Sound has a lot to do with wood type. Look at some cheap $100-150 dollar guitars and most of the time the wood type is bass wood. This axe is made from mahogany which gives the guitar a ton of sustain and lots of low end. The maple neck compliments the mahogany. Gotta love the rosewood fret board.

cheap strings change them out asap. decent hardware. Double locking neck is a must. once you enjoy a night free of tuning every other song you won't look back. This also has the edge III tremelo. It is a dive bomb machine. I am used to the floyd rose trem so it was new to me. The first thing I noticed was how easy the trem moved. Almost no effort to get a huge dive bomb from this beast. by far the best floating trem system on the market. Tuning stability is awesome right out of the box. My only complaint is Ibanez should have put the wizard III neck on it. The GRG neck isn't bad but it's not as thin as the wizard.

I had no problems with mine. I pulled it out of the box, tuned it, plugged it in and cracked it up. Action was as low as it was gonna get. Neck was straight. selector switch is good as are knobs and input jack.

For the money the quality is great. nice paint job. good electronics and hardware, awesome trem system, low action. You could spend more money and get a nicer guitar. I take mine out to local pubs for gigs, trust me a road worth guitar is hard to find. Last thing I do is take a $2000 guitar down to the pub where it can get wear from gigging all the time.

great guitar. It's worth the money if you want a guitar to travel around and gig with. It plays great and sounds great without the a great big price tag. This guitar is proof you can have both.

no experience

the appeal is in the sound and the playability of the guitar. No fancy paint jobs but very effective guitar. I would give this a 5 on a scale out of 1 to 10.

20+ years experience. active musician

everything under the sun

Hobbyist, collector.

Classical.

I was a beginner and had stopped playing

I listen to rock