AAD50CE

AAD50CE Natural Low Gloss (more images)

The AAD50CE is an acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 2022. It is produced in China as part of the Advanced Acoustic series.

The AAD50CE features a grand dreadnought body shape with an Advanced Access cutaway constructed of a solid Sitka spruce top with X-M bracing on laminated sapele sides and back with a low gloss finish. The soundhole is round with a black and white acrylic rosette with binding and the top is bordered with wooden purfling and black binding. It has a okoume neck with a 20-fret purpleheart fingerboard with a rounded edge, white dot position markers and luminescent side dots. Components include a compensated bone saddle in a purpleheart bridge with black Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, a bone nut, a black pickguard and chrome Ibanez die-cast tuning machines. Electronics consist of an Ibanez T-bar undersaddle pickup connected to an Ibanez AEQ-TP2 pre-amp with onboard tuner and feeding balanced XLR and ¼" outputs.

Two new finishes were introduced for 2023.

The AAM50CE is a related model with an auditorium body with a side sound port.

Specifications[]

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Specifications for AAD50CE

Name: AAD50CE

Year(s) offered: 2022–2025

Sold in: Americas & Oceania / Asia & Africa / China / Europe / USA

Made in: China

Price: MSRP: US$449.99 (2025^[1]) • SMAP: US$299.99 (2025^[1])

Finishes: Natural Low Gloss (LG) / Light Brown Sunburst Low Gloss (LBS) 2023–2025; USA only after 2024 / Transparent Charcoal Burst Low Gloss (TCB) 2023–2025

Body

Body type:
Acoustic

Body shape:
Grand Dreadnought with Advanced Access Cutaway

Dimensions:
  Body length: 518mm/ 20⅜"
  Width: 413mm/ 16¼"
  Depth: 127mm/ 5"

Top:
  Material: Solid Sitka spruce
  Bracing: Standard X-M
  Finish: Low Gloss
  Binding: Black

Back/sides:
Material: Sapele (laminated)

Soundhole shape:
Round

Soundhole rosette:
Black & white acrylic

Neck

Neck profile:
AAD

Neck material:
1-piece okoume

Scale length:
651mm/ 25⅝"

Fingerboard:
Purpleheart

Inlays:
White dot/
Luminescent side dots

Frets:
20 nickel silver

Nut:
Bone

Machine heads:
Ibanez die-cast (18:1 gear ratio)

Electronics/ Components

Pickup:
Ibanez T-bar undersaddle

Preamp:
Ibanez AEQ-TP2 preamp w/onboard tuner

Output jack(s):
Balanced XLR & ¼" stereo outputs

Bridge:
Purpleheart (11mm string spacing)

Bridge pins:
Ibanez Advantage bridge pins (black w/ white dot)

Saddle:
Bone compensated

Hardware color:
Chrome

Pickguard:
Black

Strings (factory):
.012/.016/.024/.032/.042/.053 (D'Addario EXP16)

Factory tuning:
1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E (E Std.)

Images[]

2022 Ibnaez AAD50CE ( Rear: Grand dreadnought body shape with an Advanced Access cutaway Sapele back with okoume AAD neck and Ibanez Chrome Die-cast machine heads )

Other finishes