Ibanez GRX20

I don't know the year made, I bought it '09. It has 22 frets, laminated top. It has one tone knob and one volume knob, and a three way switch for the pickups. The pickups are powersound one and two, open coil. The body is basswood and the neck is maple with a rosewood fret board. I have the Black Midnight finish and for right handers they offer Jewel Blue. It is strat body style with a fixed bridge. Pretty decent hardware for the money.

I play the metal boys and girls and this guitar is built for this purpose. I play this guitar through a Roland Cube 15X and these two match well together. I really like this guitar and I am glad it does not have a floyd rose, because I am a beginner and the floyd just seems rediculous for me. Excellent osunds on clean and the four lead channels offered on my amp.

I bought this guitar "used" on ebay. This guitar was essentially new, but it had a minor blemish so they have to sell it used. I was not impressed with set up or the strings. So I had the strings changed and set up, much better now. The tuners are kind of flimsy, but I can deal.

This guitar is durable enough to withstand live playing, it sounds awesome through my little practice amp on metal stack effect. The tuners are questionable, overall everything is good. The strap buttons are awesome and the finish is sweet. I would definitely play live without a back up.

I am fairly new and for 185 bucks I'll take this over a strat or epiphone in this price range. I love the finish, the sound it makes through my amp. I hate the fact that the tuners seem cheap and flimsy. Overall, being a beginner, this guitar is second to none. If you buy this guitar remember this-BEGINNER. Do not buy this and expect it to be a high end Ibanez, cuz it ain't.

Bought in 2008 and you can find out all of the features for yourself...

It sound very good on both clean and dirty settings. I'm using a Line 6 Spider III 75w amp and the guitar sound fantastic on it. It sounds a hell of alot better than my Strat.

The guitar arrived perfect accept for the little shreds of the shielding tape were coming out from under the pickguard so i took a razor blade and cleaned it up. Jewel Blue is a perfect choice for this guitar

This is one of the most solid guitars ive ever used...its better than my friends $700 epiphone.

Ibanez doesn't have customer service because they don't need it.

Ive been playing for a few years and this guitar is amazing and with my Line 6 i am in heaven.

Rock On.

I think it was made in china. I bought it in 2007. It has 22 frets, Alder body (i was surprised 'cause almost all the cheaper ibanez are basswood), two humbuckers ibanez psnd H-H passive,colour black... i'm not sure about the bridge, but i never use it... i't great for a begginer.

It suits every style of music, not perfectly but; the bridge humbucker gives a power rock/metal sound, and the neck pickup gives a bassy jazz/blues sound. They are noisy, but not in a annoying way, great response (if you play harder it sounds harder). It great to try to find your own begginer sound.

the action was perfect from the factory. No problems with this, but this was made in china and that discoint some points.

It's very resistant and it has a real wood (not basswood).

I've never deal with them

I've been playing for 2 years and it was great to start and experiment. I really recomend it as your first guitar, but as long as you get better you'll want a better axe. It's great for every style of music from bossa nova to brutal death metal.

This guitar was made in China and was purchased in 2008 ,not sure of the year it was made. The Ibanez GRX2o has 22 frets ,laminated top ,3 way selector ,2 active humbuckers .Alder body ,satin finish ,strat body . Tremolo system I am not sure what type (not Floyd Rose) and medium frets .

The sound of this guitar can vary based on what you are using for for an amp or pre-amp . I use the Behringer V-Amp 2 with a Peavey Rage 158 . The amp is irrelevant if you are familiar with the Behringer V-amp 2 . It can be used with an amp ,p.c. etc . The sounds are amazing ..but enough with the pre-amp . Let's talk about the guitar . This thing is amazing. I read a ton of reviews and took a lot of time before I purchased this sweet piece of equipment . First of all it IS an Ibanez ..make no mistake about it ! It is not like Epiphone "by" Gibson ..this is a damn Ibanez ! If this is their idea of a low end product then the high end Ibanez products must make you pass out by just touching them ! I have been playing on and off for at least 17 years and I have never played such a nice guitar . I own several others which include the Kramer USA Pacer and an Epiphone "by" Gibson strat style guitar . The playablity of this thing is simply amazing . There is no change between the low frets and the high frets as you go up the neck . The pickups sound great with the equipment I have . I highly recommend the Behringer V-amp 2 to those who have not yet purchased this little miracle ,(but that is an entirely different review). I read review of the tremolo system being sub par . I would have to agree ,but I don't use it anyways so it doesn't bother me . The bar screws in on mine and doesn't just "push in" like some others have claimed (must be older models they purchased). The springs are very sturdy and you really have to push to get the tremolo system to engage . Again , I don't use it so this isn't a big deal . The 3 way selector does it's job with pickup selection and there is no fumbling around like other setups . Bridge ,middle,neck ..it doesn't get much more simple than that . Ibanez Powersound 1 in bridge and Ibanez Powersound 2 in neck H/H setup . I have so much more to say but I will continue in the next section ...

