Ibanez GAX75

2001 Indonesian, 24 medium-jumbo frets, 2 volume 2 tone 3 way passive pick up selector. Standard pickups that came with it. Agathis finish gothic style 6 string and drop D tuner.

I have used this guitar to play: Punk, Funk, Rock(70's), Grunge, Metal, Hop-hip, and I play lead when I do play as such(normally). I use with is a Crate GX-212(120 watt 2x12). This low E string that buzzes, but is only audible when you play with out sound. The sound is very full and has a very fat tone.

This is the most comfortable guitar I have ever played, the strings that come standard (9 gauge) make lead work easy and tireless. The pickups are great, I tempted to upgrade the pickups and get the same kind that were in the gibsons but passed because I thought the Ibanez ones sounded better to me(oppinion). The guitar was set up perfectly, and the tuning stays for a long time. There were no flaws on this guitar when I bought it.

This is guitar is a tank, i have banged it into crap before and it has yet to get a scratch or a dent. Example, one of my friends at a festival grabbed it and accidently drug the bottom across a concrete sidewalk, not a scratch. I don't think this guitar will ever die on me. Buttons are solid, only complaint is on the ring around the female 1/4" jack tends to come loose and I have to twist it back on with my fingers. I would gig with this bad boy with out a back up.

Never had to deal with them.

Overall, this guitar kicked some serious ass for the money. The gax75 was the first Ibanez i have bought and I'm looking to get a more pricey flashy model to see it is even better. I have been playing for 5 years, and own a Crate GX212, Ibanez IBZ10, Squier Strat, Johnson Acoustic, Boss ME-33, Gibson Les Paul, Spector NS-4 American Made Fretless. If this guitar was stolen I would buy another, any guitar that competes with a Les Paul for this little amount of money is worth it.

my guitar is a 2001 model gax75, with 22 frets and 2 tone and 2 volume knobs. it has dual powersound humbucking pickups (passive), and a 3 way tone selector switch, a maple neck and an agathis body, matte pewter grey finish. i bought this guitar becuase i wanted an inexpensive guitar with a better sound than the guitar i had before(fender tele). no case, but i had a gig bag, so i didnt care. i was originally looking for an ibanez in this style with a locking nut and floating bridge, i had never even heard of a drop d kicker before. but when i got to guitar center, it reached out and grabbed me.

i like this guitar, as it has humbuckers and with the D-tuner, i can get really crunchy, really fast, and it stays in tune for a good long time when you are constantly switching back and forth! it has a much better tone for the kind of music i play than the tele i had before, and frankly looks better to boot. the pewter grey finish...mmmmm. it stays in tune very well, and with 10 guage strings, is very easy to play(im not a lead guitar player, so i dont need the super bendable 9's). the sustain from what ive done with it is good as well, it can hold a note! i dont have a very good amp, just a peavy pacer, so i am sure it will sound better through the marshall stack i plan on getting!

this guitar is very easy to play for me. i have big hands, and the neck is wide enough to accomodate that, and with the satin finish on the maple neck, it plays very fast. i like the medium frets, although to be honest, ive never played with a guitar that had jumbo frets or anything. the action was good from the factory, no fret rattle, and i dont really feel the need to adjust it. i did buy some new strings for it, as the stock ones were just too soft. the finish is very good (matte grey), even if it is kind of plain, but it fits me. i just wish it had active pickups!!

i do some live playing with my band, but im not in the habit of beating on my equipment. this guitar will, barring any major mishaps, look the same in 10 years as it does now. its very heavy, but im a big guy so i dont really notice, even after three hours of playing! the finish seems tough, my tele was chipped in many places after about 6 months, and i babied it too. i took off the back panel on my ibanez, and tried to scratch the finish inside(some moron told me agathis was a composite material, and like a moron i believed him), and i didnt even get through the finish before i gave up. tough stuff! i dont know much about powersound pickups, but i plan on upgrading to piezo or seymour duncan later anyway, so they are fine for now. this is the only electric i own, and i feel confident that nothing will go wrong, so i dont even own a backup, let alone take one to gigs!!

as it is an ibanez it has a life time warranty from defects, but nothing has gone wrong yet, so ive never talked to them. guitar center has a very good return policy, and are willing to work with their customers.

ive been playing for about 8 yrs now, and this is by far the best guitar i have owned...although it wouldnt be hard to accomplish that! after an applause electric, a fender strat squier bullet, and a chinese made fender tele, just about anything would sound good!! but seriously, for the money, i havent played a guitar that would touch this one, in my opinion. for under 300, i didnt even like the other ibanez's, and ive had my fill of fenders. the only guitar i would have over this one is an ovation preacher electric, and ive only ever seen one of those! definately a good value axe.

My GAX75 is a 2001 model made by Ibanez in Japan. It has 22 medium frets and is a solid top. The guitar is made of agathis and is a grey pewter finish. It lso has chrome hardware an SSII bridge and downshifter that allows for superfast tuning changes. The guitar is also loaded with two powersound humbuckers . The pickups are controlled by a three way switch two volume knobs and two tone knobs. The guitar itself is is a little heavy.(hey that is what you have a strap for). The speed and playability of the neck are incredible allowing both speed and versatility in note changes and tone.

