All user reviews for the Ibanez RG7321

I wanted a cheaper 7 string to dip my toe into the extended range waters and eventually decided on Ibanez's lower end solution, the RG 7321.
It features;
*Basswood Body
*Maple/Walnut Wizard II-7 Neck
*Bound Rosewood fingerboard (incidentally quite a nice bit of rosewood in my opinion)
*Hardtail Bridge
*Grover style tuners
Two Humbucker Pickups
*5 way pickup selector (configured to Bridge, Bridge parallel connected, Bridge and Neck, Inner coils from neck and bridge and finally neck.)
*Master volume and master tone controls
*Made In Indonesia
*All Black Hardware

UTILIZATION

I have to admit, I really enjoy the feel of this guitar. The Wizard II-7 is quite thin, but feels quite a bit fatter due to the bulky shoulders. The fingerboard has a fairly flat feeling radius and allows one to travel all over quite easily. I also find it quite easy to access the higher frets due to the carved neck pocket, which works a treat.
The body is quite comfortable in terms of shape and is fairly light weight.

The bridge is quite comfortable in terms of resting your palm, mine is the old style bridge, not the newer Gibraltar style one. I also find the position of the control knobs and pick up selector quite comfortable to alter during playing, which is important to me.

For a budget guitar, it holds the tuning quite well, even through a fair amount of abuse. I detune this guitar quite a lot, play a lot of two tone bends and use a lot of huge vibrato and it rarely lets me down. It sustains fairly well too

SOUNDS

The sound is a bit of a let down unfortunately, it sounds quite muddy and loose a on distortion and quite plain and boring on clean. Both the neck and bridge constantly lack any kinda of clarity or definition. It doesn't cut through in a mix well either. I've experimented quite a lot with EQ and tried at length to get a decent sound. I run through a Roland cube 60, but have had similar results from line 6 spiders, computer simulation (guitar rig, logics amp designer) and even through a mesa boogie single rectifier. I would recommend anyone thinking about this to upgrade the pickups. This is the only real let down in my opinion, fortunately it's easily altered with a decent set of after market pickups.

OVERALL OPINION

Overall, I'd recommend this guitar to anyone looking for a beginner 7 string, or even an intermediate looking for a back up/beater. Some of the upgrades I intend to make include Bareknuckle pickups, Graphtech saddles, graph tech nut and strap locks. This is a great guitar on the whole and with a little work could be a great overall guitar, it doesn't compare to higher end ibanez', but the price doesn't compare to them either.
I did try a few similarly priced schecter models before deciding on this. I thought about ordering an Agile for a while too, but I'm quite glad I ended up with this. It's a nice feeling, decent looking guitar and I'm never bothered by its war wounds.

Manufactured in: Indonesia
Strings: 7
Channel: Wizzard II, 24 jumbo frets
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Vibrato: No
Knobs: 1 volume, 1 tone
Selector position: Type lever 5 position
Micro: * 2 humbuckers, see other review for the original ones, mine has 2 Seymour Duncan


UTILIZATION

Level of ergonomics, nothing wrong. The balance is perfect, the weight is correct, access to acute could not be more simple ... I read in another review that someone had a concern because the volume knob is too close to the ropes and he happened to touch it when playing, it never happened, unlike the strato or I always changes the position selector (I play very near the handle).

The handle, I find it perfect, it fits perfectly in my hand, the jumbo frets are very nice (I worried a little before this change because I was playing on strato) Since this is a 7 string is of course larger but not larger than a 6-string acoustic guitar, so no worries on that side.

It quickly gets a good sound on this guitar, even if it takes time to adapt if we pass a 6-string guitar for this ^ ^

SOUNDS

I played on an amp Line 6 Spider III 120 Watt (an owl critter for metal and harder sounds in general). This guitar and amp that are a beautiful couple, they are designed for the same sounds which allows me to get the maximum.

The clean sounds are "fair" and it takes quite picky to find a setting that does not make it sound like a pot (I'm tough because I also play alongside a stratovolcano)

If you want to play some old songs a little jazz or otherwise, do not be demanding in terms of sound (perhaps on a marshall amp 60-70 years there would be some way to get anything but good).

An amusing fact is that it sounds pretty good for reggae ^ ^

on the other hand if like me you love to play the sound "slamming", from the old hard rock to metal, this guitar is perfect. It's really up and it sends heavy, just what I expected from this guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

So I bought second hand a month ago (to 130 € = D), and before that I played on a stratovolcano and also on classical guitar.

The thing I like least about this guitar is probably the lack of vibrato (I do not use it often, but hey if it's taking me envy I can not), sounds clear so I do not like compared to my strato.

Considering the price at which I had, I can say that value for money 10/10. If not seen his store price, I would put him 8 / 10, with a view or you want a 7 string, because if we had not really want, as much to buy a 6 string.

Of course at 130 € I resume without hesitation, especially since it had better pickups than the original ones. Excellent guitar