Ibanez - AZ24P1QM-DOB

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AZ - Players Player Project -
AZ is the result of several years of testing, with many of the world's best guitarists as test pilots, with the goal of producing the ultimate players player guitar. So an extremely good-sounding, easy-to-play and stable instrument that you should be able to play basically all styles of music with. Roasted/baked maple necks for stability no matter how you tour the planet and wherever you play. Stainless bands to make them almost indestructible and feel smooth and polished no matter how much you play. A perfectly functioning stable with an arm mount that won't loosen no matter how much you tug and pull on it. And all this with "TON" written on the forehead, No specs in the world mean anything if it doesn't sound amazing, and this one does, it sounds better than amazing.

The AZ neck is a modern neck with what Ibanez calls an oval C profile. A 1-piece Premium neck in roasted/baked maple. The wood is roasted in a vacuum oven, which drives all liquid and resin out of the wood, making it extremely stable if almost completely insensitive to weather and humidity.
Sound-wise, it makes the wood behave like old and dry wood, with more resonance, sustain and tone.
This is the same roasted technology that has been on the market for a few years now (which is different from the S-TECH roasting that the Prestige versions have).
The guitar sings in a completely different way than the corresponding untreated wood and is several times more stable. The neck is finally treated with oil, which gives the guitar a well-recorded wood feel, forget about sticky varnish getting stuck in.

Neck profile
Ibanez calls the neck AZ oval C, which describes it quite accurately.
C with a little more shoulders would also fit well. It is noticeably thicker than how Ibanez usually have their necks, but for that reason not fat or clumsy. 20.5mm at first band and 22.5 at band 12. It feels modern and accessible at the same time as it feels traditional and familiar. The radius of the fingerboard is a perfect compromise to be perfect for both chords and soloing. Transition between fingerboard and neck is softly rounded called "rolled fretboard edges", which gives a very smooth and recorded feeling.

The body
The body is designed to be comfortable and without sharp edges so that you can both stand or sit and play for hours on end. The rounding of the edges is softer on the back than on the front. The neck meets the body with Ibanez's new Super All Access Neck Joint, which is a further development of their well-proven All Access Neck Joint.
SAANJ makes the entire neck extremely accessible without cutting too much wood and starting to have a negative effect on the tone.

Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ Pickups
The Hyperion is a mic developed in collaboration with Marciela "MJ" Juarez at Seymour Duncan. A girl who has been Employee no.2 as Seymour's right hand since 1976. She has, among other things, made mics for Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, David Gimour, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, just to name a few.
A mic with moderate output and Alnico5 magnets. A clear, dynamic mic with good separation and a clear pick attack. Very good balance between the strings so low notes are clear and high notes warm and full. Pickups are connected to a dyna-MIX 10 switch with an extra Walter switch. It provides a great many useful, believable, sounds from everything from humbucker to singlecoil.

The Ibanez T1502 Tremolo
Stand is a further development of the GOTOH 510, one of the world's most popular non-locking stands. Ibanez thought "is this the best out there or can it be improved?", and it did. The T1502 is based on the 510 and built by GOTOH, i.e. modern 2 pivot style with lockable bounces. The updates include a better, and completely play-free, arm mount (snap in with adjustable pressure. The arm can be replaced with an Ibanez Ultra Lite swing arm).
T1502 has the same string spacing as 510 narrow, 10.5mm isf 10.8mm.

The pickup connection is called the Ibanez Dyna-MIX and together with their Alter switch you can access an extremely large number of useful sounds. An absolutely fantastic mic system and incomparably good mics.

Specs:
• AZ Oval C Roasted Maple neck
• 24 frets
• Quilted Maple top/American Basswood body
• Roasted Maple fretboard w/Mother of Pearl dot inlay
• Jumbo Stainless Steel frets
• Graph Tech® nut
• Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (S) neck pickup
• Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (S) mid. pickup
• Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (H) bridge pickup
• dyna-MIX9 switching system w/Alter Switch
• Gotoh® T1502 tremolo bridge
• Chrome hardware
• Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads
• Luminescent side dot inlay
• Gig bag included
• Recommended case: MR500C

Neck:
• 648mm/25.5" scale.
• Width at saddle: 42mm.
• Width at 24 frets: 57mm.
• Thickness at first fret: 20.5mm.
• Thickness at 12 frets: 22.5mm.
• Radius: 305mmR