In my experience you really have to try and find a cheap ibanez that actually plays poorly. The electronics are usually crap, but the actual necks and bodies never seem to disappoint
I own an ltd alexi "greeny", and also an esp E II horizon... The esp suck... The worst guitar i ever played and the neck is terrible... The ltd is amazing.. 😢😅😂
the 7th hit /powercgourd/ a bit louder and more of the midrange of the middle strings tone the sonic blue is obviously trying to be a seafohn greine it appears the string spacing is more narrow on the 🌊 suRff machinistik aesthetically thAt red one leaving room for creative inlay design by a custom shop person one dAy .
But but I’m listening on studio cans… but also, no…. There isn’t any massive tone difference between the two… At least nothing a slight midrange EQ boost couldn’t easily fix. Amps are where the sound lies anyway 👍🏻
@@nino9273I think you’re way off here. Through the same amp, the only difference being guitars, the difference in clarity or fullness can only be attributed to the pickups, not the guitar itself. Ask Glenn Fricker about where the sound comes from. That being said, it’s really only a 150-300 dollar difference in pickups, not a difference in guitars, although I’m sure the more expensive guitar FEELS better to play.
Yess all nightmare long love it, i have a gio which was my first guitar back from 2017 and a rgmdx I bought off a friend for a steal and still prefer my gio since it just feels so great to play
RIGHT our rehearsal room was shared by 3 bands and one dude kept his Gio there, no case, never HAD a case its whole life and the dirt & sh*t under the strings was insane. Dude I could not WAIT to get to practice just so I could sit on the sh*tty couch in there and play that thing all night. Ps - I’m a drummer
Man I couldn’t justify that much of a difference. You can definitely hear the tone difference but at 349 that does have nice sound that I would pin in at that price range and not feel guilty about the cost.
I’ve always said you don’t pay big money to sound good you can get that pretty cheap it’s how the guitar feels in your hands how the frets are shaped how long the guitar will last and many other things that make a HUGE difference in the price vs quality.
Man I bought one of their Mikro basses for $160 just to dink around on and the thing was the most playable out of the box guitar of any type I have ever owned.
You can hear more of the tones mesh together in the 2k guitar but damn I’m not paying 2k on a guitar when I can just swap some stuff out on a $300 one to get the same sound
Main difference is in the neck - how it plays. Bridge too. Sound difference can’t be heard here with distortion, but on clean it’s DiMarzios vs Quantum. Plus u get a hard case.
The pickups are slightly hotter in more expensive guitar but not 2k worth of difference. We have been over paying for guitars for decades. Love these new guitar builds and affordable pricing.
I absolutely love the expensive one! It sounds better, by far! Probably because I purchased one from my main man, Chad Rosencrans, at Sweetwater! It's a 9+ pound chunk of mohagany. Changed 2 tension modules to accomodate Drop C with Ernie Ball paradigm 11-54s. Produces a nice little chug.
The difference is the cheapo G&B pickups vs the Fluence set that costs almost as much as the cheaper guitar, and barely that because of how much gain you use. Split the difference, buy the cheaper one, throw in some Fishman open cores, a graph tech nut, locking tuners, and a gotoh bridge and enjoy enjoy your
I know less about the modification of guitars but I got a friend who modifies all his instruments himself and has a simple 300 dollar guitar that sounds 10 times better than my epiphone les Paul
@jakobwhaley5641 I have a Jackson DK2XR that I bought used for $250 that's my daily driver and was a test bench. Gave it a nice setup, sanded/oiled/waxed the neck, and now it's become the "A" in any A/B testing I do because it's the most consistent and comfortable guitar I've played. The total cost to me on that is still sub $500, and I'm almost annoyed at how good it is because I had bought it to be the cheap thing I do pickup tests in lol
I find it funny that you chose to play All Nightmare Long for an Ibanez comparison. All Nightmare Long is the one song I play on my GIO because i'm too lazy to change the tuning on my Floyd Rose Jackson.
