Let's see how all this gear handles on 11

It wasn't me! · 04-03-2005 8:40pm

I love the neck joint. I was playing one and I went up the neck and the first thing I thought was, "It can't be neck-through for this price!" Then I examined it and just found it was the cleanest, nicest set-neck ever.

The distorted sound isn't as nice as the cleans as far as I'm concerned. I likes my OD crunchy as hell and it was a little smooth for my liking. I'm sure my BIg Muff could take care of that though.

feylya · 04-03-2005 8:41pm

Through my ME-50 and Fender, my balls were rumbling. I smiled.

I had a band appear in my house about an hour after I got it and they were all admiring it. I think I may be moving away from EMG's but I'm not too sure...

It wasn't me! · 04-03-2005 8:49pm

Heh. Nice one. What's next on the list then Feylya? Chris still hasn't emailed me about the JB, and I've re-sent it once. I don't want to have to do it again. Guess it gives me time to think about it anyway.

It wasn't me! · 04-03-2005 9:25pm

Gah!

There's an SG with an Ebony board. The Ibanez is going in the Buy and Sell sharpish. It even has a JB and a '59! :eek: Sell the little MG and the Ibanez and I should be sorted. Only E575!

Zoton · 05-03-2005 12:41pm

chrisguitars website wrote:

IMPORTANT - YOUR EMAIL IS LOST – if you are wating on a response from your recent inquiry, especially from the last several days, please resend. My Outlook Express has a problem and all email from the past 3 weeks has disappeared. Even now, any time I do a send/receive, it sends the mail but incoming mail goes…somewhere….but I can’t find it. If you have any tips on how to fix, please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll be doing email straight off the server. Sorry for the problem; I hope it’s temporary.

Looks like you'll have to resend again.

Feylya, did you have any credit card trouble with thomann this time?

feylya · 06-03-2005 12:16am

I went with GuitarBargains.com and got my guitar DELIVERED for about €70 less than Thomanns price without delivery.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:06pm

Nice! What do you think of the suped-up SG I'm looking at. The Ibanez is going in the Buy and Sell as soon as I can get a setup job done on it.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:08pm

Link me to it.

When I got the SZ, it was in a Brian Moore box and it was perfectly in tune. I would have prefered if they had loosened the strings for shipping but still, it was impressive.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:13pm

'Tis in meh sig.

That's pretty damn impressive alright.

Hopefully Chris will do me a few favours as regards what value he puts on the guitar for the benefit of the nice people at customs and VAT.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:15pm

Was never the biggest fan of SG's tbh. Only really like The Grynch. I think it'd look better with a black body but that's just me. How much is he looking for it?

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:17pm

I love their bite and low end. It would look better in brown or black but hey, can't have it all, especially not for E575. That including an ebony board, those cool crescent moon inlays and a whole load of Seymour Duncan upgrades.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:20pm

That's a damn fine price alright. I'd love a Les Paul. Nothing quite like the chunk out of it.

The pickups in this SZ are fantastic. I mean, really really good. Prefer them over my EMGs I think :eek:

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:25pm

Wow. Who'll replace you as EMG's chief advocate around here?!

They're nice alright, especially for stock pickups. The Les Paul doesn't have the same kick and bite as the SG. I think that's why I've been so undecided. Nothing has that range from mean bastard low end growl to squealing kick in the balls high end that the SG has.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:27pm

No no, I'm keeping my EMG's in my LTD and probably putting some in the 7 string if I ever get €200 together. But the passives with the fixed bridge and fixed neck just rock

david · 06-03-2005 2:27pm

feylya wrote:

That's a damn fine price alright. I'd love a Les Paul. Nothing quite like the chunk out of it.

The pickups in this SZ are fantastic. I mean, really really good. Prefer them over my EMGs I think :eek:

I dont like EMG's. What ibanez pickups are in the SZ? Stock ibanez p-ups tend to be pretty good. I got a SD duncan custom bridge p-up yesterday and its really really nice

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:28pm

They're Duncan/Ibanez ones. I'll have to do some research to see what SD's they're modelled from.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:34pm

I thought they were just normal Ibanez ones? Go figure. Ibanez stock pickups aren't great as a rule. The Powersounds in my RG suck. Roll on my SG with the Duncans.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:35pm

No, Ibanez don't do they're own in the higher end models. They did have a DiMarzio designed pickup range but I think they've moved to Duncan now. The V7 and V8 pickups in the RG570 and RG1570 are damn nice imo.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:43pm

I thought the 520 had Ibanez ones though. Oh well, learn something new every day. I like that SG though. I've e-mailed Chris asking to reserve it for me so fingers crossed.

Oh by the way Dave, I talked to your man, he's not interested in selling the Vibratrem.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:48pm

Hmmm, might try and get some samples recorded soon.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 2:51pm

Nice. Meh own stuff is coming along well. I'll soon be recording some of it on minidisc and sending it to a friend to have lyrics put to it. The SG and its ebony board should make it sound like a dream though.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:53pm

I turned the Fender up the other day. It completely drowned out my mate playing the bass drum as loud as he could.

david · 06-03-2005 2:57pm

Nice! How much are those fender loudeners? I'm either gettin one of those are a 212 peavey valve amp on ebay.

feylya · 06-03-2005 2:58pm

Eh, I think I paid €280 for it. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:12pm

I take it the jam session went well then?

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:15pm

Never happened actually. Certain people were in certain states before I left the house so I just didn't bother. And I was...distracted

Should be jamming with a new band tonight but I'm too wrecked to even think about it.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:21pm

I need a band. Why is it when you reply to people advertising for musicians you never hear from them again?!

As it is I think it'll be case of sending minidiscs of my work to a lyricist in Wexford. I'll wait until I get the new guitar to record it though because it'll sound much better. Need new batteries for the noise suppressor too actually. That'll make a big difference to the sound of it.

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:22pm

Woke up Friday morning with two different people looking for me to jam.

Life is good.
Play More.
Ibanez.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:28pm

Heheh. Quite the slogan. Copyright it and sell it to them.

Nobody wants to jam with me. I should probably see some significance in that...

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:29pm

I think that already is a slogan anyway...

Learn to play better. Simple

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:34pm

I'm working on it. My new stuff is quite teh shpeedy.

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:36pm

Speed != good. Always remember that.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:47pm

Tell it to Slayer.

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:49pm

Not a fan of Slayer at all at all. It just bores me.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 3:53pm

:eek: I loves Slayer. Seeing them in the Ambassador in June. My own stuff tends to be somewhat more melodic though. Not a very hard thing to do.

feylya · 06-03-2005 3:55pm

Open E as fast as you can, ADD SOME RANDOM NOTES, open E as fast as you can, SCREAM!

Sorry, but that's generally what I hear when I listen to Slayer. They have a couple of songs I like but on the whole, not a fan. Horses for courses though.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 4:00pm

Nice definition.

Yeah, hardly the most imaginative guitar work I've ever heard, and about as technically skilled as a sledgehammer, but very fast and fun.

Have to say though, Dave Lombardo is some drummer.

feylya · 06-03-2005 4:04pm

That he is.

It wasn't me! · 06-03-2005 4:13pm

Yeah, going to anything in the near future yourself?

Ibanez SZ520QM

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