What I Hate About Ibanez - Page 5

brianxtr · #61 08-27-2009, 03:32 AM

wow....old tread bummed up!euh....there is nothing i hate about ibanez.i dont love everything but hate?no not that...

jrade · #62 08-29-2009, 12:43 AM

hey i agree. with you that this is an annoyance. and almost all companies do try to make money one way or the other and some how it finds its way to piss of many companies. but out of all the things ibanez could do wrong this is not the worst. hey there rg's are still the best priced guitars i can find. fender sells guitars for 2,000 with out a floating bridge and locking system. at least you get that for less. my friends 3,000 dollor fender has to be tuned after every song he plays and sometime while playing the song lol.

prydogga · #63 08-29-2009, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Scott of Actual Time

i don't know why people keep asking for this. it'll never happen, because it's not possible with the S design to make the fretboard any longer without removing the neck pickup. you can't just magically throw two more frets on there -- the the body and the location of the neck heel have to be designed for it. the next time you have an S and an RG in the same room, hold them up to each other back-to-back. they're the same scale length, but where that 25.5" inches is split between the neck and the body is very different. you might as well as for a 944 with four-wheel drive.

Ha wrong...

prydogga · #64 08-29-2009, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by IamFastEddie

The stock pups in the RG1527. Loved everything else, but I truly hated those things.

I actually don't mind them, I prefer them to Super Distortion and DeActivators.

GazTop · #65 08-29-2009, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by prydogga

Ha wrong...

Just goes to show how things can change.

kotornut · #66 08-29-2009, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by GazTop

Just goes to show how things can change.

Yeah it's funny, the changes a lot of dudes were whining about happened. We got a lefty JEM and JS now and a 24 fret S.

6fingers · #67 08-29-2009, 11:09 PM

Old threads are cool!

hmmmm......black headstocks should come ONLY with black bodies.
Ebony with white binding fingerboards and death to rosewood turds color !

kotornut · #68 08-30-2009, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 6fingers

Old threads are cool!

hmmmm......black headstocks should come ONLY with black bodies.
Ebony with white binding fingerboards and death to rosewood turds color !

Well to be honest I'd rather have rosewood with no binding than ebony, so I would hate it more if they did "death to rosewood." so I have to disagree with that.

I have to actually try hard to hate much about Ibanez, dislike isn't so difficult but hate? Let me see... I hate that Ibanez is concerned with the OFR royalties so much that they have gone from a super awesome trem to a mediocre f not slightly better than mediocre trem. But I understand the business ideal behind it so I can't fault them. You really can't fault a company for wanting to own the rights to everything on their product and not paying out to others.

Also, I hate that the newest PGM 401 has those stupid painted on F-holes, what a beautiful guitar otherwise. I like Paul and his playing but those lame f-hole graphics are really annoying on all of his models. That and the fact that in light of having so many sigs this year he only really plays those hideous (yet undeniably interesting) Firemen guitars.

Vince~ · #69 08-30-2009, 02:08 AM

hmm. I always wished that Ibanez offers more colours and options to their models like EBMM. In addition to that, I hate the middle pickup in on guitars that do not have pickguard because they look hideous and the pickup serves no use to most ppl. Finally, I hope that Ibanez improve the quality of their tremolo system or invent a new tremolo that is better than the orginal EDGE system. END OF HATRED

IamFastEddie · #70 08-30-2009, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Vince~

I hate the middle pickup in on guitars that do not have pickguard because they look hideous and the pickup serves no use to most ppl. END OF HATRED

Oh, I hate middle pups, too. Get in the way of my picking technique. My dad used to be a manager at Fender, Rodgers & Rhodes back in the day so I'd get "seconds" of Strats dirt cheap. I would always lower the middle pup, then swap the neck and mid on the 5 way switch so that I could use the neck and bridge together. Later I'd just install a three way and bypass the mid altogether. Never had tuning issues with them, though.

kotornut · #71 08-30-2009, 02:47 AM

You guys are funny. I use the middle pup in 50% of my songs. Love those in between strat-like sounds. Combine the neck and the mid for great bluesy sounds.

**jono** · #72 08-30-2009, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by kotornut

You guys are funny. I use the middle pup in 50% of my songs. Love those in between strat-like sounds. Combine the neck and the mid for great bluesy sounds.

Yep, I'm a big fan of having a middle single coil as well. I think those people who say it interferes with their technique need to refine thier technique!

I hardly play anymore these days and I STILL manage to cope with an HSH configuration

In truth one of the best things about Ibanez is that historically you've been able to buy the same guitar (apart from signature guitars for obvious reasons) in H, SH, HH, SSH and HSH configurations.

One of the worst things is that the trems that always gave Ibanez and "edge" (pun intended) over the competition have progressively been refined away from what was pretty much an already perfect design. Like Kotornut said, I'm all in favour of companies making profits, but when they start to try to do this at the expense of their product quality, long term they're either shifting their target demographic on purpose, or by default

Homebake · #73 08-30-2009, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by jono

Yep, I'm a big fan of having a middle single coil as well. I think those people who say it interferes with their technique need to refine thier technique!

I hardly play anymore these days and I STILL manage to cope with an HSH configuration

In truth one of the best things about Ibanez is that historically you've been able to buy the same guitar (apart from signature guitars for obvious reasons) in H, SH, HH, SSH and HSH configurations.

One of the worst things is that the trems that always gave Ibanez and "edge" (pun intended) over the competition have progressively been refined away from what was pretty much an already perfect design. Like Kotornut said, I'm all in favour of companies making profits, but when they start to try to do this at the expense of their product quality, long term they're either shifting their target demographic on purpose, or by default

why did ibanez even vary at all from the original edge/lo pro? the EP is slimmer and more lo-pro and assuming it had locking studs, it would be as equal as the earlier versions.

lots of silly comments flying around here.

prydogga · #74 08-30-2009, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jono

Yep, I'm a big fan of having a middle single coil as well. I think those people who say it interferes with their technique need to refine thier technique!

I hardly play anymore these days and I STILL manage to cope with an HSH configuration

In truth one of the best things about Ibanez is that historically you've been able to buy the same guitar (apart from signature guitars for obvious reasons) in H, SH, HH, SSH and HSH configurations.

One of the worst things is that the trems that always gave Ibanez and "edge" (pun intended) over the competition have progressively been refined away from what was pretty much an already perfect design. Like Kotornut said, I'm all in favour of companies making profits, but when they start to try to do this at the expense of their product quality, long term they're either shifting their target demographic on purpose, or by default

I also love the HSH config, I just lower the single coil way down and get very little volume loss, single coil configs are quieter than the Hums anyway (duh) so it doesn't matter.

**jono** · #75 08-30-2009, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Homebake

why did ibanez even vary at all from the original edge/lo pro? the EP is slimmer and more lo-pro and assuming it had locking studs, it would be as equal as the earlier versions.

lots of silly comments flying around here.

Including that one.

Truly a case of woulda/coulda/shoulda. The Edge Pro didn't come with the locking studs, and has now been largely replaced by the EZ. It wasn't a bad bridge at all, but wasn't as solid as the original Edge.

Ball dropped, opportunity missed.