Suhr Modern Custom Guitar Review: Ibanez AZ, I Am Your Father. 

Love that you mentioned the inspiration aspect of guitars. You never hear that in reviews and we definitely tend to forget that when we’re looking at specs and features and price but it’s very important

Yes Suhr! What a beautiful instrument 👍🎸 Great video my friend!!

Good vid man!! Keep the content going!!

Oh man.... that is gorgeous. I’m thinking of dropping a couple of my Ibanez to get one of these.. and that one is gorgeous.

Gorgeous guitar! Congrats!!!

Amazing guitar ! Great video content

Great review as always! I said I would buy Ibanez Az in Japan but unfortunately flight got cancelled by super typhoon. And I just order a suhr modern plus instead last week. Good to see you talk about Suhr ! 🤗

Suhr makes a great guitar. I've owned several Suhr, a few Tom Anderson's, custom carvin and lots of USA jacksons. I was never an Ibanez fan until I tried the AZ. I have the 2402 FF-RBB and have since sold off my other guitars. The AZ is perfect. I like it better than any of the Suhr or TA guitars I've owned. It may be a timing thing, or some other thing I haven't considered, but I am an Ibanez fan all the way now.

Nice review. I love all of the Suhr's that I've played, but definitely out of my price range, lol.

Your content is great and you deserve to be bigger.

D00d Chris your videos are top notch man! Beautiful guitar man! Wish I knew more about guitars man. D00d you’re so knowledgeable man. Omar and I always thought you were from another planet. Need to make a tech channel next man! Ahaha Omar and I miss you d00d, wish we could hang out! Keep up the awesome work man! Omar is watching you too!

AWESOME AXE !! I LOVE SUHR GUITARS !! VERY PRICEY !! CONGRATS ON THE GREAT FIND ! MY FRIEND\M/

One of the best sounding electric guitars that I have heard. 🔥

Just had to revisit this video. I love this Suhr.

Love the review ! You may be the only person I have ever heard say they would rather have a truss rod adjustment at the heel 😂

Terrific editing.

Thanks for the great review. I used to have a Modern, but sold it as I did not like the lower horn. I have big hands, so I was touching the lower horn while I was playing the higher frets.

Awesome man! It is like the champagne of guitars! Like 10

Wow on the price. Out of my league. I mean the guitar does sound fantastic. Can't wait to see the review on the EVH.

Hey The Guitar Pit. Checking out your vids. This is a great review. I do have a Suhr Modern Satin PRO. I pad $1500 used on Reverb. I have a Suhr Pro Series S1 with ThornBuckers and a single coil in middle up for sale on Reverb. I love Suhr but am happy with just the Modern. Can't keep em all unfortunately.

Pickups sound very versatile, even thru my phone speakers. Guitar has a great look!

Awesome review. I've wanted a Suhr modern since Aaron Marshall started raving about them. I can't decide between that and an Aristides 060. Thoughts?

7:07 FYI, the bridge pickup is SSH+ and the neck is SSV. Wiring is: 1 - full bridge humbucker 2 - inner coils in parallel 3 - both humbuckers in parallel 4 - outside coil of neck humbucker only 5 - full neck humbucker

absolutely beautiful.

Great guitar👍🏻

Beautiful guitar! Suhrs are great!

Agree . The easiest to play guitar may not the guitar you want to pick every day. Preferences, unexplainable love with that guitar

I bought my Suhr Modern Satin Pro for around 2k brand new but it did not have all the extra fancy paint jobs. It cost me same as a new Fender Elite Stratocaster but plays way better and is lighter no nonsense guitar. I did not see any reason to pay 1-2k more for fancy woods and crap that had nothing to do with playability.

I like this one!

Great Review! If you get a Suhr you'll have to play some Mateus Asato Riffs tho ;P

Seems ill be a while before trying a Suhr. I want to see what I think.

The only Strat body guitar I own is an Anderson, which is the same in quality. However, I totally love the Modern Suhr body, it slays. 👍🏻 congrats

Dude, i hope you don't mind me asking this, what the hell do you do for a living?

Nice.

I bought a $4000 PRS 10 years ago that I was afraid of playing in case I dinged it. It has a couple small nicks but I'm more relaxed with it now coz I'm never selling it. Every time you buy/sell a new guitar you lose money, so just buy used stuff. New guitars are like wives: when you trade it in you lose half your money.

Ibanez AZ "plastic" feeling neck? Mine feels like raw wood?

Would love to see you review a Tom Anderson and compare it to this

Beksinski print on the wall- nice

The base model moderns have a basswood body and maple cap. I'm really torn on the Suhr pickups. They sound great, but have their own things going on. I'm probably going to swap mine out for DiMarzios to see if I can get its distorted tone closer to something I'm used to.

