Ibanez GRG170DX Review

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General Information

Original Author: Matt23

Weapon: Ibanez GRG170DX

Make: Ibanez

Model: GRG170DX

Price: £150

Specifications

Neck: GRG neck Neck Type: GRG Body: Basswood body Frets: Medium frets Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood Inlay: Sharktooth inlay Bridge: FAT 10 bridge NeckPU: PSND1 neck pu MiddlePU: PSNDS mid pu BridgePU: PSND2 bridge pu HW Color: CH

Sound

The sound is quite good considering the price. It is nothing special but isn't bad. The neck humbucker has quite a nice round sound to it but is very muddy if you use it on lower strings. The bridge humbucker is nothing special though does make the notes squeal with a bit of coaxing (half pinch harmonics etc). The middle single coil is a bit pointless as it doesn't sound good as a single coil for playing with lots of drive and the volume knob on the guitar on full. And if you do get a sort of bluesy sound then this pickup sounds too metally so I think it is a bit useless, apart from when combined with the bridge it sounds very good for a clean setting. The sustain on this guitar is not good, as notes end up dying in about 5 seconds. Overall the sound is not bad, but is nothing special.

Ease Of Use

This guitar is very easy to play compared to other guitars (some even expensiver) that I have played. The action is low, and there is not a lot of friction on the fretboard. The guitar also has 24 frets which comes in handy time to time, although the 24th fret is so small it's very difficult to play and will not sustain for more than a second or two. The main problem with this guitar is the tremolo. It sounds fine, but makes the tuning on this guitar terrible. I should have expected this when I bought a cheap guitar with a whammy bar, but I knew barely anything about guitars then. If you use the whammy bar then the guitar will be guaranteed to start detuning itself, and sometimes very drastically (strings a quarter tone out of tune). It is impossible to play anything that need you to use the whammy bar at the beginning as you will play out of tune for the rest.