You can't beat the tonal superioirity of this guitar. DON"T let the price fool you..this guitar is all quality and plays like butter..rip away... The smooth satin mahogany body is not heavy..it is more comfortable than the nickel painted version which weighs 2 pounds more for some odd reason. They are both fantastic guitars with super fast necks . The pickups are not the best...if you change them out for $140 with DiMarzios the guitar is now worth $1000. It just sings...

For the cost there isn't a guitar that comes close. I played a show with mine right out of the box and tore up the stage..It felt and sounded great....Loud and distorted...the God inteneded

No Problem shred away my friend

Really very very good

For this good of an axe it is dirt cheap

No problems

The raw wood look is very minimalist..it says " i play this guitar because of the tone"

professional

prog jazz, Metal, Rock, Latin

For the price, there is probably no better sound on the market. This guitar has a warm clean sound and a chunky and heavy distorted sound thanks to its INF3 and INF4 pickups. The 5-way pickup switch makes this guitar great for many styles, although i would mostly recommend this guitar for those in the metal genre, because it's distorted sound is overall it's best quality.

5-way pickup switching, brilliant fixed bridge which just about never goes out of tune, INF3 and INF4 pickups, volume and tone knobs. Overall it's quite basic, but great for a beginner.

It's very very simple. Use the INF3 switch for warm sounds, use both the INF3 and INF4 for a balanced rhythm sound, and use the INF4 for more attack. If you're into pinch harmonics, use the INF4 pickup for the best sustain and clarity. Generally I use the INF4 the most, because i play metal.

I've had this guitar now for about 2 years, and so far I've had only one problem. I know 2 people other than myself who have this guitar, and 2 out of 3 of us had this problem. The soldering inside the connector jack of the guitar is very weak, and broke off on our guitars, so when we plugged in our cables, we only got a very loud buzzing sound. The problem itself is a quick fix if you have a soldering iron handy. It took me about 10minutes to fix it, and since then I haven't had any other problems with it. Other than this, the guitars quality is perfect. Theres no loose bits, the neck doesn't warp, and I've had no problems with the bridge.

The reason I got this guitar was because it was inexpensive, it sounded great, and I thought to myself I'll just get another guitar in about 3 years when I think I might need better for on stage and recording. So far I've found I don't actually need another guitar, but there's always something better out there.

So far I haven't had to deal with support.

This guitar doesn't necessarily look like Jessica Alba but when you play it for the first time it's unique feeling and tone will surprise you. It's more sexy to play than to look at, that's for sure.

Active Musician

Metal; Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Old School Metal

This thing just rings on forever, a ton of sustain and tone

I love the way this thing is set up. The best of both worlds. I like a bolt on maple neck and I love a mahogany body. The bridge is like a hardtail on a Robert Cray Strat. Nothing extra that isn't needed

You can pull harmonics out of this thing with ease and hold notes forever, playability is fantastic, it's like a Les Paul in a Strat body. I give it a 9 only because I prefer a single-coil at the neck but I can certainly live with that.

Well built, much better crafstmanship than the Squiers and Epiphones of the world for the same price or more. I give it a nine because I wish Ibanez would come up with a classier headstock. The chrome logo is pretty sweet.

you can't buy a better guitar for the money, period

They neeed support?

Killer natural look must see to appreciate but I find the headstock hard to love

Hobbyist, Former active musician

mostly hard rock

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.

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.

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

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.

For the little amount of money i paid for this guitar is priceless, brand new, heavy sounding, fast playing, esthetically appealing piece of equipment.

this my first ibanez so .. who knows?

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.

shredder, recording engineer

death, thrash.. heavy

Sounds sweet. The stock pickups are as good as any other in the price range, but maybe worth replacing if you're overly obsessive about tone. Personally, I hook it up through a Behringher V-Amp 2, which runs into my monitors. This can either give me a nice tone, or make it sound like the world is ending.

Mahogany body, ultra thin maple neck. Brilliant. The pickups are wired up nicely. I had a Floyd-Rose trem on my old Jackson Performer, and it was the worst part of the guitar - it kept knocking out of tune. Having a fixed bridge (as this has) is much better.

Nice, simple, easy to play. Really fast neck.

Very well made. Nice weight. Looks great.

