Multi-necked guitars are nothing new after all, examples of be aware embrace the Reversed Slide Neck from Luca Stricagnoli, Rick Nielsen's five-neck Hamer beast, and the superbly weird Manzer Pikasso. The Hydra follows the same path, however does so with monstrous model.
5 years in improvement and set to debut on Vai's upcoming Inviolate album, the Hydra's single physique is house to a 12-string guitar with an element fretted, half fretless neck, a seven-string guitar with whammy bar and coil faucet and a four-string short-scale bass guitar that includes a cool headless neck that is unfretted alongside the entire of the higher half and fretted under. Oh, and there is additionally 13-string sympathetic harp on the again.
The bonkers instrument employs a mixture of single-coil, humbucking, piezo, MIDI and sustainer pickups, options each floating and hardtail bridges, and boasts part splitters too.
The entire thing has an otherworldly steampunk vibe to it, rocking three vacuum tubes, an onboard VU pattern meter, lighted buttons and between-pickup tubes, dials, sliders and switches, cogs and bolts, aged metallic plates, uncovered cables and wires, metallic tubes and mounts, in addition to quite a few ornamental attachments. There's even an Ethernet port, in addition to different options which might be named however not but detailed, such because the Seducer and Dragonizer.
Sure, that is an over-the-top present piece that brilliantly matches the flamboyant athletic model of the supremely proficient Vai himself, however as you may hear from the backing monitor accompanying the announcement video under, it is also been constructed for taking part in.
Supply: Ibanez
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