ML721-RGC Rose Gold Chameleon, Multi-Scale. S Ax Design Lab.
Multi Scale is what it sounds like, simply that each string has a different scale/time signature, longer on the low/thick strings and shorter on the high/thin ones.
Ibanez was the first to build Multi Scale, Fanned Frets, or whatever you want to call this amazing invention, on instruments that are not custom ordered boutique instruments (but a price tag after that). With multi scale you get an instrument that feels and plays completely balanced across the entire register, the ultimate compromise between two conflicting goals.
Multi Scale also has the advantage that it is extremely comfortable and ergonomic to play on, it is simply nice for the hands. They follow the hand's natural angle depending on where on the neck you play. The break-in time, the time to get used to playing with it, is zero. The hands adapt immediately without any problems whatsoever. The eyes take a little longer to get used to, maybe a quarter of an hour or so.
Instead of choosing an angled bridge of the traditional type, Ibanez has used a technique they have successfully used on their basses for many years called the mono-rail bridge. Simply described, each string is a stall, stalls that are completely separated from each other. This provides optimal isolation of each string and the strings can vibrate without affecting and inhibiting each other.
- Wizard 5pc Maple/Walnut neck.
- 648mm/25.5" at 6th string, 635mm/25" at 1st string.
- Nyato bodysuit.
- Rosewood fretboard w/Off-set white dot inlay.
- Luminescent side dit inlay.
- Jescar EVO Gold frets.
- Mono-rail bridge.
- Q58 (H) neck pickup.
- Q58 (H) bridge pickup.
- dyna-MIX10 switching system w/Alter switch.
- Gold hardware.
- Gotoh® MG-T Locking machine heads.
- Compatible case: M300C.
- Matching bag: IGB540BK.
The neck:
- Scale: 648mm/25.5" - 635mm/25".
- Width: 43mm at nut.
- Width: 58mm at 24F.
- Thickness: 19mm at 1F.
- Thickness: 21mm at 12F.
- Radius: 400mmR.