For someone comfortable adjusting action and intonation, it’s not bad once you get the hang of it. This is a bad idea for any beginner – simply changing to new strings of the same gauge will be a big bag of hurt to a novice still learning to tune a guitar. The overall sound of the pickups is decent but slightly muddy – I replaced the bridge humbucker with a Seymour Duncan Invader and it gave me more gain and more clarity.Īs for the locking trem? I took it apart and put it back together to learn how it worked, and it was an education. The single coil middle pickup and 5 way switch are like the piece of parsley on the plate of a 24 ounce steak. The pickups are hot and designed for high gain – the clean sound that comes out of this guitar is serviceable and unexceptional. It feels like pretty much every other sub-$500 shred neck. The neck is wide and flat and built for shredding – not so much fun if you’re trying to put your thumb around it, but that’s not what this thing was made for. ILT Locking Trem System with locking nut.Further, once you’ve named a product, putting the name ON the product would be a good idea. It’s not enough to say “Gio” because there are both good and bad guitars in the Gio range. Ibanez, like many other companies, still have not figured out that product names matter. It didn’t come with paperwork (or a trem bar, at first – they had to find one for me,) so a lot of time on Google helped me determine that I had the GRG270DX. The hardest part? Figuring out what guitar I actually had. It sounds good, it plays good, low action, it stays in tune, and it’s designed for speed playing. But I played this guitar, and for $279, it might my definition of a great budget guitar. I don’t play metal, except screwing around for fun, so it was always hard to justify. For me, not worth the hassle.Īnyway, I picked up this guitar because I have always wanted a guitar with a locking trem system.
But you’ll have to deal with strangers coming to your house or having to ship your stuff. You’ll get double that if you use craigslist or ebay. That’s not 100% reliable info – it depends on the stores, the managers, and the gear. You’re going to get 25% of what you paid at Sam Ash and 33% of what you paid at Guitar Center. The dumbest thing you can do with gear is trade it in at a music store. Actually I traded in a Fender Mustang II amp and some other stuff that I needed to get rid of, and I took a bath on the trade. I “bought” this guitar new from Guitar Center for $279. I’m practicing for my retirement from web development – this is probably what I’ll be doing when I’m an old fart. It’s 7 am on a Sunday morning and I’m sitting in The Breakfast Station in New Port Richey, Florida, eating breakfast and blogging about guitars.
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