Ibanez JEM Fernandes Sustainer

[Ziece4]

Since all your comments are saying that everybody is pretty much little boys craving for attentions i'll say this. I'm a song writer/solo artist who writes modal songs and dare I say I do like shred a lot. Just hought i'd speak for everybody else you instantly deem a little boy craving attention is that your arpeggios weren't even in the same key, your soloing didn't follow changes or anything. If you're going to make a video demoing something at least follow the chord changes.

[illchild316]

thats pretty damn cool sounding man..was it alot to get the sustainer installed?.i know that guitar is $2500 as it is

[123jozef]

Thanks bunhole!!! Did you want me to go check out your channel or something? I don't do that anymore. I never see anyone that actually plays the guitar ~ just usually some internet facade trying to get attention. Now, if you REALLY play, you have to realize I was concentrating on the Sustainer. My arpeggios and articulation suck bad. I purposely played "outside" the scale structures (modes) ~ if you wanna see BAD check out my "annoying guitar" vid. Have fun leaving comments ~ Peace Beavis.

[Talico12]

Musically, you're dreadful.

[weeeeeter]

insane



[TKG1201]

can you get a sustainer in white

[BiLL03590]

@TKG1201 I AM WONDERING THE SAME THING.... i dont wanna get rid of my neck EVO pup...but i guess u have to for a sustainer...? id like a white fernandes for the JEM specifically...also 123jozef...question..do u know the output on that fernandes sustainer? i know the EVOs are 404 db

[clovermh400]

VEry nice man!!

no se como te molestas en contestarle a ese tipo, no vale la pena

i dont know why you even care responding to that guy, its not worth it

sorry about my english

saludos desde mexico

[snivellingjasonex]

fernandes sustainer what kind of sustainer is the best for this guitar?

101? 401 ?

[123jozef]

Carthsgtr - If you are looking for attention or "extra views" I'm sure you can find another way to do it. You are probably ANOTHER little boy - and I am fairly sure that you have a long way to go before you will be in the same league that I am (as far as guitar playing is concerned)- now, on the matter of "infantilism" and possibly diapers, you surely have me beat. This is not a tutorial on arpeggios. Go home and take your rubber duckies with you. Mmmmkay pumpkin?

[Carthsgtr]

This is terrible. Next time you are practicing your arpeggios, concentrate on not sucking the metaphorical penis so hard.

[Dedalusalley]

Does the sustainer work with natural harmonics too? Like for example the squealing harmonic played for example by Dimebag Darrell at the end of Cemetery Gates by Pantera.

[stratguy123456]

how does the new pick sound comared to the evoloution??

[jimchippington]

hey man

great vid :D

btw, im getting the 401 model put into my ibanez RG350MYE, what did you do about the gap next to the sustainer ? did you put in another single pickup ? or are you using the 101 model ?

[Softairguy]

@jimchippington he uses the 101 kit, but you  can do the same thing steve vai did: just buy a single coil pickup cover

[123jozef]

Yes, it did take some balls to drill into that guitar... I'm sure Steve said the same thing when he had his Sustainer installed, no?

[liquidmusicstorecom]

Great playing headless man. But your amp sounds a bit bland. Did you spend all your dough on your Jem? lol. Steve should have put a white sustainer in that guitar to begin with.

But Steve still Rocks.

[undeadcorpse521]

dimarzio evolution and emg?

[123jozef]

Hey Fluffy! Eye opener here? We all know that my arpeggios suck. It's not rocket science. What about the notes that I resolve that are totally out of key? Don't those suck too? You think I'm gonna sit down and practice arpeggios or something? I could care less. I just came off the road and started jamming. No warm up. Guitar playing is just one of many different interests in this f'ed up world. Who cares? I live spontaneously, just like I play. Deal with it bud. Cool?

[pisoglir]

@123jozef Hey Nice jamming. is it the FSK-101 you have installed ?



[babymorrison]

@123jozef dditto:} hes obviusly not heard vai play, he goes all over the place sometimes listen to freak show excess

[SERLITZ]

@123jozef Hell yeah, man.

[SuperRyan71]

@123jozef I liked your jam! We all drop notes, hit sloppy spots ect... You just keep powering through it like you are here. I love the people who are always negative towards people like you and I. Funny thing, I don't think any of them ever have the balls to post their own video

[Fluffypopcicle]

rofl those sweeps near the beginning were horribly sloppy!

[lazur1]

With a compressed, overdriven tone, sustainers don't change the sound all that much. To hear another good use for a sustainer, set your axe up super-clean, with no compression, like for a clicky James Brown-type rhythm: When you do the left-hand muting that comes naturally with this type of rhythm, it's as if there's no sustainer on, but when you leave a finger down, BAM!, you go from no sustain to infinite sustain, from a crisp rhythm tone to a flowing lead tone without changing a thing.

[HeavyMetal93]

since I see you've got the 101 kit, is it true you can only use both the harmonic and infinite sustain at the same time on the 401? thanks, great playing

[pepectm]

Amazing Jam dude, i love the way you use your sustainer dude, you're awesome!

