@retal06 The individual magnet's in a humbucker pickup pick up the vibrations of the individual string. The thing about most neck pickups is that they are there for trebly solos so they have to be close to the neck to pick up that string vibration before it gets too low. Moving the neck pickup farther away will make it pickup a somewhat lower octave and that will clash with it's stuff. Everything from nut to bridge is mathmatically placed to get the best outta the strings.
You guys have no idea how important this video is to me. I've literally come back to it so many times over the last 12 years (ALMOST TO THE DATE LOL). During this time we've watched as the guitar manufacturers have leaned in at times almost exclusively to the 24 fret thing. Every "shredder" brand has a similar spec and while I love heavy music, and play it, I also play jazz and it's been a challenge to make sure we could get a beautiful neck pickup sound out of these guitars that are often meant for "bridge first" players (speaking generally). I am so appreciative that Joe has been at the forefront making sure that Ibanez remembers that as these beautiful instruments progress forward we're not completely killing what made them so wonderful in the first place. I would like to see this pushed and continue to be researched: in a perfect world a "shredder" 24 fret guitar should be able to play a rocking gig one night, then the same guitar play the jazz brunch. This is possible: JOE PROVED IT, though we need to keep pushing. A corny neck pickup tone to gain two frets... that just doesn't make sense.
They’ve really done this with the RG series. I have an RG 550 and I could totally play a rock gig one night with it and melt somebody’s face off with shredding and then, next morning, produce some serious dulcet tones throaty, fat and clean with a jazz band.
@@Xochiyolotl We're on the same page. One day I'd love to get one of the Genesis axes. To your point their sensibilities and sounds have a better mix of modern and OG. Also, and this is big: exactly to your point - a good guitar should allow me to play a Funk/rock/soul gig Friday night, then play a jazz brunch the next morning, then play a rock/metal gig that saturday night, then play in church on Sunday. I know that's not what everyone wants or needs though that's important to me. I've always wanted a yellow Genesis that kind of remind me of the old Frank Gambale Ibanez signatures before he went to Carvin in the 90s.
@@jinjxmusic mine is road flare red. And I completely get where you’re coming from with your versatility requirement for an instrument. All of the acoustic instruments can do exactly this. My classical guitar is great for popular music where its voice will enhance the song, flamenco music, Mexican Bowlero love songs and I can also play something by Tarrega for the more stodgy people who like that sort of thing. Same goes for my steel string flat top. It’ll do rock, country, folk, New Age and Celtic. No problem. It’s the electrics that have become so utterly specialized.
@@Xochiyolotl And the companies are essentially driving it down to the lowest common denominator and making instruments that are less versatile than a 1959 Telecaster. It's literally mind boggling the details lost in translation when the goal is to sell to the highest population demographic and cater to their sensibilities at the expense of everyone else.
Yes Satch is using Marshall JVMs. His current solo album was cut with the JVM210 head and hes been using a modded (by Marshall) JVM410H. If you like his new album... that's the Marshall JVM.
It's because of where the placement of where the neck pickup is. On 22 fret guitars, the neck pickup lies right below a harmonic node (under the third overtone, I believe). It contributes to that warm, thick neck pickup tone.
It'd be great to put one of the single coil-sized Sustainer Drivers in the neck position and make yourself a JS to "compete" with Vai's "Flo" Sustainer-equipped JEM. :D
I was so close to pull the trigger on a JS2400, but then someone said that lower horn looks like it needs a brazzers logo (which I actually had to google what a brazzers is, but I had a hunch..). And now I can’t unsee it. And he’s right. Damn. Why Ibanez? Why.
I know this may sound like a blasphemy, but I would suggest Ibanez to try to round the corners of the guitar headstock too, and to make it the same color as the body
@epeemstr316 One thing to consider though, on these JS's the fretboard extends further into the body than what a PRS Custom24 does (This keeps the length of the instrument shorter, which Joe prefers as it keeps the classic JS feel). So it WOULD push the pickup closer to the middle and affect tone of the Neck (BASS) pickup and make it more trebley and less bassy. Its all to do with the fact that this is a short scale guitar and not some enormous Schecter. Its sposed to be shorter like all JS's.
