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Ibanez AZES Essentials AZES40 | A great value HSS Strat with top tonal versatility | Review & Demo

This is my in-depth look at the Ibanez AZES40, a new(ish!) and rather affordable HSS Fender Stratocaster-influenced guitar in the Ibanez AZES (AZ Essentials) family. At Thomann: https://bit.ly/AZES40rwm At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/an4dOb Designed by Ibanez in cooperation with iconic guitarist and teacher Tomo Fujita, the AZES range aims to deliver the tone, versatility and playability of the brand’s AZ series to students and players on a budget – and the €329/$349 AZES40 totally succeeds in that mission! The Strat-like AZES40 is built to be easy to play. It has a poplar body with a maple neck and a jatoba fingerboard. The guitar’s medium frets, 25” scale length and 250mm (10”) fingerboard radius have been chosen to make everything as comfortable for beginners and students as possible. Being an HSS Strat-type, the AZES40 is incredibly versatile tonally too. You have two Ibanez Essentials single coil pickups and an Ibanez Accord humbucker at your disposal, plus an Alter Switch, which gives you even more tonal options – watch on to hear them all in action! In the video, I play the AZES40 in as many different styles as I can – from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal and more – to find out just how well this budget axe performs, and to see if it stands up to its natural competitors in the affordable HSS world: the Squier Strat and the Yamaha Pacifica! Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits: 00:00 Hello! 00:13 Introduction to the AZES40 01:09 Specs and info 04:34 The neck 05:28 Today’s rig and plan Clean Sounds 06:24 Clean tone reference chords on all pickups/Alter Switch options 07:03 Poppy barre chords 07:18 Blues progression 07:31 Ringing open indie pop chords 07:46 Country ballad arpeggios 07:59 Country lead sound 08:06 Ambient indie arpeggios 08:25 60s rock rhythm tone 08:36 Funky barre chords 08:50 Funky rhythm tone and vibrato test 09:11 Droning indie chords 09:26 Tone control test 10:20 Strummed folk chords Crunch Sounds (Clean Channel w/Greer Lightspeed) 10:38 Groovy classic rock riff 11:05 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff 11:23 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff 11:36 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff 11:52 Classic rock riff 12:09 Indie octave chords riff 12:33 Indie rock rhythm sound 12:50 Edgy indie rock chords 13:04 Indie open string riff on all pickups 13:36 Indie rock barre chords 14:01 Volume control roll-off test 14:47 Fat indie rhythm chords 15:04 Indie rock octave chords Lead Channel Sounds 15:33 Classic hard rock riff 15:50 Hard rock riff 16:07 Glam rock riff 16:24 Alternative rock riff 16:38 Pop punk riff 16:51 Pop punk melodic lead riff 17:07 Green Day inspired punk rock riff 17:21 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff 17:32 Punk rock power chords 17:46 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) 18:02 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D tuning) 18:27 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D tuning) Clean Channel w/Revv G3 Distortion Pedal (all in Drop D tuning) 18:43 Metal chugging riff 18:58 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang 19:10 Hardcore punk riff 19:25 Thrash metal riff 19:36 My thoughts 20:29 First impressions out of the box 20:48 Weight 21:10 Setup and the vibrato bridge 21:55 Build quality and hardware 23:09 Playability and neck 23:43 Sounds and versatility 26:03 What’s the competition for the AZES40? 27:51 My conclusions on this guitar 29:47 Thanks and goodbye Check out the AZES31 too, it’s awesome: https://bit.ly/IbanezAZES31rwm My setup was as follows: I ran the AZES40 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using my Greer Lightspeed for the overdrive and my Revv G3 for the 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. Here’s some links to those bits of gear: ----- H&K Black Spirit 200 head: https://bit.ly/HKBS200rwm Greer Lightspeed: https://bit.ly/GreerLightspeedRWM Revv G3: https://bit.ly/RevvG3RWM Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): https://bit.ly/Scarlett414RWM ----- Enjoy! ----- Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe. #Ibanez #IbanezGuitars #IbanezAZES 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