Ibanez TAM100 Tosin Abasi Signature 8 String

Ibanez TAM100 Tosin Abasi Signature 8 String Overview

The Ibanez TAM100 Tosin Abasi Signature 8 string is definitely best described as cutting edge. It sports a balanced, resonant basswood body with a gorgeous figured maple top and killer electronics. Your fingers will fly on the slim 5-piece wenge/bubinga neck, while the double-locking fixed bridge delivers maximum intonation stability.

8-string guitars are a breed apart, and can bring an otherworldly intensity to your music. To prove the point, check out Animals As Leaders to hear dueling Ibanez 8 strings, as majestically wielded by Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes. The Ibanez TAM100 Tosin Abasi Signature is factory tuned to Tosin's preferred standard tuning plus 7th and 8th strings tuned to B and E, respectively.

Ibanez pretty much wrote the book on production 7 and 8 string electric guitars, giving players slender, fast necks that don't feel like baseball bats, pickups that scream, and bridges that can handle low tunings without buzzing. The TAM100 Tosin Abasi Signature sports an ideal 27" scale that keeps your low strings nicely tempered and tight-sounding, and the rest of the instrument feeling and sounding like a guitar- not a bass! Ibanez's 8 string design and construction techniques - including a titanium-reinforced 5-piece neck and the FX Edge III-8 double-locking fixed bridge - contribute to the instrument's unique, authoritative, eminently musical voice. Electronics-wise the DiMarzio Ionizer8 pickups in a HSH configuration are combined with a 5-way blade and a neck/bridge coil-tap switch to deploy everything from spanky cleans to blistering high-gain shred.

The revolution started in 1990, when Ibanez collaborated with Steve Vai on the first 7 string Universe, which established Ibanez as a leader in electric 7-string guitars. In the ensuing years, the instrument's staggering possibilities began to unfold as a new generation of alternative shredders pushed the musical envelope. As Ibanez 7 strings were being embraced by many rock and metal musicians, Ibanez introduced the groundbreaking 8 string guitar, which quickly became standard equipment for adventurous artists such as instrumental prodigy Tosin Abasi. This is the real deal- the ultimate 8 string..

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