Brimming with high-performance 21st-century appointments, the Ibanez Alpha A528 was designed for uncompromising players with a penchant for high-octane technical mastery. This 8-string electric guitar is crafted from a solid slab of basswood, carved into a radical body shape that’s primed for high-speed ergonomics. Its 5-piece Parallel Wizard neck offers an incredible, zero-drag feel, and its multi-scale ebony fingerboard, bolstered by 24 jumbo-sized stainless steel frets, makes intricate finger maneuvers like tapping, fingerstyle, and slapping feel positively effortless. Ear-grabbing tones abound when you plug the A528 in, courtesy of multi-voice Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers. Furthermore, a Mono-rail G2 bridge and Gotoh MG-T locking tuning machines ensure spot-on intonation and tuning stability — even under profoundly primal playing conditions. Do you have a predilection for pushing technical boundaries? Then pick up the Alpha A528, and we guarantee that you’ll have a difficult time putting this state-of-the-art extended-range riff machine down.

High-speed Parallel Wizard neck

The Alpha A528 was built for high-level, technical playing styles, evidenced by its Parallel Wizard neck. Crafted from maple and walnut, this ultra-stable 5-piece neck is 0.75 inches thick throughout its entire length, offering amazing playability for players who prefer a higher playing position. Moreover, its multi-scale ebony fingerboard ensures superior string tension and intonation, facilitating easy execution of tapping, fingerstyle, bass-inspired slapping, and other complex fret-hand aerobatics. This 8-string electric guitar is also equipped with jumbo-sized stainless steel frets, which ensure long-lasting durability and effortless note bending. The guitarists here have found the A528 to be incredibly versatile — it offers a zero-drag playing experience for technical metal, jazz-rock fusion, and any experimental genre you throw at it. If your personal style involves challenging playing techniques, the A528 will permit you to play cleaner and faster than you ever thought possible.

Multi-voice Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers

The Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers in the Ibanez Alpha A528 deliver the most sought-after humbucking tones, ranging from modern active to high-output humbucking. Unlike most wire-wound models, Fluence pickups serve up this massive tone arsenal without noise or inductance issues. Additionally, Fishman Fluence Modern humbucker pickups provide you with a choice of two distinctly different voices for each pickup, which you can change via the dedicated Voicing switch. The A528 also brandishes Volume and Tone knobs, as well as a 3-way lever pickup selector switch.

State-of-the-art bulletproof hardware

Ibanez specified their excellent Mono-rail G2 bridge for the Alpha A528. Unlike single-body bridges, each Mono-rail saddle is completely separate from the others. This does two things for you. First, since they aren’t connected, the saddles create minimal sympathetic vibration. This prevents unused strings from ringing. Second, each saddle is double-anchored, allowing energy to transfer efficiently between the string and the body, giving rise to astonishing clarity and sustain. Beyond that, the A528 comes outfitted with Gotoh MG-T machine heads, providing you with a high-precision 16:1 gear ratio and advanced locking performance for absolute bulletproof reliability.

Ibanez Alpha A528 Features:

• A high-performance 8-string electric guitar with state-of-the-art 21st-century appointments
• Solid basswood body carved into a radical body shape that’s primed for high-speed ergonomics
• 5-piece Parallel Wizard neck offers an incredible, zero-drag feel
• Multi-scale ebony fingerboard facilitates easy execution of complex fret-hand maneuvers
• Jumbo-sized stainless steel frets ensure long-lasting durability and effortless note bending
• Multi-voice Fishman Fluence Modern Humbuckers yield aggressive yet articulate high-gain tones
• Mono-rail G2 bridge offers astonishing clarity and sustain
• Gotoh MG-T machine heads allow for super-smooth tuning adjustments