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Published on 08/14/06 at 15:00I've been playing for 7 years and I have had an epiphone les paul for a while but I wanted something with a tremolo. My favorite bands right now are DragonForce and Alter Bridge.
I bought this guitar from Daddy's Junky Music and paid $389.99
I love the look of this guitar. The color is a light blue/silver. It really looks great with hardware color. The ZR trem works amazing and will stay in tune with the biggest dive bombs. It is really easy to play but the frets are a little taller than on my LP. I do like the pickups but would like a little more mids from them. Like the intonation tool. Strap locks pins are great.
There are several things I don't like about this guitar. First of all I can't stand how Ibanez uses those stupid allen wrench type screws for everything - they always strip or break. They material they use for all those screws is cheap like plastic and I'm afriad to adjust anything because I'll strip everything. I broke the action adjuster already. The whole tremolo unit could really use a redesign. The 2 posts that the trem sits on aren't that strong and looks like they could break. The intonation tool is great but again, uses small allen screws to lock in the saddle. The frets are too high, when you fret a note you can barely even feel the fretboard and the strings really dig into your fingers - which is good, I guess. I'm not a fan of the larger 25.5" scale length which is a big adjustement from my LP. The body could use a little more wood - the guitar doesn't feel heavy enough.
Besides the trem, constuction of this guitar is surprisingly good. The paint is hard and wont crack and resists dents. The volume and tone pots are good as is the 5- way switch. But I will say it again, adhustments on the trem such as intonation, changing a string are a real pain.
The bottom line is this is a good guitar if you can take the time to set it up perfectly, or pay someone else to do it. If you are willing to devote this guitar to just standard tuning and want a trem this is the best guitar for you, unless you can afford a PRS or Ibanez pretige. If you know of anywhere I could get replacement hardware and such I would appreciate your email. Srmason2@msn.com
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I bought this guitar from Daddy's Junky Music and paid $389.99
I love the look of this guitar. The color is a light blue/silver. It really looks great with hardware color. The ZR trem works amazing and will stay in tune with the biggest dive bombs. It is really easy to play but the frets are a little taller than on my LP. I do like the pickups but would like a little more mids from them. Like the intonation tool. Strap locks pins are great.
There are several things I don't like about this guitar. First of all I can't stand how Ibanez uses those stupid allen wrench type screws for everything - they always strip or break. They material they use for all those screws is cheap like plastic and I'm afriad to adjust anything because I'll strip everything. I broke the action adjuster already. The whole tremolo unit could really use a redesign. The 2 posts that the trem sits on aren't that strong and looks like they could break. The intonation tool is great but again, uses small allen screws to lock in the saddle. The frets are too high, when you fret a note you can barely even feel the fretboard and the strings really dig into your fingers - which is good, I guess. I'm not a fan of the larger 25.5" scale length which is a big adjustement from my LP. The body could use a little more wood - the guitar doesn't feel heavy enough.
Besides the trem, constuction of this guitar is surprisingly good. The paint is hard and wont crack and resists dents. The volume and tone pots are good as is the 5- way switch. But I will say it again, adhustments on the trem such as intonation, changing a string are a real pain.
The bottom line is this is a good guitar if you can take the time to set it up perfectly, or pay someone else to do it. If you are willing to devote this guitar to just standard tuning and want a trem this is the best guitar for you, unless you can afford a PRS or Ibanez pretige. If you know of anywhere I could get replacement hardware and such I would appreciate your email. Srmason2@msn.com
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com