@PhilosopherOnWeed I played them both today for about 2 hours each. I wasn't feeling the JS2400 as much as the Jem. Took a good while to make a decision.
There's a riff that hits at 2:02 that sounds like an Eric Sardinas lick. If you watch Steve Vai Live at the Astoria in London DVD Vai invites Sardinas out to play for The Attitude Song at the end and he uses that lick at least three or four times. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was a piece of one of Eric's songs with Joe adding a bit of jazz to it for fun. Then again, it might just be a coincidence and it may very well have all been improv on Joe's part.
@jem919 maybe... but play the neck before you switch from a Jem to a JS. I owned a JS and got rid of it because I found the Jem far more suited the feel I was going for neck-wise.
Mindblowing guitar, i never thought Satriani will actually use a 24th guitar and with those characteristic (stacked humbucker on the neck). I guess the only cons of it must be the high price.
I dont know, personally I like the tone to be a little brighter from it being moved back a little. its when you get to the 30 frets that it has to just get removed .
I’ve had a JS 1200 for years, still don’t play like Joe? It has one of the most beautiful clean tones ever with both nobs up on the bridge position. Favorite sound, don’t know if the 24 fret guitar does it?
@liamzuid Joe does tend to favor vintage feel and sound, but when he got his hands on a Kramer with a Floyd Rose and was able to do bar techniques without going out of tune he couldn't go back to "vintage" vibrato!
@epeemstr316 It actually does...just because companies do it does not mean it does anything good for the tone. The reason neck pickups sound like they do is they sit right underneath that harmonic node, giving them the fat, warm sound that makes them sound awesome. If you were to compare a 22 fret guitar's neck pickup to one with 24 frets, the former would ALWAYS come out on top as far as tone goes.
What the crotchet!... looks like a warm marshmallow.... Wrong head style in my op-onion (like the FR series). Great cut away for the high notes. Neck pickup sounds very lushworthy and wholesome; makes you definitely want to grab that phat. Not too sure about it being bang against the neck, it looks a bit like a CDT build gone wrong in this case ... Does it really make that much difference though? I havent seen too many with that so I dont know if it suggests anything.
I want it, um, NOW!!!!!. Satch sounds great with Chickenfoot. Now they just need to make a few out of mahogany. Hey Ibanez, notice he is using the OLD trem. Take that to heart.
@retal06 I agree with you. I don't understand nor agree with Joe here regarding an extra humbucker way back the neck or two neck pickups will kill the sound. In fact, its a contradiction. Why? because if that's the case, the two neck pickups should've killed the sound from all of the 22 fret JS Ibanez guitars.
what I would like to know..and I use an Ibanez...is how does joe stop from hitting that volume knob..I do it all the time and you cann see he is pretty close to doing same..lol
I love Joe. I hope he gets as many signature models as he wants, as much chocolate as he wants and as much ice-cream as he wants.
And some pencils to make creative drawings
Satriani can make a $100 guitar sound amazing
😁 i was going to say the same but you beat me to it LOL. 👍
it shouldn't say "Ibanez Introducing the JS2400 Joe Satriani"
it should say "Joe Satriani Introducing the JS2400 Ibanez"
I had forgot how much I love Joe's playing
Amazing guitar but I think that the guitar would be more cool with a white headstock
I think it’s a callback to the JS-1
that is such a beautiful guitar. Probably the most beautiful one of the Joe Satriani sigs.
His tone is amazing!!
@retal06 The individual magnet's in a humbucker pickup pick up the vibrations of the individual string. The thing about most neck pickups is that they are there for trebly solos so they have to be close to the neck to pick up that string vibration before it gets too low. Moving the neck pickup farther away will make it pickup a somewhat lower octave and that will clash with it's stuff. Everything from nut to bridge is mathmatically placed to get the best outta the strings.