I do hear a difference in the quality of the balancing, while the 350$ one is more tinny, the 2200$ one is a broader spectrum of bass and treble (due to active pickups ofc). Not worth 1800$ of difference, but it is worth about 500$-800$ of difference to me. Anything above 1200$ (depending on brand, as some really do have quite the quality) is really just paying for the logo atp.
It's very hard to make a comparison about a guitar. For me, you can always change the pickup hence the sound of the guitar but the most important thing is the playability and only the player can feel it.
Can we just appreciate how consistent is Ibanez throughout the whole range of price? I have had a cheap 600£ ibanez ( I don't even know the series, I just got it because it was pretty) and I still use it consistently, despite having higher end prs and ibanez available.
The expensive one looks easier to play. It all boils down to how much do you want to work/setup/mod/upgrade/pay to get a guitar that you WANT to play. To have a guitar that’s easy for you to play. A guitar you can’t wait to play everyday.
This guitar is worth an 1800 dollar difference for recording reasons! The more expensive guitar has clearer transients, less mud, and a more defined space in the frequency spectrum. These are extremely valuable assets when it comes to production which is why it is a profesional level price.
I hear a difference, but that doesn’t matter. Which one is more fun you YOU to play, which one feels better to YOU? A guitar could sound great but if it doesn’t inspire you to play it doesn’t matter.
If you’re an electric guitar player, try spending more in equipment (including pickups) If the guitar is cheap, but comfortable, it will do the job with good equipment Don’t fool yourself thinking you need that flamed maple body guitar with ebony fretboard and exotic birdseye maple neck, to sound great
I do hear a slight difference but how do they compare clean and which one rings in your hands better. You can adjust your sound a thousand different ways but you cant make the guitar feel alive in your hands with a few turns of a knob!
most difference will probably be from the actual feel from the guitar, if they have the same amp and settings good enough pickups you can get a similar tone with any guitar
Music has no price. It’s all preference and the skill of the artist that makes the tool. Both guitars are awesome. The more expensive one may have better parts that last longer to do the job for longer, not better.
I have a cheeper ibanez here is what i have to say the more drive the less i hear that sorta "abruptness" of the ceramics. I will say that the first thing i notice was a bad settup and rather sharp fretboard edge. I found the frets easy to shape kinda like an epi so i rolled the board n fixed the fret ends. Other than that i got the action low with no fret leveling so good all the switches work well its not noisy. I will likely change the pickups on day but no hurry. Id say a cheep ibanez is a good platform
In my opinion the difference in sounds is minuscule it’s the difference in feel and comfort that you find with that craftsmanship of a more expensive instrument
Apart from feel ergonomics and looks, the prestige is fine tuned to cut through mix. A very nice lead oriented instrument and a decent chugger, definitely made to punch ears and wallet. The strat sounds more open at various frequencies thus a bit natural sounding esp on the muted notes and the harmonics are not bad, but the sustain isn't great and a it's a bit hollow sounding with no bite. I would stick to rhythms, blues and jazz. Bottom line: apples to oranges comparison. 2000 dollar strat vs 300 dollar strat comparison would have been better.
Of course if it where me there would be a big difference in the sound .. my electric would be shut off and its hard to plug up combo amp and reamp. But man thats tone........
Are those single coils (1st guitar)passive and the humbuckers active ? You compare 2 different aninals man. The price ain't the reason of the difference
after to listening to it over and over again o think that the Higher end definitely has a better sound, it sounds smoother, more refined, and has more bass in it. The tone texture itself is still the same.
Both sounds very thin. Could just be the amp’s tone, could just be my preference, but I’m not a big fan of either of them. Then again I’ve always preferred super ripping distortion like in AJFA. No hate intended, love the vids! Edit: yes I know death magnetic didn’t have the most ripping tone, and this is pretty close, but even then it sounds just a little thin to my ears
Considering one is single coil and the other is humbuckers there should be a huge difference in tone. I have a tele clone with humbuckers that have a single coil switch and the tone change is like night and day. You should have done a clean sound comparison to make this fair as I guess your amp and effects are covering over the tone.
