Ibanez AX7221

Features have already been described. 7 string, H-H pickups, 2 vols/2 tones, 3-way switch. I don't particularly care for the seperate volumes and tones (functionally or visually).

One ***HUGE*** thing that makes me not like this guitar, that I didn't realize until after I bought it - is: look at the top "horn" of the body. It is much shorter than a traditional "strat" style body. Also, the left side of the body (away from the neck) is big and bulky like an acoustic. Well.. because of that, this guitar sits funny - whether sitting down or standing up. When you play sitting down, the bottom hump puts the guitar a little further back than is comfortable. Likewise, while playing standing up - the guitar keeps wanting to roll upwards (neck towards the sky) because of where the strap connects. ANYHOW - so because the guitar sits funny, it makes it difficult to play. I find myself holding the guitar in place with my right forearm as I'm playing (I'm right-handed). Because of that, I am buying a strat-bodystyle 7 string.

Other than that, everything else is acceptable.

I'm pretty happy with the sound - both for clean and distorted. I use this exclusively for recording (vs playing out). I go through a Line6 Pod for everything. When I use the Mesa Rectifier model, this has a truly kick-ass sound.

Action and pickups were fine. Everything worked. The workmanship on the guitar seems pretty nice. It's a good "medium" guitar. It doesn't look/feel like a beginner guitar, but it doesn't feel really expensive either. I don't really care for the finish on these guys either. Mine is grey, it looks like the guitar is grey plastic. That's just my opinion though - the actual construction was acceptable.

I like this would be fine for live playing (if you could get past how it sits funny when hanging from a strap). Hardware seems solid, the finish is quite durable. Strap buttons are solid. As a rule, I wouldn't play live without a backup.. but, if I had to - I wouldn't feel too uncomfrtable playing this without a backup.

Never dealt with them. This had the traditional Ibanez 1-year warrantee..

I found the physical shape of this guitar and it's affect on the ease of playing, as a showstopper. If it doesn't bother you, this is a solid 7 string to buy. Otherwise, just get something else.

22 frets, bolt - on neck, 2 axis humbuckers, 3 way switch and 2 volume and 2 tone conrols. The tuners are non-locking but some of the best i've ever used, I used to have a strat with locking tuners and I had to tune my strat more than I do my ibanez.

I can't really judge the pick ups that well because I'm used to emgs, but i've been playing this guitar alot lately because it is my only 7 string. at home i run it through some piece of shit valvestate fender amp with a metal zone and some other effects. On my fender no matter what I do it sounds like absolute shit, on clean you can hear most picking but chords sound dark and shitty. When I turn on my metal zone it sounds alot less muffled but you still can't play chords and hear them very well. I have tryied this guitar on a bunch of valvestate amps and it sound lick shit on all of them. bottom line these pick-ups are not designed for valve amps. I have an old traynor tube amp which I use when I play whit m band and this guitar sound 10 times better played through it, I can actually hear what I'm playing on clean or distorted. So If you have an alright tube amp I would reccomend this guitar to you because the pick-ups are very good for stock, but if you have a valvestate piece of shit amp that you use on a dayly basis like me, don't buy this guitar because I know a whole bunch of friends who tried tis guitar at a shop through a good amp and though it was an amasing guitar only to take it home and regreting buying it.

only problem was the fact that the input jack was a little loose and I don't think it can be fully crewd on but it hasn't been a problem yet and i've had it for a while,so i'm not really woried about it

this guitar is built to last or at least I think so, the only thing I have ever seen go wrong with this guitar is that my friend spilled beer all over his and the neck pickup had to be fixed.

amasing guitar for the price, I love the 2 volume and two tone controlls because they come in handy. like I said, if you got a valve amp that you use every day I would strongly advise that you take it home and try it out before buying it for good. The guitar sounded great through about 5 or 6 other tube amps I tried it out on though.

H/H , Axis Humbuckers,stop tailpiece, '99 i think, made in either Korea or Japan, 22 frets, solid top with a pewter gray finish, 2volume 2tone, 3 way toggle switch,Sg style body (a bit fatter), non locking tuners, 24.75' scale, thin-u neck, and i think the body is mahogany

i'll play any type of style, i use it with a 60's or 70's Fender/Squire 15 amp, my pedals are a digitech whammy, dunlop wah, ibanez SH-7 distortion, CF-7 Chorus/Flanger,and boss RV-3 digital reverb/delay. distorted its sounds great, can get a bit muddied up though. the clean sound is ok, but because of all my pedals and my prehistoric amp output distortion comes quickly. the highs can get a bit smoke alarm-y, just roll the tone back and you'll get your sound shaped. you can make some great sounds out of this thing, the only downsides are with a wah it doesn't have a full range of that effect, and it can get muddies up distorted.

