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Product Ref: 105099
The Ibanez APEX20 celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the release of Korn's self-titled album. The guitar is based on James "Munky" Shaffer's original Ibanez Universe guitar, so features a raft of features aimed at effortless playability and powerful tones.
The guitar has a custom colour scheme and features smooth and reliable playing features designed to withstand a professional musician's touring life.
The APEX20 is constructed from basswood: this is a tonally versatile and light weight material. These qualities make the APEX20 the ideal instrument for modern metal performance - it needs to be reliable and road-worthy whilst capable of delivering a balanced frequency response across low-end riffs.
The maple neck is a 3pc design for stable tuning and increased resonance. The jatoba fingerboard assists with low-end articulation and helps with your pick attack during complex riffs.
The DiMarzio Blaze bridge humbucker provides a scooped mid sound for a strong bass response without any mid-range muddiness. This tonality enables the pickup to handle fast soloing and complex chords with great clarity. When driven hard, this creates an almost Hi-Fi tone.
The Blaze neck single coil is an exceptionally tight sounding pickup that helps amplify all 7 strings with clarity and detail. Its neck position creates a warmer sound while the single coil tonality provides a more mellow response with increased brightness.
The Gibraltar Standard II-7 bridge is fixed directly to the guitar and provides optimal transfer of each individual string vibration. It has a smooth top-surface to create the most comfortable playing feel for the right-hand. Fixed bridges are inherently more stable than tremolo systems, and the Gibralta Standard creates exceptional tuning stability for the most heated of performances.
The APEX20 has a fast-playing thin neck with a custom APEX profile and 430mm radius, ensuring an easy reach over all 7 strings. The 24 frets are jumbo size for enhanced string contact and control, while the all-access neck joint and deep body cutaway allows effortless access to the top-end of the neck. This guitar is a sleek instrument that will enable the most brutal and aggressive of playing styles with a professional level of reliability to withstand a punishing life of gigging.