Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo vs Ibanez AT100CL-SB
The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo and the Ibanez AT100CL-SB are both electric guitars sharing dynamic, modulated. The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo leans sustaining and tight.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.55% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
- Metal
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- dynamic
- modulated
Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo
Gibson · electric guitar
Ibanez AT100CL-SB
Ibanez · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose brings Wylde's aggressive metal playing style to Gibson's angular V body, fitted with a Floyd Rose locking tremolo for the dive-bomb and pitch-bend techniques common in his lead work with Black Label Society and his years alongside Ozzy Osbourne. Unlike Wylde's more famous bullseye-finished Les Paul Customs, this V-shaped guitar trades the Les Paul's fixed-bridge sustain for the tuning stability and expressive whammy-bar range a Floyd Rose provides, paired with active EMG humbuckers for the same high-output, low-noise metal tone found across most of his signature gear. It represents a less common but genuinely distinct branch of Wylde's overall guitar lineup, built for a different playing style than his stop-tail Les Pauls support.
The Ibanez AT100CL, shown here in Sunburst, is Andy Timmons's signature model, built on Ibanez's RG body shape but leaning closer to a Stratocaster in feel thanks to an alder body, 22 frets, and a Wilkinson-Gotoh synchronized tremolo rather than the double-locking systems common on other RG guitars. It runs DiMarzio Cruiser pickups in the neck and middle with a hotter DiMarzio AT-1 in the bridge, matched to a bolt-on maple neck using Ibanez's All Access neck joint for smooth upper-fret access. Timmons, known for melodic, vocal-like phrasing across his solo instrumental work and his time in Danger Danger, uses this Strat-adjacent alder build to favor expressive touch and dynamics over the extreme high-output specs found on Ibanez's more metal-oriented signature lines.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Experimental
- Electronic
- Jazz
- sustaining
- tight