Great Guitar if you are just learning or just play it for fun! The guitar is a great sounding flat out rocking guitar. It gives you the nice sound you are looking for and its a nice weight compact guitar.

These guitars are great. Ibanez is the leader in quality control by far the best in detail. After reading reviews I found that I needed to comment. All new guitars need to be set up. On the GSA 60 you need to add the extra trem spring that comes with it then you need to tighten the truss rod just slightly, or it will never stay in tune very long. Use the allens that come with it to adjust the truss rod and the bridge put on some of Ernie's 9-42's then set the PU's out a little. Guitar hasn't a pick gaurd which gives more sustain and less feedback. The neck is fast like a Strat even has a skunkstripe. I can really appreciate Ibanez a brand that can be trusted.

When I went to get my first electric, I had virtually no idea what I was looking for, and this is what I ended up getting. I somewhat regret getting this particular guitar, but it does have it's share of pros as well.

First off, I compared this directly against a Fender Squier Strat (probably it's most direct rival), and preferred the overall feel and feature set. It's a much heftier guitar. I have a 2005 model, not sure if they have changed too much since then, but the weight was immediately noticeable. It has decent sustain and unplugged tone as well.

The pickups are quite frankly, not good. The single-coils are way too muddy and just sound off to me, with zero midrange, a twangy metallic high, and lacking lows. Not at all like a real Strat obviously, not that you should expect that in the first place. There's a good bit of frequency buzz in switch position 1 and 3, moreso than other single coils that I've tried since. The humbucker is extremely lacking in tone on either end of the frequency spectrum, even more muddy than the singles, but it at least has a midrange.

The problems continue with the pairing of bad tuners and a tremolo. As a first guitar, the thing NEEDS to stay in tune or it's just going to be frustrating, unless you like staring at a tuner half the time you're supposed to be playing. This guitar is about there in frustration production. I would set it down for the night and it will be almost a half tone flat or sharp (depending on its mood) when I pick it up again. If you even so much as touch the tremolo, it will go out of tune before the song you're playing is over. Restringing it immediately and rubbing graphite in the nut helped a noticeable amount, but it will never hold it's tuning for very long. Though on the flip side, you sure get an ear for tuning quickly.

The fit and finish of my example was garbage I must say, none of which I noticed until months later when I got interested in messing with it more thoroughly. All of the backplate screws were stripped, the Vol/Tone knobs pop off if you so much as pull on them at all, the selector switch feels cheap, there is a ton of fret buzz from the 5th on, and aggravated because the frets are short which requires a lot of pressure to barre in the first place. The finish is completely opaque, which on further thought I do not like at all, but that's more subject. But my buying experience in general was not good either. I went to a major guitar chain and didn't even know the thing was supposed to include a gig bag (which they conned me into buying separately). In addition, as I said, it was a 2005 model...that was purchased "new" in early 2009. You can imagine the amount of abuse it endured over all those years. So I can safely assume buying one OFFICIALLY new on Musician's Friend would be a far, FAR more pleasing experience.

The neck is not all that bad. It feels slick and the wood is exposed, which has a nice touch. It's also about as thin as a Strat, and feels good all the way down the fretboard. If it wasn't for the horrible buzz, it would be a very fast guitar. Please note though, I did not set this guitar up professionally, as at the time I didn't even think to do so, and have since moved on to a better guitar.

All of that being said, I made a great deal of newbie mistakes in the purchase, without which it would probably be a decent starter and would help decide what features you want on your next guitar. It's pretty much the modeling amp of guitars. Nothing sounds that great, but everything is there, the epitome of the phrase, "Jack of all trades, master of none." The pickup configuration has a wide range of tones, the controls are easy and straight forward, it has a tremolo, and pretty much copies one of the most popular shapes and styles of guitar out there (Fender Stratocaster). The problem as well is that it occupies an awkward price point. You can get a cheaper or used guitar and assume you're going to upgrade within a year, and then not loose much money (the resell value on this guitar is pathetic...as I realized far too late). Or you can spend more time playing in a big franchise guitar store, decide what you REALLY want, and then go home and order it from here (yes, Musician's Friend, you are awesome). Then you get a good guitar that will last a few more years that you will inevitably be more happy with.

I'm really impressed with this guitar with how cheep it is. There's a differents in real sound and what sounds like real sound, this is real sound.

This guitar has amazing feel and speed to it, solos that I've had trouble with before I was able to nail my first time on this. Single-single-humbucker is fun to mess around with.

My few complants about this guitar is it has now pick guard and the tuning knobs are extreamly cheep, and the low E has trouble staying in tune.

Over all great guitar and I would recommend it to anyone, I use an Ibanez SB7 as a distortion pedal and the WD7.

I've been debating getting this thing for a while, but when I tried it out at my local music store I was sold. The neck feels really smoth and fast, and the sound quality is amazing. It also looks great and the rammy is fun to play with even though I don't use it much.

My only complaints about it are: 1 there's no pick guard, I've scratched up pickguards in the past and don't want to do that to a guitar. 2 the rammy can only bend the pitch about 1/4 step up (or about 2 hole steps down), but that's no problem cause I can bend the string. 3 the tuning nobes are cheep and are hard to get in tune.

Overall, great guitar, and I now offically trust Ibanez.