I got mine second hand for 100 euro (roughly $170). I would say it's easily the best guitar for its price.

I've rated 10 just because I've never needed support. It's a really simple, hard-wearing guitar. There's not much that can go wrong with this. It won't break by accident.

It's subjective, obviously. If you like a matte, unvarnished mahogony finish then this is for you. It's cool because it's simple, and thus doesn't look like it's trying too hard (a la BC Rich). Also, as one of the previous reviews stated, it's immune to finger smudges!

Musician

Thrash metal, blues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Playing guitar since age 11 and am 59 years young now.While I am currently actively playing I have not been seeking a band, but

I like old and new rock as well as jazz and country.

Sounds great with any style. Love it!!!

Comes stock with excellent equipment like the smooth fast action renouned Wizard2 neck, inf3 &4 pickups that are very similar sounding to Dimarzio's. Smooth tuning keys and stays in tune even through a thrashing.

It's a very basic we'll built guitar. Great for the beginner as well as a professional.

Very well built with simplicity which a good thing. This guitar will outstanding the test of time for years to come.

This guitar for the quality is very inexpensive. You won't find a better guitar on the market in its price range. I don't know how they are able to offer it so inexpensive. I paid $325 new for mine but would easily put this guitar in the $600 to $700 range.

I've owned other Ibanezes in the past and have never had a problem with any of them.

The mahogany body makes it heavy which I personally love and provides great tone and sustain that just won't quit. It's a sexy guitar in my opinion.

Been playing guitar for about 15 years. Also play drums.

I like all types of music. Mostly rock and metal and country though.

It's got a nice tone, but it's pretty bassy. I plan to swap the stock pick ups out for DiMarzios. Nice sustain.

Though the stock hardware is nice, i plan to change most of it. Just to make it more professional.

Sounds good with almost all amp settings, the neck is thin and fast. Very, very light.

Takes a beating and holds up great.

Way cheaper than it shoud be. I'd expect an instrument like this to cost around 500-600$.

Never had to contact. It's just a great axe.

Nice body style and beautiful finish. This picture does it no justice.

Active Musician

Progressive Death Metal/Deathcore/Fusion/Shred

Out of the box it sounds better than most guitars.. it's my first electric. Seeing as i'm a bass player alot of the time. You can throw it on any peddle and it sounds great. A really versatle Ax indeed. I can't wait to get my Dimebuckers and EMG's to stick in this b%$#@

It's missing some stuff but hey... what do you expect for a little under $300?

The fack that it has no real paint job is a bummer but this thing takes a good thrashing and sounds like it to.

Its my first electric guitar and i love it more than my $500 bass.

Thanks to this guitar i play nothing but Ibanez.

Musician

Metal, Industrial

for under

musician

metal, rock etc.

I was initially planning on ripping out the stock pickups in this guitar as soon as it arrived. In fact, I was so confident about doing it that I already purchased the replacement pickups in advance without a second thought. When the guitar arrived I was surprised how amazing it sounded out of the box! The INF3/INF4 pickups sounds very very similar to the very popular Dimarzio PAF-PRO pickups. The guitar is very heavy and this means very thick tone and incredible sustain. Now I'm actually debating whether or not I really want to replace the pickups in it!

One thing I've learned from a few years playing electric guitar is that most of the time less is more. Simplicitly pays off abundantly in robustness, and the RG321MH is no exception. One of the most popular complaints is probably the lack of a tremolo on the guitar. The fixed bridge adds a level of sustain and tone that cannot be achieved on tremolo bridges (trust me, I've heard them all). If I had to nitpick one thing that I wish the guitar had it would be a middle pickup for a little more tonal variation and some glassy clean tones, but for many styles of playing you probably won't really need it.

The action out of the box on my guitar was set a little low so I needed to adjust it to remove fret buzz on the 5th and 6th strings but after that was done it played very well and very easily. The 'ease of use' factor of a fixed bridge and non-locking tremolo is still something I'm enjoying getting use to. Switching strings is quick and painless and you won't avoid doing it because it's a pain anymore!

It looks very good out of the box, and feels quite sturdy. The only complaint I could make here is that the frets were a little rough around the edges of the fretboard so when sliding you might feel it in your left hand's palm, again, that's really just nitpicking.

