The AEL30SE is an AEL series acoustic/electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 2009. It was produced in China.
The AEL30SE features a jumbo-sized body with a Venetian cutaway constructed of a solid spruce top on laminated mahogany sides and back with a high gloss finish mated to a mahogany neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearloid and abalone split block position markers. The soundhole is round with an abalone rosette. Components include a compensated Ivorex II saddle in a rosewood bridge with Ibanez Advantage pins, an Ivorex II nut, and gold Ibanez Smooth Tuner AS tuning machines.
Electronics consist of a B-Band UST under saddle pickup mated to an Ibanez SRTn preamp with notch filter and on-board tuner powered by a 9V cell and feeding balanced XLR and ¼" outputs.
For 2010 the top was changed to Engelmann spruce, the pickup was changed to a Fishman Sonicore and the preamp to an Ibanez AEQ-SST Shape Shifter. For 2012 the Ivorex II nut and saddle were replaced with white plastic. For 2013 the tuners were changed to Ibanez die-cast units.
The AEL40SE is a related model with flamed maple back and sides and wooden vine fretboard inlays. The AEL20E is a related model with a laminated flamed maple top on maple sides and back and white dot fretboard inlays.