Ibanez Q Standard 7-String Electric Guitar Natural Flat
Description
The Ibanez QX527PE Q Standard 7-string electric guitar represents a bold trend in guitar design and performance. This headless instrument fuses cutting-edge innovation with premium tonewoods and proprietary Ibanez components to inspire guitarists of all genres. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries of technical metal or exploring uncharted sonic territory in extended-range realms, the QX527PE empowers you to reach new creative heights.
Pioneering Headless Design With Signature Hardware
From the moment you pick it up, the QX527PE feels like a guitar from the future. Its headless design eliminates the traditional headstock, resulting in a more compact, lightweight and ergonomic body that’s comfortable during hours-long gigs or just practicing on the couch at home. Ibanez’s ingenious Mono-Tune bridge provides reliable tuning stability and precise intonation, with easily adjustable string height and low-mass saddles encouraging organic vibrational resonance. A custom one-piece string-locking mechanism at the opposite end clamps down for pitch-perfect tuning, while also facilitating quick and painless string changes. This innovative hardware optimizes sustain for powerful, soaring tone.
Pale Moon Ebony Top Delivers Rich, Focused Tone
An integral part of its sleek exterior, the QX527PE boasts premium tonewoods selected to produce a rich, focused tone with excellent projection. The pale moon ebony top offers beautiful visual depth while imparting a strong midrange attack and articulate high end. Complementing this is the resonant nyatoh body, which provides full-bodied lows and low mids with superb sustain. Together, these woods create a versatile sonic palette ideal for everything from heavy riffing to shimmering cleans.
Ergonomic Neck Tailored for Virtuosic Playing
Facilitating speed and comfort is the QX527PE’s Parallel Wizard 5-piece roasted maple/bubinga neck. Its uniform 19 mm thickness and unwavering heat-treated construction empower you to fly across the neck with effortless dexterity, aided by 24 jumbo Jescar EVOgold frets. A hugely innovative feature includes placing each fret at an 8° slant—an ergonomic angle accommodating a higher hand position many technical players favor. This subtle angle promotes a more natural feel when executing advanced techniques like tapping and bass-inspired “thumping” riffs, such as those perfected and popularized by prog metal pioneer Tosin Abasi of Animals as Leaders.
Q58 Humbuckers Unleash Potent Punch
Powering the Ibanez QX527PE 7-string’s aggressive voice are proprietary Q58 humbucking pickups, engineered specifically for headless guitars. The bridge humbucker delivers a tight, snarling punch that cuts through even the densest mix. In contrast, the neck humbucker produces a bold, throaty roar that sings with vibrant harmonics. Both pickups provide clearly defined note separation and articulation, making them ideal partners for low-end riffing and virtuosic lead work. Integrated dyna-MIX10 wiring conjures 10 distinct voices on demand, all at the flip of the 2-way Alter Switch and 5-way blade selector.
Utilizing an innovative headless design, carefully considered construction, and custom hardware and electronics, the Ibanez QX527PE Q Standard 7-string electric guitar empowers you to push the boundaries of your playing. This extended-range instrument warmly welcomes 6-string guitarists to the 7-string chug club for the first time, thanks to its many ergonomic carves and contours built with ultimate playability in mind. Don’t sleep on the Ibanez QX527PE 7-string headless guitar—with limited quantities, it won’t be here for long.
Features
- Pale Moon Ebony top and Nyatoh body for powerful tone
- Parallel Wizard 5-piece Roasted Maple and Bubinga neck
- Q58 humbuckers specifically voiced for headless guitars
- Dyna-MIX10 switching system with Alter Switch for tonal variety
- Mono-Tune bridge for precise intonation and stable tuning
Specs
- Top: Pale Moon ebony
- Body wood: Nyatoh
- Shape: Wizard C
- Wood: 3-piece roasted maple/bubinga
- Finish: Versatile for various playing styles
- Material: Ebony
- Fret size: Jumbo Jescar Evogold
- Inlay: Luminescent side dots
- Configuration: HH
- Neck: Q58 H-H humbucker
- Bridge: Q58 H-H humbucker
- Switching: Dyna-MIX10 with Alter Switch
- Sound variations: Ten options, realistic single coil sound from humbuckers
- Bridge: Mono-Tune, adjustable string height, wide intonation range
- Orientation: Right handed
- Strings: 7
- Case: Gig bag