As with all expensive guitars they sound slightly better than the cheaper one and the build quality and materials used are normally a lot better but it’s usually not worth 7x the price
Ibanez is kinda going the PRS route and making their lower end stuff sound so good it’s hard to justify their higher end gear. I have a $1600 premium sr bass and a $2500 prestige sr bass. The bartolini customs do stomp the cheaper ones like the SRF705 I have, but the electronics on the modern premiums are just better and honestly the nordstrand pickups are solid. I wanna get one of the premiums with the Aguilars, maybe another 6 string, my old cheap one is an exception to this comment lol
Obviously the biggest difference is in the feel and build quality, but honestly I kind of prefer the neck of the $349 AZES lol
Both sound great I hear a bit more aggression In the tone on the 2nd one.
Mic position and great speakers with an EQ they would sound almost indistinguishable.
In my experience you really have to try and find a cheap ibanez that actually plays poorly. The electronics are usually crap, but the actual necks and bodies never seem to disappoint
I own an ltd alexi "greeny", and also an esp E II horizon... The esp suck... The worst guitar i ever played and the neck is terrible... The ltd is amazing.. 😢😅😂
Expensive guitars is 90% name brand
I hear a very clear difference the more expensive one makes my wallet scream
and growl
Just get an EQ pedal .
I have a $120 used Ibanez bass that is all dinged up cosmetically but it sounds great, I love it dearly.
Is it an SR series?
HUNT YOU DOWN WITHOUT MERCY!!! Love that song, keep up the amazing work Hunter
All Nightmare Long is criminally underrated🤘
HUNT YOU DOWN ALL NIGHTMARE LONG YEAH!
RUNS
OUT
You make the expensive guitar sound cheap💀
the fuck is that tone bro
Not enough gain
Here come the people with the magic ear for tone explaining all the massive differences they think they hear while listening over a phone speaker
They clearly sound different though. They're for completely different uses so of course they sound different.
Maybe you can use an actual audio setup like an adult?
zackly right
the 7th hit
/powercgourd/
a bit louder and
more of the midrange
of the middle strings tone
the sonic blue is obviously trying to be a seafohn greine
it appears the string spacing is more narrow on the
🌊 suRff machinistik
aesthetically thAt red one
leaving room for creative inlay design by a custom shop person one dAy .
But but I’m listening on studio cans… but also, no…. There isn’t any massive tone difference between the two… At least nothing a slight midrange EQ boost couldn’t easily fix. Amps are where the sound lies anyway 👍🏻
All the pro level build and knowledge has trickled down onto the whole range of guitars .
The last one is a little more balanced, but there isn’t a 1800 dollar difference.
another thing to factor in though, is how it FEELS, the weight, playability etc.
@@nino9273I think you’re way off here. Through the same amp, the only difference being guitars, the difference in clarity or fullness can only be attributed to the pickups, not the guitar itself. Ask Glenn Fricker about where the sound comes from. That being said, it’s really only a 150-300 dollar difference in pickups, not a difference in guitars, although I’m sure the more expensive guitar FEELS better to play.
I think its about how good the instrument feels in hand
I actually didn’t enjoy the slight character it had over the cheaper one
@@mudimstrmind I liked the squeal better on an expensive one.
Love Ibanez screamers
I heard Ibanez is going to announce a RG470 with an edge bridge and direct mount pickups for under $500. Now THAT'S something I want to check out
if they put an AANJ and possibly the Super Wizard neck profile that would be one hell of a steal.
@@stackhom656it’s having the wizard neck I think the wizard 3 neck
Did the ever announce it?
@@babybiscuit11yep rg470dx
All Nightmare Long - Metallica
Yep.......first written as Hunt You Down Without Mercy.......then Metallica did what they do and stile.the song.
@@megatonesilva6546did you just say that Metallica stole that song?
