Mine have the QM1, QM2 Ibby pickups. I changed the bridge out to an SD Distortion. The 500T would be awesome!Yes. S5521Q from 2015. It's ultra light weight guitar. When you play It seems like a delicate prety girl. I'm not 100% happy with his humbuckers. I changed It some times. I think It needs a Gibson 500T on the bridge. Lol
Mine have had V7 and V8. QM1 and QM2 are great. My '94 S540 have It (QM1 QM2).Mine have the QM1, QM2 Ibby pickups. I changed the bridge out to an SD Distortion. The 500T would be awesome!
Mine have had V7 and V8. QM1 and QM2 are great. My '94 S540 have It (QM1 QM2).
Now It have a Dimarzio air classic on the bridge and Dimarzio Evo2 on the neck. V7 and V8 was a small pickups. I needed to make bigger holes on the guitar to be able to put others pickups.
Lovely Ibanez. You are right. Gibson pickups are much better than Ibanez pickups. The QM1 and QM2 on my S540 are magical. Lol. Something special IMHO. I love It on a TSL100. I have great memories with both.I AB tested my QMs with the LPs with 57+ in and the 57 killed it. Way more balls, meatier and thicker. The QM sounded anemic? I dunno. SO I loaded the SD in one, the 1998 S2540. Not sure what to put in the other, a 2001 S1520 FB. Likely same.
This is before the change.
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I can just tell that I would love playing that guitar.