Ibanez - AZ2203NT-DBF

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AZ2203NT-DBF. (Dark Tide Blue Flat) Prestige. Made in Japan.

-AZ - Players Player Project -

AZ is the result of several years of testing, with many of the world's best guitarists as test pilots, with the goal of producing the ultimate players player guitar. In other words, an extremely good-sounding, easy-to-play and stable instrument that you should be able to play basically all styles of music with. Roasted/baked maple necks to make them stable no matter how much you tour around the planet and wherever you play. Stainless steel frets to make them almost indestructible and feel smooth and well-polished no matter how much you play. A perfectly functioning bridge with an arm mount that doesn't loosen no matter how much you tear and pull on it. And all this with ?TON? written on the forehead, No specs in the world mean anything if it doesn't sound fantastically good, and this does, it sounds better than fantastic.

The series is available in two versions with 24 or 22 fret necks.
24 fret versions with HH pickup configuration and 22 with HSS or SSS.

The AZ neck is a modern neck with what Ibanez calls an oval C profile. A 1-piece Prestige neck in S-TECH treated maple. S-TECH is ?nitrogen-heating-treatment? of wood and is a further development of what is usually called roasted/baked wood. Which in Swedish in short means that the wood undergoes a heat treatment in a nitrogen-filled heating process to remove water and resin from the wood. This makes the wood light, stable, durable and completely unaffected by changes in humidity. The wood is also waterproof and therefore does not need to be varnished. These properties make the neck extremely resonant, low physical weight and with lots of singing sustain (the same properties that really good, old, wood can sometimes have). A clear sound with unmatched note separation. The guitar sings in a completely different way than the corresponding untreated wood and is several hundred times more stable. The neck is finally treated with oil which gives the guitar a well-recorded wooden feel, forget about rocky varnish to get stuck in .

Neck profile.
Ibanez calls the neck AZ oval C, which describes it quite accurately.
C with a little more shoulders would also fit well. It is noticeably thicker than how Ibanez usually has its necks, but for that reason not fat or bulky. 20.5mm at the first fret and 22.5 at the 12th fret. It feels modern and accessible while feeling traditional and familiar. The radius of the fretboard is a perfect compromise to be perfect for both chords and solo playing.
The transition between the fretboard and neck is softly rounded called ?rolled fretboard edges? which gives a very smooth and recorded feel.

The body.
The body is designed to be comfortable and without sharp edges so that both players can stand or sit and play for hours on end. The rounding of the edges is softer on the back than on the front. The neck meets the body with Ibanez's new Super All Access Neck Joint, which is a further development of their well-proven All Access Neck Joint.
SAANJ makes the entire neck extremely accessible without having to twist too much wood and starting to negatively affect the tone.

These are new Seymour Duncan pickups named Fortuna.
Kinder, more vintage-scented, pickups than the other models' Hyperion pickups. Think pickups with lower output more angled towards clean and less distorted sounds. You get a larger dynamic range with a wider frequency response. These are not better pickups than Hyperion, just different pickups.
The pickups are passive pickups with alnico magnets.

A compound radius fretboard, from 228mmR to 305mmR.
The other AZ models are 305 across the entire fretboard.
Simply explained for those who are not so familiar with radius numbers and meaning. Radius is the curvature of the fretboard, how flat or arched it is. Generally, most guitarists think that flatter fretboards are better for soloing and less flat makes it easier to play chords.
The N version's fretboard is therefore less flat than the fretboard of the previous AZ models. The
N version is compound ground which means that it is more arched at the first fret and then gradually becomes flatter the higher up the neck you go.

Ibanez T1502S Tremolo

GOTOH HAP®-M machine heads
The tuning pegs are GOTOH® MAGNUM LOCK® which are top of the line locking tuning pegs with height-adjustable string posts (so you can get perfect string pressure over the saddle for optimal sustain and tone)

Specs:
• AZ Oval CS-TECH wood Roasted Maple 1 pc neck.
• Alder body.
• Rosewood fretboard w/Mother of Pearl dot inlay.
• 22 frets.
• Jumbo Stainless steel frets w/Prestige Fret Edge Treatment.
• Bone nut.
• Super All Access Neck Joint.
• Luminescent side dot inlay.
• Ibanez T1502S tremolo bridge.
• Chrome hardware.
• Gotoh ® Magnum Lock machine heads w/HAP
• Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) neck pickup.
• Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) mid. pickup truck.
• Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) bridge pickup.
• Non-recessed bridge cavity.
• Compound Radius Fretboard (228mm - 305mm)
• Hardcase included.

Neck:
• 648mm/25.5? menses.
• Width at saddle: 42mm.
• Width at 24 bands: 56.4mm.
• Thickness at first band: 20.5mm.
• Thickness at 12 bands: 22.5mm.
• Compound Radius Fretboard (228mm - 305mm).