Hey guys! So I need a cheap (under 500€) guitar, with a good whammy bar (tremolo), that the guitar doesn't change its tune after bending the string down the first time! I hope you can help me fast, couse i have a test on a university of music in vienna in April, and I need a guitar FAST! Would be amazing if you could help me out! Greetings from Styria, Austria!
I absolutely love that Ibanez are doing the affordable line up with interesting finish. A lot of companies out there usually would just produce boring finish for their affordable line.
@@gutenbird this 1 is good, some LTD or Jackson model, would also be good. And a tip would be, if 500 is your budget, spend as close to 500 as it goes. If you have 500 for both the amp and a guitar, keep saving.
@@alemtalic5535 Thanks. I will probably test out some Ibanez guitars. Something about them are great but I will never be a shredder. I'm more into mellow music.
My first electric guitar was GIO, I recently dug it out of my parents loft and got it professionally setup and retro fitted with EMG’s. I love it, so many memories!
Beginner guitar player, just bought the grx70 in the US. What really shocks me is how well this "low end" guitar stays in tune. I expected less and got more. Thanks Ibanez!
Ibanez and Squier use decent tuners on their lower priced instruments I have found. And the neck. Good neck and stays in tune, that’s most important part of having a good instrument
The black one and the aqua blue one look outrageously cool. And they have fixed bridges on them, so the major downside that budget guitars usually deal with - cheap, terrible tremolo systems - is out of the equation. The pickups sound decent, too. Great job once again, Ibanez.
I’ve just bought myself the aqua coloured one. Have many high end guitars but the value for money on these gio guitars looks insane. Will see how it stacks up versus my rg550 !
it took me 3 days to get through all the Ibanez videos, but this was a very cool alternative to NAMM! i wish we could all travel freely, but im digging the depth we get in these videos sans NAMM. hoping we have more companies in the pipeline!
pete looks so tired, look his face and hair, totally exhausted ,but still keep it professional, your guys freaking awesome! !hat off !! keep it up dude and dont die.
£200 guitar, £2000 of pedals and amp. It sOunDS So GoOd FoR tWo HunDREd QUiD. But seriously, the quality of budget guitars today compared to even a decade ago is amazing.
@@MegaUpstairs Thanks so much man. I've been mostly playing and recording through my amp and that wasn't really that effective. (Both for me and people around me) so ths is gonna save me alot of trouble. Had a audio interface lying around that I never used that much.
I have an Ibanez Gio from 2004, I don't remember if I have ever adjusted the neck, but this one is perfectly straight, obviously the tuners are not good nor are the pickups, but I am impressed by the quality of construction and wood of the neck.
I bought this guitar about a year ago, I love the way it looks, mine is a walnut finish so it looks different from the one in the video. The only thing I don't like about it (and I mean the ONLY thing) is when you wanna play really heavy on the gain, it does sound a bit tingy, a bit cheap, but that's because it's so light in weight. I play my friends Les Paul from 1970, and it holds a tone a bit better. Both I played on my Boss Katana mk2 50w. Either way, I love this guitar, it's so light and it looks amazing, and the action on it is perfect for metal and blues.
I really dig Ibanez gear. Even their Gio stuff sounds great. I play a GSR206 bass; the only thing I'd change is to get rid of the active bass boost, or just eliminate tone pots altogether.
hi mate, I also have a GSR200 bass. what do you mean by getting rid of the bost and tone pot ? can't you just turn them all down. also I see your interested in gio guitar, did you buy one since then ?
@@huzrokhayzur2197 Any tone knob, regardless of frequencies it's intended for, will attenuate other frequencies below or above it, even if you turn it all the way up. You're not experiencing the full tone of the instrument when it has tone pots; there is a loss of upper mids with a treble pot and lower mids with a bass pot, in any position. That's why some pro musicians have instruments custom made without them, so they can get a truly flat frequency response. At the very least, I want to get rid of the bass boost tone pot because it's active and requires a battery. I don't like wasting money on batteries for a function I don't even use. The only reason I haven't bypassed the bass boost pot is because I don't have money to buy a spare bass to practice on to make sure I do it properly; if I screw something up, I'm out of a bass. I owned a gsr206 when I posted the OC; it says so in the comment.
I got a Ibanez RG220PA1 gio yesterday cant believe how great it is has a roasted maple neck, binding and shark tooth inlays even specs with these it gets expensive on most guitars
I went through many guitars looking for that sweet spot of affordable entry level guitars and not total trash. I finally found the perfect guitar in the Ibanez GIO GRS 70 HSH. If you only have a couple hundred dollars, stop looking and get the Ibanez. There’s a lot of trash guitars out there. This one is very nice for the price and easily upgradable. The only qualms I had about it, you will have to have the frets polished. It stays in tune pretty well once you break in the trem system. I highly recommend it!
