Ibanez GSA60

First, I want to say that I have been a faithful Fender man for over 30 years, however, Ibanez has taken me away from Fender. Why? Better guitar for less money. Pure and simple. My GSA 60 was made in 2002 in Indonesia. It has 22 frets, laminated top, with one tone and one volume control and a 5 way selector switch. It has an Ibanez Powersound humbucker at the bridge and two Ibanez Powersound single coil pickups. Body is made of Alder, neckl is maple. Has a high gloss black metallic finish that is beautiful. Body style is a stratocaster style with the typical strat string through body and a standard tremelo system. Tuners are sealed, locking type tuners and they work great. The neck is the typical Ibanez thin neck with medium frets. It didn't come with any accessories but I purchased a super nice Ibanez gig bag with it that even has a removeable back pack on it!! Great guitar!! Puts a Fender strat to shame.

Suits my music style just fine, which is everything from classic rock, to country, to a Steve Earle type rockabilly to Gospel. I even get my heavy metal moods once in awhile and this guitar is killer for that. I have three amps I use it with, a Marshall MG30CDR, a Peavey Rage 158 and an Ibanez TB15R. Sounds great on all three amps, like it with the Peavey best, but that is just because Peavey amps are my favorite. This guitar is absolutely noiseless even on the single coils. Has a nice bright sound on the bridge humbucker, and you can get a good "tele" style twang out of it. 2d Position is great for metal leads, middle position great for classic rock, 4th and 5th positions great for blues and jazz. I can make any sound I want from this guitar and the sustain is incredible. You can go from Chet Atkins to Metallic with the flick of a switch. I love everything about it.

Guitar was setup perfectly right out of the box, action nice and low like I love it with absolutely no fretbuzz. Ibanez does better at this than anyone else as far as I am concerned. The necks are always like butter and play like a dream. Pickups were adjusted perfectly. No flaws at all that I can see.

It will definitely withstand live playing. Got it originally as a backup to my Fender Tele and this one has become the main axe and the tele is now the backup. Great guitar all the way around. Hardware is tough, strap buttons solid as a rock, very dependable. Solid guitar all the way around. No one in their right mind would gig without a backup.

I bought it from our local music store and they are always helpful and stand behind their stuff.

I've been playing for 35 years and until recently was an avid Fender fan. Ibanez has taken my heart though. I also have a Fender Standard Telecaster and an Epiphone Acoustic Guitar as well as the amps mentioned above. I compared this guitar to basically every other guitar in this price range when I bought it, and this one won out hands down. If it were stolen or lost, I would cry and go get another one. I love everything about it, and especially love the humbucker/single/single coil configutation on this guitar. I chose this guitar because it is solid as a rock. This is the best bang for the buck out there in this price range. Puts the Fender Mexican Strats and Tele's to shame.

Made in 2000 or 2001 in Indonesia. 22 Frets, Tone and volume controls, non-locking tuners.

I play mainly grunge and other early 90's alternitive styles. I like the way it sounds with Peavey amps but not Fenders and it sounds ok with Marshals. With the right distortions it will sound right for alot of Alice in Chains(except for Jerry's cool solo's) , Soundgarden,and Smashing Pupkins,Nirvana. It doesnt sound that good for Pearl Jam. My amps arnt the best so that might have something to do with it.

The strings on this guitar come out of tune very easily. It is kind of hard to tune because of this. Some of the hardware is a little loose but it doesnt bother me that much. The strap buttons are annoying and crappy. The neck is very thin wich might bother you if your other guitars have thick necks or your hands are big. My hand are small so it is good for me would probubly be good for other girls and women.

It doesnt get alot of heavey use so I dont really know. I havent been as careful with it as I should be and it has tipped over a number of times and it hasnt broken or chipped of anything. It is not as good as it was the day I bought it but I have no complaints and most of the problems I have had with it were early on and probubly caused by me in the long run.

I havent needed it. It is built to last pretty well.

I have only been playing for about one and a half years and have only had this guitar for a little over a year. It was my first electric and has been pretty good. I recoment this guitar for beginers with small hands. It is also prbubly good for childeren, people with back and shoulder problems, and all of you weeklings out there like me because it is fairly small and light whight. It is a pretty guitar too and would make a nice present if you are looking for a guitar for your kid.

Same as every one else said, mine came with gig bag and strap
features pretty good

I play punk and ska and its ok but its hard to get good clean and distorted sound on the same pickup. Fuzzs alot but I think thats my amp , the sound is good enough for gigs , Ive used it for many

action was best when i first got it , the pickups were fine and there were no flaws except that the strap buttons are crappy.

