DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire.Com. We’re taking a look at the Ibanez Artcore AS73. This one is in a transparent cherry, as you can see it has a nice wood grain to it, semi-hollow, you got the f-holes. This is a maple body, and at the -- it’s sort of in reverse to most guitars, maple body and a mahogany neck, and as you can see the finish is the same on the back of the neck as it is for the rest of the body.

And, if you take a look at the headstock, it’s a larger style headstock. You can see 3:3 tuners. These are closed back machines, Ibanez tuners. We got the truss rod cover right here if you need to take that off for adjustments.

Take a look at the neck, rosewood fingerboard and it’s bound to the neck, cream-colored plastic, and we got the pearl dot inlays and they’re also on the side. Large frets so I mean they’re not jumbo but they’re a good size to them and it feels pretty well crowned on the side.

We move back down towards the bridge. This is an Ibanez -- It’s an Art-1 bridge with the tailpiece and the strings terminate right here. As far as controls go, we got the classic four-knob setup, volume for your neck pickup, volume for your bridge pickup, tone and tone. You got a three-way selector pickup switch. There’s bridge, middle, and -- I’m sorry, this is neck, middle, and bridge.

Up at the neck we got the Ibanez ACH1 pickup, and down by the bridge we got the ACH2 so it’s a little hotter down here. Let’s see what these two have to offer in terms of sound.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON AN IBANEZ AS73 ARTCORE ELECTRIC GUITAR]

All right. I’m going to move it to the bridge position, the hotter of the two pickups.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON AN IBANEZ AS73 ARTCORE ELECTRIC GUITAR]

All right, I’m going to mess around with a few of the settings and just see what kind of sounds we can get out of them. We turn down tone on there and stay on the bridge.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON AN IBANEZ AS73 ARTCORE ELECTRIC GUITAR]

All right, that’s the Ibanez AS73 Artcore. Thanks for checking it out here at Gearwire.Com.