3:30 here is where you want Ola Englund to work at Andertons to demo the guitar , that is how you sell guitars with an up side down headstock! My main gripe with Ibanez is their model names, they always turn into this alphabet soup when naming their guitars.
I am getting ready to get my guitar and this was perfect!!! I want to make sure that this guitar is able, well, if I’M able to get the sound of my fave bands like Ghost, Lordi, etc. Oh! Also eventually learning to play as fast as Herman Li. I also need to have a flat radius. So want to make sure this one can withstand that type of music. I used to have a Fender back in the day. Nope. New sub✌️
Ibanez is a very good brand guitar, even a entry level like GIO they sound great pickup, even upgrade the sound humbucker into Seymour Duncan even more great performance, no need pay expensive guitar like a 1000 one, depends your option, really...I watch Anderton Music all the video, I found it is a amazing show, for some entry lever peoples who are not a knowledge of buying a guitar, watch Andertons, you learn a lots, , Amazing Demo
I been trading and upgrading my guitar since my epiphone sg. And there are always some kind of flaw that i dont like about the guitar specially the fact that im up to 700 dollars now on my upgrade. I randomly purchased an ibanez gio for 299 and god it sounds good. I gave it bigger gauge strings and its gonna be my drop c guitar. The palm mute sounds so good! Theres still flaws on this guitar but it looks good and plays good and its cheap! Id recommend this guitar for beginners. It can also hit lower pinch harmonics and the clean channel sounds so smooth on it! Been playing it for a couple hours. Very great guitar
My first guitar. Walnut ibenez gio. And nothing I've played since has felt as "right" as that did. Definitely going back to an ibenez soon.. maybe not a gio tho.
I have an Ibanez Gio and it sounds truly unique and awesome and i really love it , i just wish it had high output humbuckers but that can easily be fixed ;)
Danish Pete is a fucken beast!!! Love the way he plays, well done good sir! Watching you play inspires me to spend my life savings on every guitar you demo.
I need your advice on the pickups these guitars have GRGR221PA & GRGR131EX. They are different. I cannot find information on the pickups. More precisely, their difference.
Did you find more info on this? I am looking at buying one of GRG121DX which has same pickups as GRGR221PA (the IBZ6) or GRGR131EX (Infinity R) and IBZ6 is sounding better to me at least on UA-cam videos I have watched
All Ibanez guitars in this price point (and Jacksons) are Ok! Just point out that for more advanced guitar players the pickups are as good as your common fridge magnets. There is no way to record huge drop d chords with clarity or even something more than power chords ... I personally own few cheap Chinese Ibanez and Jackson and with some work and new electronics I have excellent results. And remember there are manufactures that build really good PUs with a fraction of the price of SD or Dimarzio etc like Wilkinson, Iron Gear etc. So if you grab it and you like it ... go for it...
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It would be nice if You Guys could demo these lower line guitars through a lower line solid state amplifier , instead of an expensive tube amp .
Hey guys! So I need a cheap (under 500€) guitar, with a good whammy bar (tremolo), that the guitar doesn't change its tune after bending the string down the first time! I hope you can help me fast, couse i have a test on a university of music in vienna in April, and I need a guitar FAST!
Would be amazing if you could help me out!
Greetings from Styria, Austria!
I absolutely love that Ibanez are doing the affordable line up with interesting finish. A lot of companies out there usually would just produce boring finish for their affordable line.
Really like the Ibanez but am pretty new to guitars. What’s your recommendation for the best one under 500?
@@gutenbird this 1 is good, some LTD or Jackson model, would also be good. And a tip would be, if 500 is your budget, spend as close to 500 as it goes.
If you have 500 for both the amp and a guitar, keep saving.
@@alemtalic5535 Thanks. I will probably test out some Ibanez guitars. Something about them are great but I will never be a shredder. I'm more into mellow music.
finally, they used to look so ordinary
@@alemtalic5535 or he can buy the guitar and practice with it and then buy a home practice amp
My first electric guitar was GIO, I recently dug it out of my parents loft and got it professionally setup and retro fitted with EMG’s. I love it, so many memories!
Same with me, good old GIO. I upgraded it with Seymour Duncan JB and 59’ model. Sound amazing
You guys polished a turd and put lipstick on a pig
@@Ottophil ok
Beginner guitar player, just bought the grx70 in the US. What really shocks me is how well this "low end" guitar stays in tune. I expected less and got more. Thanks Ibanez!
