Marcelo Toledo - Review ibanez rg 350mz - Edge - Zero - Ii/zps - Subtitles

Hello guys. My name is Marcelo Toledo and this is my first video review. Firs, I want to thank Gilney Parson, who gave me the suggestion to do this review for you. The equipment will be this guitar is an Ibanez. In Brazil, the pronunciation is a little different. It's an RG 350Mz. Beside mentioned is the acronym SLB which is actually a reference to color, which is called Star Light Blue , which is nothing but a metallic blue, ok? Guys, before we continue this video review, talking and deeper into the equipament, I would like to apologize for the quality of sound. I'm recording with a camera that is not good in my living room. There are many external noises. I would ask for you understanding. We will then talk to the technical specifications of this guitar ok? The body is in Basswood. The neck is maple. According to the manufacturer, has three parts. It takes the name of Wizard III. The neck is extremely thin and comfortable. It has 24 jumbo frets type. The pickups are two humbuckers and one single coil in the middle. The bridge to Infinity4 (INF4), the middle is the InfinityS3 (INFS3) and in the neck Infinity3 (INF3). It has a volume control, standard. A tone control. 5 position selector switch. Bridge, bridge and middle, middle, middle and neck and neck. And now, the highlight of this model guitar, which is the bridge. This is the Edge-Zero II, which has the innovative system ZPS, that soon I will show how it works. She is a beautiful guitar. The colors give a very nice contrast. The metallic blue with clear maple scale. Now I turn to take a look back. Here is the back of the guitar. See the details of the neck wood, is a guitar that has a perfect finish. It is manufactured in Indonesia. I do not know if they can see. Here you can see it already gives to innovation. I have almost all left the lid unscrewed in order to display. One innovation is the ability to adjust the spring tension of the bridge, just spinning here, without having to remove the back cover, then talk about it better. The timber body has a good thickness and cuts that make it extremely comfortable to play. The only change I made was to put these Stop Strap to fixed the strap on guitar. Now I'll open it and show how the system is that bridge. I already removed the back cover. Now an interesting thing. Previously, some people said that some Ibanez, especially those manufactured in Korea and Indonesia, did not have the body made of solid wood. I learned from Gilney Parson, this tip. What is to open the back cover of the guitar and take some of the paint on your guitar to confirm that the body is solid wood it. Just heard beating we can´t be sure. Then I'll show you. I'll try to show you. I removed a fair bit of ink. And you can really see that it is solid wood. I do not know if you're focusing on right, because this camera is very bad. A Cybershot. I'll try to zoom. But it is solid wood, ok. One might think: "Oh, but hardwood is only in this part, where the bridge is fixed and pickups!" Okay, it's a possibility. Unfortunately I have no way to open the entire guitar, destroy all the guitar just to see it. What I could do and did, was to remove a sizable chunk of paint. And you can see for sure that it is solid wood. I even took a bit to make sure yourself. Anyway this part of the body, the center of the guitar is the most important part of the instrument. This is where the pickups interact with the wood, the timbre, and gives the sustain. Obviously the guitar is made entirely of wood, as I believe, this interaction is greater with the pickups, the sustain is greater. But this piece is already considerable. The main problem that the guitars that have a body that is not solid wood, especially with Floyd Rose type bridge, these are screws that hold the bridge in the body. This and that. With the movement of the bridge, forward and backward, forcing the screws will go to material giving way over time. Not being 100% wood, the material does not withstand the pressure of string tension with the movement of the bridge, opens a hole and literally crumble. In this case the bridge ends up falling and there's no way to fix it. It is very difficult. And you losing the guitar. So, here in this case, we know that this does not occur because it is real solid wood. What is the ZPS system? ZPS is Zero Point System. Here are the springs. The two springs of the normal bridge. These light-colored. Here you will the system spinning up and down to control the tension of these springs. That is, until you reach the correct tension of the strings you use and the tone. And here we have two other black springs. One here and another here. They're stuck here in this bar. What is actually catching the movement