Ibanez PGM30 Paul Gilbert Signature

Prestige series guitar made in 2002 in Japan
flat handle 43 mm
24 frets
3 INF pickups (HSH)
A 5-way switch
power cord
floyd rose tremolo
looks great, a nice impression of strength.

UTILIZATION

The neck is perfect, very low action, very fair, very good for fast play.
Very long sustain.
You can play for hours without fatigue.
The sound is much less than its Hardos suggests the look .. is rather finesse you get the most out of this diabolical instrument.
The only downside is only the setting of a single knob, no adjustment severe acute ....

SOUNDS

It bears all things with ease. but his work is primarily to the amp.
I use it primarily on a Hughes Kettner tube100 (3 body lamps)
the sound is clear Precut without saturating. The big sound remains correct even if it is less round with my Gibon SG Deluxe 1970 (with 2 p90) but so much easier to play ...

OVERALL OPINION

I have 2 years, it never goes out of tune, I use at least since the recent purchase of a Godin XTSA (with Synthes). But can not part with it
It is now used but I recommend 500 to 700 €

The characteristics of my PGM30 different from the original series from 1995 and manufactured by Cort factory in Korea, an upgrade was done previously. I do not know the value of the original pickups, mine are all just perfect in the image of the PGM 300 Guitar Reference Series in PGM. A change from an Edge Pro tremolo is possible, I personally do not see the point considering the excellent agreement of holding TRS II in my case.

So the specs are
- Body Basswood
- Maple neck 24 frets, rosewood fingerboard
- Dimarzio Tone Zone in bridge
- Dimarzio PAF in neck
- Floyd TRSII
- 1 volume, 1 5-way switching strat Classic
- Nut string effective block never disturbed
- Cosmo Black acastillage the best effect

No complaints about the finish, here is the road for a guitar 15 years.
Some small cracks are visible along the microphones, Ibanez typical of this category.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is not light, it is however very well balanced, the ergonomics of a super-strat. The handle is puzzling by its width, after a month we can not do without and we wonder how we will be able to resume the handle of a Start ... precision, comfort in a word, a real highway.
No tone control but we made it very quickly, because it sounds great, the positions of microphones and volume control can vary the tone without touching anything on the amp. A report little or no hum in any position.



SOUNDS

Anything is possible with the PGM loadings in the country picking the most pissed impossible to catch her out. Y has the chattering of teeth is always precise, very big versatility. That's exactly what I wanted to think outside the box of guitars too typed (Start, Tele, LP, Gretsch). It has a guitar in the modern sense of the word, the sound is expressive and floyd does not alter the substain which is huge.


OVERALL OPINION

Really surprised I went to try it without really knowing what it was I was looking for a Jem SV initially good but the prices are high and I did not even put 1600 euros in a guitar I was not 100%. The upgrade of this micro PGM had put a flea in his ear and actually I tried it on a Bugera 333 XL and it sounds the fire god. With me now I'm using a Valve Junior with a pedal input out on a 4x12 cab and it's already very good ...
I play for several months and honestly by Gretsch I do not play on it ...