All user reviews for the Ibanez GAX70

I bought the quitar at Seminole Music in Clearwater Florida. I traded in my worthless Aria Strat on it. Retail for the guitar is 189$ paid 110$ after my trade

Sweeeet! sounding good looking guitar. sounds best in Drop D. Great for punk, and just general rocking. Has a good crunchy tone. its got full switching independent humbuckers which makes lots of neat different tone combinations. I play it through a 30watt marshall and zoom box.

The cable plug is in a bad spot.

for the most part it is excellent quality. A few things are pretty cheap, like the upper nut is made of plastic. when i got the quitar the neck was warped. I took it to my local guitar guy fo a setup and it sounds great now.

For 190$ it is the best new guitar i have found. highly recomneded!!!

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I got my gax70 off of ebay for $140 ($170 after shipping)

The best thing about the gax70 is how many features it has for the price. Dual humbuckers, 2 tone, 2 volume knobs and a three way switch all for around $200, it doesn't get much better for the price.
I also love the distortion I can get out of this beast. Any rock, metal or punk song is going to sound fantastic.

The problem with this guitar is trying to get a pure clean sound. No matter what you do to the guitar (or amp) it's still not as clean of a sound as you should be able to get. Replacing the pickups would fix this, but I'm too lazy!

This guitar is rock solid. I have had no major problems. The worst thing that happens is the outlet for the guitar cable comes loose every now and then, but that's minor. The only other problem is the tuners aren't as good at holding their tune as other guitars. Also last of all you'll have to file the action a little bit to cut down on broken strings. Obviously all of these problems can be expected on almost any guitar.

This is an EXCELLENT guitar for the money! If you are a beginner who wants to rock pick it up right now! At the price I got it for it was a no brainer

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I got it at a local music store i paid around $190.00 for the guitar.

The guitar has a thin fast neck with great action, the body is light weight, and the dual powersound humbucking pickups are much to my liking, plus it sounds great with slight overdrive and distortion on at the same time.

There is nothing about this guitar that i dont like, except the fact that you have to set the strap kind of high to keep it in perfect balance, but other than that, it is a great all around unit for beginner or professional.

The body is light and the neck is fast.


Buy one, you'll love it!!

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I got this guitar from Musician's Friend. I paid 190.00 but with shipping it came to about 203.00.

Being that this is my second guitar, adn being that my first guitar was a harmony bullet, I obviously rediscovered guitars. This is EXCELLENT. I love the transparent red finish, it is beautiful! The humbuckers kick it! It weight seems like it was designed for me. My Harmony weighed very little, because it was made out of plywood. The GAX70 has weight to it, because it's a wide body mahogany guitar. But it isn't too heavy.

I don't like the nut on the side jack thing coming off! Then you have to unscrew the jack plate and go fishing for it. It's only happened once, though, and only took about a minute to fix, but I'm lazy!

I LOVE THE FINISH! It sounds great. I've never had any troubles with it, so i guess that makes a great quality guitar. I get many many compliments on this fine instrument. I tune my guitar to different tunings often, but as soon as i tune it, it isn't going to change unless i change it. I kept it tuned to standard E when i first go it, then three months later i decided to change the tuning, but i never had to mess with it until then. It is really easy to change strings with the tremolo on it. Just pull em out and feed em back through. EASY!

This guitar has opened my eye to Ibanez's quality. They sell high priced and low priced guitars, but the quality is the same, unless higher priced ibanez'a are of a Godly quality. I plan to nuture this baby forever. I'm not getting rid of it ever. Highly recommended!

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I got this product for Christmas, but my poor folks ended up paying like $300 for it when they could have gotten it for $189 from Musician's Friend.

There are alot of personal things. Mine has the butterscotch coloration, but looks different than all other butterscotch GAX70's I've seen. It's darker and a tad more brown (My favorite color -I lucked out!) The neck on it is very straight -more so than my friend's $800 Jackson. I like the Les Paul style bridge and the 2 volume/ 2 tone knobs. It also stays in tune and has a good solid, relatively heavy body.

Well, the pickups interfered too easily with my amp and it was hard to find a place to stand without hearing a screechy noise. I'm presently solving that problem by putting a set of active EMG's in it. Note: I liked the guitar itself enough to spend more money than it is worth on it. It's difficult (for me) to play comfortably standing up and oh yeah, of course, the jack tends to come loose easily, but I'm solving that problem too.

Like I said, the neck is straight -It's pretty thick, allowing decent sustain -comfortable to play sitting down -MINE has a gorgeous paint job -and besides the jack problem, it holds together well.

I liked it well enough to spend more money than it was worth on it.

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I bought this guitar off www.americanmusical.com for about $195 and it was delivered within 2 days.

Well what first drew me to this guitar is the appearance. It looks awesome. So i checked it out on the Ibanez website, and I like what I read. It sounds great and it's great for getting artifical harmonics on it.

The only things that I don't like about this guitar is that it is hard to palm mute on it for me because of the type of bridge it has (i'm used to strats). It also seems to go out of tune a lot, but it may just be because the strings havent been played a lot yet since I've only had the guitar for a few days.

