Ibanez RG350mdx Review

Revision as of 14:29, 28 July 2008

General Information

Original Author: The Uncreator

Weapon: Electric Guitar

Make: Ibanez

Model: Rg350mdx, Rg350dx, Rg3503ex

Price: $399-$499 (depends where you buy it)

Sound

9: Well lets just say this guitar is a VERY versatile piece of machinery, With the standard Infinity S3 and S4's in it, i can get a very Bluesy sound, a great Metal sound for sick ass riffage, an EXCELLENT clean tone, and anything else you can think of this guitar can do it if you spend enough time with it, it definetly doesnt have the best blues tone or classic rock tone by any chance, but, if you just play those kinda style every now and then for fun like me it wont bother you, i think this guitar is aimed generally more towards the Metal and or "Shred" Oriented guitarist. It works well with any amps, ive used it on Marshall's, Hartke's, Crate's, Fender's, and Line 6 Amps and it sounds great on all of them, it even works well with low tunings, the lowest ive gone one it is B Standard, and it still sounds Godly. If you like a guitar that can give you a wide variety of tones, and do an excellent job on all of them, here it is baby smile.gif

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, 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.