Ibanez AZES40 Electric Guitar - Purist Blue | dyna-MIX9 Switching
Instrument Type: Double-cutaway solidbody electric guitar
Neck Specifications: One-piece maple neck with AZES C profile, 9.84-inch (250mm) radius, satin polyurethane finish, and All Access bolt-on neck joint
Body Material: Solid poplar body finished in gloss polyurethane with a multi-ply mint green pickguard
Pickup Configuration: HSS layout with an Accord bridge humbucker and dual Essentials single-coil middle/neck pickups (all passive ceramic magnetics)
Hardware & Bridge: Ibanez T106 tremolo bridge with comfort round steel saddles, 10.5mm string spacing, and split-shaft die-cast machine heads
Scale & Nut Width: 25-inch (635mm) scale length, 42mm synthetic nut, and 22 medium frets on a jatoba fretboard
High-Performance Ergonomics and Resonant Tonewood Architecture
Intermediate Scale Length and All Access Neck Joint
The physical foundation of this model bridges vintage tracking comfort with elite performance tolerances. Built from highly resonant poplar, the asymmetrical body provides a balanced, mid-forward acoustic core characterized by crisp articulation and an even low-end distribution. Upper register fret access is optimized through the carved heel design of the All Access neck joint, which drops the neck seating deeper into the pocket to clear the palm when working up to the 22nd fret. The intermediate 25-inch scale length reduces overall string tension, making standard pitch bends smoother and chording positions tighter across the entire fretboard array. The back body contours adapt organically to sitting or standing performance positions, minimizing muscle fatigue over extended tracking sessions.
C-Profile Maple Neck and Balanced Jatoba Fingerboard
The neck architecture utilizes a premium solid maple construction that resists mechanical twist and environmental shifts, stabilizing the wood fibers against climate shifts, humidity fluctuations, and rigorous mechanical tension. This maple construction hosts a 9.84-inch radius jatoba fretboard, bringing a fast feel and dense mid-range snap to complex chord voicings and rapid lead passes. Crowned with 22 medium frets, the neck assembly eliminates the friction felt during extreme wide-interval string bends. The fretboard wire profile ensures exceptionally long-term wear resistance, protecting the crown profile from premature pitting or grooving while keeping intonation precise.
Advanced Ceramic Magnetics and Expanded Matrix Electronics
Accord and Essentials Passive Voice Matrix
Sonically anchored by an Accord bridge humbucker and two Essentials single-coils engineered with ceramic magnets, the onboard electronics deliver a powerful voice optimized for overdriven tube preamps and high-gain digital profiling rigs. The bridge humbucker is wound for focused note separation, punching through complex dense mixes with structural midrange authority and tight, percussive bass transients. Conversely, the neck and middle single-coils yield a rich, liquid-smooth response with rounded top-end overtones, perfect for clean jazz syncopations, blues phrasing, or soaring high-register fusion leads. Both pickup designs maintain minimal handling noise and reject external interference, ensuring clean tracking even when driving high-gain saturation stages.
Onboard dyna-MIX9 Switchable Routing Network
The real power of this tonal design lies in the integration of the dyna-MIX9 switching matrix, controlled via a 5-way blade selector and an secondary Alter Switch toggle. This setup unleashes nine distinct pickup configurations, transcending standard HSS boundaries. Moving the Alter Switch activates specific routing paths that shift the coils between parallel runs and pristine series-connected humbucking operations, effectively simulating a neck humbucker voice by combining the neck and middle positions. Furthermore, the specialized wiring matrix introduces an authentic single-coil character that preserves low-end presence and output level, preventing the typical volume drops associated with simple coil-splitting. This allows you to jump from aggressive metal rhythms to glass-clear funk strums instantly without touching your amp's volume trim or pedalboard gain staging.
Ibanez AZES40 Electric Guitar - Purist Blue | dyna-MIX9 Switching
Instrument Type: Double-cutaway solidbody electric guitar
Neck Specifications: One-piece maple neck with AZES C profile, 9.84-inch (250mm) radius, satin polyurethane finish, and All Access bolt-on neck joint
Body Material: Solid poplar body finished in gloss polyurethane with a multi-ply mint green pickguard
Pickup Configuration: HSS layout with an Accord bridge humbucker and dual Essentials single-coil middle/neck pickups (all passive ceramic magnetics)
Hardware & Bridge: Ibanez T106 tremolo bridge with comfort round steel saddles, 10.5mm string spacing, and split-shaft die-cast machine heads
Scale & Nut Width: 25-inch (635mm) scale length, 42mm synthetic nut, and 22 medium frets on a jatoba fretboard
High-Performance Ergonomics and Resonant Tonewood Architecture
Intermediate Scale Length and All Access Neck Joint
The physical foundation of this model bridges vintage tracking comfort with elite performance tolerances. Built from highly resonant poplar, the asymmetrical body provides a balanced, mid-forward acoustic core characterized by crisp articulation and an even low-end distribution. Upper register fret access is optimized through the carved heel design of the All Access neck joint, which drops the neck seating deeper into the pocket to clear the palm when working up to the 22nd fret. The intermediate 25-inch scale length reduces overall string tension, making standard pitch bends smoother and chording positions tighter across the entire fretboard array. The back body contours adapt organically to sitting or standing performance positions, minimizing muscle fatigue over extended tracking sessions.
C-Profile Maple Neck and Balanced Jatoba Fingerboard
The neck architecture utilizes a premium solid maple construction that resists mechanical twist and environmental shifts, stabilizing the wood fibers against climate shifts, humidity fluctuations, and rigorous mechanical tension. This maple construction hosts a 9.84-inch radius jatoba fretboard, bringing a fast feel and dense mid-range snap to complex chord voicings and rapid lead passes. Crowned with 22 medium frets, the neck assembly eliminates the friction felt during extreme wide-interval string bends. The fretboard wire profile ensures exceptionally long-term wear resistance, protecting the crown profile from premature pitting or grooving while keeping intonation precise.
Advanced Ceramic Magnetics and Expanded Matrix Electronics
Accord and Essentials Passive Voice Matrix
Sonically anchored by an Accord bridge humbucker and two Essentials single-coils engineered with ceramic magnets, the onboard electronics deliver a powerful voice optimized for overdriven tube preamps and high-gain digital profiling rigs. The bridge humbucker is wound for focused note separation, punching through complex dense mixes with structural midrange authority and tight, percussive bass transients. Conversely, the neck and middle single-coils yield a rich, liquid-smooth response with rounded top-end overtones, perfect for clean jazz syncopations, blues phrasing, or soaring high-register fusion leads. Both pickup designs maintain minimal handling noise and reject external interference, ensuring clean tracking even when driving high-gain saturation stages.
Onboard dyna-MIX9 Switchable Routing Network
The real power of this tonal design lies in the integration of the dyna-MIX9 switching matrix, controlled via a 5-way blade selector and an secondary Alter Switch toggle. This setup unleashes nine distinct pickup configurations, transcending standard HSS boundaries. Moving the Alter Switch activates specific routing paths that shift the coils between parallel runs and pristine series-connected humbucking operations, effectively simulating a neck humbucker voice by combining the neck and middle positions. Furthermore, the specialized wiring matrix introduces an authentic single-coil character that preserves low-end presence and output level, preventing the typical volume drops associated with simple coil-splitting. This allows you to jump from aggressive metal rhythms to glass-clear funk strums instantly without touching your amp's volume trim or pedalboard gain staging.
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