It has 2 humbuckers, a three way switch, 2 volume knobs (one for each pick up) and 2 tone knobs (one for each pick up).

It's a great guitar, but I wouldn't recomend it for beginners, it seems like it would be hard to learn on.

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I picked this up at Rollin's House of Music, which is the only music store in our pathetic town. They had several Ibanez guitars but I picked this one mainly for the price ($200) and the near-SG style top. It is absolutely gorgeous. The keys hold their tune tight, the back of the next is smooth and helps me glide well. The

It is absolutely gorgeous. The keys hold their tune tight, the back of the next is smooth and helps me glide well. The tone is extremely clear and loud. You could easily practice without an amp!

It would be nice if it came with a pick guard. Other than that, no complaints!

It has a very solid feel to it, rather than assembled pieces. This is because it's so simple and elegant. The front is clean with only 4 knobs, pickups, switch and bridge. It's much lighter than I expected, but it's not cheaply made. The neck does not bend easily, the tuning keys as I said are very tight and hold their position indefinately.

I'm sure those with the money can afford something better, but at $200-$250 you WILL NOT find a better guitar. If you're looking for something like the Gibson SG series style, this is it. It has a very clean sound and is easy for even me to tune it by ear (and I have no sense of pitch whatsoever).

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I bought this guitar on the web from Musician's Friend. I was looking for an inexpensive, yet quality guitar that I could learn with. I'm a Jazz player, having played drums for 30 years, and trumpet for 5. I was interested in learning guitar because of all of the beautiful, lush, warm chords that are used in Jazz.I paid $195.00 for this guitar, and it is worth it.

Pluses for this guitar are:First of all, a very well done finish. I have the Butterscotch finish, and it is exceptionally well done. Very thick, glossy clear coat over the finish. Surprisingly, using only the neck pickup with the tone control all the way off, you can get a nice, warm sound. The tuners are high quality and have adjustable tension, and the guitar stays in tune for days at a time.

There is not much at all that I do not like about this guitar. Aside from the nut coming loose by the jack input, it's a very well made guitar for the money.

Construction and quality are excellent for the money. The pots are very smooth and silent, and have a very versitle range. It has a bolt on maple neck which, again, is very well done for the money. The pickups have great range as well, with the bridge PU giving nice, biting treble, and the neck PU, surprisingly, giving a very nice, warm sound.

For $195.00, you would have a hard time finding a better guitar. It's a pretty basic guitar, but everything about it says quality.
Ibanez really has a great product.I highly recomend this to anyone seeking a nice first guitar.

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I bought this guitar about a year ago for $125.00 with a trade in of a nice copy of a Telecaster at the local guitar store.

Everything,I've been playing for quite some time. I know it's suppose to be a beginner guitar but I knew it wasn't when I checked it out.Very nice action,built really well the only thing that needed adjustment after I got it were the tuners,cool sounding humbuckers,stays in tune,beautiful finish. good for any style music,a steal for the price they go for.

The only thing I noticed is you cant get all the way up the neck comfortably for the solo's.that's the only draw back.

Excellent!

Get total access up to the end of the neck and look out it may be as perfect as you can get. a solid purchase for anyone on a budget who knows guitars.

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I bought this guitar from some guy off of ebay. I paid 200 bucks for it.

I love the way it sounds, i love the way it feels, i love the shiny color, lol. Its a great guitar

I don't like where the amp input is...because when i'm sitting down and i have it rested on my knee the chord is resting on my knee but its going to break soon because of that. And i don't like that I keep breaking the same string on it over and over. I think its something wrong with the guitar.....or maybe not.

its good, but i beat it to hell, because i'm in a punk band

bottom line....great guitar! You should buy....want mine? E-mail me!

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Hmm, it all started out with me going to Guitar Center in Hallandale Florida, a VERY VERY good guitar authority in case you don't know. I knew Ibanez is a quality product manufacturer, and it is proven by Three Doors Down, Marilyn Manson's John5 etc. I had just gotten paid for doing a job while I was suspended from school. I got paid 200$, two hours after recieving my money, I only had 5 of it left...meaning I spent 195$ on it (that includes the 6% sales Tax)

I absolutely love the locking tremolo, which is shining stainless steel, the humbuckers arer absolutely SCREAMING! The tuning keys hold their position great, and in fact, I have not had to retune my guitar once in the 2 months that I have had it!

The only thing that I don't like, as with any guitar, is the line output nut comes loose every once and a while.

It couldnt have been built better. Locking tight nuts, everything has been built with pure excellence and craftsmanship..a true winner!

This is a great guitar for anyone, expert or beginner. The parts and equipment are superb, crasftsmanship and quality, PURE EXCELLENCE! Highly Recommended!!

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I picked up this guitar for about $220 bucks at our local music store. It has an great feel to the neck and lots of power from it's two open coil humbuckers.



It stays in tune a long time - I play an hour every day and I only have to tune it once a week. The pickups are great, you can get warm blues tones from it and yet, flip the swich to the rear pick up play all the punk and metal you want.


It likes to eat strings, I go though a few every month.



perfect!



Great buy for your money! It looks like it's worth more with its bright red finish very very durable.



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