Ibanez ZR Trems/S Series - Anyone got one?!

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I am eyeing up a new Ibanez S series, but heard anything about the ZR trems. The stuff on their website seems good, wondering if anyone has some "real world" opinions?! Is it the same ZR trem across all the S series guitars?

Ill go check them out after the easter break, if I can find one....

Cheers!
 
I have a S470. The trems themselves are very sturdy and hold tune very nicely. The way the spring tension is laid out makes life easier when adjusting for tunings or gauges since it's just a thumbscrew (Can irritate your thumb though after a while)

My trem arm broke though, guitar slipped and fell at an awkward angle which caused the trem holder to snap. It's a little plastic bit, I still have to find out if I can replace that. So Rick's advice is this, be a little careful and don't drop guitars :P
 
I'm interested too, I'm hopefullly getting an S in the near future.
 
I had an S520 with ZR. The trem was easily the best part about that guitar. Bad pickups, bad finish work on the frets and finish, great trem.
 
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Mudder":ee26d said:
I had an S520 with ZR. The trem was easily the best part about that guitar. Bad pickups, bad finish work on the frets and finish, great trem.
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+1 I had the same guitar. The trem was TOO east to use, nice and compact! The INF pickups are shitty as hell though, I hated them.
 
Cool guys, thanks for the feedback! I know all about ibanez stock pups, was thinking about getting some EMG's for it if I go ahead. Just concerned the trem might be a white elephant!
 
The ZR has the smoothest action (ball-bearings) and it's prolly the most versatile stock trem on the market. I dig mine.

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I have the S470 DXQM just like the one above only in the blonde color. Paid $629. A fine instrument and enjoyably light.

The trem really is an engineering marvel. Always comes back to tune, AND there's a simple adjustment that will hold the trem in a neutral position so that if a string breaks the trem stays put. For me that's good because I do country double stop bends.

The action is a little high compared to say a Les Paul.
The one thing I fear however is having to change a string. I think a 12 step process and a license is required.

The other thing is I do not know how easily the instrument will adapt to heavier string gauges. In fact I do not know what stock string sizes came on the instrument. They feel lighter than 0.010's.
 
The string gauge stock is 9s and people, be careful - don't wind up like me.
 
I previously owned a prestige w/ the ZR trem... agree with everyone else it was really nice.
 
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CoachZ":92605 said:
The string gauge stock is 9s and people, be careful - don't wind up like me.
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Please elaborate... Wind up, meaning the way Pete Towshend played in who, or Wind up as in I've spent all my money on guitars and look where I've wound up, or Wind up as in, I break wind and it floats up.

Please advise.
 
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