Good enough for gigs , all hardwares fine . The bassist of our band decided to play it and dropped it which chipped a large piece of the body but that was his fault and Ive now (with his money) refinished it myself in Flourescent yellow and it looks better than ever

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Been playing for nearly 2 years this was my first guitar. I recently bought a Epiphone Les Paul which was better quality but this guitar is an excellent first time buy. I choose it over a tanglewood of similar price and a yamaha Pacifica and am completly happy with it for the price

This Guitar was built in 2001 (China). It's got the typical Ibanez - S - Body (thin around the edges, but thicker at the neck, pickups and bridge) which isn't made of Mahogany like the more expensive ones, but of agathis. Some German magazines said, it sounds similar to mahogany, basswood or poplar. Really a light guitar (3,2 kilos).
It's got a slim one - piece maple neck (Ibanez calls it "GSA neck"), Rosewood fretboard, 22 medium frets and dot inlays. In my view, the neck is REALLY slim - okay, it's fast, but I like other necks better. I haven't got small hands and maybe a S - Classic neck would be better for me. The headstock's black - always (black's beautiful :).
H - S - S Pickups, Ibanez Powersound 2 Ceramic Humbucker at the bridge, two Ibanez Powersound Alnico Singlecoils in the middle and neck position. Strat - style 5 way pickup selector switch. One volume, one tone knob. Chrome hardware. Six non - locking tuners. Vintage vibrato. Mine came with D'Aquisto strings (.009 - .042 / .046) Too small strap holders. Mine is black, but you can get it in Jewel Blue and Butterscotch Transparent, too. 8 because it's got H - S - S pickups, it's light and it looks great. Not a 10 because the neck's f***ing slim, it hasn't got a better vibrato (either a real one or a stoptail) and it can't go and fetch beer. ;)

I play almost everything - that rocks, of course. From Alternative, Blues, 60s - Classic - Rock and Grunge to Indie, Metal, HeavyRock and Punk. No NuWhateverMetal, no Country - but at the moment, my teacher wants me to play some Jazz. . . :(
I mostly play Grunge, especially Nirvana and Alice in Chains. I also love many other Grunge (Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Hole, . . . ), some HeavyRock and Metal ('tallica, Black Sabbath, Tool) and Alternative (Sonic Youth, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Dave Navarro) bands. I use a Marshall Guv'nor II, a Boss DS - 1 and an Electro Harmonix Small Clone Chorus. My amps a SolidState Marshall G80 RCD i'll hopefully replace soon. But this guitar's got some great sounds: The neck Singlecoil is quite bassy, but also bright. It's great for clean rhythm (played AiC "Rooster" with some Chorus - sounds like the original) and Hendrix - esque lead stuff ("Hey Joe" Intro). You can also get some dark and punchy distortion sounds, great for Mudhoney songs. As for blues, it sounds even better with the middle singlecoil. The middle singlecoil all alone sounds a little bit sharper, middier than the neck one. Not that great. Together with the neck - coil of the humbucker, it puts out some "jingle - jangle" sound. I use it almost never. The bridge humbucker's got a whole lotta output. It's got a dark and muddy sound. It's going to be replaced soon - with a Duncan SH - 4, I think. I don't like Ceramic 'buckers that much. The vibrato - well, if you use it VERY carefully, the strings stay in tune. If you don't, they don't. If you bend and dive like Jerry Cantrell, it'll soon sound . . . strange. The strings get out of tune quite easily. I use .010 - .046 GHS Guitar Boomers (Eb tuning) and when you tune the guitar, the G,B and E strings hang in the nut. I'm gonna buy a better saddle soon. All in all, it get's a 7. The neck singlecoil gives you some great clean and rhythm distortion sounds and the bridge humbucker is still better than singlecoil at the same position. The split sounds are hum - cancelling. It sounds like a fat, modern Strat. I don't really like the vibrato, the sound of the bridge humbucker and the saddle.

The guitar looks great and more expensive than it was. The finish is strong and great - as well as the frets and volume / tone controls. I replaced the strap holders with some better ones made by Schaller. Now it doesn't fall down any longer . . . I also replaced the poti heads and bought some black Strat - style ones. The action was quite alright. As already described above, the vibrato doesn't stay in tune very well. I think I'll have to replace the jack soon 'cause it doesn't like all of my cables. It gets fingerprint marks easily, but who cares? Cleaning it once per week is enough. 8 because of the vibrato and the jack.

If you don't use the whammy bar, it does stay in tune. Even if you strike the strings hard. It's a great live guitar because of its weight. I gigged with it once and it held up well. You can really depend on it.

Okay, they haven't got a German website and the manual's only in English, too. Not a problem for me, maybe for some ohter guys and gals. I ordered it more than a year ago and the dealer told me I had to wait about 1 1/2 months for it - but after one week, I plugged it into my amp. They seem to be nice folks.

