Price Paid: $609.99 USD
Description: It has 3 pickups, a Vintage 7 humbucker at the neck, a Vintage 8 humbucker at the bridge, and a single coil S1 in the middle. It was built in 1999, the body is Basswood and the neck is maple with 24 frets, it has an Edge bridge, Nut Lock, and a Floyd Rose Tremlo Syste.
Tone:
Comments: The clean tone of this guitar is really nice, its full and carries nicely. The distortion has a good crunch to it and the sound is tight, but doesn't carry as well as the clean tone. I play mine through a Crate GFX Flex Wave amp with 9 gauge Ernie Ball strings.
Quality:
Comments: The finish is in great condition, so far I haven't had any trouble with any of the hardware. The initial setup can be a little confusing if you are just starting to play.
Overall:
Pros: Overall, I really like this guitar, it has a wizard neck, wich is alot easier to play on as opposed to a neck on a Les Paul, which is alot thicker. It's also really light and the tremlo doesn't throw the strings out of tune.
Cons: The strings lay really close to the body and pickups and I find myself hitting the pickups with my pick sometimes. Because this guitar has a nut lock, it's a pain to change to different tunings to much.

Submitted by:
Garrett Twardesky (Waitandbleed99@hotmail.com)
Playing Experience:
six to ten years
Musical Tastes:
blues heavy metal
Ibanez RG-570 [Submit a Review]

Price Paid: $600 USD
Description: 3 pickups, black body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, tone and volume knobs, 5 position pickup selector, Rose knockoff tremolo.
Tone:
Comments: This guitar cranks the rock tunes out. Put the amp up loud, select rear and middle pickups, a little reverb and crunch and you are ready to rock. This guitar has a very crisp tone. However, it sounds *very* electric in all pickup modes and lacks the warmth of other electric guitars. But when played to its advantages, this thing really can belt out a tune. Turning up the bass makes this guitar sound muddy and adjusting the tone knob on the guitar to reduce treble does the same thing. I have played the guitar for many years with the tone knob in approx. the same position - once you hit a sweet spot you don't change it.
Quality:
Comments: Excellent craftsmanship. No problems in the 10 years I have played it. The floating bridge sucks, though, and unless you need it I recommend staying away from it - changing strings becomes a 1/2 hour - 2 hour ordeal every time.
Overall:
Pros: Awesome guitar for the money I paid. With my hot pink strap I was all the rage in 1990 with this axe. Pointy strats were the thing to have back then.
Cons: Muddy tone, not very flexible sound.

Submitted by:
f printf
Playing Experience:
six to ten years
Musical Tastes:
classic rock folk

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