You guys have no idea how important this video is to me. I've literally come back to it so many times over the last 12 years (ALMOST TO THE DATE LOL). During this time we've watched as the guitar manufacturers have leaned in at times almost exclusively to the 24 fret thing. Every "shredder" brand has a similar spec and while I love heavy music, and play it, I also play jazz and it's been a challenge to make sure we could get a beautiful neck pickup sound out of these guitars that are often meant for "bridge first" players (speaking generally). I am so appreciative that Joe has been at the forefront making sure that Ibanez remembers that as these beautiful instruments progress forward we're not completely killing what made them so wonderful in the first place. I would like to see this pushed and continue to be researched: in a perfect world a "shredder" 24 fret guitar should be able to play a rocking gig one night, then the same guitar play the jazz brunch. This is possible: JOE PROVED IT, though we need to keep pushing. A corny neck pickup tone to gain two frets... that just doesn't make sense.
They’ve really done this with the RG series. I have an RG 550 and I could totally play a rock gig one night with it and melt somebody’s face off with shredding and then, next morning, produce some serious dulcet tones throaty, fat and clean with a jazz band.
@@Xochiyolotl We're on the same page. One day I'd love to get one of the Genesis axes. To your point their sensibilities and sounds have a better mix of modern and OG. Also, and this is big: exactly to your point - a good guitar should allow me to play a Funk/rock/soul gig Friday night, then play a jazz brunch the next morning, then play a rock/metal gig that saturday night, then play in church on Sunday. I know that's not what everyone wants or needs though that's important to me. I've always wanted a yellow Genesis that kind of remind me of the old Frank Gambale Ibanez signatures before he went to Carvin in the 90s.
@@jinjxmusic mine is road flare red. And I completely get where you’re coming from with your versatility requirement for an instrument. All of the acoustic instruments can do exactly this. My classical guitar is great for popular music where its voice will enhance the song, flamenco music, Mexican Bowlero love songs and I can also play something by Tarrega for the more stodgy people who like that sort of thing. Same goes for my steel string flat top. It’ll do rock, country, folk, New Age and Celtic. No problem. It’s the electrics that have become so utterly specialized.
@@Xochiyolotl And the companies are essentially driving it down to the lowest common denominator and making instruments that are less versatile than a 1959 Telecaster. It's literally mind boggling the details lost in translation when the goal is to sell to the highest population demographic and cater to their sensibilities at the expense of everyone else.
That neck pickup is KILLER!!
Love to hear Joe talk gear, but, if you want to see him use this guitar to it's full potential then skip to 5:04
Great guitar, although Joe is talking as though this is the first 24 fret guitar ever made :D...He is the best!!!!!!
My new one just got here!! I am so STOKED!!! Apple Music Row you ROCK!!! I LOVE YOU for getting this so fast!! Peace, D Vincent
Yes Satch is using Marshall JVMs. His current solo album was cut with the JVM210 head and hes been using a modded (by Marshall) JVM410H. If you like his new album... that's the Marshall JVM.
It's because of where the placement of where the neck pickup is. On 22 fret guitars, the neck pickup lies right below a harmonic node (under the third overtone, I believe). It contributes to that warm, thick neck pickup tone.
This is a fantastic guitar!!! Period!!
It'd be great to put one of the single coil-sized Sustainer Drivers in the neck position and make yourself a JS to "compete" with Vai's "Flo" Sustainer-equipped JEM. :D
your dream come true novv after 11 years vvithe the ibanez js240
Sounds great. MUCH prefer Joe's tone now he's back with Marshall. Love it when he plays bluesy Hendrixy stuff!
I was so close to pull the trigger on a JS2400, but then someone said that lower horn looks like it needs a brazzers logo (which I actually had to google what a brazzers is, but I had a hunch..). And now I can’t unsee it. And he’s right. Damn. Why Ibanez? Why.
