Another indoor day for me as my right leg felt numb for a good part of the morning. Spent time with the SZ2020 here. It's one of the few Prestige models made in Korea. This happened for three years only (2005 - 2007) & excluded the RG Prestige models which were still made in Japan.
Ibanez collaborated with Seymour Duncan to manufacture the Seymour Duncan IBZ pickups which are genuine Duncans made in the USA. The ones in this SZ are based on Seymour Duncan's '59 / Distortion models. They are simply awesome sounding to me. The SZs were the most popular Ibanez model in terms of sales back in the day but they were discontinued despite making money for the manufacturer. When the SZ debuted, it got many players by surprise because Ibanez actually moved away from skinny necks for this model. It's also a set neck construction, again, a departure from the bolt-on design of the RG / S-series. Ironically, the thick neck construction proved to be another selling point for Ibanez today - the AZ series.