I can't seriously believe how great this guitar is for how little it costs. Being a Paul Gilbert fan myself I went looking for a poor man's PGM hoping to fix it up to what I needed it to be. It turned out I don't even need to do any fixing! I would've payed double what I paid for this guitar no questions asked having played it.

Not sure as nothing has gone wrong with it. Either way I really think the support you get is more of a function of the shop you went through rather than the guitar.

Some would say this guitar looks plain, I personally think it looks sexy as hell. The weight and the feel of the raw mahagony body is incredible and the gunmetal controls and hardware really work well with the motif. It's not to want to put SOMETHING on the body, but hey, maybe that's a better way to go about it anyway, you don't want a guitar that looks like everyone elses do you?

Hobbyist

Rock

sounds amazing!!! it has a smooth buttery kind of sound that i love. great for jazz and best for rock.

the pickups are amazing if u want to sound like kirk this is the guitar and the wood body makes it sound smooth and thick

fret board is outstandingly close to the stings great for rock and hammer-ons

the wood version that i have is kinda chiping away after a wile if u get the wood oil frequently other than that awesome!

great price u aint gona find anything this good for this price

great for everything!

looks awesome sounds awesome y not?

sond writer for 3 years played guitar for 9

rock, jazz, world onbiance

Very close to professional pickups.

Simple design, is easy to change strings and stays in tune.

Ibanez always impresses me with their quality control and design features. The laminated wizard II neck is really excellent!

never had to deal with them

Even as a seasoned professional, I like these inexpensive yet nice-playing guitars from Ibanez.

definitly better sound quality over my old fender squire guitar. the strings don't even buzz unless you really listen and force them too (mainly because of the humbuckler pickups - yay!) cant give this ten or anything cause ive not had enough experience, but i'd certainly say it sounds beautiful, with reallllly good sustain.

the componant selection is perfect. all the gear gives it great sustain and the blue colour is awesome. it looks black in the dark and changes between blue and green in the light. only thing i wish it had would be shark tooth inlays, but that is personal preference so you cant really count that =p lovely neck too, its smooth and allows for good, fast movement and control of play

definitely easy to use! even a new guitarist could pick this up and play it without any trouble with maintenance... pretty much what i've done. the only thing i'd say got me was when i re-strung it. the bridge didnt sit flat but being a novice i probably did something wrong but it was easy to correct again so not a problem if new guitarists are planning on getting this guitar.

good quality, perfectly smooth finish with no faults that i can see. very reliable so far, but i've only had it for 6 months ^.^ sturdy as anything really with the solid body, so i dont worry that its going to break. i would gig with this if i got the opportunity.

again, not 10 as i dont know enough about pricing for guitars, but hey it worked for me. seems to be a very good deal for money however! totally worth every penny!

never dealt with the company, had this for quite a while now and no major problems.

saw it in the shop window... then it was mine! i had only been playing guitar for about 2 months at the time - that should say a thing or two. the colour of 'royal blue' is particularly impressive for the tonal range which i didnt really notice until i brought it (as mentioned before). that really made it all the more worth the while. all the guitars ive seen are plain black or something, not a funky colour like this one!

i play electric guitar as a hobby. playing for almost a year now.

rock-metal or acousticy stuff... it varies

it's a little basic, but it has an impresive and agresive sound.

it's really comfortable, excelent neck, ibanez it's always kickin' asses.

I use the guitar in a very tought way, and it looks like new, mohany oil one is exc.

i would paid more...

never deal with ibanez yet.

super sexy, every girl I know, say it's incredibly nice, and the feel like huggin it.

This guitar has a good solid heavy sound due to the fixed bridge and humbucker setup,wich is great for heavymetal,rock,funk and blues in my opinion.I use 10 gauge strings

nice,simple and reliable

its easy

I would say that the surfice of the body is the cheapest part,every thing else is great.

Its a very good deal for the price.

18 years

rock funk blues heavymetal

Good Sound....stands mid-way b/w Metal and accoustic.....for pure metal fan....i wud say invest a little more...if u need an accoustic touch,..not bad for the price....

easy to use......i use a ZOOM GFX 5..really good one

OK

good for the price

had to replce it once good service overall...

m looking for a better one now:)

Hobbyist

Rock, "Alternative", "Country",