The set-up and action was amazing ! No need to adjust the truss rod at all ! The pickups were adjusted perfectly for my taste . I play anything from Metal to blues . I had absolutely no problems that previous posters complain of . The input was tight ,the pickups were solid in place , the frets were not at all sharp . Ibanez has improved this guitar over the years obviously . I use a noise gate so to say whether this guitar is noisy or not is a mute point . Get s good processor and this guitar will make you a hero is no time . I just cannot say enough about the action and playability of this guitar !! I love the neck with a passion ! Love,love,love !!

This guitar can do whatever you need it to ..PERIOD ! You need to keep in mind that it was $150.00 USD , so if you are touring the world I am not sure what it could withstand . You could beat the finish with a hammer I think and it would hold up . Very solid piece of equipment indeed . My strap buttons are tight and have never come loose at all . I depend on this guitar as my main piece of equipment , and it doesn't let me down..EVER!!! I am 37 years old and I have been around a bit with music . This is a fine guitar for beginner or intermediate , or pro who is low on cash . Nice work Ibanez !!!

I have never had a need to contact Ibanez at all !

I hate to keep repeating myself but this guitar is a solid Ibanez and is way more than you are expecting for the money ...buy it !!! I love the neck on this guitar the most of all ! So fast and smooth ,and the action can't be beat at all ! If someone stole this I would find them and torture them until they gave it up !! I love this guitar and I have owned quite a few over the past 17 years . I suggest investing in a good pre-amp no matter that the guitar . A big mistake of beginners is expecting to plug a guitar into an amp and getting the sound of their dreams . Your amp isn't really the big decision , it's the effects processor of choice . Again , enough about that ...this guitar's playabilty is crazy fast ! The finish is beautiful . You will want to polish it over and over and just look at it when you are not playing . Ibanez offers the best beginner guitar at a very affordable price .You will not believe the quality for such a low price-tag !!!

* 25 1/2" scale neck with 19.5mm thickness at nut offers RG/Wizard feel
* 22/Medium frets
* Rosewood Finger Board
* Alder Body
* FAT 10 bridge

I didn't like the sound of the factory pickups: PSND1 (H) Neck PU PSND2 (H) Bridge PU. I replaced them with the 13.6k Ohm output EMG-HZ4's. The H4A with the Alnico 5 magnet is in the neck position and the H4A ceramic magnet is in the bridge position. It is a crying shame that nobody at Ibanez put this combination together for production.

I added a phase switch for a hollow twangy sound, and I am considering tweaking the tone a bit by replacing the factory .50pF capacitor with a .47pF.

I give the sound a 4, but after my mods it is a 9.

Even though this was a used purchase, the shop offered free setup. The action is as low as it can go without buzzing, but it is still a little too high for what I like. I am now thinking about replacing the factory tremlo bridge with a Hipshot Trilogy, and maybe addressing the action problem at that time.

This guitar was purchased used, with a divot taken out by the jack. It appears that it was dropped or made some other contact with a surface with a corner. That flaw was hardly detectable, and the neck was straight. I also had to replace frets 3, 4, and 5 due to some nicks and slices out of them; maybe from the same impact as above or another impact. Whatever the cause of damage, it has held up for the 3 1/2 years of live week-end playing that I have owned it.

I have never had to deal with Ibanez for anything relating to this guitar.

I used to play this guitar through a rackmount Chandler Tube Driver, Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah pedal, an ART MultiVerb, and a Behringer GX212 Ultratwin. Last year I replaced the Tube Driver and Cry Baby with a Behringer V-Amp Pro and a Behringer FCB1010.

Was made 2003-2004. Has 22 Medium Frets. HH setup with 3 way selector, one tone one volume. Tone doesn't do much except make it sound real high or real low. Comes with Ibanez powersound pickups, Blue finish that looks deep purple, tremolo... Looks kind of like a HH strat body more than traditional RG.

Plays punk and metal ok. I play it with a Crate SS 30W and a Digitech Hot Head Distortion pedal. The pickups sounded good on bridge with distortion, however the neck seemed useless. Replaced them with Duncan Designed pickups, and the sound improved immediately. It went out of tune a lot so I had the tremolo screwed down into the body and added Grover tuners. It sounds good for Rock/Punk now and even distorted blues. Had to spend $160 to fix it up. Paid $160 for it.

Had the guitar set up at the store when I bought it, and then reset up when I replaced tuners and pickups. There were no flaws in it and the frets on mine were perfect.

I've had it for 8 months now. I guess as a beginner guitar you start to want to fix it up or replace it as you get better. The finish is awesome, however i would not trust it to stay in tune unless you got new machine heads.

