2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ24S1F | Incredible tones and quality for $549 | In-depth Review & Demo скачать в хорошем качестве

2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ24S1F | Incredible tones and quality for $549 | In-depth Review & Demo

This is the 2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ24S1F in Transparent Black Sunburst: the new, affordable $549/€549 workhorse many of us guitar players have been waiting for! ----- Get this guitar at Thomann (EU): https://thmn.to/thocf/rbsb61tz38 Or at Sweetwater (USA): https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4Gd7En ----- The China-made AZ Standard guitars – this version has two humbuckers, but there’s also an HSS version available – complete the Ibanez AZ family for me. Previously, you could get the sub $400 AZES as a budget entry level guitar… and then it was straight on to the $1000+ Premium guitars. The AZ Standard sits at a price point that won’t offend anybody, and when you see the specs, the guitar starts to look like a no-brainer. The AZ24S1F has an alder body with a beautiful flame maple top (you can also get it in Transparent Turquoise Burst and Violin Sunburst). The 25.5” scale neck is roasted maple, with a jatoba fingerboard and 24 jumbo stainless steel frets. You get Ibanez’s T106 vibrato bridge and locking tuners to keep things stable. For the tones, you get a pair of Ibanez Modern Custom humbuckers. Thanks to the dyna-MIX10 switching system with Alter Switch, though, you get ten different pickup switching combinations, from full-fat humbucking tones to biting single coil sounds, and Ibanez’s Power Tap function. Being an Ibanez, you can expect a top level fit and finish too, so this looks like an awful lot of guitar for the money. So, just how good is the AZ Standard? Is it set to become the next go-to Super Strat for under $1000? That’s what we’re about to find out! In the video, I put the guitar through its paces in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal, and more – let’s see how it handles it! Let me know your thoughts on the AZ Standard in the comments. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the video where ‪@EytschPi42‬ and I compare the AZ Standard to the AZES, Premium and Prestige models:    • 2025 Ibanez AZ Standard | The new $549 wor...   Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits: 00:00 Hello! 00:20 Introduction to the AZ Standard 01:24 Specs and info 02:21 dyna-MIX10 switching system/Alter Switch explanation 05:22 Today’s rig and plan Clean Sounds 06:09 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings 06:54 Droning grunge chords 07:13 Country tones 07:31 Funk rhythms 07:44 Poppy barre chords 08:16 Strummed folk pop chords 08:34 Smooth arpeggios 08:53 Ringing open indie pop chords 09:06 Art pop chords 09:18 Folk pop chords 09:37 Tone control test Light and Medium Overdrive Sounds 10:35 Droning alt rock octaves 10:56 Garage rock riff 11:12 Southern rock arpeggios 11:32 Upbeat indie barre chords 11:56 Volume control roll off test 12:16 Fat indie rock rhythm chords 12:46 Choppy barre chords 13:03 Kings Of Leon inspired riff 13:16 Indie rock octaves 13:46 Classic rock riff 13:59 Quacky rock riff 14:08 Driving rock riff 14:22 AC/DC inspired riff 14:40 Airbourne inspired rock riff 14:51 Hendrix inspired riff 15:10 Groovy rock riff Heavy Overdrive Sounds 15:37 80s rock riff 15:59 Glam rock riff 16:19 ZZ Top inspired riff 16:30 Hard rock riff 16:47 Van Halen inspired riff 17:08 Single note melodic rock riff 17:28 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff 17:46 Alternative rock tones 18:24 Punk rock sounds 19:30 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) 19:46 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D) 20:11 Rage Against The Machine inspired riff (Drop D) 20:27 Thrash riff Heavy Distortion Sounds (all in Drop D) 20:37 Metal chugging riff 20:55 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang 21:07 Hardcore punk breakdown 21:22 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff 21:35 Chug test 21:56 Hardcore punk riff 22:08 My thoughts 22:55 First impressions, looks, price 23:29 Weight 23:53 Build quality and hardware 24:55 Playability and neck 25:31 Sounds and pickups 28:35 What other similar guitars are out there? 30:59 My conclusions on the AZ Standard and why you should buy it My setup was as follows: I ran the guitar into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. --- Get all this gear at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thocf/jkhog8l06m Get all this gear at Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXqdE0 --- Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe. #Ibanez #IbanezAZ #AZStandard #IbanezAZStandard #RichWordsMusic Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much! ‪@IbanezOfficial‬ ‪@IbanezGermany‬