of the bridge. Here I am using the lever back, stretching the strings. Now in this position using the lever forward, Rejoicing the ropes. Note that throughout the whole system moves forward. This bar that holds the springs, slides on the sides. So, this system hangs and prevents the bridge from moving forward, always ensuring that the bridge back into position. Usually the floating bridge, out of tune when applying a bend. The bridge rises a bit. Who has a guitar with Floyd Rose know it. Then when you do a “double-stop bend” it out of tune on the rope from below. But using this system it is not. So with this system you have a guitar with the nut locks. The ability to freely use the lever back and works like a normal tremolo too. It is super stable. It's as if you had the good side of having the stability of tuning a guitar type Strato and the good side you have a guitar with Floyd Rose with the nut locked. And the downside to this? Why do not I use all the time the guitar with the ZPS? The bridge of floating leaves normally. Loses the effect of only giving a slight tap on the lever and note wobble shake. It gets harder as well. The leveraged forward require more power, gets heavier. Behind it is not. You can see that bar just moves when the lever is forward. Back is not. The bar is still in place without moving. I like that floating bridge. And the out of tune that is usually very small. And how do I remove it? It is very simple. With his hand even. Just pull the springs. Note that they are in a hurry these pivots. Then, just lift it is released. Now the other. Just pull. Unfortunately there are many people who have this guitar. With this bridge. But do not know how it works and complain that the bridge is very hard. Then simply remove the ZPS. Here it´s. This is the ZPS system. I'll put it here for you to see how it is. These are two additional springs with this metal bar that holds the bridge crashing here. Some people lock their Floyd Rose bridges using toothpicks, pieces of pencil. I've seen some tutorials on the internet as well. With this bridge it is totally unnecessary. And who hangs with toothpicks know you can not give any more leveraged. Already this bridge you have fought a Floyd Rose, but that can be leveraged for both front and back normally and completely stable. I really enjoyed the possibility of having a reliable and modern bridge. It's a unique thing. Only Ibanez guitar you have. So, it's really quite interesting. The manufacturer hit it very well. The bad thing I said. Just the fact that she get a little tougher forward and stop vibrating. I just took. At the beginning of the video i played with the system. I used the lever, but not tried to give the effect of just giving a pat on the lever. But now she usually shakes it remains very stable even without the ZPS system. She's not out of tune. Another thing, although it looks interesting, but not that much. I replace the back cover for you to see. When you change the strings and regular here is the spring tension to the point right. The fact that spin here is not so simple. It's too hard. It's nice to see, gives a curious to know what it is. Have a scale here that show the level of tension of the springs. But the truth is that it is very hard. If you keep spinning your finger you can get hurt. So it's not too cool like, ok? But thankfully that has a tiny plug with a wrench here and you can rotate it smoothly. Another interesting thing ZPS system is that it lets you know exactly where the zero point where the bridge needs to be. You hold the two springs, stretch and catch it here. Then you know you need to adjust the tension and tuning up until this part touching the bar and get caught by it. So you are not in doubt whether the bridge is in position. If the height is in the sweet spot. And that is the zero point of the bridge, ok? The system also helps ZPS it. Showing where the zero point. To end I will show some of the sounds of it. First clean tone. I'm using a amp Crate FlexWave 15R Guitar Rig5, but he is no bypass cabinet. Bridge pickup. I do not know if they are listening to right. I will increase the volume a bit. Do not know if it will burst at last. The camera is not very good. Now the bridge and middle pickups. Note that the tone has become more sprung. Only the middle pickup. Now the middle pickup and neck. Finally only the neck. Now I will show the tone with distortion. I'll get my guitar tone in GuitarRig5. Lower the volume a bit. Bridge pickup. bridge and middle pickups. Only the middle pickup. Now the middle pickup and neck. Finally only the neck. Well guys, that's it. I hope I have helped, getting any doubt you. But it was something else, hints, tips, liked or not liked. Please write down here and click. Thanks and see you next time.