2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ22S1F | Just how good is this $549 HSS workhorse? IN-DEPTH Review & Demo скачать в хорошем качестве

2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ22S1F | Just how good is this $549 HSS workhorse? IN-DEPTH Review & Demo

This is the 2025 Ibanez AZ Standard AZ22S1F in Transparent Turquoise Burst: the new, affordable $549/€549 HSS 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 model has the classic HSS pickup configuration, but there’s also a version available with two humbuckers – complete the Ibanez AZ family for me. Previously, you started out with the sub $400 AZES as a budget entry level guitar… and then it was straight on to the $1000+ Premium models. The AZ Standard sits at a price point that won’t offend anybody, and when you see the specs, the guitar starts to look even more attractive. The AZ22S1F has an alder body with a beautiful flame maple top (you can also get it in Transparent Black Sunburst). The 25.5” scale neck is roasted maple, with a jatoba fingerboard and 22 jumbo stainless steel frets. You get Ibanez’s T106 vibrato bridge and locking tuners to keep things stable. For the sounds, you get an HSS set of Ibanez Classic Custom pickups. Thanks to the dyna-MIX9 switching system with Alter Switch, though, you get nine different pickup switching combinations, from the full-fat bridge humbucker to a mix of classic biting and quacky biting single coil tones. 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 out 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 Essential, Premium and Prestige models:    • 2025 Ibanez AZ Standard | The new $54...   Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits: 00:00 Hello! 00:14 Introduction to the AZ Standard and HSS guitars 01:47 Specs and info 02:47 dyna-MIX9 switching system/Alter Switch explanation 04:34 The neck 05:28 Today’s rig and plan Clean Sounds 06:03 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings 06:42 Funk rhythms 06:55 Grungey droning chords 07:14 Country tones 07:31 Art pop chords 07:43 Blues progression 07:54 Ascending droning indie chords 08:07 Poppy barre chords 08:35 Folk pop chords 08:53 Tone control test 09:53 Atmospheric arpeggios Light and Medium Overdrive Sounds 10:11 Fat indie rock rhythm chords 10:41 Choppy barre chords 10:50 Southern rock arpeggios 11:10 Strokes-inspired riff 11:29 Garage rock riff 11:45 Alt rock riff 11:59 Upbeat indie barre chords 12:23 Volume control roll off test 12:45 Kings Of Leon inspired riff 12:51 Jangly indie rock riff 13:29 Groovy classic rock riff 13:55 Hendrix inspired riff 14:12 Classic rock riff 14:26 Airbourne inspired rock riff 14:36 More Hendrix stuff 14:56 AC/DC inspired riff 15:15 Quacky rock riff Heavy Overdrive Sounds 15:23 Van Halen inspired riff 15:42 Hard rock riff 15:58 Single note melodic rock riff 16:19 Alternative rock riff 16:42 Punk rock tones 17:07 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) 17:22 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D) 17:46 Rage Against The Machine inspired riff (Drop D) Heavy Distortion Sounds (all in Drop D) 18:02 Metal chugging riff 18:20 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang 18:31 Hardcore punk sounds 18:59 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff 19:42 My thoughts 20:22 First impressions, looks 20:55 Weight 21:18 Build quality and hardware 22:46 Playability and neck 23:23 Sounds and pickups 25:55 What other similar guitars are out there? 28:09 My conclusions on the AZ Standard HSS 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, Marshall 1959 Super Lead 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