solusash's Music Gear Setup

Get this. This is basically the budget JEM. I mean, the only differences are the electronics, the Lion's Claw routing, the Tree of Life inlay, and the Monkey Grip. Outside that, it's the same guitar. And while the electronics are different (this has the Ibanez Infinity series of pickups, while I'm pretty sure the 2010s series JEMs had DiMarzio Evolutions or Breeds, can't recall), they're still very nice, high output, killer sounding pup's.

So this was my main gigging axe for a while. Been 'round on some pretty hard gigs, it's road worthy as hell, sounds good, holds tune, you can REALLY lay on the trem arm like you're trying to break it off--I've done the Herman Li thing and used that to sling the guitar around with, and it's held in place. So the Trem is solid as all getout.

Electronics, as I said, they sound good. The way it's wired is the exact way a JEM is wired, so Steve Vai is the guy that came up with that, so you can get Les Paul type sounds and Strat type sounds out of it. Basically, it's a nice cross between the two, with some other sounds thrown in.

This'n, like other Ibanez guitars, has been discontinued. Either or, whatever this year's flavor is called, or the JEM Jr., do yourself a favor, and get it.