God damnit lol I can't unsee it either.
Really interesting front pickup sound. It's an actual humbucker, but has a different sound because of the smaller magnetic field.
Joe, you are a most excellent fellow.
I love how he says he is a vintage guitar player so he didn't choose a 24 fret guitar, but he has a floating trem...
I love it! love the sound of the pro track in the neck
Love that neck pick up sound -sweeet.
Just got this, such a wonderful instrument
I know this may sound like a blasphemy, but I would suggest Ibanez to try to round the corners of the guitar headstock too, and to make it the same color as the body
Ibanez please remake some of these guitars. Some of us missed the boat when these kind of guitars were released.
I mean the js2410 is extremely similar, only difference is color and pickups
That neck pup sounds gorgeous.
For two thousand dollars dollars he should deliver it personally and give you a few lessons on how to play it.
at long last... a JS with a 24th fret... love it
@epeemstr316 One thing to consider though, on these JS's the fretboard extends further into the body than what a PRS Custom24 does (This keeps the length of the instrument shorter, which Joe prefers as it keeps the classic JS feel). So it WOULD push the pickup closer to the middle and affect tone of the Neck (BASS) pickup and make it more trebley and less bassy.
Its all to do with the fact that this is a short scale guitar and not some enormous Schecter. Its sposed to be shorter like all JS's.
Beautiful Guitar! i wonder what the price is going to be on this!
I just got this guitar yesterday! Best guitar in the WORLD! I LOVE IT!
amazing guitarist. might go and see him in october
Im pretty sure that coil pick up can be used as a fret if you hit it in the right spot.
@PhilosopherOnWeed I played them both today for about 2 hours each. I wasn't feeling the JS2400 as much as the Jem. Took a good while to make a decision.
WISH THIS HAD A MAPLE FRETBOARD!
I want one in black!
The js2400 prototype looks really nice (5:56) with that colour-coordinated head stock.
Extremely cute looks.
That guitar body looks sexy! The Edge is back too not only on the 2400. Love the white pickups too
CANT WAIT, need to play one!
There's a riff that hits at 2:02 that sounds like an Eric Sardinas lick. If you watch Steve Vai Live at the Astoria in London DVD Vai invites Sardinas out to play for The Attitude Song at the end and he uses that lick at least three or four times. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was a piece of one of Eric's songs with Joe adding a bit of jazz to it for fun. Then again, it might just be a coincidence and it may very well have all been improv on Joe's part.
I'm not complaining, basswood is obviously Satch's personal specification. Although I don't know why.
Thats a lesson in it self I never use the neck pick up....only bridge shit on me.
Finally an js with 24 frets!
I wish you guys would reintroduce the radius with its flatter fretboard radius
@jem919 maybe... but play the neck before you switch from a Jem to a JS. I owned a JS and got rid of it because I found the Jem far more suited the feel I was going for neck-wise.
My friend just got one of these and it's an amazing guitar!
its called "come on baby" on the professor satchifunkilus and the musterion of rock album from 2008.
you can clearly see that his action on the guitar is indeed a bit lower than 1mm...in some angles..the strings are almost "on the fret"...
@epeemstr316 No problem. It is one killer looking and great sounding guitar!
just ordered one! gotta wait a month before it arrives. But it is so going to be worth the wait :)
Best guitar in the World!! ((:
nice guitar awesome
Mindblowing guitar, i never thought Satriani will actually use a 24th guitar and with those characteristic (stacked humbucker on the neck). I guess the only cons of it must be the high price.
Its so weird for me hearing someone talk about using 24 frets. especially as ive always taken it for granted as a fan of Vs
I dont know, personally I like the tone to be a little brighter from it being moved back a little. its when you get to the 30 frets that it has to just get removed
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Every site I went says the tremolo should be Parallel to the body, looks like Satch didn't follow their advice. now he had a better tuning stability.
