What Kind of guitar does the guy from Staind play?

babahi · #1 10-29-2001, 10:28 AM

What does anybody know about that guitar? I have no access to any guitar mags here, so I have no info other than what I've seen on tv and in concert.

A beautiful guitar, though...

Eric

nuno · #2 10-29-2001, 10:58 AM

I think it's a Custom model, based on the Radius design.
The body seems to be mahogany, with maple neck & ebony board.
I wish to know what pick-ups does it sports.

Who knows?

Jupiter · #3 10-29-2001, 12:40 PM

Umm, sorry Nuno, but it's actually a baritone { 27" scale neck } guitar based on the S Classic . It's mahagony with an ebony fretboard, not too sure about neck wood...probably maple or mahagony. I don't know about the pickups, either, maybe someone else can answer that question. It's a gorgeous guitar, Ibanez should make it a signature model and produce it. I'd buy it ! Hope that helps , (^)ben(^)

bammbamm · #4 10-29-2001, 03:08 PM

Who cares, the guy sux...

p4t4h · #5 10-29-2001, 05:02 PM

eh a student of Tony McAlpine can't be all that bad :silly: .. but playing aside, I like the guitar too (based on the looks, that is) . Don't know if I'd get one if it's available, but I sure wouldn't mind trying it out

darren wilson · #6 10-29-2001, 09:27 PM

The guitar Mike Mushok is pictured with in Ibanez ads and catalogs is based on the S Classic, but the ones he uses in the videos is definitely different.

It looks like a Radius style body to me (oiled mahogany), and it looks like the scale length is significantly longer than 27". The bridge/tailpiece is right at the back end of the body, like a bass.

The two i've seen in their most recent videos seem to be outfitted with different pickups. One seems to have Bartolinis or some other soapbar-style bass pickups. The other appears to have standard guitar pickups in cream rings.

RSVampire · #7 10-29-2001, 09:32 PM

S Series guitar from Ibanez....with some custom crap done to it.

ericbrowning · #8 10-29-2001, 09:33 PM

Hmm.....all these "nu-metal" guitarists...tuning low, fat strings, longer scale, tailpiece like a bass. *Sounds like they just want to play bass

or better yet, do both with a chapman stick! *
just a little humor, in response to your question, I have no idea, but it is a nice looking guitar, and an S-series guitar with a hardtail and P-90's sounds very nice! *They made one in red a few years back, don't know if its still in production or not

Rich · #9 10-29-2001, 09:37 PM

Unless there's one I haven't seen, nuno and Darren got it right. He has 2 oil finished Radius or JS bodied (can't remember the switch arrangement, but my first reaction was Radius) with SC type headstocks. I think one had a pair of P90's and the other only had one pickup somewhere between where the buckers would be? At least that's what he was playing live.

mmr7 · #10 10-29-2001, 10:15 PM

In magazine articles and ads, Mike himself has referred to them as custom s classics with a baritone neck, though I believe he started using the baritone just recently, not on the first album, so...

babahi · #11 10-29-2001, 10:58 PM

Thanks for the help everybody! I can't help but admre the look of that axe.

bammbamm with some wonderful insight there, thanks for having contributed your useful knowledge...
E

nuno · #12 10-30-2001, 02:45 AM

Thanx Rich, these guys are blind.

The S shape features squared edges (Frank Gambale), the Radius shape features rounded edges (Joe Satriani).
Watch carefully both Mushok's grey/black model and oil-finished model, and you'll realize they both have rounded edges. So, they are based on the Radius design.
Period.
Doesn't matter if Ibanez pictured him for the S series' ads, and doesn't matter if Ibanez says 'He plays an S series'.
Use your eyes.

nuno

Jupiter · #13 10-30-2001, 11:40 AM

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Well, the reason i said that he plays S Classics is because i've read numerous interviews with him in which HE SAYS that he plays S Classics. He also stated that he still uses that old Artist that he had in the Mudshovel video. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Bammbamm, i wouldn't say he sucks. No, i've never heard him do a string-skipping diminished arpeggio set at 32nd notes at 160 beats-per-minute, but he does make some pretty interesting melodies at least. I will say that i like him FAR more than a lot of the guys that are popular in todays " metal " scene { i.e. Head, Monkey, Slipknot guys, Disturbed's guy, Wes Borland }..he's creative. And i'd say that he's retained some of what he learned from MacAlpine, but he just does't use it. A frenzied shred solo would just sound kind of funny in a Staind song, think about it. So, that's what i think. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *`~'ben'~`

darren wilson · #14 10-30-2001, 09:50 PM

I guess it depends when the interviews were done. I skimmed a recent interview with him and it just mentioned that he swears by "custom Ibanez baritone guitars". Maybe there's a signature model brewing and he's not allowed to say anything until Ibanez is ready to start marketing it.

The guitar in the "Fade" video looks quite interesting... i'm not a big fan of the S-Classic headstock, but with that extra-long scale length, mahogany body and string-through tailpiece, it must sound absolutely killer.