Talk:Ibanez EDR/EXR

change the name
The guitars (three models) were not a resounding commercial success. However, the plastic-body Ergodyne basses ran 1999-2005, with at least 13 model numbers divided up amongst three lines — the original EDB (for "ErgoDyne Bass"), then EDC, finally EDA. The Luthite is much more suitable to the tonal characteristics sought for bass than for guitar. Weeb Dingle (talk) 04:15, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Apologies for the unclarity. What I intended to propose was to change the title to something like Ibanez Ergodyne in order to capture the entire line rather than just the six-string versions. (The name apparently derives from a collision of ergonomic and dynamic.) Three basses were released alongside the first EDR.

Though the EXR170 and GXR370 have been called "Ergodyne," these appear quite near the end of the Ergodyne era, and all sources thus far tell me they had wood bodies. It'd take Ibanez marketing literature to clarify this (or not). They may have done this to resurrect the EDR shape and hardware, which had by then begun to belatedly build a small following. In any case, the EXR170 is certainly instead a member of the EX Series, and hardly the first.

It's possible that Ibanez muddied those waters to mislead the market: late models of the EDB sub-series were wood-bodied, much as Cort did with the Luthite-bodied Curbow basses (e.g. adding the wood-body Curbow41 beside the plastic Curbow4, weaning potential buyers into believing they're the same model, then phasing out the latter).

One last note about the six-strings. There appear to be three plastic guitars: EDR260 (1997), EDR470 (1998), EDR170 (2002). A year or two on, the EDR470EX and EDR170EX were released, with "Designed by EMG" pickups rather than Powersounds (which some players seem to consider a step down). (These were this variants rather than different models.) Weeb Dingle (talk) 14:40, 9 September 2017 (UTC)