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I like how this guitar plays, and it does sound good for the money. When
I got it re-fitted with Duncan Designed Pickups and Grover tuners, I had the Guitar Tech test it on a full stack marshall and it sounded way better than a Fender Standard Strat. I would buy a better guitar next time, or keep with the "Franken-Strat" theme.

i dont know when it was made. it was made in china though. it has 22 slick frets with a... solid top. 2 black control knobs (vol, tone)... blah no point in finishing. i dont want to repeat.

my style is very odd. a lot of van halen like lead mized with izzy style rhythm all swirled into a pinkfloyd like thingy.. yea. i use a marshall valvestate 65 with a digitech rp50 and a dinosaur flanger (something i got somewhere). its rarely ever noisy unless i atually shake it near the amp then i get some cool ass feedback. with dean markley strings, this mofo sounds like rain.

at first i had a problem with the fret buzz but i got that fixed pretty easily. my pickups were fine. my bridge, is probably my pride and joy. i dont know where the eff these people get the fact that the trem goes out of tune. out of about 10 dif guitars i know with a trem, mine is the only one that can be divebombed by van halen himself and still be able to play perfectly in tune. the frets were slick like oil and i havent cut myself once. i had to get my neck adjusted once but that was because i was jumping around with it too much.

the guitar in itself can withstand my craziness but the stupid effing strings couldnt. so far i havent had the strap fall off. other idiots using my guitar made it fall but i caught it. this is my main guitar and a i have a les paul knock off for my back up.

none so far

great guitar period.

The features of this guitar are about what you'd expect to pay $160 for, plus a little more. Made in China, or so it said on the sticker on the back of the headstock. Solid alder body with a thick (but not totally nuke-proof)black lacquer coat. One-piece maple neck with a straight headstock (not angled-back, meaning you need string trees which hurt string-to-string balance) with cheap 6-in-line non-locking tuners. 25.5" neck scale, lacquer finish on the back of the neck (as opposed to a satin or tung oil finish, both of which play faster since they're less sticky. The frets are medium-sized, and are comfortable to play. All this came with was the arm to the whammy bar.

Starting off with a 12-watt beginner crate amp, I thought this guitar was horrible. It was comfortable to play, but it sounded awful. Then I got a distortion pedal, and even though the pedal was a cheap Boss DS-1, the sound improved tons, and I was thrilled since all I knew was power chords anyway. As I got better and began playing with drummers and full bands, I started to hate my small amp. So, I got a used all-tube Crate VC-5212 amp. 50 watts, 2 channels, reverb, equalizers. It changed my life. All of a sudden I was getting real tone coming from my guitar. I can get Hendrix-Little Wing-type tones from this with the reverb up, with the distortion anything from just a little crunch to enough distortion for Nirvana-ish music. All those who think this guitar sounds bad probably are playing through cheap amps. You'll be suprised to know that this guitar can sound professional and make great music with the right rig. New pickups might help, since it does still lack a little tone compared to more expensive guitars, but for the price I really doubt you can do better. Miles ahead of any squier or other beginner guitar.

I can't say how well it was set up from the factory since I am pretty sure the music store I bought it from set it up themselves. However, with the bridge pickup raised up near the strings and the neck pickup lowered to about half a centimeter above the pickguard, it sounds great. If you take off the pickguard you will see that the pickup cavity is swimming pool-routed, meaning that there is no wood between the pickups. The less wood a guitar is made out of, especially around the pickups, the less tone and sustain. However this is to be expected at such a low price. The only other flaws are that the tone pot does almost nothing to affect the tone and the volume pot has become scratchy and will cut out for a few seconds if I turn it too fast. It may just need to be cleaned. The frets are done suprisingly well, there was nothing loose when I got it.

This guitar seems to hold an alright tune as long as you aren't torturing the strings with very heavy strumming and trying to do dive-bombs on the whammy bar. The tuners and bridge are chrome-finished, so they won't really wear or tarnish. Today I dropped the guitar and it landed on the first string's tuning key. It snapped in half, so I now have to buy new tuners. I don't think it was the tuning key's fault that it broke, I think the same would have happened to any guitar. I was worried about the strap buttons after I got it, so I put on strap-locks. The work great, good for live playing because having your strap pegs fail is now one less thing to worry about. I think I can depend on the guitar, but I wouldn't gig without a backup (that is if I could afford a second guitar).

I've never dealt with Ibanez, however I am unsure if there is very good warranty service on this guitar since I don't think any warranty information was included with the guitar.