@@megatonesilva6546Average Dave Mustcomplaine fan arguments:
Yess all nightmare long love it, i have a gio which was my first guitar back from 2017 and a rgmdx I bought off a friend for a steal and still prefer my gio since it just feels so great to play
RIGHT our rehearsal room was shared by 3 bands and one dude kept his Gio there, no case, never HAD a case its whole life and the dirt & sh*t under the strings was insane. Dude I could not WAIT to get to practice just so I could sit on the sh*tty couch in there and play that thing all night.
Ps - I’m a drummer
@@DHTC888i feel like every rehearsal space has a shitty guitar hanging around that everyone messes with for fun and is deeply loved by everyone
Damm underrated ass song
Need a longer demo of both to be sure !
it’s al ready a full song, it’s called all nightmare long
Man I couldn’t justify that much of a difference. You can definitely hear the tone difference but at 349 that does have nice sound that I would pin in at that price range and not feel guilty about the cost.
I’ve always said you don’t pay big money to sound good you can get that pretty cheap it’s how the guitar feels in your hands how the frets are shaped how long the guitar will last and many other things that make a HUGE difference in the price vs quality.
Plus your amp. That has quite a bit to do with your sound lol
@@e.k.izzle32the speaker more so
Man I bought one of their Mikro basses for $160 just to dink around on and the thing was the most playable out of the box guitar of any type I have ever owned.
Quality always prevails
You can hear more of the tones mesh together in the 2k guitar but damn I’m not paying 2k on a guitar when I can just swap some stuff out on a $300 one to get the same sound
Main difference is in the neck - how it plays. Bridge too. Sound difference can’t be heard here with distortion, but on clean it’s DiMarzios vs Quantum. Plus u get a hard case.
Thanks for the song in the comments, some good stuff here
The pickups are slightly hotter in more expensive guitar but not 2k worth of difference. We have been over paying for guitars for decades. Love these new guitar builds and affordable pricing.
I absolutely love the expensive one! It sounds better, by far! Probably because I purchased one from my main man, Chad Rosencrans, at Sweetwater! It's a 9+ pound chunk of mohagany. Changed 2 tension modules to accomodate Drop C with Ernie Ball paradigm 11-54s. Produces a nice little chug.
Honestly while looking through comments before even seeing which was which, I didn’t even notice a difference.
The green guitar is amazing. Crazy tones for the price point and it’s a comfortable guitar.
it's HSS though, i'd just buy an HSS strat if i wanted that
The difference is the cheapo G&B pickups vs the Fluence set that costs almost as much as the cheaper guitar, and barely that because of how much gain you use. Split the difference, buy the cheaper one, throw in some Fishman open cores, a graph tech nut, locking tuners, and a gotoh bridge and enjoy enjoy your
I know less about the modification of guitars but I got a friend who modifies all his instruments himself and has a simple 300 dollar guitar that sounds 10 times better than my epiphone les Paul
@jakobwhaley5641 I have a Jackson DK2XR that I bought used for $250 that's my daily driver and was a test bench. Gave it a nice setup, sanded/oiled/waxed the neck, and now it's become the "A" in any A/B testing I do because it's the most consistent and comfortable guitar I've played. The total cost to me on that is still sub $500, and I'm almost annoyed at how good it is because I had bought it to be the cheap thing I do pickup tests in lol
Yup. It’s quality pickups and electronics, and a well made instrument that’s properly set up to suit you personally.
That’s the secret sauce.
I find it funny that you chose to play All Nightmare Long for an Ibanez comparison. All Nightmare Long is the one song I play on my GIO because i'm too lazy to change the tuning on my Floyd Rose Jackson.
Was the last pinch harmonic being played, the same note or different?
5 on the D string then 6 on the A
The expensive one looks nice but they sound so similar it’s crazy
All it probably is is just more output from the expensive one's pickups
videos such as this one are interesting to watch definitely
What does this mean . It’s not like the pick up s are the same , do we trust your settings on the amp or is that packaged with the promo
I do hear a difference in the quality of the balancing, while the 350$ one is more tinny, the 2200$ one is a broader spectrum of bass and treble (due to active pickups ofc). Not worth 1800$ of difference, but it is worth about 500$-800$ of difference to me. Anything above 1200$ (depending on brand, as some really do have quite the quality) is really just paying for the logo atp.
