Ibanez Prestige AZ2402 Guitar Demo | Reverb Demo Video

Ibanez's AZ Series was a prominent highlight of NAMM 2018. The throwback designs of the body/headstock shape harken back to '82/'83 Ibanez models, but reworked for the modern player. Watch the video, hosted by guitarist Maru Martinez, and learn more about these exciting releases.
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[@jzaugust]

Honestly one of the best reviews i've seen so far, going through the cleans and more heavy tones with humble playing, and focusing on the guitar instead showing off some shredd soup tho, really Love it xD

[@RebelDashOne]

Binge watched so many guitar demos this past week. This is easily the best demo! Fantastic showcase of versatility.

[@clintonbungabong2316]

Finally some progression on a demo.

[@ryanchilton4425]

One of the few times that prog-ish clean riffs have left me feeling all warm and fuzzy. This is what a modern demo should be.

[@Beakphoto]

Wow, starting with the old RATT riff! Got me hooked in with the nostalgia trip, plus my first electric was an Ibanez.

[@jenernibai4437]

3:19 DT Stream of Consciousness, love it

[@melchiando]

I'm glad to see the old headstock back. great playing!

[@chessward4832]

Just an absolute joy to listen to. Thank you for sharing your talents with us! 🙏🏻

[@GildedEntries]

That is some super tasteful playing! Thanks, I’m really impressed with the guitar’s range.

[@Kabz8]

Maru did a great job with the review! DT riffage and PTH sweeps were dope

[@comment.highlighted]

Great guitar demo. I love the range of sounds you can get from the guitar. You did a fantastic job of showing off the guitar and not just shred all over the place 😊

[@juliuskreeft71]

She's chill af

[@Macacos]

Fantastic playing!

[@AkiraSpectrum]

Nice demo! Great tones. Awesome playing too btw!

[@krispayy6076]

This demo convinced me to save up and buy one

[@juancho-gs3wl]

The Best Ibanez Guitar in my Opinion yet. Looks Classie and Classic at the Same time. #love

[@sigilmagnisis1952]

The Tri-fade looks so killer.

[@jackellis7092]

Enjoyable playing

[@Fugue602]

Great playing!

[@novander]

Finally someone thay doesnt play the same licks as everyone else lmfao

[@matthewgordon2655]

Great playing.

[@deymemacedo7534]

Beautiful!

[@ph0kused]

stainless steel frets, locking tuners, alnico 5 balanced duncan pickups, plus the coil taps, and that sexy roasted neck - best bang for your buck in 2018 all genre axe - I have to say I own this guitar, and I own another ibanez with the sentient and pegasus SD pickups, these Hyperion sound a LOT like those, but more balanced, but you can DEFINITELY get your prog-djent metal on, I run this through a TS808 into a 5150, and it sounds nice and heavy and really well balanced... the cleans are amazing, it does strat sounds better than most new strats - and im not referring to the HSS az, im talking about the az242bc specifically, the 4 position tapped and untapped sound sooooo nice, and the power tap 5th position is amazing for cleans.

[@jackcross1580]

if your buck is $2700..........

[@jimtrotman85]

And the neck smells nice!

[@ph0kused]

@@jackcross1580 the premiums cost 1200 and have the same exact appointments, minus the alder for basswood body..i mean jems have basswood... also SS saddles instead of titanium. The premium is the best bag for your buck.... you still get SS frets, roasted maple, same pickups... i mean thats an insane value for 1200.

[@anthonydavella8350]

@@jackcross1580 I just got the prestige for way less than that

[@thelastcat8406]

people say its diffucult to tune , changes in any bend???

[@Ted_DiSanti]

If Ibanez wasn't THE modern guitar before, the AZ line has certainly cemented them with that title.

[@HansAaraas]

Great demo. Seems like a great guitar as well.

[@adam872]

Loved some of that riffing, especially the Ratt and Dream Theater. Nice clean tones too.

[@XhopebringerX777]

Is it CHON, Covet, Polyphia, Plini, Dance Gavin Dance approved?