I have been playing this guitar for about a year and a half now, and it was my first electric. Although this is technically a beginner guitar, it has kept up with me, and after playing seriously every day I have become a pretty good guitarist. I would say this guitar can suit an intermediate player if that play has no choice but to stick with it due to having no money. I wouldn't say this is the best guitar in the world, because it obviously isn't. I would, however say it's the best guitar in its price range. Again, if you can't make this guitar sound good, blame your amp and your effects first. This guitar is willing to sound great if you are willing to make it sound great.

its a 2003 guitar. the tuners are average. it has very nice action comes with 2 humbuckers. the bridge is crappy. and the wood (alder) that the body is made out of is crap and its made in indonesia. the alder body is really light which is a good thing but its also not very strong. although i don't think that the spider-crack on the heel on my guitar will spread because i also have a 1999 RG570 which has the same crack but on that guitar its only a laquer crack.

Im giving this an 8 because i don't like the sound it gives compared to my RG570. but its a very good metal/thrash/lead guitar. the humbuckers produce a nice crunchy sound. the pickups would only need to be switched if you can't afford a better guitar. i use this as a backup for gigging and my rg570 is my main guitar.

this guitar has awesome action like all ibanez's and i love playing them more than my 2000 gibson SG. i have 3 ibanez's 1 gibson and 2 fenders. the bridge is my main concern about this guitar. its not very good for whammying as it doesn't come back to tune as well as a floyd rose trem.

well i can tell you that it definately withstands live playing. im not too sure if it will last 10 years but i don't expect it to. the gloss finish is good quality and doesn't seem to be chipping anywhere. the general spider crack on the heel doesn't look like it will spread.

i've never needed to deal with ibanez because their guitars are just too awesome.

i've been playing for 4 1/2 years and im 14 years old nearly 15 and im a member of 3 bands currently and have used this guitar in 31 live concerts as a backup. only actually played it in 3 though. i have an ibanez RG570, RG1550, 62 remake fender stratocaster, fender telecaster not sure of year, and a 2000 Gibson SG. I love them all to bits and use them all for different styles. i use this as my metal/thrash backup. great guitar

mine is a 2003 ibanez grx 20 in black with chrome hardware. its made in china, and has 22 medium frets, on a decent rosewood fretboard. 3 way selector, 2 humbuckers ( powersound ) with passive elctronics. suprisingly its made of alder which is a feature on higher end jacksons and ESP, not basswood like ibanez, like a superstrat rather resembling an RG5550 in look. it has a Fat 10 bridge ( non locking floating like a floyd but doesnt lock at any point ), non locking tuners, 25.5" scale for the price i paid i give this guitar a 10 for features!

the alder makes this a very punchy guitar. it was my first guitar but i pined after it even before i started playing because it was an ibanez, and not BY IBANEZ, like squier. this was my first guitar but i always wanted to play shred metal, and other such 80's stuff even when i couldnt afford a guitar. i play mostly shred metal and metallica, megadeath, zakk, BLS, and ozzy and this guitar was the best guitar in my opinion to learn on. its very crunchy, and even though the pickups are stock powersound, they r the best in this price range next to jackson or ESP pickups. it has a bright sound.

likes, look, feel
dislikes, i discovered EMG 3 months later

this guitar was set up perfectly, and i was a beginner and the guy did not rip me off and gave me a free set of GHS boomers, a setup and a 2 yr warranty. everything was well put in and felt like an ibanez, SOLID! no apparent flaws in the construction, and the heel didnt bother me too much. i must say though the selector is crap and i have mates with the same problem, so the same tech guy got me a special iabnez 5 way selector for free!

this guitar czan stand live playing, but not sustained live playing for one reason, the tremolo. its got the worst qualities of a floyd rose and a standard trem, cos it dont lock, and it definitely dont keep tune after a couple of divebombs. hardware was cool and solid except for the dicky selector which was replaced, finish is rock solid, but i think chips and dents look cool and then i dont have to worry about nicking it once in a while. i use this guitar as a backup on stage

i did some modifications to this guitar

1 EMG KH21 pickup and pickguard retrofit set of EMG 81 and controls in black

2 sperzel locking tuners in chrome, now i have the perfect floating tremolo ( advantages of a floyd like tuning stability, and being able to bend both ways freely, and a standard tremolo which means if i break a string i can finish my song and i can drop tune very easily! )

the tech guy who sold it to me is a good dude, and di not rip me off even though eh could have. hats off to darren at mainline musicworks, wellington new zealand! i thank him a lot and his ongoing support makes him my no1 tech guy!

shes still on warranty until next january
repair was great and all shipping / courier cost were paid for

ive been playin a year and a half and am up for numerous scholarships and stuff. this was my first guitar and i judge all my new guitars by this one , because i learnt on it. please do not buy a no name guitar that u will grow out of and become frustrated with easily. its very easily modified and i love it to bits with emg 81, sperzel tuners and all. this guitar u can grow with