GRG121DX-WNF GIO Electric Guitar – Walnut Flat

I got this Ibanez to use mostly as an everyday practise guitar that I can switch from standard tuning to drop D easily (my other guitar has a floyd rose). These are my thoughts after owning & using this guitar for ~5 months. When I first removed it from the box, tuned it & plugged it into my Katana, I was quite underwhelmed & actually disappointed. However, I took a breath, paused & looked it over again. You can feel dust particles stuck to the finish of the guitar on the back of the neck & the body...this clears with use or can be rubbed off with a soft cloth - mine is now completely smooth & feels very nice to the touch. The sound that it produced initially was the most disappointing part (my other guitar has seymour duncan pickups and low action). Firstly the action was very high, making it harder to play, but also meaning that the strings were quite a long way from the pickups making the output much quieter & duller/muddy sounding. After checking the truss rod (which was very close to perfect out of the box), lowering the action and checking the intonation, the sound & playability improved - but the sound was still lacking...I then changed the strings to D'addario's, what a difference - the sound changed dramatically & the pickups could finally do their thing...I have no plans on changing the stock pickups, even when comparing them to the Seymour Duncan's on my other guitar. The biggest issue is the frets - they are rough, dull & a bit scratchy as it comes. You need to polish them, otherwise you will not get the best out of this guitar. This week (after owning it for ~5 months), I lightly oiled the fretboard with D'addario lemon oil as well - the fretboard has thanked me for doing this...I don't think this needs doing out of the box - but you will want to do it after a while. Tuning is very stable - even when changing from standard to drop D regularly. The pickups are amazingly versatile for the price & sound much, much better than I expected. I originally bought this to be treated as a cheap guitar that I wouldn't really care about...I've hardly played my other (significantly more expensive) guitar since owning this one - I think it has become a keeper. This would make a very good first guitar (but I would suggest getting someone to do the set-up work on it for you), or equally, it makes a great (very affordable) choice to flesh out an existing collection. While there are some issues out of th box - it really doesn't take much to sort them out & the end result is a great guitar.

Although this is a relatively inexpensive guitar the quality is very good and it has a great sound. Worth upgrading the strings. Not quite as sonorous as some of my friends' more expensive guitars, but not all that far off for a considerably lower cost. Looks good, light, easy to handle. Perfect for beginners and as a general jamming guitar.

Very nicely made. The pickups are passive and you can get some noise through them but if you use a quality shielded cable you should be fine. My guitar only needed the truss rod adjusted a quarter turn to straighten the fretboard out. Everything else was spot on. I will however, be cha ging the strings to some Ernie Ball super slinky's and then I'll need to adjust the action height as theyre finer gauge strings. All in all, its a nice guitar. Sounds good and is quite light too!

Very good guitar for not a lot of money,ideal if want affordable guitar or moving on from your first guitar to something that rocks,recommend gio guitars for there great value.5 way switch gives good range of in between sounds or full on humbucker.wil need action(string height setting)out of the box-tools are provided with good instruction book.

Maximum comfort out of this guitar. Surprisingly comfortable to play with and very nice finish. The pickups are not very nice, tho. Feels like some low gain stuff, but it doesn't bother me as I own a lot of other guitars if I need something more powerful. A great addition to my collection

Took a chance and ordered "used-very good" from Amazon Warehouse and honestly, it's arrived and looks brand new, with the tags still on. It's a beautiful looking guitar and I can't wait to have a good play on it.

Awesome affordable guitar. Neck was playable out-of the box, which is always a bonus. Frets were a little scratchy, but not enough that a beginner would notice which is the market this guitar is aimed at, rather than an old modder like me.. so I used it a modding platform, which it did well at because its got a thicker body than a lot of other cheapish guitars. This means it has deeper pickup routes, so it'll take any humbucker you wanna throw in it. Having the thicker body also means it has a deeper control cavity, which will fit push/pull or push/push pots and a full size switch. (They come with a low profile ibanez 5 way, which I do actually recommend keeping, along with the original pickups by the way). The only downside, is the proprietary input jack which I've yet to source something similar... Anyway.. Cheap modding/beginner guitar... Should you buy it, yes, absolutely, you should!

I was looking for an affordable Ibanez to mostly play thrash and metal on having just sold a variety of guitars from my collection and buying a Fender Jazzmaster (beautiful but not so great for thrash). It plays well out of the box but I adjusted the action to be a bit lower for comfort (Ibanez ships the guitar with two allen keys, one for the bridge and the other for the truss rod). The body is beautiful and one of the things that made me want to buy this guitar, the neck is quite flat and fast which is what I was looking for given that I want to play thrash and metal.

Es una maravilla de guitarra. Ofrece muchísimo más de lo que cuesta, esta guitarra es el ejemplo de que se puede tener una muy buena guitarra por un bajo precio. Tiene muy buenos acabados y un sonido impresionante. Es ideal tanto para principiantes como para profesionales. La volvería a comprar sin dudarlo. La única "pega", que para mi no ha sido ningun problema, es que no tiene tremolo y viene sin funda ni cable ni correa, solo viene la guitarra. La recomiendo completamente.

Gitar elbetteki iyi bir gitar ona diyecek yok ama amazon sağlam bir çakallık yapıyor. Ben ürünü alırken ikinci el falan yazmıyordu ona rağmen gelsin çalayım dedim. Ayrıca üstten bir telde sorun var bir de tel çektirmek için masraf edeceğim. Müzik marketlerden almak gerekiyormuş burada fiyata aldanmayın.

Débutant en guitare..très bel instrument

El producto muy bueno y la entrega muy pronto. Pero la tube que ordenar 2 veces y aún sigo en la espera de mi pedido de otra ibañes similar que ordene el día 5 de marzo??????? Cuando llegara?

小ぶりで比較的軽量、ネックも私には弾きやすい形状。 届いていきなり弾いても何ら問題なし。生鳴りは小さい。 ピックアップは迫力ないけど、それは値段なりです。 なぜか不良品や未調整品が届いてる購入者もいるようですが、 うちは全く問題なし。この値段でこのクオリティは素晴らしい。 ただし、高級感はないので期待しないこと。 あえてウォルナットを選んだせいもあるけど、細部の仕上げとか 質感が違うので、ブラックやグレイサンバーストでも高級感は 醸せないんじゃないかな。分かりませんが。 初めに観たとき（価格が安いのに）ちょっとガッカリしましたが、 弾きやすいので弾いてるうちにすっかり気に入りました。 やっぱり、今回はハードテイルでよかった。(*'▽｀*)