$349 vs $2199 IBANEZ (DO YOU HEAR A DIFFERENCE??)
Guitars of the Day! Doing a quick shootout between a $349 entry-level Ibanez AZES 40 (AZ Essentials) and a $2199 Ibanez Prestige RG5121ET, made in Japan with Fishman Fluences and an Evertune bridge. Surprisingly, the AZ Essentials definitely holds its own for me… probably because the neck, fingerboard, and scale length doesn’t feel like an Ibanez.
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#IBANEZ #HEAR #DIFFERENCE
Originally posted by UCkdgMB7UBSnAkQhEQwgdCqQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW_0E3YudwU
Obviously the biggest difference is in the feel and build quality, but honestly I kind of prefer the neck of the $349 AZES lol
All Pinch-Harmonic Long…
No I can't! I'll if you play like a normally
In the hands of an experienced player it still doesn’t matter much- your instrument is whatever works for you.
Your tone is in your fingers- everything else gives it shape.
They both sound horrible. But the first is not intonated.
why was the cheaper one actually kind of better
The more expensive one sounded out of tune
You’re also hearing him go from a single coil pickup to a humbucker.
I had a $1200 Jackson Kelly, a $2200 B.C. Rich Bich, and a $1400 Ibanez Destroyer. Know which one played and sounded the best? My $450 Washburn V.
Single pick ups vs humbucker this cant be compared??
The cheaper one is clearly weaker at the begining picking
Both sounded kinda boring to me.
But its just me i like high gain
I hear the difference, that Ibanez RG5121 have active fishman pickups. You may do many tests, but with second guitar better test do. With first better do difference with az2204b(as example).
Listened through headphones about 30 times, I like the sound of the azes better
These comparisons are dumb.
The tone and riff make them both sound like shit? Literally no one else hears this?
its not the instrument thing its the player
到底差在哪
That’ 2100 dollar one bites so hard lol
При таком уровне игры только эскобар рассудит
As I always say, the guitar is good, the problem will only be in the playing.
I have 400 king v swaped out the pick ups to high quality emg pick ups now it sound better tha 1k guutars
I feel the more expensive has more CRUNCH
Tonewood scam proved
Wtf is that tone ????????
I’m just learning guitar and I now know that majority of the sound comes from the amp. I have a cheap guitar that sounds as good as my more expensive one. But I can definitely feel the difference in quality and playability. I learned that from someone I met at a guitar shop in town. He said he’s played for 30+ years and gave me advice when I was buying a better one and said “you don’t need spend a bunch of money on a guitar just get a decent one and it will work perfectly fine for what I’m doing; but you do need to spend some money on a good amp”
Звучить однаково, бо грають ті самі руки
Just casually plays All Nightmare Long
What kind of amp arr you using bro!!
the fluences sound better here
Aside from sounding slightly brighter and better defined…nope! Save the money. I buy dirt cheap guitars and hotrod them. Its alot more fun.
Fishman fluence is the difference. Nothing more.
Yeah the price does not matter it’s the type of amp and pedal set up u have u can make 89$ sound like 1,000,000
Just turn up this gain
All Nightmare Long!!! ????
Honestly while looking through comments before even seeing which was which, I didn’t even notice a difference.
Easy on the gate bro
Video proves you don’t need expensive guitar to achieve great sound, you gotta have expensive amps
Not a difference of over a thousand dollars
But one has single coils and the other has fismanfluence actuves lol
I just hear horrendous tone
No there are is no difference