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I have an Ibanez Artcore (ES-335 knockoff for those not familiar) and it’s a wonderful instrument. They sure know how to make a guitar.
As for the more ”traditional” Ibanez market, the Superstrats, they’re bloody brilliant.
Is the neck stable? Does it intonate? Do *you* like it? Any of the pointy Ibanez I’ve played tick all those boxes (I like the thin ‘Wizard’ necks).
And if your boxes are ticked, then balls to what anyone else thinks. The right guitar is the one you like.
Whether I'd have thought the same if I didn't see the guitar I can only wonder - see the Billy Corgan thread for all the talk of expectations and biases etc.
There are always things in the Ibanez catalogue which appeal to me, and that's been true for the last 35 years or more. If they made just a few with thicker necks I would be very happy to buy some!!
To get back to the OP, I don't understand why anyone would pick on you over your choice of guitar, be it Ibanez or anything else. But as it happens you've picked a respected and very popular brand which puts you in company with a lot of great players. There's nothing to criticise.
The thing that puts me off the Jems is the ‘monkey grip’, especially on the floral ones.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But of the superstrats, the one which appealed most was the Radius, which was sort of the basis for the JS series. I like that rounded, no sharp edges shape. Stick a Nocaster neck on one of those and I'd be happy...
tell em to fuck off and find folk that appreciate your playing!!!!!
And yes. A Radius model with a Nocaster neck sounds dreamy
Without sounding like a judgemental prick, there are bands at the rehearsal studio we use that turn up looking the spitting image of 'cool' indie bands (that's an oxymoron, if ever there was one) and can't play for toffee. They'll swagger round with roll-ups and tins of Red Strip and tight jeans and Aviator sunglasses inside but can't seem to operate a tuner between them.
I guess my point is that let your musicianship do the talking.
They were all quality guitars, so easy to play and sounded immense. I love the Ibanez brand and I’ll have more someday.
My advice would be to lose the band
Makes me think they can actually get so far on image alone. Maybe there's an audience who are in to indie bands as a fashion statement rather than being music people.
To the people that asked, first of all that band doesn't exist anymore. Honestly I didn't even paid attention to what they were playing, but they were constantly saying it sounded bad.
I do believe that part of it is on my side, but usually people say "I like how you play but your guitar sounds crap". So really I don't know if I sound crap or the instrument.
As I mentioned, I wasn't living in UK before and in the country I am from (Italy) I came across loads of musicians with a genuine dislike for Ibanez.
Down there there's a common sentence saying "I don't talk about music with Ibanez players", and even an italian band used this line on one of their song lyrics (but in a "positive way", having fun of it).
Back in the days I already had some initials negative comments, before buying, which I ignored.
The worst experience was probably when we paid a studio for 3 days to record a couple of tracks (with another previous band). The owner of the studio was also the person recording and mixing, and he spent more time talking bad about my guitar than helping me to set it properly (in the record it sounds awful).
First of all he said Ibanez cannot achieve the same warmth, nice tone and power like a good guitar, because the neck it's too thin to be able to properly resonate the vibrations, comparing it to other "normal" guitars.
Then he said that Ibanez "rips off" their customers by selling bad cheap pickups. He made the comparisons that when you buy a Stratocaster or Les Paul, you have in your hand the identical instrument that your favourite guitarist is playing on stage or records, while instead when you buy and Ibanez, you're buying a sort of "official counterfeit" version, and professional musicians that plays Ibanez use only models that have been built specifically for them, with good components.
As I said, I have not intention to sell my Ibanez, but I do believe something has always been wrong (I can hear it). Problem is, everyone has always accused the guitar (and maybe I even started to believe this at some point).
And to clarify any doubt, the neck is the part I like the most about the guitar.
"That's not what your mum said".