JEM 555

[Adji]

Okay, im looking into buying a JEM 555 (in white obviously and i wanted to know what they are like. No shops in my local area deal Ibanez so i have to travel in order to try one so i jsut wanted to know if travelling would be worth it. What do you guys think?

[WyldeStallion]

I started a thread very similar to this except I was going to buy the Jem7V because i heard from my friend that he was very a dissapointed with the 555, and just recently it broke while he was on stage and he was actually glad it broke cause he was getting fed up of it.

[Adji]

hmm, well my parents wont let me buy anything more expensive, damn parents and there inabillity to understand guitars. What about the RGT42FMDR

[WyldeStallion]

Oh sorry dude i never ment to put you off the guitar I was just saying what my friend thought but I was onced told by Paul Gilbert when i met him and asked him about guitars is "You can pick up a guitar and play it and think it sounds horrible, however someone else can play the exact same guitar and think its brilliant. Its all about your own ears". So if u can try to get a play of it, cause you may very well love the thing. And also its a nice guitar As for the RGT42FMDR I have never played that model or even seen it lol but i am sure someone else will have played it. ;D

[Willjay]

I used to have a Jem 555, in fact that was the first guitar that i actually really started practicing on all day every day! The thing that i really didn`t like about it was trem they used to have on them! They used to fit them with an Ibanez Lo-trs II trem, or something like that, and to me it was like a toy trem, really awful, always went out of tune, however, as far as i remember, they have since stopped using them and replaced that trem (on the Jem 555) with an Ibanez EdgPro II, which is IMO a really good trem, so who` know`s, it may be a great guitar to have now! I have a Maverick F1 now that has a really nice trem on it, i always wanted a trem that doesn`t swing about or make clanking noises when you use it, i also always wanted a trem that you could `flutter` (purring noise like Vai does!).



Willie Jordan

[Blondie]

I'd say Grab a RG in the same pricerange and You'll get more guitar for the money.

[Adji]

www.ibanezguitars.co.uk/acatalog/RGT_42_.html

Thats the RGT (the second one)

And The JEM www.ibanezguitars.co.uk/acatalog/Jem_555.html

The jem obviously looks cooler but becuase im not upto standard with electronics and all the technicalities and stuff, can you guys toell me (from that information) which is most likely to be the better guitar). Becuase there is a high chance that the JEM is overpriced because Vai uses it.

Ooh, this one jsut caught my eye
www.ibanezguitars.co.uk/acatalog/RG_2550.html

and as far as ican tell it seems better than the jem?

[Luke]

I really want a JEM, whats the exact model that Vai uses?

[Adji]

he uses them all, but at the moment its the 'bad horise' but its like two grand, its cool though. i think its a JEM BRMR

[Adji]

Ah here is the beauty
www.ibanezguitars.co.uk/acatalog/Jem_7_7B_RMR.html

[Blondie]

His two main guitars are EVO and FLO.
EVO is the Prototype for the Jem7v.
FLO is (if I remember right) a Floral Jembody (painted white), a JEM555 Neck, Evolution BrigdePU, Jem Single, and a Fernandez Surstainer in Neckposition ;D

[WyldeStallion]

Sorry to go off topic but do my eyes decieve me? does this guitar have two jack inputs?? lol

[Blondie]

First of they are outputs not inputs ;D

I guess the second is for a piezopickup in the saddles

[WyldeStallion]

Lol i hate calling them outputs cause it does not sound rite to me. The reason for this is because when i say jack output i know the single is going out but im putting the jack in, so its a jack lead input lol Output always seemed wierd to me and i shall never call it that ;D

[Adji]

i too say input, and thanks for destroying my thread!!






ONLY JOKING

[Luke]

I want an EVO

[WyldeStallion]

Adji said:

i too say input, and thanks for destroying my thread!!






ONLY JOKING

Lol i actually thought u were mad at me cause i never noticed the only joking part at the bottem lol i was about to post saying sorry lol.

Luke, only one Evo exist how ever u can buy the Jem7V which is basically exactly like Vai's Evo guitar. How ever they are rather expensive. Up to £1700 i believe

[Adji]

WyldeStallion said:

Lol i actually thought u were mad at me cause i never noticed the only joking part at the bottem lol i was about to post saying sorry lol.

Luke, only one Evo exist how ever u can buy the Jem7V which is basically exactly like Vai's Evo guitar. How ever they are rather expensive. Up to £1700 i believe

Haha sorry.
Yeah god dman money and lack of it.

So out of the three guitars i mentioned which weould you reccommend?

[Luke]

WyldeStallion said:

Lol i actually thought u were mad at me cause i never noticed the only joking part at the bottem lol i was about to post saying sorry lol.

Luke, only one Evo exist how ever u can buy the Jem7V which is basically exactly like Vai's Evo guitar. How ever they are rather expensive. Up to £1700 i believe

Guess i'll have to settle for one of them then ;D

[WyldeStallion]

Adji said:

Haha sorry.
Yeah god dman money and lack of it.

So out of the three guitars i mentioned which weould you reccommend?

I personally would go with the RG2550 cause it has a Edge Pro bridge, round about same price as a Jem555 but i would say the RG would be best if u use trem alot. Thats just my opinion though

[ThomasAnthony]

Best suggestion to anyone who doesn't have the loot for a Jem is buy a Ibanez Prestige. This series will get you to almost the spec's on a Jem . (ie Edge Pro Trem,
Prestige Neck contour almost exactly like the Jem)
plus even with the addition of EVO pups you will still save $1000.00 or 700 English pounds ;D

[Blondie]

I hope none of You connect the output of You amp to the input of Your guitars...could be dangerous ;D


well....back on topic... in an ordinary oven a chicken should have at least one hour.... oh, not that topic sorry ;D

[Luke]

blondie said:

I hope none of You connect the output of You amp to the input of Your guitars...could be dangerous ;D


well....back on topic... in an ordinary oven a chicken should have at least one hour.... oh, not that topic sorry ;D

Blondie, your a member of a cooking forum arn't you

[Blondie]

I was just hungry ;D Sorry about that I was writing with my stomach (yup it looked funny ).

[Luke]

ThomasAnthony said:

Best suggestion to anyone who doesn't have the loot for a Jem is buy a Ibanez Prestige. This series will get you to almost the spec's on a Jem . (ie Edge Pro Trem,
Prestige Neck contour almost exactly like the Jem)
plus even with the addition of EVO pups you will still save $1000.00 or 700 English pounds ;D

Where do they sell them?