I think the difference is single coil vs humbucker. But how does each one feel?
are those pinch harmonics at the end of each demo? how does he do it? help please
I have had both cheap and expensive guitars and the expensive ones are night and day difference in feel and sound
Fuck the differences, I need both
Oh yes, ALL NIGHTMARE LONG 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
my #1 song from Death Magnetic
It's very hard to make a comparison about a guitar. For me, you can always change the pickup hence the sound of the guitar but the most important thing is the playability and only the player can feel it.
For real we just need Bareknuckles pickups 😭😭
Can we just appreciate how consistent is Ibanez throughout the whole range of price? I have had a cheap 600£ ibanez ( I don't even know the series, I just got it because it was pretty) and I still use it consistently, despite having higher end prs and ibanez available.
God DAMN wasnt expecting all nightmare long
The expensive one looks easier to play. It all boils down to how much do you want to work/setup/mod/upgrade/pay to get a guitar that you WANT to play. To have a guitar that’s easy for you to play. A guitar you can’t wait to play everyday.
Just bought the prestige,my first high end guitar. hope it wont disapoint, im scared about the evertune a bit
Sounds the same but the most expensive one must be really nice to play with all the contours and ergonomics and nice fretends.
Yep! But which one did YOU like better?
i do hear a difference and its my bank account screaming in pain.
Not just hear... more important: how it feels, how it looks and endurance
Idk is that how they sound clean or what kinda rig you got on it?
This guitar is worth an 1800 dollar difference for recording reasons! The more expensive guitar has clearer transients, less mud, and a more defined space in the frequency spectrum. These are extremely valuable assets when it comes to production which is why it is a profesional level price.
I hear a difference, but that doesn’t matter. Which one is more fun you YOU to play, which one feels better to YOU? A guitar could sound great but if it doesn’t inspire you to play it doesn’t matter.
Should probably compare the AZES to a Prestige AZ, not an RG
If you’re an electric guitar player, try spending more in equipment (including pickups)
If the guitar is cheap, but comfortable, it will do the job with good equipment
Don’t fool yourself thinking you need that flamed maple body guitar with ebony fretboard and exotic birdseye maple neck, to sound great
Those new cheapo ibanez azs are pretty slick. I would pick one up if it had a 25.5 scale length
Well, I hear that the more expensive one has what probably is Fishman pickups.
ibanez means quality. what do you expect?
The 2100 is a bit clearer but I'd say that's just the pickups. They both sound a lot a like which is good in my opinion.
I do hear a slight difference but how do they compare clean and which one rings in your hands better. You can adjust your sound a thousand different ways but you cant make the guitar feel alive in your hands with a few turns of a knob!
Some of the cheaper ibanez stuff goes so hard. Ive got a TMB100 i use to record all my bass stuff
Love that tone
most difference will probably be from the actual feel from the guitar, if they have the same amp and settings good enough pickups you can get a similar tone with any guitar
Music has no price. It’s all preference and the skill of the artist that makes the tool. Both guitars are awesome.
The more expensive one may have better parts that last longer to do the job for longer, not better.
I have a cheeper ibanez here is what i have to say the more drive the less i hear that sorta "abruptness" of the ceramics. I will say that the first thing i notice was a bad settup and rather sharp fretboard edge. I found the frets easy to shape kinda like an epi so i rolled the board n fixed the fret ends. Other than that i got the action low with no fret leveling so good all the switches work well its not noisy. I will likely change the pickups on day but no hurry. Id say a cheep ibanez is a good platform
The $349 guitar definitely causes you to make more faces.
Clear difference. Cheap pickups sound more crude but that can be cool.
What a good choice for a song
The open chord is much more balanced on the expensive one, plus i bet it felt astronomically better to play.
