The signature model of guitarist Martin Miller, a professional guitar player, Ibanez signature artist, and teacher from Leipzig/Germany, who has also branched out into music production and vocals. In recent years he's been keeping busy as a guitar teacher at Carl-Maria-von-Weber College of Music and touring the world doing Ibanez Guitar clinics, writing guitar courses for JTCguitar.com, creating albums and original music, producing, mixing and last but not least producing Live Session videos for his Youtube channel with the Martin Miller Session Band.
The MM1 features an S-TECH special roasted treatment, which increases the wood's stability, durability, water resistance and tolerance of temperature changes. The neck is sealed with an oil finish which helps make it feel similar to a well-played guitar neck. Along with this an Oil-impregnated bone nut provides superior tuning stability and warm rich resonance. Stainless steel frets boast excellent corrosion resistance. The wide and tall fret-type offers a quick response, good articulation when playing chords and clear tone when playing single notes.
Loaded with Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ Pickups that feature a moderate output through Alnico-5 magnets to keep the clarity of the fundamental tone when using a distortion sound, and to deliver a clear pick attack. From treble to bass, the overall tonal balance is evenly adjusted., and works well with various effect pedals. These are combined with the dyna-MIX 10 switching system, which offers ten sound variations and can easily switch from humbucker and single coil modes with the mini switch. The power Tap mode provides a realistic single coil sound despite its two humbucker pickup layout.
It also comes with GOTOH® MAGNUM LOCK® machine heads, which have an established reputation for tuning stability. Its H. A. P® (Height Adjustable Post). system allows for the adjustment of string posts for the appropriate tension of each string. The Luminlay side dot position marks make it easy for players to see fretboard position marks when performing on dark stages.
Features
- Body Material: Flamed Maple top. African Mahogany
- Neck Material: MM S-TECH WOOD / Roasted Maple
- Fingerboard Material: S-TECH WOOD Roasted Maple
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (H) neck pickup (Passive/Alnico)
- Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (H) bridge pickup (Passive/Alnico)
- Bridge: Gotoh® T1802 tremolo
- Hardware: Chrome