The guitar was great when i bought it, brand new, the first one i ever bought, actually the only one i've ever bought (i have a nylon acoustic and les paul junior copy (broken) given to my by my cousin).i like the finish, but being a visual artist too i'm gonna paint over it and put some stickers on. the tuner on the high b string seems to go out of tune eaisly, but i fixed that with a screwdriver, and i guess the finish is pretty durable, there's a mysterious scratch going down the back on mine, and after a long time with duct tape on the strap locks, which is probably the worst thing on it, the come loose so easily, a big chunk of the paint came off near the locks, man i can see the wood underneath. one other thing is that it starts rattling after a while, i do use pretty heavy strings (13-65), but i got that adjusted, but its still doing that rattling...

umm i'm not in a band, never have been, so i've never tried it live. hardware seems it will last, i think this guitar will be with me till the day i die. as i mention before the strap buttons suck ass, get that fixed at the first sign of them coming loose. otherwise this is a very dependable instrument.

never dealt with the company, not sure if it was under warranty.

Since it is my first guitar, i would be heartbroken if it were to be stolen or broken in half. i love its playability, although its kinda hard to do a long slide on it, but i still manage. i wish it had a piezo on it or some kinda synth, also a floyd rose 7 stirng tremolo would be nice, i love the weird or strange or futuristic guitars, but above all i love this one. its got a great price, great for beginners and its built to last, a deffinite great buy with lots of value

22 frets, 2 volume 2 tone knobs, 2 Ibanez AH series humbuckers which sound AWESOME for the price...Grey Pewter finish (awesome too). Fixed bridge, Non-locking tuners...Pretty easy neck for a 7 string. Wanted a FR trem and string locks though. visit my site for other stuff http://taproot.usuck.com

My music style is pretty wide. Old rock, mostly metal. I have a wah-wah that goes to a crate amp with usually doesn't get good distortion but this guitar gets some ok dist. on it. I also have a marshall that sounds AMAZING w/ this guitar! Get that low down crunchy sound...not sure about the variety of sound though, havn't had it that long.

put together ok....think the pickups need adjusted though...finish is nice grey pewter...

dunno, seems solid...finish is VERY sturdy though

1 year warranty

I love it...i own a les paul copy and it get better sound than that...

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the pick ups are very good for stock, I might not even replace them, they have a very balaced sound, pretty good output and are god both clean and distoted

This is my first 7 string and i think it is the best starter 7 around. before bying it I looked at about 20 other 7 strings and found this one to not only be one of the cheapest, but is have some of the best pickups on any 7 string guitar under 1,000 canadian. it hase a cool body and you can get a lot of different sounds via 2 volume and tone knobs.the only thing that i dislike about this guitar is the fact that its a little top heavy, the neck almost wieghs more than the body, It's not so bad, but its a little annoying at first, after a few weeks I got used to it

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the pick ups are very good for stock, I might not even replace them, they have a very balaced sound, pretty good output and are god both clean and distoted

This is my first 7 string and i think it is the best starter 7 around. before bying it I looked at about 20 other 7 strings and found this one to not only be one of the cheapest, but is have some of the best pickups on any 7 string guitar under 1,000 canadian. it hase a cool body and you can get a lot of different sounds via 2 volume and tone knobs.

24.75" scale neck with 22 frets (Ibanez website says they are "medium" but they seem close to jumbo to me). 2 Ibanez AH Humbucking pickups, with familiar 3 way toggle switch and 2 volume and tone knobs. Mahogany body with 5 piece maple neck. String through body hardtail bridge. Made in Korea, I believe made in 2000. Neck is bolt on, and the guitar has a double cutaway.

I mainly play heavy metal (sabbath, old metallica, etc.) and this seems to be a good guitar for that style. I'm using this with a line 6 spider 112 Amp, and it has a good distorted sound with lots of "chunk". Pretty good sustain, decent lead and rhythm sounds. The clean sound seems to be fairly full. It has a unremarkable, but not bad sound, sort of gibson-ish, but that is what you would expect from the 2 humbuckers with fixed bridge. No real noise to speak of, a fairly noise free guitar. The pickups aren't mindblowingly hot, they have really an average, basic sort of sound.

This is the first 7 string that I have had, and it is easy to use the low B string for chords and lead work. The neck is wide when compared to a 6 string, but is easy to get used to. I have been playing this guitar a lot lately, and have messed around a bit with different tunings to take advantage of the extra string. The extra string is really worth it, it makes this guitar fun to play. Without it, this would be a pretty bland instrument, but considering the price, it's a nice guitar. I think this is just about the cheapest 7 string you will find.

I like the body style (kind of like a fat bodied SG), and the way the cutaway gives you easy access to the higher frets. The fact that it has a non-tremelo bridge is a plus in my opinion, there are too few solid body guitars out there in this price range that the manufacturer doesn't tack on a cheap strat-type tremelo onto. I would have liked it if they made it in colors other than gray, and a coil splitter or something like that to get a bit more variety in the sound would have been great.

The set up was fine, but I lowered the action a slight bit which helped make it a little easier to play. A personal thing really, I have the feeling this guitar was designed to be more of a heavy rhythm guitar, and the setup reflected that.