The Edge trem has an angled top so at a glance it doesn't look parallel when it is.
I’ve had a JS 1200 for years, still don’t play like Joe? It has one of the most beautiful clean tones ever with both nobs up on the bridge position. Favorite sound, don’t know if the 24 fret guitar does it?
@liamzuid Joe does tend to favor vintage feel and sound, but when he got his hands on a Kramer with a Floyd Rose and was able to do bar techniques without going out of tune he couldn't go back to "vintage" vibrato!
@epeemstr316 It actually does...just because companies do it does not mean it does anything good for the tone. The reason neck pickups sound like they do is they sit right underneath that harmonic node, giving them the fat, warm sound that makes them sound awesome.
If you were to compare a 22 fret guitar's neck pickup to one with 24 frets, the former would ALWAYS come out on top as far as tone goes.
The song a 2:05 is Come On Baby from Professor Satchafunkilus.
I think this will be my next guitar after the JSA 10.
What the crotchet!... looks like a warm marshmallow.... Wrong head style in my op-onion (like the FR series). Great cut away for the high notes. Neck pickup sounds very lushworthy and wholesome; makes you definitely want to grab that phat. Not too sure about it being bang against the neck, it looks a bit like a CDT build gone wrong in this case ... Does it really make that much difference though? I havent seen too many with that so I dont know if it suggests anything.
It's just a raw improvisation in Eb :)
I want it, um, NOW!!!!!. Satch sounds great with Chickenfoot. Now they just need to make a few out of mahogany. Hey Ibanez, notice he is using the OLD trem. Take that to heart.
@LucasPro
the song is called c'mon baby :-)
They are rare.... Steve Vai used to use them occasionaly. Don't know if he still does
Maestro.
@J1MNERD
He has to replace his bald head with arms with more hair.
I want one .....
@glubibobi it's on the first chickenfoot record and it's called "soap on a rope"
Hell of a sexy guitar.
Ibanez Yes!
damn... this guitar is fucking sick!
@retal06 I agree with you. I don't understand nor agree with Joe here regarding an extra humbucker way back the neck or two neck pickups will kill the sound. In fact, its a contradiction. Why? because if that's the case, the two neck pickups should've killed the sound from all of the 22 fret JS Ibanez guitars.
@zzzhuh That's a good idea, with the bridge PU and a bend, maybe even a high A?
what I would like to know..and I use an Ibanez...is how does joe stop from hitting that volume knob..I do it all the time and you cann see he is pretty close to doing same..lol
@LucasPro Come On Baby from the Professor Satchafunkilus album
awesome it just kinda scares me how thin that right side of the guitar is.
@LucasPro.....its Come On Baby from Professor Satchafunkilus...\m/
*The string should know better not to break on you maestro JOE* 😄
My inspiration my guitar hero💚🤍❤
I has a little twang like tele, I like the sound
essa guitarra é maravilhosa!
@clodoaldien2000 The Marshall JVM 410H is pretty modern though.... Probably his playing mostly.
I never knew about that 24 fret neck pickup deal. This adds to my mindset that electric guitars are such fickle instruments...
Awesome!
looks like a bass for a quick second
Thats Come On Baby from Professor Satchafunkilus And The Musterion Of Rock!!
Why do Satch and Vai keep using the sameold edge trem system when the Ibanez ZR trem is so much better?!
True, most things before the end of the 90's were better quality.
it looks like he's using that jvm 210h dry. is that right? if so, i have no idea why so many people are saying the amp is junk. sounds great to me!
wow joe can play !
@911SIG tell me what you consider to be a good guitar
if joe satriani started using orange tube amps, his tone would be even more amazing
you can tell that he was Kirk Hammetts guitar teacher.
@J1MNERD Thats because it all left his head and went to his arms
Satriani's neck pick up tone is top tier. It's spoiled my taste for pick ups
Yeah every guitar I pick up at Guitar center needs a good setup. Every single one has too high of action.
cool and informative introduction!