After a lot of pressure and after AZ fans modded their guitars to SSS, AZ now comes with just 3 Single Coils.
AZ is the result of several years of testing, with many of the world's best guitarists as test pilots, with the goal of producing the ultimate players player guitar. So an extremely good-sounding, easy-to-play and stable instrument that you should be able to play basically all styles of music with. Roasted/baked maple necks for stability no matter how you tour the planet and wherever you play. Stainless bands to make them almost indestructible and feel smooth and well-polished no matter how much you play. A perfectly functioning stand with an arm mount that won't loosen no matter how much you wear and pull on it.
These are new Seymour Duncan pickups named Fortuna. Nicer, more vintage-smelling pickups than the other models' Hyperion pickups. Think mics with lower output more angled towards clean and less distorted sounds. You get a larger dynamic range with wider frequency response. They are not better pickups than the Hyperion, just different pickups. The pickups are passive pickups with alnico magnets.
A compound radius fingerboard, from 228mmR to 305mmR. The other AZ models are 305 across the entire fretboard.
- AZ Oval CS-TECH wood roasted Maple 1 pc neck.
- Age body.
- Rosewood fretboard w/Mother of Pearl dot inlay.
- 22 frets.
- Jumbo Stainless steel frets w/Prestige Fret Edge Treatment.
- Bone nut.
- Super All Access Neck Joint.
- Luminescent side dot inlay.
- Ibanez T1502S tremolo bridge.
- Chrome hardware.
- Gotoh ® Magnum Lock machine heads w/HAP
- Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) neck pickup.
- Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) mid. pickup truck.
- Seymour Duncan Fortuna (S) bridge pickup.
- Non-recessed bridge cavity.
- Compound Radius Fretboard (228mm - 305mm)
- Hard case included.
The neck:
- 648mm/25.5" scale.
- Width at saddle: 42mm.
- Width at 24 bands: 56.4mm.
- Thickness at first strap: 20.5mm.
- Thickness at 12 bands: 22.5mm.
- Compound Radius Fretboard (228mm - 305mm).