There aren't any real obvious flaws, but there are a few rough spots in the finish (very small), and the neck joint has a tiny bit of roughness on one side. Some of the frets had a tiny bit of glue around them. One of the pickup routes has a few rough edges as well. Nothing major, I'm sure if you sit down and really look at most $300 guitars you will find some small flaws, and this ain't supposed to be a PRS or Gibson at this price. The white plastic binding around the neck seems a bit cheap and I'm wondering why they put it on since the back of the neck isn't painted.

Well, the finish is a matte gray and looks to be very tough, it would take a serious scratch to show up. The switch and knobs seem very solid, and the bridge doesn't look like it is going anywhere. The strap buttoms are fine, but I will be replacing them with strap locks.

It seems to be a very basic dependable guitar that will hold up as well as anything. It seems to be built for playing live, more of a tool than something to look at.

The warranty is for a year, and since you have to ship the guitar to them at your cost, it doesn't really add much value to the guitar. It should be easy enough to repair, electronics wise, I would expect to fix any problems myself. If the neck or body breaks, at this price I would just buy another one.

Ibanez's website is not the greatest, they have more interviews, etc. than actual information about the guitars.

I have been playing for 17 years and I have a fender big apple strat, a mexican strat, a P bass, a danelectro U2, and a danelectro longhorn bass.

I like the body style, and the headstock on this guitar. The finish and color isn't great, but it is sort of unique, and you get used to it. I would have payed a bit more to get it in a cool color like green or blue, or even natural - but it is only available in gray.

I don't think you can find many other 7 strings in this price range, so it really is a good value for the money. I wish Ibanez has made the controls a bit more non-traditional. I don't really need 2 volume and tone, one of each is fine - give me something else other than the extra volume and tone. I would like to see a version of this guitar that was a little more off the wall ( JEM style inlays on the neck, maple fingerboard, crazy pickup and paint colors). No one seems to do that very often with the non-tremelo guitars...

If this guitar were lost/stolen I wouldn't be heartbroken, but I would have to get another one (and hope that they offered more colors by then), because I'm really getting to like the 7th string and I don't think anything matches this guitar at the price.

For this price who can complain? It suffers from the "typical cheap guitar problem"... Really bad tuners... But other than that it is a great guitar. I really like the simplicity of it. Two pickups, one switch, and four knobs... that about covers it.

I play techno-thrash (Static-X meets Sevendust meets NIN) (http//led.iuma.com) And this guitar works perfectly. I'll admit I bought it solely based on price and looks but it really sounds amazing. I tune down to "G" and am pretty much just playing Crunch tones but it sounds great. It's got great presence and really stays tight even when tuned down that low.

The action was good. I really love the finish of the body. There were a few flaws, poorly finished binding on the neck, the CHEAP tuners (easily replaced), a couple of "dents" on the back of the neck... but hey for this price... I'll get over it ;-)

Other than the tuners (do you get the feeling they suck or something?) it's a great guitar and I'll be playing it live as often as I can.

never had to deal with them.

Overall I love this guitar. I mean for $312.00 how could I not. I really plays as well as any other seven string I've ever tried. I really like the way the string-through-body bridge adds sustain and helps to deepen the tone. Overall this guitar is an excellent value for anyone looking to "add a string"

7 String guitar, 2 AH humbuckers made by Ibanez, String thru body bridge, Medium frets, 22 frets, rosewood neck with a strip, awesome mahogany body, made in 2000 in japan. a 3 way toggle switch, 2 vol, and 2 tone controls, non locking tuners, I don't know what else to tell you...

I play from chuck berry to limp bizkit, and if you're like me, this is the guitar for it. I put the guitar thru Boss's Metal Zone to my fender deville combo, and it really really rocks. But like i said, this guitar can give you very very clean sound like you'd hear at a jazz quartet concert. Pick ups are pretty quite, but I am going to replace 'em with DiMarzio's Blaze, just because, this is the sort of thing i do on all my guitar, no hate against stock pickups though. This is definately a rhythm guitar, 'cause it plays power chords so nicely.

I bought it from guitar center, and they're usually good at those things, action and set up and all that. when i picked it up, it was good to go. Hardware was all good, no flaws, no scratches, good deal, huh? and oh I JUST LOVE THE FINISH, it's gray pewter, it's the best color on the AX series, period, go get it

I just bought it like a month ago, and it's lasted so far, heh? I can totally depend on it, well, i think, 'cause, all the other people tell me that, so. i guess....

Nobody knows anything about ibanez.... sorry

Come on, for 400 bucks? a seven string guitar? Just go get it, what've you got to lose? THink of it this way, this guitar is just like the LEGENDARY LES PAUL. 2 pickups 3 way switch, 22 frets, or what not, except, this guitar is from hell to PLAY YOUR LOUD ASS MUSIC STYLE. I've been playing for 5 years. I've got a 60's reissue fender strat, jackson soloist, 60's thinline tele, and ESP M-II. and Honestly, this guitar for 400 bucks sounds better than my ESP II with EMG pickups. so go get it it's cheap, and it won't break on you