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Ibanez S520EX

STC-Shaped Guitar from Ibanez belonging to the S Standard series

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«  Good guitar but not very versatile »

Published on 05/31/11 at 10:18
Vibrato "Zero Resistance" with adjustable spring back of the guitar
Two Humbucker
Fine tuning, ie at the easel like a violin.
Setting the tone and volume (1 each)
The Big plus: 5-way switch with:
- Bridge humbucker in series (normal)
- Parallel with a microphone humbucker bridge humbucker with ONE microphone handle
- Both Humbucker
- Parallel with the two humbucker pickups
- Neck humbucker in series (normal)

The big plus: the selector and good vibrato. The least: quality microphones.

UTILIZATION

Another excellent point about this guitar is the neck. Very comfortable to play, fluid, very fast. However, wide enough for those who do not.
Easy access to acute (22 cases)

SOUNDS

I use the guitar with either a fender frontman for me either with a big Marshall I borrow. I also have several effects including distortion OS-2 that I use with the frontman.
Note that I'm not very "sharpened" in sound.
The sounds are very good with distortion. For metal it's perfect for rock that sounds very good, etc..
The big problem is that clean, there is more than treble! No slamming of everything from serious dansl're doing all messed up funky riffs ... Fortunately I recently installed a Seymour Duncan Jazz neck, and it will already bcp better (I even lost the habit of playing straight with the other mics, I should not be tough enough). So it is much better, but still a lack of acute unfortunately, a lack of slamming.
In conclusion, it depends what style of music you play with this guitar, perfect as it can be awful.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 2 years and I intend to keep it a while even if it lacks polyvalnce. I will focus on the effects and amp for now. I even wonder whether it is better to buy a second guitar to sound clear.
This is my second guitar after a very rotten (stol). The best is the selector and the microphone handle. The least c'es versatility. I forgot to mention for vibrato: it prevents more or less the désacordage, but it remains a floating tremolo, so when it hits hard the rope goes down a semitone.
With experience I think I will choose the versatility because I changed styles of music, but it was still a very very good guitar, good quality and price I think.