Sound your best with the AAD50CE Advanced Acoustic-electric from Ibanez. This Sitka spruce-topped sapele instrument outputs tones thriving with articulation, top-end shimmer, and balance. Combined with a grand dreadnought body shape, the AAD50CE offers delightful tone packed with depth and plenty of projection. You'll appreciate the easy playability of the AAD50CE's okoume neck and purpleheart fingerboard, in addition to its chrome die-cast 18:1-gear-ratio tuners that ensure rock-solid intonation. Also, the Advanced Access cutaway makes upper fret reach easily achieved for solos and harmonic creativity. Topped off with Ibanez electronics, you’re equipped to bring these six strings to any studio or stage.
Grand Dreadnought body
Through a rigorous R&D process spanning several years, Ibanez has reimagined the Dreadnought from the ground up, pursuing the height of rich sound, robust low end, and rich tone. This brand new body shape is called the Grand Dreadnought. Proportionally, the Grand Dreadnought body is 5% larger than a standard dreadnought, allowing for more volume, richer tone, and more powerful low end response. It's also extremely comfortable to play thanks to the extensive consideration given to its ergonomics.
X-M Bracing
After spending years of trial-and-error, Ibanez realized the out-of-the-box X-M Bracing to generate the ultimate sound standing out on the stage. The carefully designed scalloped X-bracing, the allocation of tone braces, and finger braces transmit the string vibration efficiently through the bridge to the body. The X-M Bracing creates the clear bottom and crispy treble sound with trimmed warm mid-range, yet provides a wide dynamic range and high response.
Advanced Access Cutaway
Its deep straight cutaway (from 18th fret) and shaved side enable amazing high fret access.
Functional Tapered Headstock
The newly designed headstock shape is the result of thorough research and investigation. Its tapered shape provides lighter weight, as well as a straight string alignment which enhances tuning stability and reduces any neck twisting effect.
Ibanez AEQ-TP2 preamp w/Onboard tuner
The Ibanez AEQ-TP2 preamp provides the extra punch of on-board EQ along with a convenient and easy-to-read digital tuner and 2-band EQ, located on the instrument’s upper bout.
Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle pickup
The Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle pickup accurately translates that full sound to whatever amplification system you plug it into.
Ibanez Advantage™ bridge pins
These pins really are an advantage over old-fashioned pins. Advantage™ pins are easier to take out and easier to put in than standard pins. A special bulb-shaped end makes the pin easy to grip and also prevents the pin from being pushed in too far. Best of all, with Advantage™ the pin and string stay put.
body shape:
Grand Dreadnought with Advanced Access Cutaway body
bracing:
X-M Bracing
top:
Solid Sitka Spruce top
back & sides:
Sapele back & Sapele sides
neck:
AADOkoume neck
fretboard:
Purpleheart fretboard
bridge:
Purpleheart bridge
inlay:
White dot inlay
soundhole rosette:
Black & White multi rosette
tuning machine:
Chrome Die-cast tuners (18:1 gear ratio)
number of frets:
20
bridge pins:
Ibanez Advantage™
strings D'Addario® EXP16
string gauge:
.012/.016/.024/.032/.042/.053
string space:
11mm
factory tuning:
1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E
pickup Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle
preamp:
Ibanez AEQ-TP2 preamp w/Onboard tuner
output jack:
Balanced XLR & 1/4" outputs
NECK DIMENSIONS
Scale : 650mm/25.6"
a : Width 43mm at NUT
b : Width 55mm at 14F
c : Thickness 21mm at 1F
d : Thickness 22mm at 7F
Radius : 400mmR
