The added benefit of having the same tonal response at each string –regardless of it being either plucked open, or fretted – is a luxury that leads to exploring voicings you wouldn't really try on any "standard nut" guitar, to a certain extent. Sustain has greatly improved, and with the zero-fret concept implemented here, the output level of each string is now perfectly even, smoothly balanced against all others' – and this happens when playing acoustic-only (unplugged), too! Now, not only size and geometry are exactly correct, but the Zero Glide nut and fret have graced the instrument, and brought it closer to instruments with a cost factor of x-times, in terms of tone and playability, too. The original nut that came with the guitar was definitely its less-worthy part, actually a hastily-cut and unevenly-filed piece (and of cheap plastic, too), so it left plenty of room for improvement anyway. Tuning machines now perform significantly smoother, and even with the quite steep offset angle of the guitar's two center strings D and G (due to the styling of the guitar's headstock), the friction's now gone, too, which makes tuning a much faster, simpler, easier process. Fits Ibanez AG95 like a glove, and has turned this mid-price archtop into a truly superior, higher-grade instrument, with an intonation that is now spot-on, fully-exact, across the whole fretboard – any string, any fret.
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