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Ibanez really does seem to own the thousand dollar jazz guitar spot. I play a George Benson "inspired" LGB30, and it is a joy to play in every respect.
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05-01-2016 07:38 PM
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I am very happy with my AF125 hollow body. Visually beautiful with amazing playability and very good tone (although it would probably benefit from a future pickup upgrade).
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It's a well known fact that guitars priced like the ones built in China and Korea are, surprisingly, quality instruments, with the exception of the hardware. I have owned several high-end guitars and basses: Tom Anderson, Don Grosh, Custom Shop Fenders and Gibsons, American Lakland basses, Guild, and a real '59 175 with original PAFs. I could go on. My point is this: I can smell cheap pickups from a mile away.
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JMO having had a few Korean guitars over the last decade or so is that the quality of the pickups (and maybe other electronics) is better than it used to be. My Peerless has Epiphone Classic 57's and to me they sound so much better than the stock pickups on the Epi Dot and Joe Pass that I used to have.
It could be my imagination as well. I haven't played too many Ibanezes recently, but the Eastmans and D'Angelicos I have played all sounded fine with the stock pickups.
Anyway, lovely guitar. Enjoy!
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this is me with my as153 and the Seth Lover at neck position: I played both overdrive and clean tone.
I love this guitar: it plays great even with flats.
and, like you, I landed to this guitar after a 335...
no regrets...
(don't trust the old picture on the second video where I keep a 335: the guitar in the audio file is the as153)
Last edited by gianluca; 05-08-2016 at 12:28 PM.
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I have the same guitar and bought it as soon as it came in the shop as I felt very comfortable with the quality- a great gigging guitar! I too swapped the pickups out; to be honest I'm not sure they really needed swapping but I fancied making it a bit more unique so I swapped them out for the Lace Alumitones. They really suit what I do but whether they are a classic jazz guitar pickup I don't know. They feature in this vid which if memory serves was the hottest day in living memory in the UK (literally). Yes, of course I had a gig on the hottest day....!
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Sounds great! Great playing too. I'm digging the sound you're getting with the flats. What brand and gauge are they? The Seth Lovers are amazing, eh?
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Both you guys' guitars sound like big fat jazz boxes! Dan, are you using flats as well?
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Yes I think I was, thanks for listening
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yes,
Originally Posted by jbucklin
while the stock pick up wasn't bad at all, my friend luthier had an used Seth Lovers around and I tried it: great, both for clean Wes's style tone and for overdrive Scofield's tone.
about the strings, I do a lot of try: good tone from the Thomastiks flats .012 or .011 or even .012 set with first E and B from a .011 set.
at this moment I'm playing it with round wound .010-046 (ernie ball, d'addario or everything else) but I swap the plain G .017 for a 021 or 022 round wound because of intonation issues with the plain G.
action raised a bit...
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A beautiful guitar. Congratulations, and play it in good health!
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Thread revival!
Hi folks. I received an ibanez as153 last Christmas, and I truly love it. But something about the pups has never worked for me. A harsh mid range peak that comes out whenever I play it loud. I've adjusted the height up and down and can't seem to get it how I want.
So.. I am very interested in changing pups, specifically to the Seth lovers. Everything I hear tells me I'll be happy with the results, but I'm curious if any of the folks here who did this mod could comment on whether the "tri-color" switch (splits the neck coil and also allows parallel) is still of any use.
I like the feature, but am worried the output of Seth lovers would be too low and single coil would sound too thin.
Gianluca? Jbucklin?
Thanks!
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I just got a beautiful natural-finish 2010 Ibanez AS103 semi-acoustic, which I really love, so do not need another semi-acoustic at all, absolutely not, ridiculous to even think about it...
But just found the new Jet Blue burst AS153, and is that thing pretty - I certainly think so.
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For hobby players like me, guitars have never been about need ... They are about want.
They're are art and are meant to be collected
A decent telecaster or something like a LP or SG special could in principle cover all my needs. Give me one strung up with a light string gauge and one with a heavy gauge and I then it is no longer in principle that all my needs are covered.
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I like your argument Lobomov - how a guitar looks is important to me, and that "art" aspect is definitely there. If I didn't like the look of a guitar, regardless of how well it played/sounded, I don't think I'd want it! Looking at a pretty guitar gladdens my heart really, and I'm far more inclined to spend time playing and practicing with it - it's kind of a visual expression of the music I want to make. Perhaps a bit shallow of me, but I admit it's true.
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Ibanez and Heritage have the nicest bursts in the business.
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I think we always think of the super talented pro icons as being above this stuff. But I remember reading an interview with Stanley Clarke YEARS ago (late 70's?). He was talking about when he first got his Alembic after playing a Fender. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but he said: Originally Posted by Meggy
I like your argument Lobomov - how a guitar looks is important to me, and that "art" aspect is definitely there. If I didn't like the look of a guitar, regardless of how well it played/sounded, I don't think I'd want it! Looking at a pretty guitar gladdens my heart really, and I'm far more inclined to spend time playing and practicing with it - it's kind of a visual expression of the music I want to make. Perhaps a bit shallow of me, but I admit it's true.
The way an instrument looks is important. When you look at it, it must call you to want to play it. It should inspire you. No matter what that look is for you.Last edited by Woody Sound; 01-10-2017 at 09:30 AM.
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If I didn't have an AS-200 I might consider that one. If you played in rock bands in the 80's you can't have all your guitars be some flavor of tobacco sunburst LOL. I don't have any guitars with bomber graphics or anything like that (anymore
) but when I got my PRS I searched out one in Eriza Verde because it is so bright green
Here's my green goddess:
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Very nice!! I like the "Jet Blue Burst" much better than their Antique Yellow Burst (below). The brown shading is too stark, not fading into the yellow. OTOH, the blue absolutely works!!
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Funny that, as nice as their bursts in general are, the tobacco always seems to be lacking. Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
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A good burst is all about the transition...that blue looks great.
Ibanez's traditional yellow/orange to black sunbursts are usually pretty bad, imho, especially on the cheap artcores.
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Here's an emerald green from 1986 that has faded into an absolute beauty. Originally Posted by jim777
If I didn't have an AS-200 I might consider that one. If you played in rock bands in the 80's you can't have all your guitars be some flavor of tobacco sunburst LOL. I don't have any guitars with bomber graphics or anything like that (anymore ) but when I got my PRS I searched out one in Eriza Verde because it is so bright green
Here's my green goddess:
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To be fair, I've seen worse tobacco-bursts than that - I could live with it, but it is a bit severe for me - too dark at the edges, and then transitions to the lighter amber yellow too abruptly. The blue-burst one calls to me though! Originally Posted by Gitfiddler
Very nice!! I like the "Jet Blue Burst" much better than their Antique Yellow Burst (below). The brown shading is too stark, not fading into the yellow. OTOH, the blue absolutely works!!
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Pretty guitar.
Personally, I'd prefer the headstock veneer be black, not brown. White, black and blue finished guitars seem to clash with brown.
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Hmm - yes, I take your point there, although it wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, as I still think the guitar is very pretty-looking. On my AS103, the headstock is also a brown wood veneer if one looks closely, but in practice, it's so dark it could easily be mistaken for black at a glance. Re the jet blue burst guitar, I think if they'd gone for a matching blue-burst flame headstock veneer, that would be perfect for my taste. Originally Posted by Marty Grass
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