[@nicholasflamel1134]

I like your clean and technical style.

[@Aalii6]

best demo ever

[@MeatyM8]

I could keep watching this demo because of the playing honestly

[@craigthomson3621]

Good demo - great playing and clear verbal explanations of features. The good news for us Southpaws is that this is available as a lefty AZ2402L.

[@brandonanderson2066]

Very lively sounding instrument.

[@darenwalker2517]

I didnt know she worked for Reverb, love her songs over on her youtube channel.

[@64siskat96]

round and round🤘 damn great taste

[@JohnsOnStrings]

Nice demo. 👍

[@patrickhybl3668]

Playing is awesome

[@OutLoudOutLoud]

hey cool a demo of someone playing something other than blues riffs.

[@JuanDavidBedoyaR]

I love her playing! She is incredible!!

[@filback1462]

I like it, because U can play all generes with it...

[@TJjjjjjjjjjj]

Yeah I stupidly purchased a Jazz only guitar ...complete waste of money

[@DinoNardelli]

I bought a Martin but brought it back because I found out it only plays bluegrass. ;)

[@danbennett2891]

Eddie made certain you would not be able to duplicate his sound on Ain't Talking very easily. But the RATT riffs were spot on, especially on the bends. Nice work!

[@Foxywaterable]

Some serious shred!

[@progpogs]

Ok THIS is epic 👌

[@OscarRodriguez-wm7dg]

Holy shit that playing was great

[@SagingC]

thank you

[@frankie6301]

That Ratt intro 🤘hell yeah!

[@j333ack]

What’s the song?

[@bipbipletucha]

@@j333ack round and round

[@Charnel.Flames]

Nice Sequoia Throne PTH sweeps!

[@NickolaiDuddits]

I really want one of these bad boys.

[@keegagongon]

Best demo ever?

[@sscustoms4842]

BEAUTIFUL! WE'LL TAKE 30 OF 'EM

[@randy4903]

My consciousness has been streamed!

[@khumgangte9246]

I'm buying this guitar

[@FaustPoon]

These Ibanez reverb videos are gonna sell a lot of guitars. Great demo.

[@francismcalister7811]

3:18 had me smile

[@legoharry100]

I like Andy’s new hairstyle.

[@rajkumarallam6236]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@GRINIGAMI]

loved the Dream Theater you threw in there haha.

[@heyitsDevriss]

Round and round!!!

[@64siskat96]

Miguel Brierley 🤘

[@adakhochalai]

My fender strat is always short of a few frets coz it's only 22 frets ....This looks like a good alternative

[@sjsphotog]

great playing. loved the Dream Theater riff thrown in there (my fave band)!

[@UniteAndAttack]

The other thing is the coil tap on this guitar has no volume drop I believe

[@mass2048]

Love the Dream Theater riff.

[@gianfrancoarteaga8235]

Excelente video, una consulta, que diferencia tienen y que significa TFF y TFB? Vi que a veces en el nombre de estas guitarras aparece eso y no entiendo que es. Gracias!!

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Im looking for a good beginner and high quality electric gitar for 1000-1200 dollars. What would you recomend? Want without a tremolo and looking for more of a blues sound. Looking at ibanez prestige gitars and Yamaha Revstar RS820CR or the RS620 and fenders made in mexico or japan or usa but all the choices make it so hard to find the best one for the money

[@eternalwoods6423]

Maru que hermosa estas, este video no lo habia visto

[@user-pn3yg1zg9j]

Maru, the third guitarist in Chon

[@jst601]

Can that bridge be set flush with the body, so that it's dive only?

[@edisonmirandilla7017]

How much is the price range of this model ? Nice color..

[@hemsfeldcustardale4005]

Oh shit was good baby

[@Okcdunk35]

What song is the first one? It’d be nice just to have a list of all the songs

[@user-ld9lq7qh1w]

At 4th min was it really a solo from sequoia throne???

[@UniteAndAttack]

4:09 was that Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne?

[@bloc01]

100% it was

[@Garbageaf]

Anyone know the song around 1:30?