The GAX75 fits my playing style perfectly. I play alot of different tuning and I play a hard rock to moderate roc so when I need that extra crunch its there. You also get agreat sound hen playing those soft ballads at lead or rythm. bI have used several effects with this guitar including, distortion pedals, chorus pedals, wah, and a talk box. All have worked great with the guitar.

The guitar was set up from the factoy beautifully. No adjustments to the trusse rod when needed. Only some simple tuning was necessary. The pickups are great. The powersound 1 and 2 pickups where set up great. They dont hum or buzz, they just pump out great sound and tone.

The guitar is definatly reliable. I use it for performances every weekend, I own several guitars , but when it comes time to play that important gig, its the one I pick out for those powerful jams. The hardware is set prety well and is of good quality, definatly a plus. I have accidentlly bumped the guitar around once or twice but not a dent or paint scrap has shown. the trap buttons are definatly there to stay. I would like to use this guitar for a gig without a back up but since We play a pretty wide variety of tunings i need a back up anyways.

I have purchased two other I bane guitars but have never dealt with the company directly, bu the company I ordred it through where excellent. I have yet to take it for repair , and hopefully i wont have to. The guitar is under 5 year warrany with the company ordered it through.

Been playing for 11 years. I own:Ibanez RG20DX, Ibanez JS100, Gibson Les Paul Standard Cutaway Plus, Martin DC-1E Acoustic Electric, Alvarez 5412 12 string acoustic, a Martin D-28 Dreadnought, Ibanez BTB400QM bass, and an Ernie Ball Stingray 5 Version bass. I use Vox and Marshall cabs and mixers. I would definatly buy the GAX75 again if it where stolen.

It was a 98 model I believe. It had 2 volume knobs and two tone knobs. It was a grey\Pewter color with a maple neck, and I am almost positive that it had jumbo frets(18 of them to be exact). But I believe my favorite feature on this guitar was the detuner on the 6th string. It helped out a lot for those of us who tune down constantly and it saved a great amount of time

I usually use a very distorted tone to suit the style of music I play, and this guitar had it (as do any Ibanez guitar Ive ever owned)I play through a marshall half stack and I am currently using a DOD metal zone distortion pedal with a Vox wah pedal and it sounded pretty good through them. I think that my favorite part of the sound of this one was its harmonics. You could hit a harmonic anywhere on it and it would ring out loud and clear

The guitar was set up well in the factory, and the action on the strings was not anything impressive

When it came to live playing, this thing sucked! the detuner hardly worked and even if it did work like it was supposed to it would not stay in tune to save its life. In a normal gig, it would last about 2 to 3 songs until I could not stand it any more and would switch guitars for the rest of the set.The only good thing about it was its finish. I play very hard and destroy finishesvery easily but this finish would not scratch if you took a jackhammer to it.

I believe it was under warranty for a year but I traded it in in 3 months. In that time period , I had to take it back to the shop and have the detuner adjusted and fixed twice.

I Have been playing for 5+ Years, Iwork in a guitar shop, and have owned about 8 Guitars of my own and this one was withouta doubt the worst. I would suggest it for a beginning player,but for all you serious Guitar players, Please dont waste your time.

Great newbie guitar (suits me well!! :) ) Made in 2001 from Indonesia,It has 22 frets, 2 humbuckers (neck and bridge), 2 volume knobs, 2 tone knobs, a 3-way pickup switch selector, and a D-Tuner on the 6'th string! It has an agathis body a gret color (grey!) and medium frets! It came with a cable and some tools (I think it is to change the strings and to work with the bridge!).

Newbie Alert!!!

I'm a newbie so you can take this with grain of salt! But I love the sounds coming out of this guitar (or maybe it's me! :D). I play mostly emo and punk but I do practice some metal! I also make my own songs and they have sounded good (although the change from acoustic to electric is pretty different!). It stays in tune most of the time, and it sounds great. The D tuner works very nice too!
I'm using the guitar with a Crate GX140C (big amp 2x12) and it sounds great with the overdrive (it helps that the amp has a lot of gain!) and with the clean channel it sounds great too! It's extremely quiet, not a hum from it! And thanks to the 2 humbuckers you you have a lot of variety at your hands!

Definitely a great giuitar!

Since I don't know much about electric guitars, the action that came configured with the guitar it's quite alright! It's not very close to the frets and not very far! I think it's quite normal.!
The pickups are adjusted well too. Not excess vibrations and fuzziness!

I think the guitar it's pretty sturdy (and weights a lot) so I think you could take it to a live performance and "punish" it! Definitely sturdy!
You could use it in a gig without a backup but that isn't recommended anyway!!!

Nope... haven't dealt with them! Bought it thru Musicians Friend with extended warranty!

I have been playing with acoustic guitars for 3 years but this is my first time with an electric. I have friends that tested my guitar and they loved it (they were the ones that recommended this cheap but great guitar!!!). I lvoe this guitar and not because it is the first one, it is because it relly sounds good!