Now thats a great guitar

New to this channel and I dig it. Not related at all to your content or your playing, but you kinda look like the love child of John Mayer and Blues Saraceno.

Great review. That guitar sounds really good clean, like SUPER good. However, to me, on the dirty channel it just sounds sterile. It looks beautifully and artfully crafted. I just think it lacks a little character in the pickup department. Before you say, just swap out the pickups, a guitar costing upwards of $4k new shouldn't require a damn thing.

Can you do a Tom Anderson on your channel one day?

Where do you even buy a SUHR? Are they custom to order? I’m not sure how it works.

I hear you on that. I have the money to buy a suhr waterfall burl which looks insane but what am I going to do with it? To me a guitar over $1600 is not worth it. I mean, I would love a Knaggs Kenai but I think I would be too worried about it.

On that gotoh 510 bridge does it dive bomb and pull up the same as a Floyd?

I tried the Suhr modern elliptical neck on a Modern Satin, and hated it honestly, but maybe it was the slimmest variety. I would like to learn how and if people are getting accustomed to it and like it, if they are not drawn to it initially..

I can't stop watching this video. I may come to your house and snipe this guitar

Hey Chris, you should shop for a baritone one of these days.. they never seem to get a lot of lovin and are actually kinda rare to get a good one...

I’m lucky enough to have the stripped down Suhr modern satin tele body. It’s a really really great guitar. I agree with almost everything he said. I actually swapped out the pickups for some Duncan PAF style PU’s. I did not like the pickups that came in my model. I thought the mids were overpowering. Too much output for my taste. But the guitar itself is a dream

John Mayer looking guy playing Alice in Chains on a white Suhr Modern Custom. Nice review into a, to a lot of people, elusive guitar. Edit: I know that a lot of strat players buy this as an alternative, but this is way more contemporary and they usually don't love them. I would check this out if you're into progressive rock and metal.

Check out the Jackson Monark series. I have the Marty Friedman X series. It's like, atleast to me, the Les Paul for the SuperStrat guy

Sounded very nice to me. When mine arrived it was new from factory, and I never felt uncomfortable. The presentation was divine, exquisite. They build clean guitars, and all details are cared for. Flawless. In that price range many Gibson guitars. All of the 335s, some of the collector grade LPs. Ibanez has several collector grade guitars that exceed Suhr's price bracket. My UV77 is the most expensive fiddle I own. It's expensive to operate a business in CA, and the labor rates for their specialists need to cover their cost of living. Buying a Suhr supports this entire structure. Living in TN is quite a bit more affordable. I am preferential to my 335. It needs attention, has a construction method that differs from most, semi-hollow. It has 10-52 strings tuned standard, so quite a bit of neck pull, likes to go out of tune every day with temp changes. Holding it while playing warms up the wood, and it'll flatten. But it's my baby. -♥-

just picked up a modern pro satin for $1500 to check out the suhr hype. i'm impressed so far, but might sell it for a cooler finish

Why are these so expensive? They make mayones and skervesen seem cheap! Regardless of how good the quality is, I don't see how they could charge upwards of 4k for a bland, basic guitar. Good review though and good content.

For that amount of cash, I would have bought an Ibanez RG 8570 J Custom. The grandaddy of all super strats

Hi bro , i'm in China , wanna know in what website you guys buy and sell your guitar normally? Guitar Market in China is not so healthy and sooo expensive. Take this Suhr for example , it may cost me over 3000 dollars（22000 CNY） in China , and 2300 for a fender american ultar tele . Getting a high end guitar in America might be a good choice i think.

Another great review. having my eyes on a Suhr for some time I can say I've watch all the utube on them and yours is by far the best! No kidding. Most will give a long demo of the sounds but not much else, whereas besides covering that area you cover the most important area...practical use! Of course i'm not too surprised you managed to find a 4k quitar for $2500 lol. it has to be an art in itself. The suhr I'd concider wouldn't be the modern...as they are just too pricey. I'd go for Classic Pro HSS for $2195 new. That though would only be because it's not that too far shy of an Elite American Strat and the better workmanship is so superior that i'd say...yeah the extra bucks are worth it. But currently I'm still leaning toward a Greg Howe GH3. You get the Duncan little '59, and 24 frets. And Kiesels are certainly close to a suhr in build quality. Not as good but damn close enough anyway. And I could speck that out new, forgoing some fancy top and paint job at about $1500. Compared to an Elite strat at the same price point? the GH3 is a no brainer. Now the GH3 doesn't have the 510 trim but the Hipshot is pretty good, and i'd likely just get the fixed bridge anyhow. I know the Suhr neck is plexed but those two carbon fiber rods in the kiesel has my faith in saying that neck still would be more stable. Looking at it from a practical perspective, yeah not having to worry about theft or dings a $1500 working guitar is far more attractive than a 4k quitar I'd be afraid to take anywhere. I think either could be inspiring but you can't tell that until you play one.