Great guitar 🎸👌👍👏😍🙌 for your buck.
Ibanez and Squier use decent tuners on their lower priced instruments I have found. And the neck. Good neck and stays in tune, that’s most important part of having a good instrument
I feel like this is lower mid level guitar, cuz low end guitars are pretty much unplayable and very unfun to play
Can't go wrong with a well set up ibanez gio. I've had a few, including my first electric guitar, great value for money.
I’m just one minute in and can already tell Pete is turning into a shred monster 😂
Ibanez guitars will do that to ya!
The black one and the aqua blue one look outrageously cool. And they have fixed bridges on them, so the major downside that budget guitars usually deal with - cheap, terrible tremolo systems - is out of the equation. The pickups sound decent, too. Great job once again, Ibanez.
The aqua is cool.
I’m stuck between white or black, the flat black instead of shiny gives me a wet spot in my pants, but white is so flashy 🥺
I ain’t even mad. I’m so glad that the GIO range is so awesome this year for beginners! Those would be a KILLER first guitar!
That guitar is perfect for a young metal head who wants their guitar as black as possible!
Or a grown man who's been playing for a few years and just really wants one... 😂
How much more black could this be? And the answer is none.
@@Briansgate well it could be painted with vantablack
Edgy teens you mean?
@@Briansgate ebony fretboard?
One of the juiciest jams you've ever done on this show, like damn.
After seeing the blooper reel, I have to say the editor did a great job making a demo video out of this.
I have lifted, looped and shredded over that opening riff all day.
Thanks for the inspiration lads.
Slither - VRevolver
I’ve just bought myself the aqua coloured one. Have many high end guitars but the value for money on these gio guitars looks insane. Will see how it stacks up versus my rg550 !
looking at the aqua one as well, what do you think of it now you've had a while to play?
If youre wondering the intro riff Captain played its Slither by Velvet Revolver
I was under the impression anyone taught guitar learns this song. Lol
It is 'almost' Slither by Velvet Revolver ....
Thanks, Dad.
Who doesn’t know that song? 😏
@@adamg.manning6088 You're welcome Son. Hope you had a good day at school :-)
that stealth black looks real real good ngl
I've been lurking youtube for the past few days trying to find a video on this guitar, I finally found it
Which one
@@varminttank GRGR221
@@vesellin thanks but I’m going to call it 80s style rock machine 😆
@@varminttank I'm hoping to get more of a modern metal tone out of it, it certainly looks capable of it
Never thought I'd see Pete play Velvet Revolver
I bought the Grx70 sunburst two days ago, my first guitar, absolutly very good!
Slither. Niiiiiice. That was my first drop d riff.
Great job on that "Slither" intro, guys. That was so perfect.
it took me 3 days to get through all the Ibanez videos, but this was a very cool alternative to NAMM! i wish we could all travel freely, but im digging the depth we get in these videos sans NAMM. hoping we have more companies in the pipeline!
Wonderful jam at the start..the Cap'n guitar playing has improved so much.
pete looks so tired, look his face and hair, totally exhausted ,but still keep it professional, your guys freaking awesome! !hat off !! keep it up dude and dont die.
£200 guitar, £2000 of pedals and amp. It sOunDS So GoOd FoR tWo HunDREd QUiD. But seriously, the quality of budget guitars today compared to even a decade ago is amazing.
I play through a katana and that gio rips bro, it's about the same quality as some of my higher end guitars.
@@MegaUpstairs You know any good free softwares for guitar on PC? I need some
@@MegaUpstairs Thanks so much man. I've been mostly playing and recording through my amp and that wasn't really that effective. (Both for me and people around me) so ths is gonna save me alot of trouble. Had a audio interface lying around that I never used that much.
Probably WAAY more than 2k worth of amps and pedals tbh
F-me, that GRGR221PA looks AMAZING! Was gonna get an RG421AHM, but then this came up in my radar.. Tough choices! (even though it's a GIO line)
I have an Ibanez Gio from 2004, I don't remember if I have ever adjusted the neck, but this one is perfectly straight, obviously the tuners are not good nor are the pickups, but I am impressed by the quality of construction and wood of the neck.
I’m getting the Aqua burst one... looks amazing
I bought this guitar about a year ago, I love the way it looks, mine is a walnut finish so it looks different from the one in the video.
The only thing I don't like about it (and I mean the ONLY thing) is when you wanna play really heavy on the gain, it does sound a bit tingy, a bit cheap, but that's because it's so light in weight. I play my friends Les Paul from 1970, and it holds a tone a bit better. Both I played on my Boss Katana mk2 50w.
