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Ibanez Gio GRG170DX

STC-Shaped Guitar from Ibanez belonging to the RG Gio series

roguewillot63 roguewillot63
Published on 08/17/07 at 06:06
Value For Money : Excellent
Made in Indonesia
sleeve: 24 frets, inlays "shark teeth" in maple, rosewood fingerboard the most beautiful effect.
Basswood body, Color Blue Jewel beautiful, varnished a bit cheap.
HSH config
* Neck: 1 Powersound
* Middle: S Powersound
* Bridge: 2 Powersound
Fat 10 bridge standard ibanez
2 Potentiomtres 500 kOhms: one for volume, one for the Tone. 5 position switch.

Lutherie and finishings trs good quality for this price range. However, cheap electronic and electronic shielding of cavitsngligeable that "salt" much sound: buzz interference and proximity of certain sources gche a little pleasure but it is still possible to do self-same.

The report qualitprix remains interesting and trs We love her devastating look!

UTILIZATION

Channel fast and comfortable and flat as end Ibanez makes us love them.
Ease of play guaranteed! We place all levels without worry.

Access in acute very easy thanks to the shape of the body.
Reasonable weight, not too wide, too much grazing, not too heavy. THE Thurs standing poses no problem and then not worry about jumper scne haha!

The knobs are not bad but not great ... ractifs Anyway it cost to not dear replace if you are fussy in your rglages but did well with trs I think. It is located on a sound without problem.

Otherwise it is the agreement without problem if you do not play like a house with vibrato.

Guitar super easy rgler and maintain, the ct-l is not taking head.

SOUNDS

Tappe is good then the cheapskate in the Bursar and designers ...

I play mostly metal, grunge, punk, rock ... everything.

Versatile, it even faster when ESR limit because of the pickups too "cheap" that limit the ability to play a lot of genres.

- The neck pickup is not bad to clean: warm, well rounded, with a little reverb and lower the microphone volume to avoid too much saturated and it's terrible. In disto forget about it sounds too bad ... not enough output level and a few passing bizarrode not great. However, lack of color and characters ...

- The simple micro middle ... the beginners I found it cool sounds a bit "country" lol. Its quite vintage, not crystal-clear, however, for two under. It is rather dry for me soule the most is that you play ultra clean (but then really Mr. Clean!) To make it sound. In disto ... bah ... it's not his job but he's out for a little old school grunge. It sacrment buzz but hey it's a single coil, not an EMG!

- Humbucker bridge (from memory since I changed it against a Seymour Duncan SH8) saturates too clean, its not top top ... he prfrera the middle or neck pickup is their job all APRS. In disto it sends a lot but not enough to gain my taste ... too effete to a microphone distortion. Hmm ...

Intermdiaires positions are not bad, especially middle-round or we find the quality of the two microphones for sound trs enjoyable and nickel. Bridge-middle I almost never with jou because the sound is bizarre because of the diffrence between output level microphones. It's quite a buzz because of the simple, however ... damage.

Whether it's clear look at the config or is a shovel rocker, metal or punker! Bluesmen and jazzeurs, return your strats or 1 / 2 boxes lol.

EDIT: The sonic potential of the guitar when I was pos t dcupl new pickups: Seymour Duncan SH2 and HS8 ... since, it sounds to enfeeeeeeer tudjuuu!

6 / 10 for the original mics, 8 / 10 APRS upgrade.

OVERALL OPINION

EDIT!

It's been two years since I played it, as I tinker around and not move. Sre worth following me in all my repeated sets. It serves as a 2nd guitar or guitar backup derrire my other guitars.

Although sr basic components are all entry level and suffer from their default but for the price, Ibanez TRS provides an instrument really nice!

Easy to play, maintain and ... change! Oh then the ct of the things I changed moultes including pickups (I like rpter). Now I have an excellent grattoune with this and I'm still happy.

The entries range from a quality Ibanez are crazy and it is especially the wood of the body and great round that make them crazy instruments with the latest changes.

180 buy in and OCCAZ y'en to 120 edited with Seymour Duncan humbuckers 2 above (SH-HS8).

I play on a 5150 dsormais and sends the potato. Good big sound and very dirty thrash with RG: slayer, deftones ... such mtal his rather fat and heavy.
Gniale guitar is my little Premire and she always follows