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The Ibanez JEM is an electric guitar manufactured by Ibanez and first produced in 1987. The guitar's most notable user is its co-designer, Steve Vai. As of 2010, there have be five sub-models of the JEM: the JEM7, JEM77, JEM777, JEM555, JEM333, and JEM70V. Although the Ibanez JEM series is a signature series guitar, Ibanez mass-produces several of the guitar's sub-models.
The design of the Ibanez JEM series was heavily influced by the superstrat style of guitars of the early 1980s such as the Jackson Soloist, Kramer Beretta and Hamer Chaparral. This type of guitar is more aggressively styled in terms of shape and specifications compared to the Stratocaster on which they are based.
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Previously, Vai used handbuilt guitars by Charvel and Jackson. With Joe Despagni and Tom Anderson, he created various custom guitars and used Tom Anderson's model to record the demo of the David Lee Roth album Skyscraper. Vai also began to bring his Tom Anderson guitars on tour:
... He built this for me after my old gre monster, which I used out on the road last year until it died. I was pulling on the whammy bar and ripped the bar right out of the guitar [laughs]; it was actually ripped out before the show at Madison Square Gard. I was dying. So I started using Tom's guitar as my main guitar for the rest of the tour, and I really like it because it has a very heavy sound to it. So I took the best of the sounds from that guitar and had them incorporated into the Ibanez.[2] Ibanez and Steve Vai [ edit ]
Vai decided to stop using his Anderson guitar in favor of a guitar deal with a bigger company. Just before Christmas 1986 Ibanez received Vai's guitar specification; they were similar to Despagni's guitars. Ibanez built one of their Maxxas guitars for him with a palmrest for the tremolo. Vai liked the model and decided to produce that particular guitar with Ibanez. It took five months to make the new model samples in Japan, the JEM guitar and the RG range which launched at the NAMM Industry Trade Show in June 1987.
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After the JEM series was launched at the NAMM show, Ibanez with Steve Vai began to design and produce the guitar actively. Rich Lasner of Hoshino explained that Vai used a Chinese mu approach to design the guitar (i.e. choosing from many differt categories). The first design was by Vai, wh he st Hoshino his ideas from many differt guitar features he liked and combined it into one guitar. The esstial considerations were the weight, wood types and pickups. For the latter specification, Vai decided long before Ibanez contacted him, that he would use DiMarzio pickups for his guitars.
The JEM had three DiMarzio pickups (a pair of PAF Pro humbuckers and a JEM single-coil) wired in a th-unique arrangemt where by the 2nd and 4th positions split the humbuckers into single-coils in combination with the middle pickup. This arrangemt, pioneered by DiMarzio's Steve Blucher, allowed Vai to achieve Stratocaster-style in-betwe sounds as well as the humbucker raunch of the PAF Pro. There was also a high-pass filter on the volume control to help the guitar retain high d wh the volume pot was rolled back.
It also featured a “bear claw” rout behind the Ibanez Edge locking vibrato bridge, inspired by the chiseled trch Vai had gouged into his Charvel “Gre Meanie” guitar. This allowed him to achieve a much further range of upward motion than simply floating the tremolo at an angle off the body, and it made it easy to perform wild “flutter” effects.
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A guitar with 24 frets was not unheard of before 1987, but this was still relatively uncommon. The last four frets were scalloped, allowing Vai and like-minded shredders to really lay into those high notes, and upper-fret access was hanced by a cresct-shaped scoop around the neck joint area.
Later, Lasner asked Vai to explain the guitar specifications further: 'The first thing he did Lasner explains, was disassemble them on the spot. Neck from body, pickguard off, tremolo out... took 'em apart. I was shocked, to say the least. But Steve looked at me nonchalantly and said, 'Relax, I do this all the time.' He wanted to check Mace's detail and craftsmanship.
Mace Bailey, who was also involved in the production, later wt to Japan to the Ibanez factory to really begin producing the guitar. He sat there with the craftsm and made t guitars for Vai.
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Ibanez has not revealed much about the naming system of the JEM models(JEMxxx) but letters always refer to the name of the color pattern used for each models (JEM777LNG > LochNess Gre). However, it is known that the number 7 came from Steve Vai himself as he likes the number 7.
Steve Vai has also released an album titled The Sevth Song which contains ballad songs from previous albums. Steve Vai stated on the CD cover, Traditionally, I have made the 7th song on all my CDs the mellifluous guitar ballad that serves the melody on a silver platter. In numerology, the number 7 is shrouded in mystique. In a record sequce, it has always felt like the sweet spot. These songs are more devotional in nature than technical. They are a reflection of one man's desire to expose a glimmer of the depth of his longing for spiritual communion.
There are 5 JEM sub-model numbers: 7, 77, 777. 505 and 555. JEM777 was the first JEM sub-model, created in 1987. Currtly Ibanez no longer sells this model, thus some of these models are quite rare
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, especially the JEM777LNG, which was a limited run and each model was hand-signed by Steve Vai. On the other hand, JEM77 models are more widely available compared to the JEM777 guitars. Some of the 77 models are very easy to make out and are especially interesting for collectors-these are models with a floral or multicolor pattern, for example, the JEM77FP (Floral Pattern) and the JEM77PMC (Purple MultiColor). However, a variant of JEM77, the JEM77BRMR is not a multicolor guitar, but it has dot inlays on the fingerboard and a rock mirror finish and the 77VBK, which is basic black with a mirror pickguard and the vine inlay. The JEM 7 series was derived from Steve's currt main guitar, Evo, with the 7VWH being the longest run production model of all JEM guitars and still in production today. Differt from other JEM models, JEM555 is produced in Korea and in terms of quality, this variant is considered by many to be poorer than the others. As of 2008, the only production model JEM guitars are the 7VWH and the 77VBK. The cheaper Korean- made 555 was discontinued in 2000 for the USA market. In 2008 there were more models than the 7vwh and 7vbk.
The model was created for JEM's tth anniversary in 1997, although production started in 1996. This sub-model of Anniversary JEM includes numbered letter of authticity hand-signed by Steve Vai. The aluminum pickguard has an graved vine and its JEM10 serial number. JEM10s designated for the USA have a silver tweed JEM case with outside plaque and inner silk screed protective shroud. Later numbered JEM10s going to the USA have their JEM10 plaque screwed onto the case, instead of riveted/glued on.
There are 852 JEM10 guitars around the globe (210 of them are in the United States), and each guitar has its own serial number. #1 is at Hoshino USA, #2 is at Roland (Roland/Meinl) in Germany. #003, #005, #007, wt for sale in the US, and #009 is in Germany at Sv Asbach and JEM10 #016 was giv away by Steve during G3.
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HAM stands for Hoshino Anniversary Model, which was made for the 90th Anniversary of Hoshino. The specifications are similar to the JEM10 model, as both use the same type of wood, pickups, hardware and tremolos. There were exactly 72 guitars brought by Ibanez to the US of the 831 available worldwide.
The most notable aspect is the color, as Vai added his DNA (blood) to the mixture of the paint. The painter of the guitar, Darr Michaels/Darr Johans of ATD (About Time Designs), stated on Jemsite.com, For the record if you own a DNA you have a good amount of the DNA. The blood red paint that I mixed was mixed at a ratio of approximately 8:1 [paint:blood] so the contt is quite high. There had to be pigmt mixed into the paint to hold it onto the guitar as well as a carrier. If you purchase a canvas you get a picture of myself and someone mixing [the blood] in to the color. Also a picture of the room we did the guitars in too. The canvases also have the same contt as I mixed all the DNA left
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