Description

Ibanez JS100 Transparent Red is a signature guitar for Joe Satriani. Joseph Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor. Many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick. Click here to read more about Joe Satriani.

The Ibanez JS100 Transparent Red is the JS signature guitar that has been produced for the longest time. Introduced in 1994, and was sold for 20 years until 2014 when the JS140 came up. Indeed, it is the most affordable JS. Compared to its other sisters, it had two Axis humbuckers instead of DiMarzio pickups, medium frets, retained the coil tap that features on every JS guitar but it didn’t have a hi-pass filter. Its neck also had pearly dots like the JS1.
The tremolo evolved through the years. It started with a Lo TRS II for 8 years. In 2003 Ibanez factories put an Edge Pro II on it, until in 2007 where the Edge III replaced it and it still features that today.

On the pickups side, it had Ibanez humberckers called Axis Humbuckers, (or AH for those in the know), featured on the AH1 on the neck. It’s made of ceramic and the AH2 on the bridge is an Alnico 5, the same kind of magnet that features on DiMarzio pickups like PAF Pro, PAF Joe, Mo Joe and FRED. This admits a warmer sound and is richer in harmonics.

The JS100 was produced in Korea from 1994-2009 and in Indonesia from 2009-2014.

JOE SATRIANI
Joseph Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor. Many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the biggest-selling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani founded the multi-guitarist traveling experience called G3, which has seen him share stages with Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robert Fripp, among others. Starting in 2009, Satriani traversed the globe again as a member of Chickenfoot. The all-star band (which also includes singer Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith) has issued two albums, their debut and 2011’s follow-up, “Chickenfoot III”.

ABOUT IBANEZ
Ibanez is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar. Ibanez manufactures effects, accessories, amps, and instruments in Japan, China, Indonesia and in the USA (at a Los Angeles-based custom shop). www.ibanez.com