Ibanez GAX70

Not sure of year.Built in Indonesia. 22 frets, solid top body. Two volume, two tone controls. Pickups are H/H and both are open coil. Both are Ibanez Powersound 1 humbuckers. Body is mahogany, neck is maple. Very good looking black finish that is reflective. Body is double cutaway, sort of like a cross between the Gibson SG and Les Paul. Bridge is Tune II with a stop tailpiece. Tuners are non-locking, and are Ibanez. Neck is nice and thin with medium or jumbo frets (not sure). Got it with Amp, Gig bag, strap, cable, and 10 or 12 picks.

I play alternative and rock, and I like blues stuff. This guitar sounds & feels great for all styles. I play it through a Crate GX15 practice amp. It has a rich clean or warm distorted sound in the neck, and twangy clean or crunchy distortion in the bridge. When both pickups are selected, it gets a good mix of both.

Set up great. I've had it for around 5 hours and it's great!!!

I got a crappy strap, but the buttons and knobs and tuners all work fine. I don't have gigs. Yet.

Never done anything with 'em. I got it TODAY!

I used to have a Washburn SHadow Series. (Read my review on THAT.) Nothing Else. This is an awesome guitar. I would recommend it for either a first guitar or andone who wants to pay under $200 for great sound & looks.

made of agathis, but some sources say mahoghany, i did some research on agathis wood. its actually a cheaper foreign mohaghany, but its got a good tone so dont worry about it. double cut away, 2 powersound humbuckers, 3 way selector switch, to volume&tone pots. 22 jumbo frets, maple neck, rosewood fretboard. passive electronics, trans red finish(beautiful) stop-bar tail piece like a gibson, with a tun-o matic bridge. made in indonesia, best features for a guitar, simple use no tricks or secret switches here great beginners guitar excellent value guitar

this guitars tone is amazingly versitile, ive played hardcore, jazz, classical fingerstyle, funk, progressive rock, blues and worship music on this thing and it does a great job copying the basic tonal format for each style. i prefer using the neck pickup for clean/distored stuff like jazz/classical/blues/funk and worship as well as soloing(my ears like the tone of a neck pickup for soloing) at really high volumes the pickups feedback pretty easily but they are stock pickups so what can u expect? i would recommend having the pickups waxed to cut down the feedback. the guitars tone is warm over all, the bridge pickup i use mainly for heavy,gain saturated stuff like hardcore/metal/rock/progressive music. like i said before it does the job for getting the basic tonal formats for these styles of music

action isnt too bad ive adjusted it from time to time to see what i like the best, unless you have a defective one these guitars are pretty well made, and are excellent for the price. pickups like i said before are stock and arent the greates but they do teh job, if you find that they are too muddy for u i would suggest replacing them with dimarzios or seymour duncans, emgs are great if you like that kind of sound. the finish was what made me want to buy it, its my first guitar and ive had it for a year. it looks like a gibson sg trans red finish.i couldnt afford an sg so i got this. only a few problems the bridge pickup had a dramatic loss of volume, one of my friends looked at it and found out that the problem was that the wire for the bridge pickup was "grounding out" so it was an easy fix. the other thing is that when i first bought this guitar i kept breaking the high e string, i took it back to the guitar store and the guy there told me that there were some burrs in teh saddle of the bridge, so i took a small nail file and smoothed the saddle out very carefully. other than that if you take care of this guitar as u should with all intruments you will not have any major problems

i have used this guitar in quite a few live situations. i dont really have the money to get back up guitar so ive been using this thing without a back up with no problems, hardware is great, but jsut clean the tune-o-matic bridge when u change the strings from resting my hand on the bridge it gets some build up on it. strap buttons arent great so i replaced them with dunlop strap -locks but the hole for the screw got threaded out, so i had to put a longer/bigger screw in its place and its been fine ever since. finish is hard and nice ive dropped this thing a few time by accident( slipped on some ice/ and my drummer put it in the back of his truck with out any case whatsoever and my guitar head landed on it! ouch! even with those accidents the finish has held up well besides the usuall wear and tear from using it a lot.

