The AE400 is an AE series acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1990. It was produced in South Korea.
The AE400 features a AE shaped body with a soft florentine cutaway. The top is spruce with white and black binding on mahogany back and sides with a natural gloss finish. The oval soundhole has a black and white purfling rosette. It has a satin-finish nato neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with small white dot position markers black binding and white side dots. Components include a rosewood bridge with Tru-Tune saddle, plastic nut, and chrome covered Die-cast tuning machines. Electronics consist of an active 3-band EQ system with one volume control.
The pickup is placed under the bridge saddle to receive the maximun effects of the strings vibrations and soundboard tonal colorations. For 1993 the neck wood was changed to mahogany.