This one is a 2001 model, made in Indonesia, I believe...22 medium-jumbo frets, Les Paul/SG-style switching (2 humbuckers, each with its own volume and tone knobs and a 3-way switch). HEAVY pointy double-cutaway agathis body (a relative of mahogany, from what I understand) with a matte gray finish. It looks great. The bridge is the coolest stop tailpiece I've ever seen - it has intonation adjustment saddles ON the tailpiece (Unlike the PRS McCarty which has a set intonation pattern). It also has a neat little doo dad that allows you to drop to whatever note you want on the sixth string...I've set it as low as B with good results (Tool's 'Prison Sex', anyone?) The tuners are solid, and the guitar stays in tune quite well, especially since I switched string gauges to .010s - the shorter Gibson-esque scale really needed it. Bending strings was way too easy with the stock .009s - I'm just too strong...(ha ha ha). It came with nothing, but it was really cheap, as you'll read later. Amazing guitar for the price...

It's perfect for everything from grindcore and punk to jazz and funk...I've never played a more versatile guitar. The powersound pickups are quiet and rich-sounding. The middle position sold me on the guitar - it sounds like the best Gibson 335 you've ever heard(you'd have to hear my guitar to believe it, seriously). It makes no sense, except that it's a two-humbucker thing, but it really sounds incredible. It's REALLY quiet, impressive for a cheapo import guitar, and my only complaint is that the volume knobs aren't as responsive as they could be, but what does one expect from a guitar this inexpensive?

It was set up great, except for the string gauge, I changed the stock .009 set to .010s for a little more tone and a little less overbending. My only complaint in the fret job is that the 10th fret on the 1st string (the high 'E') buzzes a little bit. It's not noticeable when it's plugged in, though.

This guitar is a tank. It weighs a ton and is rugged. The finish seems like it would take a lot to hurt it (kind of like a truck bedliner).

I've never had to deal with them, so I can't judge them.

I've been playing for a long time, and this guitar begged me to buy it. I played it through 10 different amps at the store and it sounded great even through the crappy ones. I haven't come across another GAX75 as good. I've checked them out every time I've seen one because I was curious about the consistency of quality among the cheaper Ibanez models and because I'd probably want another one as a backup. They were all pretty good, but none of them really touched the one I got. They didn't have the 335 sparkle from the middle pickup.

Double cutaway, you have to have seen the AX's by now. Agathis body, though i'm not sure what that does. It comes with two stock humbuckers, each with its own volume and tone knobs, which i like. 3-way switch. I bought this guitar for the d-tuner, which is convenient and also easy to use. The finish is gray and looks just barely textured, which is actually pretty nice - keeps you from having to worry about scratching or smudging it up too much. The shortstop bridge is better than any tunomatic/wraparound deal i've seen, since it's smooth and hugs the string rather than creasing it with a sharp wedge. This doesn't hurt the sustain at all, as far as i can tell. I have to say apple music ripped me off when i found out what i could've paid from musicians friend. The gax75 wasn't in the catalog at the time i bought this, but the very next week i found out that i had lost $50,(And they told me i was getting a hell of a deal). Oh well, I bought a Gibson P94 pickup and had it installed in the neck position, bringing the total to $400.

Origionally, i was looking for a guitar (first of all that i could afford) that had a single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge. But when i saw the d-tuner i couldn't resist (i'm lazy and was sick of doing it the old fashioned way). So in the end i bought a gibson pickup for the neck. This gave it a wider variety of sounds, but from what i can tell about the stock bridge pickup, the origional setup would've been pretty good too. It has nice output and the higher strings will crunch nicely on a clean channel, if you hit them hard, without being too shrill. I play heavy grunge/punk (deftones meets primus) and i like the versatility. By the way i play through one of those 120watt crate stacks, and i use a big muff distortion pedal a lot, maybe too much. I can't say i dislike anything about the sound, but i'm pretty sure gibson pickups just sound better in gibson guitars anyway.

Action was really nice - is easily adjusted. I play with 7-string sets but ditch the 6th so i have an extra heavy low E, which i drop to D of course. I'm pretty sure the neck is maple, and it's smoothely finished. It's not too thin and the frets aren't too huge (i never understood the extra jumbo frets). Not much buzz, most likely due to the tension from the heavier strings i use. I like this neck shape, but a lot of people might be looking for the really thin wizard deal that ibanez is known for.

The good people up at apple music have screwed me over again. This is probably an isolated incident for the guitar, but i did realize why the guys at the shop were so eager to sell it to me and get me out. The day after i bought it i noticed a crack that led from the neck pickup mount to the neck joint. This is not necessarily the manufacturers fault, but it did piss me off. I have to stress that the crack has not gotten any bigger or anything, at least. Nothing else as gone wrong in the past 5 months since i bought it. Not bad compared to my last guitar.

I don't know about ibanez, but apple music has a strict no return no refund policy - assholes.

This is a harder catagory to rate. I really like this guitar, and i hope you don't let the low price scare you away if you're simply trying to look for something more professional. It really sounds and feels like it's worth at least twice as much. Another step up would just be the AX120, and that doesn't even have the d-tuner. The only thing that might scare you away is the plain finish. Trust me, it looks better in real life than in the catalog.