nope never called ibanez but whenever i need help wiht this thing i go to my local music store where i bought it and they are always willing to help out

been playing for about a year, using this guitar with a marshall halfstack. if it were stolen i would be pissed its my only guitar! the thing i love the most about this guitar is the neck its nice and thin, but the only complaint that i have is to the ibanez company. my guitar is very different from the others that are supposedly exactly the same, my neck is very different from others i have tried out in stores, some other guitars have fatter wider necks than mine. i wish the guitar had some kind of block inlays and some binding so thats why im getting an ibanez Artist re-issue, that the guitar that the GAX70 is based on, but its got better features like a bound neck and maple top with a mahoghany body and a set neck! plus it just looks better. IF YOUR A BEGINNER OR YOU NEED A CHEAP GUITAR THAT WILL LOOK/PLAY AND SOUND GOOD FOR 200 BUCKS BUY THIS GUITAR UNTIL YOU CAN GET ONE YOU REALLY WANT IT WILL DO THE JOB AND HOLD UP TO INTENSE PLAYING.

This is Ibanez's attempt at a solidbody sg, or LP style guitar, in other words a symetrical double cutaway with the h/h setup with three on a side tuners (unlocking), 22 frets, three way selector switch and and two volume and two tone knobs. The two pickups are passive "powersound" pickups (don't ask me how they got the name). It has an agatis body, which is supposed to look like mohagony and sound like alder, a maple neck with 24.75 scale light rosewood fretboard, nothing top of the line, but the price is right with extra jumbo frets. Comes with a "full tune II" which is basically an Ibanez tunomatic.

sound... this is where I believe this guitar suffers. I play lots of different kinds of music, but mostly Metallica style metal. I'm not sure if its the agatis body, or the tune a matic bridge but this guitar lacks sustain, but has enough to be just barely satisfactory. Also the "powersound" pickups have anything but power. I managed to solve that problem with the installation of an SH-10 seymour full shred in the bridge, it has taken care of most of the sound problems. This guitar has a bit of a noise problem that I noticed before and after the SH-10 but I'm working on totaly sheilding it right now. I'm hoping that with everything done to it it will sound perfect.

The factory set up was done very well, the string action was perfect (I checked) and the intonation was excellent, no complaints. The bridge pickup was actually set up wrong though, kinda thing I'm kicking myself for not noticing when I bought it. The pickup ring was mounted about 3mm off to the one side. I have since then fixed that problem myself, and it works fine. Also I had to tighten the tuners a bit, but I find myself having to do that with all my guitars. The neck is great. Totally fast and thin, and the extrajumbo frets do a nice job of being able to move from place to place smoothly, no complaints. The neck is up there with the best of them. The fretboard isn't made of top of the line rosewood, which can be expected from a guitar under $200 and I really don't have a problem with it. I've actually thought about staining it ebony, but its good enough as is. The finish is beautiful I opted for the gloss black version. The looks of this guitar is deffinately the reason why I'm putting so much into it instead of buying a new one. This guitar is beautiful. The crystal cut body, the headstock with the 3x3 tuners, and the full tune bridge. This guitar has a kind of elegance in its simplicity. Every bit of the shape of it suits my style. I have hade a few modifications though to make it look even better. Two Chrome pickup covers, chrome dome knobs and a chrome pickup selector switch. The thing now looks, if not sounds, like a top of the line custom gorgeous guitar. The grade is withought the mods, with its a deffinate 10. I would not have any other guitar as far as looks go.

Well, as of now the feedback and buzz problem might keep it out of my gigging momentarily, but thats the only reason. I plan on making this my number one guitar though, in the future, becaues of its sheer beauty, and I can't wait until I can take it on stage with me. Also unlike the other reviews I've found once the strings are broken in I've found that it stays in tune nicely.

what customer support?
ok this is the worst, ibanez as far as I can tell doesn't want to be bothered by the consumer. I've looked for ways to contact them about some of the problems, but I haven't found any numbers, or adresses, or any customer support whatsoever. Terrible

ok I've been playing guitar for about as long as i can remember, have tried most every type of guitar at one time or another, from bottom of the line crap to top of the line royalty. I have lots to compare to. I also do a lot of work on guitars, and research for it so I'm not exactly an uneducated consumer. My only problem is my lack of money so normally I just go for customizing bottom of the line guitars. This one I couldn't ask for more as far as looks go now that I have it customized. The sound, well the sound can be worked on too, with the aid of a good effects box (which I frown on but sometimes can't be avoided). overall I love this guitar.