Either way, I love this guitar, it's so light and it looks amazing, and the action on it is perfect for metal and blues.
It's not the weight of the guitar it's the stock pickups. Put an emg81 in the bridge and you will have more gain than you could ever imagine.
Was not expecting The Captain to be smashing velvet revolver in the intro
that is the best intro to a video i have ever heard
You expected some premium line?
But it was me Gio!
I really dig Ibanez gear. Even their Gio stuff sounds great. I play a GSR206 bass; the only thing I'd change is to get rid of the active bass boost, or just eliminate tone pots altogether.
hi mate, I also have a GSR200 bass. what do you mean by getting rid of the bost and tone pot ? can't you just turn them all down. also I see your interested in gio guitar, did you buy one since then ?
@@huzrokhayzur2197 Any tone knob, regardless of frequencies it's intended for, will attenuate other frequencies below or above it, even if you turn it all the way up. You're not experiencing the full tone of the instrument when it has tone pots; there is a loss of upper mids with a treble pot and lower mids with a bass pot, in any position. That's why some pro musicians have instruments custom made without them, so they can get a truly flat frequency response.
At the very least, I want to get rid of the bass boost tone pot because it's active and requires a battery. I don't like wasting money on batteries for a function I don't even use. The only reason I haven't bypassed the bass boost pot is because I don't have money to buy a spare bass to practice on to make sure I do it properly; if I screw something up, I'm out of a bass.
I owned a gsr206 when I posted the OC; it says so in the comment.
I got a Ibanez RG220PA1 gio yesterday cant believe how great it is has a roasted maple neck, binding and shark tooth inlays even specs with these it gets expensive on most guitars
Just got one the Sunburst and it is KOOL, Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the Bangladesh shout out!! We're fans of all Andertons team!! 🤘🤘
I would gig with that black thing. Gio line are unbeatable for the money
That black one is amazing
Maybe I am weirdo, but I really prefer clean sound on metal guitar over distortion. Superstrat’s tone is special...
I agree
Now i don't know what guitar i should pick as a beginner. Thanks
God pete's hand really has been savaged by his dog hasnt it. Great vid
Love that clean riff Lee.
The captain testing ‘the lick’ on each pickup of that tiger finished guitar 😂
I just got a Gio and I love it, it's white and red
They sound absolutely fantastic
Lee Anderton with the Velvet Revolver. Love it!!!
I went through many guitars looking for that sweet spot of affordable entry level guitars and not total trash. I finally found the perfect guitar in the Ibanez GIO GRS 70 HSH. If you only have a couple hundred dollars, stop looking and get the Ibanez. There’s a lot of trash guitars out there. This one is very nice for the price and easily upgradable. The only qualms I had about it, you will have to have the frets polished. It stays in tune pretty well once you break in the trem system. I highly recommend it!
That outcome made a mediocre day a GREAT day! Loved it! 👍
I love these danisch Pickups: "Humbygger!" As always a nice review! "Let's put an Dane on top of it!"
always wanted an ibanez and not pay hell of a lot of money for one. im going for the aqua burst one, so sexy
3:30 here is where you want Ola Englund to work at Andertons to demo the guitar , that is how you sell guitars with an up side down headstock!
My main gripe with Ibanez is their model names, they always turn into this alphabet soup when naming their guitars.
Amazing guitars for the money. My first guitar was a Gio.. apart from not having jumbo frets it was flawless.
Great looking guitars. Great vid guys
I passed on this vid for a while since it was for essentially entry level guitars. Now I want that GRGR stealth black guitar, lol.
Many entry level instruments these days are really good...i preffer cheaper guitars over the custom shop level stuff
@@MathiasBronnes They are s lot better than they were back in the day.
Intro and outro riff was awesome!
The start with slither was just 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love when Pete shreds! So musical!
Hey! I'm from Bangladesh! and yes, you get Royal bengal tigers exactly like that here!
I am getting ready to get my guitar and this was perfect!!! I want to make sure that this guitar is able, well, if I’M able to get the sound of my fave bands like Ghost, Lordi, etc. Oh! Also eventually learning to play as fast as Herman Li. I also need to have a flat radius. So want to make sure this one can withstand that type of music. I used to have a Fender back in the day. Nope. New sub✌️
That VR Outro is sick :)
Great work Lee and Danish Pete
Pete with them Whitesnake chords on an Ibanez. I see you my dude.
ibanez rgs are 80s metal guitars...
@@thejusticeization I know I used to own one. And played Hardcore metal and 80's riffs on it. Anything else you need to say "TEACHER"
@@biganttony6786 There was another comment, where you said " you are playing sweet child o mine on an ibanez?" lol
@@thejusticeization yeah I played everything on that guitar, even blues lol.
