Ibanez RG7420EX-BKF

RG7420EX-BKF (Black Flat) Ibanez electric guitar 7-string. Ibanez has been the market leader in 7-string guitars for many years now: RG7420EX is a 7-string model in the Ibanez Standard series, with an Edge-Zero II-7 tremolo. A guitar that works for far more than dangling low riffs that make your pants flutter. The guitar has a 3-piece Wizard II-7 neck of Maple. The neck is a standard 648mm/25.5" scale. The body is made of Meranti, which gives a smooth frequency response across the entire register. The smooth frequency response also makes it very suitable for distorted sounds, it glues the sound together nicely without it being either scattered or unclear. Spec: - Wizard II-7 3-pc Maple neck. - Meranti body. - Jatoba fretboard w/Whidte dot inlay. - Jumbo frets. - Quantum 7 (H) neck pickup. - Quantum 7 (H) bridge pickup. - Edge-Zero II-7 tremolo bridge. - 009/.011/.016/.024/.032/.042/.054 D'Addario EXL strings. - Black hardware. Fitting case: M300C. Fitting bag: IGB540-BK. Neck: - Scale: 648mm/25,5 . - Width at Nut: 48mm. - Width at Last Fret: 68mm. - Thickness at 1st: 19mm. - Thickness at 12th: 21mm. - Radius: 400mmR. The mics are Ibanez QM-7, connected on a 5-position switch with common tone and volume control. The modes you can access on the switch are. 1Stallmick in series* 2. Stallmick split** together with split center mic. 3. Center mic 4. Neck mic with the coils connected in parallel***. 5. Neck mic in series * Series, both coils on the mic are connected in series after each other and the mic gives as much output and power as it is designed for. If you read about the mic on the manufacturer's website, it is this mode that is described. The mic is then noise canceling and completely silent. ** Split, that the mic is split means that one of the mic's two coils is turned off and becomes a single coil (only one active coil). This means that you get half the output and power of the mic when the coils are connected in series. The mic loses its hum canceling ability when one coil is turned off. But modes 2 and 4 are hum canceling and quiet when the active coil on the stall (mode 2) or throat mic (mode 4) is connected in parallel with the center mic. It gives a weaker, brighter and more open sound with a cleaner, clearer and firmer bass. A sound that is very well suited to clean and semi-distant sounds (or for that matter, to open up even a hard distant sound). Since only one coil is active, you can choose whether you want the active coil towards the bridge or towards the neck, which affects how it sounds, warmer closer to the neck and brighter closer to the bridge (requires physically turning the mic in the guitar). *** Parallel, the mic's two coils are connected in parallel with each other. It gives a weaker, cleaner, clearer and slightly lower bass sound than when the coils are connected in series. How much weaker the mic becomes by being connected in parallel, there is no clear or exact answer to, it depends entirely on the construction of the mic. Mics that are constructed of two identical coils will be about 25-33% of the output the mic has in series when connected in parallel, some mics will be even weaker than that and some have as much as 50% of the output it has in series. If you talk about resistance (ohms), it has about ¼ of the ohms it measures in series left if you connect it in parallel (on a mic with two identical coils). The drop in output also makes the mic more dynamic, the sound becomes less compressed and reacts more to the nuances of one's attack and play. There will be, for example, a more prominent difference between loose and hard plectrum hits. It's an extremely useful mode for getting a softer, cleaner, clearer and more dynamic sound, most often used in the neck mode. Great for getting a good clean sound out of a slightly hotter humbucker that otherwise easily becomes tinny, flat, sterile and lifeless. Or to clean up an indistinct neck pick when playing with distorted sounds, or why not to get a more open and vibrant crunch sound. The difference in output is not perceived as great as it may seem on paper, especially not with distorted sounds. In hotter humbuckers, parallel connection is usually a better option than splitting to get a weaker and more vibrant sound. The mic is still hum canceling and quiet.