- Thermo Aged™ African mahogany neck with low oval neck profile and rounded fretboard edges

The low oval neck profile makes strumming chords easier, while the rounded fretboard edges provide superior playability. Thermo aging, a special drying process, makes the neck light and hard, providing excellent stability and enhanced resonance.

- Rosewood fretboard
The rosewood fretboard provides a solid, well-balanced tone with focused midrange.

- Solid African mahogany top
The solid African mahogany top offers a warm, full midrange and bright tone.

- African mahogany back and sides
The African mahogany back and sides offer a warm, full midrange.

- Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle pickup
The Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle pickup accurately translates that full sound to any amplification system you connect it to.

- Custom Ibanez electronics with volume and tone controls
The guitar also features built-in treble and bass controls to shape the tone, making it suitable for a variety of applications for modern musicians.

- Rosewood scalloped bridge
The scalloped, lightweight bridge improves vibration efficiency for better resonance and provides more flexibility for adjusting the action than a typical bridge.

- Ibanez Advantage™ bridge pins
These pins really are an advantage over older pins. Advantage™ pins are easier to remove and replace than standard pins. A special bulb-shaped end makes the pin easy to grip and also prevents it from being pushed in too far. Best of all, with Advantage™, the pin and string stay in place.

****Special Features ****

- A.I.R. Port
Through intensive research and development, we have designed the A.I.R. port with a unique internal structure that reflects sound waves and guides them to exit through a precisely positioned soundhole. As a result, musicians can control what they are playing with greater clarity, enhancing the overall playing experience.

- Advanced Auditorium body
With the Advanced Acoustics concept of “Reimagining the acoustic experience” in mind, we carefully designed the new Advanced Auditorium body shape, based on our research into the overall Auditorium body shape. After many rounds of prototyping, the Advanced Auditorium body has a slightly wider waist, which has moved slightly toward the neck. Thanks to these changes, this shape offers richer low mids and a better body-weight balance, something conventional Auditorium bodies tend to lack.

- X-M bracing for the AAM series
After more than two years of trial and error, research, and prototyping, Ibanez developed its own X-M bracing specifically for Advanced Auditorium guitar bodies to produce the best sound for the stage and studio. The carefully designed scalloped X-M bracing, tone bars, and finger bracing efficiently transmit string vibrations from the bridge to the body. This bracing provides a wide dynamic range and excellent response. The mids are slightly scooped for better tonal balance, and the highs have the clarity of steel strings while retaining the warmth of nylon strings.

- Functional tapered headstock
The new headstock shape is the result of extensive research. Its tapered shape provides a lighter weight, as well as straight string alignment that improves tuning stability and reduces any neck twist.

- Advanced access cutaway
Its deep straight cut (from the 18th fret) and shaved side allow incredible access to the higher frets.

- Color: High-gloss rustic black