u/Bear_EPTX

Put on one of those Batman The Animated Series Jazz videos.

Removed Killface OD and DiCosimo 360+ preamp, added Ashdown Macchiato and Triple Shot. Moved empress to end of chain before gate return and out.

Hey y’all. New to the Ibanez family. Got both within a week of each other (prices too good to pass up, ALFA stock with the Aftermaths, and the 2127 with one of the BK Rails pickup sets).

The Alfa was so good when I got it, I love the Aftermaths, and the neck felt really good compared to the ALMS I got to try in-store. Then I got the 2127… wow. A friend of mine who breathes Ibanez said I would feel “The Prestige Difference” and boy was he right. The neck profile is PERFECT. Just a little fretboard rounding and it’ll be 1000%.

Both were used, the Prestige moreso, the cosmo black is all but gone and the hardware is chudded out, but the bridge is super comfortable either way. Both Bare Knuckle sets sound amazing, and feel great. The Aftermaths are tight, punchy and dry, a bit scooped (compared to the rails) and have a nice extended top end, split tones are gorgeous almost hifi.

The rails pickups (dunno if its Impulse, Halcyon orrr Blackhawks) are a LOT more aggressive in the traditional sense, bigger and looser bottom end (still tight tho), PISSED AS FUCK MIDS, and a rolled off top end that still has clarity. Might be a bit hotter than the Aftermaths, hard to say. No split on the Prestige but I’ll be adding one, maybe a Series/Parallel instead.

Don’t ask me why I got both around the same time, I justify it because I let my guitarists use my gear and I wanted to have an extra for myself to begin writing with them, and one to replace a sterling that wasn’t baritone and had a floating non locking bridge that my lead player was using. We swap tunings and that guitar wasn’t happy with all the ups and downs. Plus, its almost my birthday, so these are almost-birthday gifts to myself. I guess.

Video is so compressed because I love to struggle and instead of just having video editing software I used like 3 apps for it. Still, figured I’d give some subtitles a 3/4 assed effort.

TL;DR Tremoverb sounded eh, Loop was Active. Loop Bypassed=Wow.

Channel cloning Orange to Modern= Woah.

EL34 Bias, Spongy and Diode Rectification=WOAGH

First half covers the loop tone suck and channel cloning (yes it definitely affects the clean mode on the orange channel, NOT just the vintage high gain) till about 8:50, then we try different bias/voltage settings.

Guitar is ~mostly~ in tune for drop c#.

Video cuts out a bit short cuz reddit only allows up to 15 mins, but its just some noodling and a goodbye.

Says it in the title. Tremoverb out of frame. First half is running through all positions on the strat, plus blended positions using Helmet’s “Pure” riff.

Phone compressed the audio but basically I just said I need a gate in the loop as the pickups are pretty hot. Also the wall power is pretty dirty here at the studio so it gets more noise than normal, was too lazy to plug it into one of my power banks. When you play its louder than the noise floor of the hiss anyway.

A while ago I wired up a new cab, and haven’t reaaaaally put it through its paces. Dialed in the tremoverb for it and oh my god it KILLS.

You’ve seen the cab in the pic with the blue PRS, but here’s what they sound like together. No pedals, just the Modern Red and onboard berb.