Okay, this is a nice guitar for beginners and experienced beginners. Is it better than a squier? It's different. Would I buy it again? I'd save the money and buy a Fender Mexico Fat Strat. But this guitar is really versatile. It's got a beautiful clean sound and with a better bridge humbucker, a fatter neck and either a stoptail or a REAL vibrato (maybe the new SAT - 10 is better) it would be perfect.

S/S/H pickup config., 5 way selector, Tone and Volume knobs, Jewel Blue finish, 22 medium frets, maple neck, agathis body, rosewood fretboard, strat-style bridge w/tremelo. Your basic beginner guitar.

This was my first guitar. The stock pickups are weak and muddy, and require a good stompbox to liven up. I play mostly classic rock, metal, blues, etc. It's tone sucks, and the front single coils were too weak to bother with. My amp is a semi decent Peavey, with a Jim Dunlop Wah, Boss DS-1. As I said, a beginner guitar.

The factory setup sucked. The strings were corroded, there was a nick in the 13th fret which I had to sand down, and the knobs were crooked. The action was way too high and the tremelo came out of tune every time I touched it.

The guitar never gave me too much trouble. The tone pot got scratchy after a while and there was always a slight buzz on the b string. The finish was one of the better point of the guitar, and the strap buttons seemed solid enough. It was pretty good.

Never dealt with them

I've been playing for about two years, and this guitar has held up pretty well. Funny thing is it was stolen out of my car a few weeks ago, and I plan on buying a better guitar, like an SG or Jackson or something with a better action and higher quality pickups.

It was made in indonesia, 22 medium frets, black,s/s/h

this guitar is a very metal and easy to play, i use a peavey bandit TT and i also replaced the bridge pickup with a seymour duncan JB, now its has great harmonics and good sustain

the action is perfet awesome for metal riffs and fast solos, the pickups are kinda crappy thats why i replaced one of them, the neck pickup has more of a low punchy grunge sound to it, also good for blues when clean the only flaws i had was that my first one stoped working( it was on the floor for more than a year) then i bought i back and got a brand new one never had a problem since

this guitar would stand a few beatings, the hardware im not so sure it would last a long time, the finish is excelent im sure it would last a while, the strap buttons are fine other than they don't hold the strap on very well(i fixed that with some metal washers), since its my only guitar i have to depend on it and its help up pretty well

never dealt with them

i've been playing for a about 2 years now and its stood up to everything if it was stolen i would buy and RG because of the floyd rose

Made in Indonesia, 2001 model. 22 medium fret neck, S/S/H powersound pickups. Mine has an "metallic grape" finish, which looks nice. Tone and volume controls and an 5-way which for the pickups. The body is made from Agathis and the neck is maple with an rosewood fingerboard.

I play mainly rock/heavy and some blues now and then. I play without any effects right in to an Tech 21 Trademark 10 combo, which I recently bought. With it I can dial in about every imaginable tone from Judas priest to B.B King. Before the trademark I played trough an old 10 watt Fender practice amp and the difference is huge.. The GSA sounds very nice trough the trademark 10 though it lacks a bit in sustain and tone compared to some guitars I tried to play with the Trademark 10. But of course one can not compare the GSA to an PRS or a Jackson that costs 5-10 times more than it....

The pickups are suprisingly nice though they lack just a bit of crunch and harmonics aren`t as easy to play than with some other guitars. Great value for the money though.

The nice think about the pickup configuration is that you can get a nice chunky tone from the bridge pickup and then switch to the neck pickup for some blues-style sounds.

The guitar was set-up just perfectly in the store where I bought it. (Levytukku OY) The action was (is) excellent, no fret buzz etc.. Just perfect.
The finish is nice, though I would have liked a black one. (they were out of stock) It seems guite durable, it has taken a few knocks but still looks like new.
The neck is great for an guitar in this price range (Ibanez doesn`t make an unplayable neck, it is said) It feels very fast and is perfect for my hands (which are guite "normal" I think) I`ve tried several guitars that belong to my friends and many different guitars in different stores. (I`m looking for an guitar with an Floyd rose trem) Only other Ibanez models feel as good to my hands and I think I`m going to buy an RG next year. The playability of the GSA is great in my opinion.

I haven`t played live so its difficult to say whether this guitar would stand live playing. I would propably like a guitar with a little better tone for live performances. Other than that I dont see why you couldn`t play live with the GSA.
The only "flaw" I can think of in this guitar is that if you use the tremolo really heavily, the guitar _will_ get out of tune. This is more an inherent feature of a standard tremolo without stringlocks at the nut (I`m not guite sure what they are called..) than a real flaw... If you want to make some cool divebomb sounds and such, get a guitar with an floyd rose tremolo.

Havent dealt with Ibanez directly. The people at Levytukku are great and very helpful.

