Designed for projection, balance, and comfort, the AE's perfectly crafted contemporary body shape offers the best of all worlds. Solid German Spruce top offers sensitive tones and pristine clarity. Flamed Maple back and sides create an attractive visual profile and offer bright and tight tones. The X-M Bracing creates the clear bottom and crispy treble sound with trimmed warm mid-range, yet provides a wide dynamic range and high response. In order to achieve supreme playability, the neck was specially designed with Thin-C shape style comfort grip with fingerboard's rounded edge. Rosewood fretboard provides a well-balanced solid tone with a focused mid range. The jumbo frets support easy fingering. The lightweight, scalloped Rosewood bridge improves vibration efficiency for better resonance and provides more flexibility in adjusting the action than does a typical bridge. The Ibanez T-bar Undersaddle pickup accurately translates that full sound to whatever amplification system you plug it into. The guitar also features on-board treble and bass controls for contouring the tone, making the AE suitable for variety of applications for modern players.