Yeah those fishman pickups handled the distortion way better than the single coils
In my opinion the difference in sounds is minuscule it’s the difference in feel and comfort that you find with that craftsmanship of a more expensive instrument
The sound difference is the more expensive has a brighter tone when the least expensive has a warmer tone
The difference is not only in sound but also in how do you feel to play the one or the other.. I don’t think the action is the same.
I like the clarity of the strat for the last squeal. Other than that, I can't tell any difference
That would also come down to him not getting the exact same squeal as the first one
@@HADESxBEATS true
Apart from feel ergonomics and looks, the prestige is fine tuned to cut through mix. A very nice lead oriented instrument and a decent chugger, definitely made to punch ears and wallet.
The strat sounds more open at various frequencies thus a bit natural sounding esp on the muted notes and the harmonics are not bad, but the sustain isn't great and a it's a bit hollow sounding with no bite. I would stick to rhythms, blues and jazz.
Bottom line: apples to oranges comparison.
2000 dollar strat vs 300 dollar strat comparison would have been better.
All nightmare long🔥🔥
Your tones are always so damn chonky 🔥
Tone is in your fingertips and playing. I’m all about how the guitar feels as I’m sure everyone else says as well.
İs the first guitar an Azes-40 ?
With the way cheap guitars are made today I’m not surprised that they sound so similar.
his face twitches gets me everytime bro, like ik guitar face but my god he play like a jazz guitarist
Of course if it where me there would be a big difference in the sound .. my electric would be shut off and its hard to plug up combo amp and reamp. But man thats tone........
Are those single coils (1st guitar)passive and the humbuckers active ? You compare 2 different aninals man. The price ain't the reason of the difference
All Nightmare Long!!! 🎶
after to listening to it over and over again o think that the Higher end definitely has a better sound, it sounds smoother, more refined, and has more bass in it. The tone texture itself is still the same.
Both sounds very thin. Could just be the amp’s tone, could just be my preference, but I’m not a big fan of either of them. Then again I’ve always preferred super ripping distortion like in AJFA. No hate intended, love the vids!
Edit: yes I know death magnetic didn’t have the most ripping tone, and this is pretty close, but even then it sounds just a little thin to my ears
the harmonics come through better, but that's really about it
How can you tell with all that distortion? 🤔
Intonation and tuning seems to be better on more expensive guitars, plus the feel.
The pricier one does sound like it has more harmonics in the tone, but they’re almost the same
The second one has more mids and a tighter bottom end.
The second one has more of a crispy tone with the power chord
Considering one is single coil and the other is humbuckers there should be a huge difference in tone. I have a tele clone with humbuckers that have a single coil switch and the tone change is like night and day. You should have done a clean sound comparison to make this fair as I guess your amp and effects are covering over the tone.
As with all expensive guitars they sound slightly better than the cheaper one and the build quality and materials used are normally a lot better but it’s usually not worth 7x the price
I can hear the quality on the second guitar.
Pickup change is cheap and well worth it. Throw a nice pup in that cheaper model, and it should sound pretty solid.
Yes they do sound different. But those pickups on the less expensive model aren't the same design as Fishman fluence. Apples and oranges!!!
Ibanez is kinda going the PRS route and making their lower end stuff sound so good it’s hard to justify their higher end gear.
I have a $1600 premium sr bass and a $2500 prestige sr bass. The bartolini customs do stomp the cheaper ones like the SRF705 I have, but the electronics on the modern premiums are just better and honestly the nordstrand pickups are solid. I wanna get one of the premiums with the Aguilars, maybe another 6 string, my old cheap one is an exception to this comment lol
I have a but load of Ibanez s and the cheap ones are some of the best value u can get but the more expensive ones are still worth it
I just wish ibanez would make more RGT models
Yes of course
I actually like the sound of the $350 guitar better 😂
I hear a difference but it's only a difference in taste that will make a difference.
If I'm being honest, I like the cheaper one more. It has a TEENIE bit less gain, which means you have a little more wiggle room for the amp's gain
All nightmare long? 🤘