Invader Chris
05-04-2007, 06:28 PM
For the past couple months, I've been shreddin' on an Ibanez SZ320 (older black model, with the exposed wood, faux binding). Man, there's definitely a reason Marty Friedman digs these guitars! It's got a super fast neck, but it's got some beef to it. Imagine if an Ibanez Wizard neck got it on with a 60's Gibby neck.
The stock Duncan/Ibanez pickups are pretty sweet, too. They're modeled off the Distortion and '59, and sound great. I've got mine loaded with DiMarzios, but would've been ok with the stocks if I couldn't change them. So far, I've had an Evo neck model in the neck, a Super 3, Air Classic, and half-Air Zone (Tone Zone with one coil "aired") in the bridge, and they've all sounded great. I've got a Fred on the way, which I intend to try in the neck and bridge. It's wired with 2 volumes, a tone, and a 3 way that gives the neck by itself, the inner coil from each pickup in parallel (very cool), and bridge by itself. I'm thinking about getting really crazy with it, making all 3 knobs push/pulls, and getting series/parallel, coil splitting, and something else out of it.
The bridge is awesome, too. Not a sharp edge on it :)
The stock Duncan/Ibanez pickups are pretty sweet, too. They're modeled off the Distortion and '59, and sound great. I've got mine loaded with DiMarzios, but would've been ok with the stocks if I couldn't change them. So far, I've had an Evo neck model in the neck, a Super 3, Air Classic, and half-Air Zone (Tone Zone with one coil "aired") in the bridge, and they've all sounded great. I've got a Fred on the way, which I intend to try in the neck and bridge. It's wired with 2 volumes, a tone, and a 3 way that gives the neck by itself, the inner coil from each pickup in parallel (very cool), and bridge by itself. I'm thinking about getting really crazy with it, making all 3 knobs push/pulls, and getting series/parallel, coil splitting, and something else out of it.
The bridge is awesome, too. Not a sharp edge on it :)