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MGR/Miika Virtanen « Ibanez GRX70 »
Published on 04/09/04 at 15:00As a starting note I would like to mention that this review is from the point of view of a metal/hardcore fan, so I'll be concentrating on the guitar's ability to play "heavy" music
I started to play an accoustic guitar at quite a young age, but due to my love to metal music I just had to buy an electric. Anyways, without much research done, I went to the biggest guitar shop around and was offered an Ibanez GRX70 with an amp as a great beginner's set for a little under 300 Euros. I was very exited to finally get some distortion and the feeling to get that distorded sound from my own amp for the first time was purely amazing.
The neck of this guitar is awesome for playing metal and generally easy to play with due to the thin/flat neck. The guitar is also very nice to look at and doesn't weigh too much either, which is the case with most of the Ibanez.
There's no doubt that this is a first electric for anyone into metal.
In the end, it is a beginners guitar. I played with it for around three years, which was undoubtfully a too long time. I'm playing in a hardcore band and for my purposes the guitar is just not "heavy" enough, it's fine for jazz, blues, hard rock and some 80s heavy metal, but no good for extreme music. Although I must say that the accoustic doesn't really come across purely, without an effect, too well either.
I haven't really treated this guitar too gently and it's fallen to the ground a couple of times. It's generally stood the shocks, but there was one time when I needed to meld some of the cables inside the guitar back together as they had detached. But now it works well...
The pickups are quite horrible and not really worth anything, but, as I already said, alright for beginners.
Indeed my review doesn't give a too good overview of the Ibanez GRX70, but there's no doubt that it is a great guitar for beginners. My opinion has changed with time as my skills have developed, so if you consider yourself a good guitarist, or play in a band performing gigs, don't buy this.
So, as a finishing line: Solid guitar for beginners, but not sufficient for experienced players.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I started to play an accoustic guitar at quite a young age, but due to my love to metal music I just had to buy an electric. Anyways, without much research done, I went to the biggest guitar shop around and was offered an Ibanez GRX70 with an amp as a great beginner's set for a little under 300 Euros. I was very exited to finally get some distortion and the feeling to get that distorded sound from my own amp for the first time was purely amazing.
The neck of this guitar is awesome for playing metal and generally easy to play with due to the thin/flat neck. The guitar is also very nice to look at and doesn't weigh too much either, which is the case with most of the Ibanez.
There's no doubt that this is a first electric for anyone into metal.
In the end, it is a beginners guitar. I played with it for around three years, which was undoubtfully a too long time. I'm playing in a hardcore band and for my purposes the guitar is just not "heavy" enough, it's fine for jazz, blues, hard rock and some 80s heavy metal, but no good for extreme music. Although I must say that the accoustic doesn't really come across purely, without an effect, too well either.
I haven't really treated this guitar too gently and it's fallen to the ground a couple of times. It's generally stood the shocks, but there was one time when I needed to meld some of the cables inside the guitar back together as they had detached. But now it works well...
The pickups are quite horrible and not really worth anything, but, as I already said, alright for beginners.
Indeed my review doesn't give a too good overview of the Ibanez GRX70, but there's no doubt that it is a great guitar for beginners. My opinion has changed with time as my skills have developed, so if you consider yourself a good guitarist, or play in a band performing gigs, don't buy this.
So, as a finishing line: Solid guitar for beginners, but not sufficient for experienced players.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com