This guitar was made in Indonisia who shows in the price, but has a agathis body, 22 frets, rosewood fingerboard, 3-way toggle switch, 2 volume, 2 tone, fairly medium sized maple neck, pretty decent non-locking tuners, plus 2 Ibanez power-sound humbuckers

I play every single type of music you can think of and it fits me very well actually. I mostly play metal, rock, and jazz, and this guitar fits very well with all the styles. The powersound pick-ups are fairly good, even though i didn't really like the sound of it for a long time, i guess its the kind of guitar that you grow to love the sound of it. I use it with lots of types of practive amps and it sound pretty good, for jazz i use a 120 watt Crate combo, and it sound great on the neck pick-up on the clean channel, it takes a while to get a good sound on it.

THIS IS THE WORST SET UP GUITAR I HAVE EVER TOUCHED! The neck was adujusted fine and so were the pick-ups however a few others occured. I had a problem since the second I got it until a year after i had it with the bridge. I broke over 20 sets of D'addario strings just on this guitar. There were so many burs all over the bridge and tuners. Also on the 12 fret there was a huge clump of dried up glue from when the frets were put on. Also the knobs suck! I took them off becuse they wont stay on. In conclusion the black finish was fine, so was the action, but the other probelms gave it a 1!

This guitar is very relyable however certain things make me worried about it at gigs. The strap hooks seamed fine until my guitar fell on concrete and destroyed the finish (which was a well finshied guitar). Also, the tuners suck so badly, my 3rd string is so messed up becuase the tuner wont lock.

It was under a year warranty, and brought it back a few times for repair. Then shop i got it from just did the repairs. However i was convinced for a while i had a defective bridge, and it would have took a long time to get it taken care of, so i didnt bring it back or anything.

I had it for over a year, and dipite a few bad problems, i couldnt live without it. A few friends wanted to buy it from me. If you would like to buy this guitar, make sure the bridge i good.

This guitar is set up nicely, similar to many les pauls. It is a double-cutaway Ibanez les paul with the traditional two tone knobs, two volume knobs, and a 3-way toggle switch. The body is a les paul, but with the double cutaway, it looks like a mix between an SG and a Les Paul. It has two Ibanez powersound humbuckers and a Gibson-style tune-o-matic tremlo with a stop-bar tailpiece. Mine has a nice see-thru red finish which makes the guitar look really nice. It looks much more expensive than it really is.

Although many reviews I've seen say that the powersound humbuckers don't sound that great, I feel differently. I think that they are good pickups and they sound great as long as you have a decent amp and your strings are not two old. I play mostly Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Motorhead, AIC, and many other heavy metal music. I love this guitar.

This guitar is strung for .009 strings and it works well with those stings. I noticed that .010s are kinda tight and the action's not as good, but with .009s, it has extremely good action. The finish as i said is very nice. I've seen the black and butterscotch versions of this guitar and I would definitly recommend the red version. The only bad part about this guitar is that it is slightly imbalanced. The neck is kind of heavy, but it's not a problem because the body is light and it doesn't take much to hold up the neck.

I haven't gigged with this guitar yet, but I've got 3 planned in the next few months. I'll probably use my friend's warlock for a backup, but I don't think need it. I play this guitar harder at my band practices than I probably will at gigs, and I've never had any problems. A few months back, my little sister dropped my guitar and broke off the toggle switch. I was so afraid that the sound was messed up or the neck broke or something, but it's worked without a problem (other than the bwoken toggle switch, which still functions properly) for months, every week at band practice.

I love this guitar and definitly would buy another if it broke (but I know that it wouldn't). I don't think about nor do I care about the fact that it's only a $200 guitar. It's no Gibson, I'll admit, but it's greatly made and it's got great sound and looks, $200 guitar or not. I recommend this guitar to any beginners or intermediate guitar players who are looking for a great value.

