Ibanez Artist - Pictures!

[frederic]

I went to my local Sam Ash this past weekend, with the guitar my friend gave me, and the guitar guys started drooling dispite all the scratches and other little imperfections it has in its current state (like the gold bridge looks more like an unrestored 1961 Buick)

Anyway, one of them went out to his car and pulled out a book, looked it up, and based on the serial number its a 1975 custom Ibanez Artist Professional. He offered me 900 bucks on the spot.

Anyway, here is a picture of my guitars, minus my fender prophecy II bass and my yamaha G10 midi guitar.

L - R:

Casio Midi guitar
Steinburger bass copy
Ibanez Artist

[frederic]

While at the Sam Ash store, I got new strings for the Ibanez as well as a strap and picks. Not an exciting purchase mind you, but I did drop over a grand and purchase a Fender Cybertwin amplifier, which was more exciting!

Anyone seriously considering a digital modeling amplifier like the Line6 stuff should at least strum through the Fender Cybertwin and its smaller 1-speaker version. At least listen to it. I walked right by heading over to the line 6 section, and I'm glad the salesperson encouraged me to hear the Fender.

It has about 150 or so presets in ROM, and room for a ton more that you dial yourself.

Built in digital tuner.

Its stereo - so chorus/flanging/phasing sounds very good.

Has dual balanced XLR line outs.

Has s/pdif digital out.

Has sidechain capability as well as an effects loop (same jacks, so its one or the other)

Of the presets, it has about 60 fender amps from the 50's all the way to the present.

65W per speaker! At level 4 the grill on my air conditioner was rattling

While not an important feature - its is cool. All the knobs on the front (aside from trim) are animated. So when you switch presets, you can see how the settings are.

DSP effects.

Nice amp, and I get no hum whatsoever playing the Ibanez in front of my two computer monitors. Which suprised me. The crate I used to practice through buzzed like a bee hive unless I turned off the monitors.