Ibanez RG350mdx Review
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== Sound == | == Sound == | ||
| - | + | '''Riffage: 7.75''' | |
| + | With the stock pickups installed the sound is surprisingly versatile. By no means will this excel in every genre, but it handles Metal/Rock excellently. Fast thrash metal, epic power metal, to classic vintage style rock tones, it carries all these fairly well. I have even tuned down to B standard (with proper equipment adjustment and string changes) and it even did this fairly well, enough to jam around on. If you were to record though, low tunings like this probably wont be as beefy as they should. The cleans are just how I like them, shimmering chords that have that "pop" to them. This may not be what everyone desires but in my applications its worked splendidly, but that also brings up a slight limitation. By using the neck pickup your chords will fatten up on the clean side, but maybe not as satisfactory as some would like. | ||
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| + | '''Lead Work: 9.0''' | ||
| + | This guitar to me, is a lead guitar. Sure, it handles riffs well - but the naturally low action and thin neck lend itself beautifully to lead work. Bends are effortless, as the fretboard feels great under your fingers, very smooth and polished. The aforementioned thin neck allows your hands comfort with large stretches and fast runs, and the 24 frets allow shredders to have full access to all their desires. The floating bridge allows for massive dive bombs, crazy vibratos, and anything else you so wish it to do. | ||
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| + | This guitar also handles more diversely in this medium, it produces bright and warm leads for epic choruses, smooth, round tones for fast fretwork. Dirty, scratchy tones for some good ol' blues, and even a certain "elasticity" that gives it a very classical guitar feel. | ||
== Feel == | == Feel == | ||
Revision as of 16:58, 6 July 2011
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General Information
Original Author: The Uncreator
Weapon: Electric Guitar
Make: Ibanez
Model: Rg350mdx, Rg350dx, Rg3503ex
Playing Style: Metal, Blues, Rock N Roll, Classical
Price: $399-$499 (depends where you buy it)
Sound
Riffage: 7.75 With the stock pickups installed the sound is surprisingly versatile. By no means will this excel in every genre, but it handles Metal/Rock excellently. Fast thrash metal, epic power metal, to classic vintage style rock tones, it carries all these fairly well. I have even tuned down to B standard (with proper equipment adjustment and string changes) and it even did this fairly well, enough to jam around on. If you were to record though, low tunings like this probably wont be as beefy as they should. The cleans are just how I like them, shimmering chords that have that "pop" to them. This may not be what everyone desires but in my applications its worked splendidly, but that also brings up a slight limitation. By using the neck pickup your chords will fatten up on the clean side, but maybe not as satisfactory as some would like.
Lead Work: 9.0 This guitar to me, is a lead guitar. Sure, it handles riffs well - but the naturally low action and thin neck lend itself beautifully to lead work. Bends are effortless, as the fretboard feels great under your fingers, very smooth and polished. The aforementioned thin neck allows your hands comfort with large stretches and fast runs, and the 24 frets allow shredders to have full access to all their desires. The floating bridge allows for massive dive bombs, crazy vibratos, and anything else you so wish it to do.
This guitar also handles more diversely in this medium, it produces bright and warm leads for epic choruses, smooth, round tones for fast fretwork. Dirty, scratchy tones for some good ol' blues, and even a certain "elasticity" that gives it a very classical guitar feel.
Feel
10: Great Great Great!!! i love the way this feels, it has a very fast neck and superb fret access, when i bought this guitar i was actually looking for the JEM 7VH, But since my local music store hasnt had one in 2 years, i picked this baby up, and WOW, i was like "man this is $1000 less and it feels just as great!!" , to me it feels and plays like the "Affordable JEM". I also love this guitar so much because it doesnt require those abstract alien like movements ive had to make to sweep on some other guitars, its very comfortable for all techniques, legato, tapping, sweeping, and 8 Finger Tapping as well.
Cons
As much as i love this weapon there are some drawbacks, since its the EDGE Pro III Bridge, when changing strings, you have to cut the ball end off of the string, and since the string is held by pressure of a screw against a tiny pad, Rarely, and i do mean rarely, when tuning up, the string might slip out, no harm no foul really, never happened to me while i was playing, and its simple to fix, just slide it back in and make it a bit tighter.
The second con is tunings, now this is pretty much universal with floating bridges, you cant easily go from E Standard to C Standard, the bridge is held up by a balance of the bridge springs in the back and the string tensions, and if you suddenly just Drop it down to C, Or even D, The bridge will fall into the guitar, then you have to lossen the bridge springs, and adjust the strings to you find a balance between the two for whatever tuning you keep it in, this adds further problem if you change string gauges, if you still want to keep it in E, But go from .09 to .10, then the bridge will probably be leaning toward the front of the guitar, the thicker the string the more tension it requires to keep it in tune. But then again, once you have it in tune, it wont go anywhere, even when you abuse the trem bar smile.gif
Overall Impression
A Superb and affordable weapon that will give you what you need and never fail, from Metal Riffage to a down to earth clean and bluesy tone, this baby will give it to you, provided you get the correct set-up on the Floyd Rose bridge, plus it looks beautiful.
Alternate Weapon
Actually I have yet to find a guitar in this price range that is even close to this, this guitar for me was an alternative to the JEM, And although ive probably only had about 5 hours behind a JEM, I find this guitar to suit me just as well, but if you can afford the JEM , Get it! smile.gif i suppose an alternative if you cant afford this one would be and ESP MH-100, They are decent from what i understand and are only around $300.
Originally by TheUncreator