[@NeilBolandGuitaristWriter]

Can I ask what this is going through?

[@middle_pickup]

What amp did she use here?

[@cabbycabby1770]

Good god please release these in more colors. There are like 4 blues, the sunburst and some red/yellow junk.

[@milok337]

Raaaaaaatttttt !!!!

[@brianpeterson5516]

What is her name ?

[@Briggie]

I am a very simple man. I hear Dream Theater’s “Stream of consciousness” and I give a like.

[@mathiasteixeira3298]

Or protest the hero ;)

[@cidkagenou2435]

in ending

[@gergelyboros8138]

@@mathiasteixeira3298 never heared of her.

[@elevenAD]

great demo, these sound kick ass but damn they cost a fortune!

[@ethanedwards9136]

Is that the same line of guitars that Chon plays?

[@victorbitencourt9481]

Yeah, apparently, I've seen Erick using it

[@noire1991]

I know this is late but everyone knows that that switch is not a coil tap feature right?

[@RobRicoh5150]

What's the guitar amp

[@jessbmarc]

why the headstock change? has ibanez been doing this recently?

[@felixandres693]

only on the AZ series

[@robjuujuu6405]

Its about time cant stand the standard head stock

[@XhopebringerX777]

You know she’s good when she plays, RATT, Van Halen, Dream theater and some Protest the Hero!

[@menthokjumbo]

3:18

[@cafuune]

best demo of this guitar that ive seen, the other ones they talk too much and play the same old boomer riffs.

[@liamtahaney713]

Well it's helpful when you sell it with ratt

[@Jcaburianhimself]

Does this not remind anybody of Guthrie Govan’s guitar?

[@RahulBasu6886]

Jake Ryan it is almost a Suhr Modern, which is what Guthrie used to play

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

@@RahulBasu6886 The Suhr guitar is probably 4 times more expensive and superior in every way to the Ibanez here. I played one along side Tom Anderson Drop Top... they are beautiful and play like a dream. The Anderson was £4,000...!

[@adamthered3566]

Mickeyislowd surprisely you would be wrong. I owned both this AZ and the suhr modern antique “Guthrie” and the only issue with the Az is the trem arm is wiggly and I did not like the saddles, I prefer smooth not vintage style. I swapped out the az Gotoh trem with a Gotoh 510 (the same on the suhrs) and it fixed my gripes. AND the suhr is 1k more than the AZ only 1k

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

What was the 'coil tap' feature...? I think you mean a 'coil split' feature. They are very different things. Generally only a single coil PU can be tapped where you wind the PU say half way then send that wire to a switch then continue usually until the PU is fully wound. Split is where you switch off one of the coils usually a Humbucker and only one coil is active to get the single coil sound.

[@itsmeagain1745]

As far as I know, this has both - standard Ibanez 5-way coil split with alter switch down, coil tap mode with alter switch up

[@Harmonic14]

I normally make this correction as well, but this actually does have both tapping and splitting.

[@thelickpolice1210]

1:30 play at 1.75 speed and you have Polyphia

[@KyleCanessa]

Discovered you on Instagram. So stoked to see another Jackson player! The Ratt riff was a great thing to see as my first KZbin viewing. Ibanez....meh.....

[@lautaroramirofacundogomezg9208]

jajaja wow. Ammm I have one answer. Do you like Dream Theater?

[@TeguhPrayogo]

Round And Round.... it's a RATT !!!

[@deezee8508]

2k for this guitar... Crazy!

[@garettn8631]

Ratt!

[@rasss556]

why these guitars always kinda sound like polyphia to me

[@hibernative]

rasif rahman Stiff body woods and coil tap I guess.

[@salmonline]

Kinda fucked up it's over $2,000, dontcha think?

[@adakhochalai]

This lady need to replace Paul from guitar world

[@mikusguitarius]

Nice demo... but maybe check the tuning before you start??

[@mogulin_da_skies7516]

Thank god you didn’t play some shitty riff the whole time from the 80s . Lol