Item: IBARG321MH
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Ibanez RG321MH Electric Guitar reviews
58 People rated this product :
8 out of 10
"Ibanez,A quality guitar for all genres at a price everyone can afford!"
Feature:
just clean, easy to use and no confusion as to which button or awitch to use, all straitforward.Again,the mahogony body combined with the wizard maple neck offer the best wood combinations available. And the INF humbuckers were a great addition for the versitle tones and added sustain.
Quality:
I always check out craftsmenship on anything that I buy as do most people. Cosmetically it is very clean and nothing out of whack. The reliability remains to be seen as I just got it but mahogany and maple---What could go wrong?I would not hesitate to take it on the road as it feels sturdier than my strat. I have a deluxe players strat.And due to the fact that my rg has no finish, my guess is that it will outlast my honey blond strat.
Value:
If you are a musician, you know by trying the product immeadiatly if it is worth the price or not. Ibanez mid priced guitars are worth every cent as the quality from my experience, usually surpasses the price. They seem to either hold or exceed their value.
Desirability:
Once again the mahogany body and dual humbucker setup were very appealing, the bound wizard II neck is a marvel in and of itself. It makes great music with very little effort.
Sound:
First and most importantly i would characterize the sound as somewhat dirty through a clean amp.no crystal bell ringing sounds in any pickup position after adjusting pickup height.The sound quality would depend upon the style of music that you prefer to play.For example, blues played through the bridge pickup in the first position is dirty and reminiscent of stevie ray, and no distortion is needed if you have your volume up and treble knob all the way on. If you turn down the volume a bit and roll back some on the tone a bit, now you have BB King. If your amp has built in distortion,again on the bridge wide open treble all on, you can pull some pretty good metal and the wiz II neck really adds great distorted hammer ons and pull offs and the sustain rings forever and a day. In either mode I just described, your pick attack will really shine through enormously which is why I'm sure the luthiers at ibanez decided to use the INF3
and INF4 in thier infinate wisdom regarding pickup choice for this versitle axe.I love a bolted on maple neck (espically the wizard II) in combination with the fantastic tonal and sustain lasting abilities that you can only get from mahogany. Check your Gibson body's and Warmoth replacement bodies and a great deal of quality manufacturers out there who insist on nothing but mahogony.There is a reason.My music styles range between rock (old and new) blues,Jazz and country and this axe plays them all beautifully. This guitar and an epiphone blues amplifier w\lady luck speakers would be a match made in heaven. I hihgly recommend that, if you are searching for a guitar and you like mahogany teamed up with humbuckers and the renound wizard neck, this guitar deserves a close look, it is priced fairly,it is old school,very clean,easy to play, bound wizard neck and dual humbuckers that with the onboard conrols, can take you anywhere you want to go.
Ease of Use:
easy to use tone and volume controls and the pickup selector is just like that of a strat. the bound wizard II neck provides unprecedented action on a guitar of this price.making the playability most commonly described as butter.I also use a digitec rp 50 which i use on all of my setups as it works great and was very inexpensive and enables me to coax any sound I desire from my new rg321 guitar.
Support:
I have not had any reason as yet to deal with Ibanez and I have owned different Ibanez guitars in the past and have never had a problem with any of them.At one time I owned one of the very first les paul copies that Ibanez ever distributed when they first came out and it ended up worth more then a Gibson. It was a black beauty
Ibanez and I wish that I still had it.I am no stranger to Ibanez, I am 59 years old and play a guitar every day and if Ibanez werent any good I would not continue to buy their products. I also own an original Ibanez rock and play which has been used almost weekly since it was new at least 10 years ago.
Overall:
I feel that I'm always looking and that some things can be more appealing then others, for excample, in the past I would look for fancy looking guitars that were eye appealing to the crowd, but once you learn the bread and butter of it, you want a guitar that sounds great and plays better for your certain style and after trying this guitar it pleased me in every way that I was looking for and, as such, I bought it.If it were lost or stolen I would seek to replace it with another of the same.
Submitted: 4/8/2008
Style of Music: I like old and new rock as well as jazz and country.
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"Wonderful girl next door style shredder"
Feature:
now.. i rate this at a 10 mainly because i'm pretty much just a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
5 way switch, 2 knobs, and it never goes out of tune.
There is timeless beauty in simplicity
i don't like to chain 100 FX pedals, have 10 different switches on the guitar, or have 1000 different knobs on the amp with so called infinite settings.
5 way switch, 2 knobs, strings thru body set bridge and it never goes out of tune.
There is timeless beauty in simplicity.
Quality:
well i'll score it high for now just because i haven't had it for that long.
but as it goes now, its a sturdy feeling guitar, the truss rod reacts well to adjustments and string tensions, the frets are well dressed, and all the internal wiring is well organized leaving plenty of room for any changes you want to make.
Value:
For the little amount of money i paid for this guitar is priceless, brand new, heavy sounding, fast playing, esthetically appealing piece of equipment.
Desirability:
the guitar is actually pretty plain.. matte black satin finish, no bindings, no flashy inlays, gunmetal knobs and pickup rings..
but the naturalness gives it a sort of girl next door kinda beauty. which is a refreshing breeze compared to the "makeup" showpieces
like i had mentioned before,
There is timeless beauty in simplicity.
Sound:
wonderfully warm and buttery smooth bottom end with easy to hear notes. standard dimarzio designed pickups do a good job, i switched the bridge pickup with a seymour duncan JB4 however just for that extra clarity for my Death metal style music.
Ease of Use:
wonderful feeling guitar, the balance is great when you sit down, or strap it on and stand up and rock out, plays REAL fast top to bottom.
the jumbo frets make the guitar feel real fast as well as the barewood feel on the neck. no sticky feeling you would get with a gloss finish
the cleaning and maintenance of this piece is nice due to the satin finish. NO FINGER SMUDGES
Support:
this my first ibanez so .. who knows?
Overall:
Keep in mind, the scores are given exactly as how i feel the guitar performed in eacfh field.
I bumped it up to a 10 also because of the PRICE.
YOU GET SO MUCH GUITAR FOR SO LITTLE MONEY.
the way this guitar is playing and sounding now, i will probably play this guitar until it returns to the earth (breaks down) This is the perfect guitar for someone like me, and will not bother to look for a different guitar for as long as this is going ot be built and distributed.
If it was lost or stolen, i would replace it with the same guitar or if i was feeling particularly the next step up which is the RGT42DXFX. its pretty much the same guitar with a few more perks.
The only think i wish i had known about this guitar before i bought it was the fact that it existed. i would have bought this guitar years ago.
Submitted: 8/21/2006
Style of Music: death, thrash.. heavy
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