I dont wanna be that guy, but i have to. The suhr modern custom costs about 4k, the ibanez az costs about 2k. The ibanez its like a 9 out of 10 (suhr being the 10) while it costs about half of a suhr's price. Yeah, it has a lot of fancy woods and as you said, the quality its really noticeable, but i think for one does not simply takes the big brother for a fair comparison. A fair comparison should be the standard suhr modern, which costs around 2.3k.

I find Suhr pickups uninspiring, maybe like generic sounding. If you still have that Modern, I would like to see how would you feel after a pickup change. I am heading to pay for a Suhr Modern soon, if I can bring myself to drop that kind of money huh...

Hey dude, this one has an natural back, I don't see that on the new suhr moderns, what gives?

I played an AZ Prestige in Japan and that guitar was easily in my top 3 guitars just from that half hour of playing. With that said, I was always curious to try a Suhr to see just how the "original" compared to all the modern models inspired it, so this was an entertaining video. I'd still love to try one out for myself when this COVID business is over though!

11:30 some real wisdom

It's an amazing guitar... Crear Review

I played about a half dozen Suhr guitars a couple years ago - drove 2.5 hours from my house to this shop. Total waste of time. I really don't get it - every single one i played felt like a "Regular guitar" with "regular-good" feel. I even played a couple with scratchy pots, and the setups weren't amazing. I know this might be a dealer issue, but they were all new guitars. I also played Tom Anderson Guitars and a couple of Jackson Custom Shops... now THOSE guitars really stood out. Also, i think it's so funny that people think ibanez ripped off Suhr. The very first thing i thought when i saw the Suhr modern is "oh they just rounded off an RG a little" - whatever.

PRICE?

and charvel dk24 hh without floyd rose

Position 2-5 are god tier

I like your position on expensive guitars. I just picked up a PRS Standard 24 for 350 brand new and play the crap out of it without worry. Maybe one day I will pick up an grand (or two) guitar, but I doubt it.

Jeez that's a beauty!! I gotta avoid that isle at all costs!! Haha yeah a new Music Man Axis Super Sport pretty much annihilated my bank account !! Tom Anderson & Suhrs man are freakin too good!! Someday 😁Haha guitars!!

i like suhr but jackson and charvel made guitars like this an eternity ago, so ibanez isn't really copying suhr imho. An az is basically a jem with roasted neck and old style headstock. Nothing revolutionary imho. Dig them both. Suhr seem to take tolerance serious in the US like Ibanez takes it serious in Japan!

Mahogany body ??

I think its the pickups. I tried a JM with dual SSVs humbucker and i love it, even though i was looking for a modern. The tone is more...open, dynamic, it gives back what i tried to give into it, it even play very well in high gain, very fun. It even has a thicker neck than modern which i dont like...whereas the modern pros i tried was...meh...good playing but the tone was average...

Nooôöòóøōõ! That's not true! That's impossible!

Actually, I think that every guitar above … let's say 1000€ should be as good as this Suhr. We live in a world full of machines and creating products with this precisions shouldn't be a thing. If you buy an expensive Gibson or Fender, than you pay mostly for the name but definitely not for any outstanding craftsmanship. You can make good music on them, don't get me wrong. And they have this very special vibe and they look gorgeous. But purely from a technical point of view, they are just average or sometimes even poorly made guitars.

100% an amazing guitar but I know whats on the horizon mwahahahaha

You look like John Mayer

A Suhr custom for $2550, Oh how things have changed in 4 years.

I thought this guy was john mayer

Anybody ever say I look like John mayr

not sure why they're so pricey.

One word to describe Suhr: *OVERPRICED* Yes,they're great guitars,amazing quality,playability etc. but lets get real here guys and gals.Over 3,000 Eurones/Dollares for a guitar that is essentially a bolt-on, hot rodded Strat?! Get the fuck out a here! You can literally build a partscaster,with parts of the same quality for far less.I know what I'm talking,because I have a buddy who does this type of projects all the time.(the guy build a Jake E.Lee white Charvel replica for one of his students,for 1/5 of the price of the off.Charvel USA model!) Suhr is pretty much the guitar equivalent of Apple.Both made well designed and good products,which are ridiculously overpriced and hyped up via clever marketing.'member when Guthrie Govan used to do all these JTC videos and everyone and their mother was GASing for a Suhr?

AZ Ibanez to Suhr - ‘Now I am the Master!’

probably shouldn't have sold this one 😁

They aren't worth the price, for that price it should be gold plated. I got a Harley Benton with stainless frets, roasted fret board and neck locking tuners that plays great for under 500.00. . I can't justify spending that much on a piece of wood. Not putting your purchase down I really hope you enjoy it especially for that price

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$2,550 for a guitar to play pop punk power chords on? No bueno!

WAAY over-priced.