Ibanez QX54QM - Blue Sphere Burst Flat Reviews
Part of Ibanez's boundary-pushing Quest series, the QX54QM vaunts a headless design built from the ground up to maximize tone, performance, and playing comfort. This electric guitar's lightweight nyatoh body resonates with rich, woody tones, while its quilted maple top brings a subtle snap and eye-grabbing visuals into the fray. Technically minded players will be blown away by the zero-drag feel of the QX54QM's Parallel Wizard neck, and its slanted frets make intricate fretboard maneuvers like tapping, fingerstyle, and slapping feel effortless. This headless guitar's made-to-measure pickups exude amazing levels of articulation and definition that are bolstered by Ibanez's acclaimed dyna-MIX9 switching system. Rock-solid hardware, including a custom string lock and innovative Mono Tune bridge, ensures easy string changes and ultra-reliable, stage-worthy performance. Stainless steel frets round out the QX54QM's generous features. If you've been hunting for the perfect headless electric guitar — or even if you're considering your first headless instrument — the Ibanez QX54QM is guaranteed to unlock unlimited creative possibilities.
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unreal!
picked up one of these around a month after buying a ICHI10(which is amazing, btw)....got this guitar as a demo, so it was a smokin' deal i couldn't pass up. i was a little worried about the slim neck profile and the slanted frets, but i was worried about nothing; the frets take exactly ZERO time to get used to and the slim neck feels AMAZING! the neck feels so good, in fact, that i have hardly touched any of my other guitars since i got this one. very, very nice guitar and i can't wait to see what other headless guitars ibanez may produce in the future
Fantastic Sound
Plays and sounds amazing, I was initially planning to replace the pickups however the stock ones turned out to be extremely articulate and surprisingly quiet for single coils. Highly recommend picking one up.
Fantastic guitar, so small
The pickups are powerful, much more so than I expected. The number of configurations with the alt switch is amazing too, go look it up on Ibanez's website, remarkable. It's tiny, I didn't realize how small the guitar would be. Perfect for a travel guitar or anything else.
I wish the neck were normal maple instead of roasted but that's just a personal preference. The fanned/angled frets are interesting. My sales guy (the amazing Ryan Clapper x1348 if you need a salesperson) suggested "just don't look down" while you're getting used to it. This was sage advice for my first non parallel fret layout guitar. It is a bit hard to reach backward while soloing but I'm sure I'll get used to it over time.
I had no idea what to expect from this guitar but it really surpassed even my hopes. Just waiting on Sweetwater to get in the new Ibanez MR350C case for these new guitars. The gig bag is nice but I like hard shell cases better.
Great guitar - with one flaw
This thing is beautiful and sounds amazing. The weight is great, the features are great, it is almost the perfect guitar for me. Here's the issue: the neck is 57mm wide with a 10.8mm string spacing. The string spacing adds ups to 54mm, leaving you only 3mm clearance on the outside of the strings. Mix that with some serious rounded fret edges and you get about 1mm of clearance on the E strings. You cannot do the slightest bit of vibrato on those strings without killing the note. Any sort of D-shape chords tend to have the high-e note die off due to a slight movement causing the string to roll off the end of the frets. So it's a great guitar, but as someone who enjoys playing lead it's unfortunately not the perfect guitar for me. The search continues!