[123jozef]

Good question! I believe the tune (if I remember correctly) was in the key of B minor... so, I suppose I played in nearly every mode of that scale. I may have spent a little more time in some modes than others, but basically you are hearing B minor, D major, probably quite a bit of the Lydian... and then of course, the ad-lib hybrid chromatic, "outside" and wanna be arpeggios... ha ha. Very sloppy playing, but at least the Sustainer gets used in a more 'musical' setting.

[pepectm]

@123jozef Dude, please , can you send me the backing track? I'll love to jam it! Please!

[GuitarStuffOnly]

LOL, Lovely jam ~~~ what kind of scales were you using?

[evai812063]

Ask ~! Are behind which two switches to close the tenuto to use? How can change? May teach me? Thanks ~!

[zirconiumeffect]

is it good for metal?

[dudeyRAMONE]

i got a question. i wanna swap pickups out of my rg350mdx and i wanna put emgs in there. well my p-up setup is HSH and i have a 5 switch selector and emgs arent split coiled. are they? well yeah i heard that you had to get split coiled emgs or something idk but could you maybe help? would they emg's sound and function the same with a 5 switch selector? idk shit about setups and selectors. help me out pleasE?

[Guitareben]

nice one bud! am lovin the sustainer! how do you get them, and how do you install em?

[g1taro]

you can actually switch that pickup with any high output pickup you want.. im thinking about getting one but using evolution humbuckers

[SuperSharpShooter]

What backing track is that? I recognize it for some reason. Is that BB King - Thrill Is Gone?

[markmusicman]

I believe it is!

[Fabio89787]

Did you put an EMG on the front pickup section?

[doranemon]

@Fabio89787 the black pickup is the sustainer

[tgifntx]

Righteous tones!

Thanks for postin' up.

[sgmann09]

The sustainer sounds pretty cool. I would definitely work on your arpeggios though.

[racingandmusicmylife]

are you using any pedals? if so waht are they ? Thanks

[racingandmusicmylife]

so is there a difference between the white and the black sustainer pickup?

[555Custom]

Yes the black is usualy the fsk 101 it doesnt haver the mixed mode ( harmonic and sustain) Vai use the fsk401 with this mixed mode. But it's a single coil and the fsk101 have the black humbucker

[boosborne]

is the sustainer hooked up to all the pickups?

[555Custom]

its wired like a normal pickup, and like a normal pickup you can wire it from different ways

[LicRamDav]

Is it really expensive the sustainer? how much?

[18strutter]

Call your local music store for references or just Google "Luthiers" in your area. Ive had a Sustainer installed in my guitar also. I just cant play that good to make videos

[123jozef]

I hired a Certified Luthier to deal with all the wiring and routing. You have to route out an area for the module. You also have to route out an area for the 9V battery, but what he did was used the input jack (on the Jem it comes in from the side of the guitar) The battery fit nicely into the original jack area. All he had to do was add an input jack then to the back of the guitar, but he did it without digging any new holes. I would never attempt to install a Fernandes Sustainer by myself.

[DiscipleInNOW]

How much did that service cost you? lol

[niteridr666]

where can u find luthiers to do that for you.

cuz i got a guitar that needs thta werk done

[SeanTheReptileGuru]

how much does it cost for the sustainer and the service for installing it?

i would really appreciate an answer, thanks!

[Softairguy]

i saw the sustainer for 400$

[Stevevaisi07]

how did u get the sustainer fitted cause i cant find anywhere to do it?

[18strutter]

At 3:31 It sounds like octave displaced chromatic scale on alternat strings I rewound it a million times and i cant get it but i know its a chromatic

[18strutter]

The neck pickup is the Fernandes pickup. When the sustainer is off it functions as a regular pickup. When the sustainer is on, you have no front pickup. I gues that why all the switch flipping between sustainer, pickup, and the octave division switch. If you really like the front pickup you have to remember to flip the sustaner off. its a pain in the azz. i think he forgets even tho hes ALWAYS checkin. Very spontaneious liquid sounds I like the rake pick stuff

[divingrox24]

God that was amazing....... truly an inspiration. Is the black hum-bucker in the neck position the one for the Fernandes Sustaner?

[jespin4]

you play the guitar beautifully! well done man, people like you are an inspiration for me!

[Davidoh1]

how did you put the switches on the jem?

[zinadinzidane2003]

where can i get Ibanez JEM with fernandes sustainer?

[cryptonet007]

Guitarists such as yourself make me want to quit playing guitar. Such focus and knowledge being displayed here again. 5:47 blows me away.. very sweet. thank you master. I'll go and tuck my tail in about now and hit the bacardi.....

[18strutter]

2:50  what was that?

[123jozef]

Thanks all! Sometimes its fun just to be spontaneous.

[carlosdomingues81]

awesome, i was thinking of putting a sustainer on my jem, but i dont have the courage yet

[chikaofg]

Ditto, plus I don't want a black pickup cover, I'd want a matching white one.

[jaxeplayer]

steve vais jem flo has a white sustainer pickup cover so i gess u can get them?

[SeanTheReptileGuru]

yeah...i think the fernandes 101 kits are white...that or you can pick what color

[glennka1]

Nice!

Wish I had your skills ! :)