This is the Ibanez ICHI00 Ichika Nito Signature model in Vintage White!

At Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/565011?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyWD1R

If you’re watching this, you’ll most likely know who Ichika Nito is: if not, he’s one of the 21st century’s best guitar players, showcasing dazzling technique and mastery of the instrument alongside an ear that’s adept at creating instantly memorable melodies.

He’s an expert at sumptuous clean tones and a more than capable shredder who covers myriad styles, from pop and neo soul to heavy metal – sometimes in the space of a 60-second video!

This is Ichika’s second signature Ibanez too, after the headless ICHI10: https://thmn.to/thoprod/523689?offid=...

But the ICHI00 is going to appeal to more than just Ichika Nito fans. In fact, on paper it looks like an incredible buy for anyone who’s into either offset guitars or Stratocaster-type models. It’s based around Ibanez’s cult offset Talman body shape, and it’s packed full of goodness. You get a Vintage White finish over a nyatoh body, and three ICHI-S custom single coil pickups – designed by Ichika Nito himself and Ibanez to perfectly nail the “Ichika sound” – alongside an Ibanez T106 vibrato bridge.

The Wizard C-shaped neck is roasted maple, with a 12” radius rosewood fingerboard housing 22 medium frets. The scale length is 25.5”, the nut is 41mm, and you even get a set of Gotoh MG-T locking tuners.

And the price for all of this? At time of writing: $699/€699/£449. Which, as I’m sure you’ll agree, is very decent bang for the buck. So, just how good is the ICHI00? That’s what we’re about to find out! In this video, I put the guitar through its paces in as many different genres and styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal and more. Let’s see how it handles it all!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:16 Introduction to the ICHI00
02:34 Specs and info
05:11 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
06:09 Clean tone reference chords on all pickups
06:30 Smashing Pumpkins inspired riff
07:04 Country ballad arpeggios
07:17 Country lead sound
07:24 Country strummed chords
07:45 Blues progression
07:56 Droning open string indie riff
08:14 Funk rhythms
08:27 Cowboy chords/tone control test
09:28 Ascending droning indie chords

Overdriven Sounds
09:41 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
09:56 Southern rock picked arpeggios
10:20 Indie octave chords
10:51 Upbeat indie barre chords
11:15 Volume control test
11:34 Edgy indie barre chords
11:48 Fat indie rhythm chords
12:18 Upbeat barre chords
12:24 Garage rock riff
12:40 Airbourne inspired rock riff
12:55 Classic rock riff
13:09 Groovy classic rock riff
13:24 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
13:45 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff

Higher gain drive sounds
14:02 Hard rock rhythm tone
14:21 Melodic hard rock lead
14:42 80s rock riff
15:04 ZZ Top inspired riff
15:15 Alternative rock riff
15:40 Pop punk riff
15:53 Pop punk melodic lead riff
16:09 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff
16:21 Punk rock power chords
16:35 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D tuning)
16:59 Progressive rock riff (Drop D)
17:15 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)
17:32 Modern pop metal riff

Heavy Distortion sounds (all in Drop D)
17:43 Metal chugging riff
18:00 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
18:12 Hardcore punk riff
18:26 Heavy metal lead sound
18:42 Metalcore riff
18:52 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
19:06 More hardcore punk
19:18 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

20:02 My thoughts
20:38 First impressions
21:38 Weight
21:50 Build quality and hardware
22:19 Playability and neck
23:02 Sounds and pickups discussion
26:21 What other similar guitars are out there?
29:41 My conclusions on the ICHI00 and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the ICHI00 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and my Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: https://thmn.to/thoprod/447827?offid=...
Greer Lightspeed: https://thmn.to/thoprod/478415?offid=...
Revv G3: https://thmn.to/thoprod/437353?offid=...
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4!): https://thmn.to/thoprod/467952?offid=...
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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