Ibanez AS113-BS

AS113-BS (Brown Sunburst) Artstar. Artstar is the top of the line in the Ibanez Artcore range, full-blooded hollow and semi-hollow instruments for professionals or someone who just wants a really good instrument without completely blowing their wallet. What distinguishes Artstar most is that it is extremely well built, good and beautiful wood and very good pickups and parts. Guitars that stand up to being compared to anything, regardless of price, on the market. AS113 is a semi hollow-body guitar, continuous center stock, just as you would expect from a good guitar of 335: piece. This makes the guitar very insensitive to feedback / rounding even at very strong volume. A guitar that works well whether you play clean or really distant and everything in between. The body is built of spruce logs with flamed maple in both sides and bottom, a both well-sounding and beautiful wood. The neck is a 3-piece set-in (glued) Nyatoh/maple neck with a bound ebony fingerboard with classic Acrylic/Abalone block inlays, a beautiful traditional look combined with maximum sound characteristics. Medium fretboard with Artstar Fret Edge Treatment. The mics are an Ibanez Super 58, which combines a smooth and nuanced tone with an ability to bite when needed. Works just as well for clean and traditional jazz sounds as for overdriven blues and rock sounds. Here combined with a Tri-Sound switch that allows the neck pickup to be run in series*, split** or in parallel***. Spec. - AS Artstar 3pc Nyatoh/Maple set-in neck - 22 frets - Spruce top/Flamed Maple back & sides - Bound Macassar Ebony fretboard w/Acrylic & Abalone block inlay - Medium frets w/Artstar fret edge treatment - Bone nut - Max body thickness: 2 5/8 /Width at lower bout: 15 3/4 - Super 58 (H) neck pickup - Super 58 (H) bridge pickup - Tri-sound switch - Gibraltar Artist bridge - Quik Change III tailpiece - Gold hardware - Hardshell case included - Recommended Bag: ISHB724-BK Neck. - Scale: 628mm/24.7 . - Width at nut: 43mm. - Width at fret 22: 57mm. - Thickness at 1st fret: 21mm. - Thickness at 9th fret: 24mm. - Radius: 305mmR. Body Dimensions: - Length: 19 1/4 - Width: 15 3/4 - Max Depth:2 5/8 * Series, both coils of 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, 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 is an extremely useful mode to get 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 unclear 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.