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Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares Speaks About Signature Guitar With Ibanez Guitars

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Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares recently discussed the features on his new Ibanez signature guitar model, the DCM100, which he talks about his history with Ibanez and his love of seven string guitars. Watch it here.

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He also discussed in a separate conversation about a new pickup – the Retribution from Seymour Duncan, which is available for sale individually as a seven string bridge and neck pickup, and as an eight string bridge pickup. Check it out here and here.

According to Dino,

“It has a richer tone that’s more evenly voiced so the low string is not fighting with the high string. It’s a very crunchy sound, great for low tunings. It has more articulation in the pick attack and the distortion has less unwanted noise and compression.”

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Five Finger Death Punch Guitarist Getting Signature Diamond Guitar

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Diamond Guitars will be unveiling the first ever Diamond Artist Signature Series, the Halycon ZB, at the 2015 NAMM Show this January in Anaheim, CA at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Diamond Amplification, Inc’s Jeff Diamant commented:

“Working with Zoltan requires constantly pushing for the next level,” said Jeff Diamant. “He is an accomplished and successful guitar player, known for testing the limits in each and every way. Besides forming one of the world’s biggest rock bands, he frequently straps himself into fighter jets, races million dollars monster trucks, trains special operators in close-quarters combat, and earns medals in professional martial arts tournaments. It’s clear that he is at war with the word ‘impossible.’ As you may have guessed, when it comes to his gear, he has the highest expectations for the design and engineering. Not every company can keep up with his relentless quest of making things bigger, better, and faster. Inevitably he will break you or make you to break the sound barrier.”

The result of Diamant and Bathory’s research and development was the Halcyon ZB models, which will come in two colors with slightly different configurations. The first, the Halcyon ZB-FR Black Moonrise model, is a Flamed Maple over Maple body, Maple set neck with Ebony fingerboard, 24 fret, 25.5″ scale length, Floyd Rose bridge and Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient pickup set, allowing players to use the thickest string gauge they want but retain clarity and ferocious tonality. The Halcyon ZB-FR Kona Brown model features a Flame Maple over Mahogany body, for a completely different and warmer feel, with Mahogany set neck and Ebony fingerboard with the aforementioned pickups and hardware configuration. The custom inlay on both models, spanning the first to third frets, is a Tibetan Flame encompassing a Double Dorje, which is also a tattoo on Bathory’s forearms. Symbolically a dorje represents the “thunderbolt of enlightenment,” that abrupt change in human consciousness, and coincidentally, the word also represents the diamond’s unique indestructible ability to cut any surface without harm to itself.

The new Halcyon ZB-FR models will be on display at the NAMM show in Diamond Guitars’ booth, Hall D Booth 3290, where customers will also have a chance to win one. As well, Seymour Duncan has announced the giveaway of one new Halcyon ZB-FR guitar model. Contest details can be found here.