I played classical guitar on and off for a year before I got the Ibanez six months ago. After getting an electric I`ve really gotten into playing guitar and play for 2-4 hours a day now. I thing the GSA is an excellent guitar for an beginner and _great_ value for the money. It saves in just the right departments: the wood used in the body and in the pickups (both of which lack a bit compared to more expensive models) but keeps the excellent playability of the more expensive models. All in all a great guitar for an beginner. The neck is a pearl!
I think this guitar could last with me for a long time but i`m looking for a guitar with a Floyd Rose and better pickups. I`ll propably buy an Ibanez RG.

hmm, it was made in dec of 2001. and its got the new bridge they made for this model, its got a bunch of frets , 22 or so, one volume, one tone, two sigle and a hummer, the singles are the ibanezmade powersounds, and the humbucker is of the same origin, all 3 passive, smoothly finished maple neck, with rosewood fingerboard and some japanesse agathis body, nice jewel blue finish,
jsut a simple double cut away solid body quasi-strat copy, non locking tuners, moderate sized neck, not think, not huge, suits my stubby hands well=)(6 for the neck, and pick ups its alright,

my music style, is undefined, i paly anything from yer standard g c d worship stuff, to a bad hardcore, its sound and feel makes it very versitile i think, i don't have an amp, but i have played it thru the amp i'm gettin, (crate gfx212t somethin or other) and its good, (i'd kill to have that thing now, well not kill, severly hurt, maybe dismember ),, the one thing that pisses me off, is when i use the sigle pickups one at a time (thru my computer's guitar fx program, fx box 2.5, its decent) it buzzes like stoopid, but combined the singles are some what quiet, the humbucker's quiet, but real glassy, good for distortion, its got a 2 tone tone range, either loud hot, 'nd well, loud, or nice and quiet, with a twinge of teeth, but nice over all

teh factory set it up ok, i think the intoneations a little off, but with a new set of elixir's, its nice,teh bridge sucks tho, there is not getting around it, unless u have it tamped down with the third trem spring, its gunna go out of tune if u drop d it, or bend a string, even paly it,

i think i'd with stand live paly, i've played it in a basement with a band and i jumped a little, threw myself around a little, dropped it, knocked over some cymbls, chased the bunnies,(silly rodents) , even skied on it, the finsih is still lookin nice, except up close u can see pick scratchs, and the back is torn up from my belt, (damn pants)
but i'm a punk guitarist, what other way would it be, the strap buttons hold with lots of jumpin, and not locks,,, i don't care how little i payed for it, i'd gig with it, it looks nice, can sound nice if u know anything about music,(to all those idiots sayin this guitar's sound is bad, its called an EQ, use it) but if i could afford a back up, i'd buy this ugly but sweet dean at world of music, and play that with this as a back up, but since this capitalistic society has left me with abad job, i'd paly it with out a back up,

ibanez sucks, i waited 90 days, (exactly) for this guitar, they can kiss my feet that i waited thru back order,

well, i've ben palyin for about 15 months, and this is my first electric, i should have waited for a nice used guitar to come in, but i didn't know that, so i got this, and its still nice, i take pleasue it wearing the frets down, if it were stolen, i'd find the guy, and hit him with it, then stage a massive coup and take over the world=)
(i'm gunna put some semyour duncan hot rails in the neck, and some nice humbucker in the bridge, cuz these pick ups could go)

AND, finally, Jesus Christ is the secret to life, if u don't believe in God, too bad, cuz He believes in u

pants

2001 / China
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I'm using a Fender Vibro Champ and a Dist pedal and till now i got everey sound i wanted (:

The Neck was perfect adjusted and all the other things too, all I had to do when I came home was tuning and connect it to the amp

I dindn't do any live playing now, but for now it never got out of tune ore something lke that. The hardware looks like it wouldn't leave work in a hundret years. Ok, the Finish seems like eating fingerprints but if you haven't any problem with polishing this won't be a problem to you

Never need this. I got a 2 year warranty

I'm playing overall for a month now and I started up with a 40 year old Framus from my Dad(don't know the exact type; it has 2 f holes and iss sunburst style, so if anyone knows this one plz mail me to Q5-theUnknown@web.de)If this baby is stolen i would by it again because i love the really nice and easy playable neck and the low weight of this guitar

the features are listed some where above or below.

it fits my style of music very well. I play both kinds of music rock & roll. The only problems are the s/s/h it should h/s/h
It is really noisey with the single coils and it only sounds good on the humbucker by the bridge which is bad for me cause I play rythim i cant spell it right sorry. which is why I am going to put in a hot rails humbucker thing in the neck position

every thing was set up perfect at the shop

the guitar will withstand live playing after you hot rod it a little. It seems prety durabil but I havent dropped it yet. I alwas use a backup you never know when a string is going to break