Taking adaptability to new extremes, the AZ series has established itself and carved out a place that spans everything from the warmest blues licks, to the most intense, shred-heavy metal riffs. Carrying this ethos forward, the AZ line embodies time-tested Ibanez innovation and player-focused features like a smooth, oval neck grip, a well-balanced asymmetrical body shape, and the neck heel allowing for unrivalled playability.

Product Features

Oval C Roasted Maple neck
The Roasted Maple neck is heat-treated to increase stability, durability, moisture resistance and tolerance of temperature changes.

Roasted Maple fretboard
Heat-treatment provides a well-balanced attack and tone and a rich sustain. In order to achieve supreme neck grip comfort, the fretboard edge is finished with a smooth curve.

Jumbo Stainless Steel frets
Stainless steel frets boast excellent corrosion resistance. The wide and tall fret-type offers a quick response and effortless articulation when playing chords and clear tone when playing single notes.

Quilted Maple top / American Basswood body
The Quilted Maple top sonically enriches the response for picking and the American Basswood body delivers a natural and flat tone.

Seymour Duncan Hyperion S-S-H pickups
Seymour Duncan Hyperion Pickups feature a moderate output through Alnico-5 magnets to keep the clarity of the fundamental tone when using distortion and to deliver a clear pick attack. From treble to bass, the overall tonal balance is evenly adjusted and works well with various effect pedals.

Gotoh MG-T locking machine heads
The Gotoh MG-T locking machine heads achieve incredible tuning stability, cutting down string-changing time.

Gotoh T1502 tremolo
The T1502 tremolo bridge features steel saddles and a die-cast zinc tremolo block for a quick response and improved articulation. The 10.5mm string spacing allows for easy picking across strings and its snap-in construction makes it easy to load a tremolo arm.

dyna-MIX9 switching system with Alter Switch
The dyna-MIX 9 offers nine sound variations and can switch between humbucker and single coil modes with just a flick of the mini switch. One mode even simulates a humbucking sound from the combination of two single coil pickups.

Luminescent side dots
The luminescent side dot position marks make it easy for players to see fretboard position marks when performing on dark stages.

Gig bag included
It comes with Ibanez gig bag which is designed specifically to fit and protect this instrument.

SPECIFICATIONS

•     neck type AZ Oval C Roasted Maple neck
•     top/back/body Quilted Maple top American Basswood body
•     fretboard Roasted Maple fretboard Mother of Pearl dot inlay
•     fret Jumbo Stainless Steel frets
•     number of frets 22
•     bridge Gotoh T1502 bridge
•     string space 10.5mm
•     neck pickup Seymour Duncan Hyperion (S) neck pickup Passive/Alnico
•     middle pickup Seymour Duncan Hyperion (S) middle pickup Passive/Alnico
•     bridge pickup Seymour Duncan Hyperion (H) bridge pickup Passive/Alnico
•     factory tuning 1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E
•     strings D'Addario EXL110
•     string gauge .010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046
•     nut Graph Tech nut
•     hardware color Chrome

NECK DIMENSIONS

        Scale : 648mm/25.5"
        a : Width 42mm at NUT
        b : Width 56.4mm at 22F
        c : Thickness 20.5mm at 1F
        d : Thickness 22.5mm at 12F
        Radius : 305mmR