But John Scofield uses his Ibanez even on recording sessions just check out the vid I posted. I talked to John and I did ask him about that. He said the Ibanez is all that he uses, well except of course if he's looking for a strat or a tele or any other guitar type sound.
Here's a picture of John Scofield and me
Yes this is true not all wood are the same even from the same batch. It takes a good mix of everything for any guitar to sound good.
But then again what's the difference? They can't all be bad right?
The magic is the same for any guitar to sound good. Can you really tell if Paul Gilbert would sound better? He has changed guitars over the years but you can never tell that just by listening to him play. Even Frank Gambale changed from a fender to an Ibanez to a Yamaha but you can never tell that just by listening. Eric Johnson changed from his vintage strat to his new signature strat but you can never tell the difference just by listening.
Nice pic... and I guess we have to take John Scofield for what he said. Apparently the differences are significant enough if 99.99% of all Ibanez guitars sound bad. For Fender, I can get it every 5%. For Gibson USA, about 1%. For PRS, 1%. Suhr generally scores around 15%. A guitar either has magic or it does not unfortunately. Well, I can say that Paul Gilbert sounded better with his sound at FAT than at Araneta Coliseum but thats a host of factors at play. So, if we can never tell what changed, then it goes on to say that since all of them sound the same, I can say that the Gibson 335 is better than the Ibanez version of the 335 because its made in the USA and the Gibson guys are more experienced than the Ibanez guys at making 335s because Gibson sells more 335 style guitars than Ibanez. Its a very logical conclusion but unfortunately, magic is the final determinant. Its so happens that the magic is so elusive for Ibanez.
Where do we listen? Thru you tube? Thru CDs? Thru mp3? Have you plugged into his whole rig to tell the difference? Its easy to say that they all sound the same thru equipment changes, yet we never plugged into their whole rig with their guitars to determine just that -- I bet not even hear their personal A/B live with their past, present, and future guitars.