The AAD400CE features a grand dreadnought body shape with an Advanced Access cutaway, a solid Sitka spruce top with X-M bracing on solid African Mahogany back and sides with a low gloss finish. The soundhole is round with a wooden multi rosette with binding and the top is bordered with wooden purfling and black binding. It has a low oval grip Thermo-aged African mahogany and pau ferro neck with a 20-fret Macassar ebony fingerboard with a rounded edge, specially designed maple position markers, and luminescent side dots.
Components include a compensated bone saddle in a scalloped Macassar ebony bridge with black Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, a bone nut, a red tortoise pickguard and chrome Ibanez die-cast tuning machines. Electronics consist of an AP11 magnetic pickup mounted at the end of the fretboard, a contact pickup, an Ibanez Custom Electronics pre-amp with individual volume controls for each pickup and dual outputs.
Several changes were introduced for 2022 as shown below.
The AAD440CE is a similar model with a solid African mahogany top.