It has a three way tap and has 2 volume controls and 2 tones 22 frets the tuner is non locking the finish is nice

this suits my music style very well because of its powersound pickups i would chose this over any good guitars because of the cheapness of the guitar its affordable and good for the price

I have noticed one thing and that is my nobb slip and the twist then the wire snaps off which is a pain cause soldering sucks oh and i suggest buy better nobs

this is a good gig guitar sure its not like a fender but for the price you could just say its like a fender and get away with it cause of its great sound

nope

I have been playing for 3 years now and find it affordable great to use and i like the feel of the guitar as you strum a chord

Unknown make year, made in asian country, 21 frets, 2 volume and 2 tone controls cutaway design similar to an sg or prs mcarty 2 powersound humbucking pickups 3 way selector, fixed bridge, non-locking tuning keys but did not seem to have the problems with going out of tune as much as everyone else reviewing says. No extras

I was totally hooked on a strat until I played this model. It is a very versatile guitar I played rock, blues, jazz and it sounded good on all styles and for the price I payed for this it is absolutely perfect. I think if I were to change the pickups I could probably get this baby to get santana's or a meaty gibson sound out of this guitar

The factory setup was great the action is nice and low, the pickups are adequate for now and no noticeable flaws mine is transparent red very easy to tune and everything seems perfect

Unknown have not used live yet the only thing that looks suspect is the pickup selector and the strap buttons for those who move and jump about a lot it may be a problem. The finish seems like it will last a while though and I would say I can depend on it but would still never gig without a backup.

Forget it I emailed them a few times with no response no phone numbers to call that I saw on their website. It seems like buy it and leave us the heck alone "jabroni"

I have been playing for a few years and own a few acoustic guitars, this is my first electric I usually played my friends strat for gigs this guitar seems to suit a variety of styles easily. If it were lost or stolen I definitely would buy another one. Like I said the only thing bad is that the customer support totally sucks so dont even waste your time with them (I hope they are reading this and do something about it) For the price paid for this guitar it is quite easy to fix it up with new pickups and locking tuners if you so wish. I compared this to other guitars and for me this guitar had the most potential along with epiphones for those of us who cant or do not want to spend $2,000 or more on a guitar. If anything I can add I see a lot of people buy guitars through the mail this I do not recommend because they are all different and you need to play them to see which one you like the best end of sermon. Good luck and I hope my review helped.

Features. Double cutaway. Two powersound humbucking pickups. Bolt on neck. Two tone knobs two volume knobs. 22 frets I think. Indonesian made. Transparent and one solid finish available.

Sound.....Well for a $200 guitar it sounds great. I play mostly punk,hardcore, and emo and ocassionly some blues and jazz. It has a pretty good crunch sound. I play it through a peavey supreme transtube head and 4x12 cabinet. It sounds good through that amp. The GAX70 also has a nice clean sound too. Basically I bought this guitar because I was not satisfied with the sound of my fender strat and wanted a guitar with humbuckers and on my tight budget this guitar was a good buy. It really is a decently versatile guitar.

I have had this guitar for about 6 months and It seems to be set up nicely. The finish looks great still. The one big complaint I have about this guitar is goes out of tune easily.

I have used this guitar for about four shows and it has done great. The hardwear looks like it should last. The strap buttons were replaced with dunlop strap locks. I don't trust straps that aren't locked in. It seems pretty dependable but I would bring another guitar to a gig. I would not be without a backup.

I have never dealt with Ibanez. It has a one year warranty.

Overall like I said before for about $200 I think it is a great guitar. If it were lost or stolen I probably would get an epiphone Les Paul. I am seriously considering buying an Epiphone Les Paul Standard in the not to distant future. I don't think I would sell it though. I really like the sound out of it but It isn't the best guitar out there but for the price it is great. I compared it to a hamer slammer and thought this was a better buy. So if you are looking for a good new guitar and don't have much to spend you should definately check out an Ibanez GAX70. It is a wonderful beginners guitar too.

Alright. The features are pretty nice for a beginners guitar. Nice pickup array, 4 knobs, nice neck feel. There is no locking trem system on this Ibanez model and it definitely is not needed since it IS a beginner guitar. The frets and the neck really are comfortable and its easy to go up and down quickly. The bridge style is tune-o-matic and this guitar has 22.5 frets.

I think this guitar was made for for the bluesy type of person. Me, I play HARDCORE METAL and this was a GREAT beginners guitar. Dont let people call it a bluesy guitar and scare you if your not into blues. I would classify it pretty damn heavy and it fit my needs for 2 years. Now thats great for the price! The sound is rich and I never really kept the pickup switch in the up position. I always used it in the dowb position meaning that I am using the bridge pickups. it was great. An excellet distortion pedal that I used this with and I still use would be the Danelectro Fabtone..they're great!

