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I’ve bought a new Ibanez S5470Q RBB for my 50[SUP]th[/SUP] birthday, and I’ve found a disappointing problem: some notes have an artificial and abrupt decay just few milliseconds before playing the note. It is most accentuated at the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] string 14[SUP]th[/SUP] fret (A-440Hz) and slightly less at the notes above and below.
It also happens, although not so pronounced, with the A-440 played on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] and the 4[SUP]th[/SUP] strings
Before I bought the S5470Q I read issues with sustain on the S series, but it was only reported with the 2008 models like the S5470BW. The S5470Q is the top of the series, made in 2011.
Most of the comments on the forums about this issue are unreliable, because they are the kind of “boy, you bought a thin guitar for metal, so what sustain do you expect?”. Those opinions are useless and uninformed because it is not a question of lack of sustain; it seems to be a problem of some part of the guitar resonating at the same frequency of that particular note but with opposed phase, that causes the cancelation of the vibration of the string right before that note is plucked.
It is not the pickups. I have tried to lower them to the maximum. Furthermore, I have replaced the originals with Dimarzio EVO. No change.
It is not the amplifier or the speakers. The result is the same with the guitar unplugged.
Another strange issue is that the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] string at the 15[SUP]th[/SUP] fret (D-587Hz) doesn’t have a natural sound, it is like “out of phase”, thinner tone with some sort of amplitude modulation.
Unfortunately, that was the last model that they had at the Ibanez Importer in Bangkok. So I cannot change it or try another one.
Any thoughts on this issue?
Besides that, I am very happy with my new baby
It also happens, although not so pronounced, with the A-440 played on the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] and the 4[SUP]th[/SUP] strings
Before I bought the S5470Q I read issues with sustain on the S series, but it was only reported with the 2008 models like the S5470BW. The S5470Q is the top of the series, made in 2011.
Most of the comments on the forums about this issue are unreliable, because they are the kind of “boy, you bought a thin guitar for metal, so what sustain do you expect?”. Those opinions are useless and uninformed because it is not a question of lack of sustain; it seems to be a problem of some part of the guitar resonating at the same frequency of that particular note but with opposed phase, that causes the cancelation of the vibration of the string right before that note is plucked.
It is not the pickups. I have tried to lower them to the maximum. Furthermore, I have replaced the originals with Dimarzio EVO. No change.
It is not the amplifier or the speakers. The result is the same with the guitar unplugged.
Another strange issue is that the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] string at the 15[SUP]th[/SUP] fret (D-587Hz) doesn’t have a natural sound, it is like “out of phase”, thinner tone with some sort of amplitude modulation.
Unfortunately, that was the last model that they had at the Ibanez Importer in Bangkok. So I cannot change it or try another one.
Any thoughts on this issue?
Besides that, I am very happy with my new baby