Ibanez AE440

The AE440 is an AE series acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in late 2022. It is part of the new Platinum Collection of the Advanced Acoustic series. It is produced in China.

The AE440 features an AE body with a Venetian cutaway constructed of a solid African mahogany top with standard X-M bracing on solid African mahogany sides and back with a low gloss finish. The soundhole is round with an abalone and wooden rosette, soundhole binding and a clear plastic pickguard. It has an African mahogany and pau ferro Comfort Grip neck with a 20-fret Macassar ebony fingerboard with rounded edges, special wooden vine position markers and Luminlay side dots. Components include a compensated bone saddle in a scalloped Macassar ebony bridge with ebony bridge pins, a bone nut, and chrome die-cast tuning machines.

The heart of the AE440 is without doubt the extensive pickup system. Three pickup points (magnetic, undersaddle, contact) provide an unadulterated amplified sound, which does justice to the natural tone of the guitar. The pickups can be individually adjusted and tuned to each other via the side preamp. In addition, the signal can be passed on to the amp in mono or stereo via one or both of the dual outputs.

The instrument comes with a sturdy hardshell case.

• body shape
• AE body

• bracing
• X-M Bracing

• top
• Solid African Mahogany top

• back & sides
• Solid African Mahogany back & Solid African Mahogany sides

• neck
• Advanced Comfort Grip with Rounded Fretboard EdgeAfrican Mahogany/Pau Ferro 5pc neck

• fretboard
• Macassar Ebony fretboard

• bridge
• Macassar Ebony scalloped bridge

• body binding
• Macassar Ebony body binding with rounded body edge

• top board purfling
• Wooden purfling

• inlay
• Specially designed Wooden Vine inlay

• soundhole rosette
• Abalone and Wooden rosette with Soundhole binding

• tuning machine
• Chrome Die-cast tuners (18:1 gear ratio)

• nut material
• Bone

• number of frets
• 20

• saddle material
• Compensated Bone saddle

• bridge pins
• Ebony with abalone dot

• strings
• D’Addario® XTAPB1152

• string gauge
• .011/.015/.022/.032/.042/.052

• string space
• 11mm

• factory tuning
• 1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E

• pickup
• Ibanez AP11 Magnetic, T-bar Undersaddle & Contact

• preamp
• Ibanez Custom Electronics w/ Magnetic Pickup Volume, Undersaddle Pickup Volume and Contact Pickup Volume

• output jack
• Dual Outputs (Mono Out / Stereo Out)

• battery
• 9V battery