When I got the guitar everything was perfect. The action wasnt too high and it was set up fairly nicely. No nicks or scratches. Nice condition. The pickups were in properly and the bridge was routed properly. There were no flaws on this guitar that would prevent me from getting it at all.

Since this guitar is a beginners guitar, it would not go too great for playing live obviously. The hardware is great. I never lost a knob, or a tuning key or anything like that. The finish would NOT wear off. Never in a million years I tell ya. I put this guitar through hell and back and then back again..No sign of a single grain of wood. I would gig with it w/ out a backup, but I dont know if I would go crazy with it like I usually do....ONE thing about this guitar. The electronics inside..UGH. After about a year, whenever I moved the guitar in a certain position it would shut off and then i would have to move it into another position in order for it to work. What it was, was the soldering inside on one of the wires..it was a pain in the neck so keep re-soldering and to this day still gives me problems.

Only reason why I gave this uitar a 7 is because it IS a beginners guitar and it went thru hell and back and only had so few flaws..I just wish the electronics were good or else it would get a 9. I have been playing for about 3 years and I own this ibanez guitar, epiphone flying v, blade/guild guitar, ibanez bass, and jay turser bass. If this guitar were stolen or lost, I would have just gotten a new guitar and a different model instead of getting it again. The thing I love the most is the action, the neck, and the playability. It's great! I just hate the electronics in it. Eww.

2 humbuckers 24.75 neck scale (kind of short, same as Les Paul and SG's) Agathis body (whatever that is... I heard it's like mahogany). Stop Tailpiece. Made in Indonesia. Has Ibanez Logo, but its painted on top of the headstock varnish, so can be scratched off by your fingernail in 30 seconds. Two tone and two volume controls.. one for each pickup. Three position toggle switch. Looks like maple neck. Body style is like SG, kinda sorta but w/ smaller cutaway horns.

Well, no matter what anyone says, my experience (25 years, plus) says that pickups are the most significant part of the electric guitar's sound. Unfortunately the so-called "Powersound" humbuckers this guitar came with didn't sound so powerful. Sure anyone can plug this thing into a Marshall stack turned up and compensate for that, but the fact is these pickups werent so good to me. That's forgivable, though, given the low price and also because I've heard this is what alot of guitars are like in this price range. Anyway, I replaced them with Schaller Golden 50's and now it sounds way better (new rating would a 7 or 8. Nuff said. Rating is based on original pickups.

The guitar is built sturdy and solid and seems to have a good neck, but, like others reviewing this, I had some fretbuzz at around the 11th fret. I did some neck and bridge adjustment and sanded the frets a little (kids don't try this at home unless, like me, you're willing to risk screwing up your guitar) Anyway, after this, the neck was way better, and now is really a nice fast guitar to play. I really feel that in spite of its minor imperfections, its built as good and plays as good as more expensive guitars like Gibson. Partly due to the shorter scale, its much easier to play than my Fender Strat. The tuning keys are fine and they stay in tune for me. This guitar plays really nice now. One other thing though... I moved the strap button on the cutaway "horn" to the back of the neck near the body (like an SG) because this guitar was out of balance... rather neck heavy. After these minor mods, this guitar plays and feels great. It would be a 9 if I didnt have to make them, so I'm deducting 2 points because I did have to make them.

I've used this guitar for several gigs. I've brought my Strat and this Ibanez planning to use it as a backup. However, I've always ended up using the Ibanez as my main axe, because its easier to play than the Strat, plus really light and comfortable. So when the stress of live music is on, I opt for this one because I feel more confident that I won't be screwing up my riffs. Its been very dependable, which is saying alot for an inexpensive guitar.

Honestly know nothing about them.

I bought it so I would have that humbucking Les Paul sound in addition to the more Strat type sounds availible from my Strats. But the pickups werent cutting it, so I had to replace them. The action was'nt quite cutting it, so I had to adjust it, too. It really was'nt anything to boast about before I made these improvements, but it was still a fair deal for the low price. After I made these improvements, which were minor, I feel I have a very acceptable, nice sounding and nice playing electric, with a sound similar to an SG or a Les Paul. But I thing I'd rather have a good SG or 335 with really high quality pickups. But since this guitar is doing the job, it makes more sense to use my money on other things I need more.