I got that guitar when I was 12 or 13 I think. Wish I still had it. It was really good playing guitar.
7:05 clean tone kind of reminds me of some Ozzy with RR. Killer of Giants I believe.
Ibanez is a very good brand guitar, even a entry level like GIO they sound great pickup, even upgrade the sound humbucker into Seymour Duncan even more great performance, no need pay expensive guitar like a 1000 one, depends your option, really...I watch Anderton Music all the video, I found it is a amazing show, for some entry lever peoples who are not a knowledge of buying a guitar, watch Andertons, you learn a lots, , Amazing Demo
Those Intro/Outro !! Woaaaaaa !
That hardtail GRGR131EX was beast.
I been trading and upgrading my guitar since my epiphone sg. And there are always some kind of flaw that i dont like about the guitar specially the fact that im up to 700 dollars now on my upgrade. I randomly purchased an ibanez gio for 299 and god it sounds good. I gave it bigger gauge strings and its gonna be my drop c guitar. The palm mute sounds so good! Theres still flaws on this guitar but it looks good and plays good and its cheap! Id recommend this guitar for beginners. It can also hit lower pinch harmonics and the clean channel sounds so smooth on it! Been playing it for a couple hours. Very great guitar
My first guitar. Walnut ibenez gio. And nothing I've played since has felt as "right" as that did. Definitely going back to an ibenez soon.. maybe not a gio tho.
That look at the camera kills me 😂 @ 8:38
Cant decide between that stealth black or that blue beauty
Which one did you go for?
Which is the better ? Grgr221 or Grgr131?
the black one looks so good, I want it!!!!!!!
guys, that opening jam...!!!! wow.....wow.... wow...
Pete is now a Shred god
I’m having me one of them aqua coloured guitars. Insane value
You get the Purple Heart if you're wounded in combat.
God Bless!!
Jimmy in NC....
I really want to mod the blue one to inch of its life and have an extreme metal machine
😊😊😊 the captain mentioned Bangladesh, my home country!!!!!
This is the type of guitar every beginner should buy, it's not gonna get in your way and it'll sound good
What an intro jam!
That intro song is definitely my favorite of all the songs my band has covered!!! Love to hear Lee playing it
Not usually a fan of reverse headstocks, but for some reason it just seems to work with the Ibanez one. Looks better than standard
Like the tone on the grx70, you can get the grx20 which is the same guitar just without the center pickup $150
I have an Ibanez Gio and it sounds truly unique and awesome and i really love it , i just wish it had high output humbuckers but that can easily be fixed ;)
Daaaang captain laying down some djenty riffs❤
Epic start!
This ain’t your nephews GIO ... yet anyway 🤘🏽👍🏽afordametaaaaaaaaal slithers in and those tops are pretty as sin.
That intro jam was WET
Go AC/DC
It will sound awesome 🤘
Awesome guitar for the cash.
The best 👍
The purple one is 💯
I'll go for the black one for sure just because it has 24 frets
9:49 The Captain's favourite lick
The only one that he knows !
Danish Pete is a fucken beast!!! Love the way he plays, well done good sir! Watching you play inspires me to spend my life savings on every guitar you demo.
I need your advice on the pickups these guitars have GRGR221PA & GRGR131EX. They are different. I cannot find information on the pickups. More precisely, their difference.
Did you find more info on this? I am looking at buying one of GRG121DX which has same pickups as GRGR221PA (the IBZ6) or GRGR131EX (Infinity R) and IBZ6 is sounding better to me at least on UA-cam videos I have watched
When u do tremolo dive 1 or 2 strings will go out of tune a lil..retune the affected strings ..try dive again it will stay in tune
I would prefer these over any HB guitar, to be honest.
Depends if you’re into “Classic” or “Pointy”, they each have their merits!
Superb playing by both of ya. Remember it’s the player not the guitar.
Purple Heart is for being wounded or killed while serving in the US armed forces.
😝😝
I’m feeling the Ibanez love from you guys today! They’re making a statement this year! Fantastic job on the videos as well! Keep ’em coming
After watching several videos, I have to ask, what's with that digital clock behind Pete...?
All Ibanez guitars in this price point (and Jacksons) are Ok! Just point out that for more advanced guitar players the pickups are as good as your common fridge magnets. There is no way to record huge drop d chords with clarity or even something more than power chords ... I personally own few cheap Chinese Ibanez and Jackson and with some work and new electronics I have excellent results. And remember there are manufactures that build really good PUs with a fraction of the price of SD or Dimarzio etc like Wilkinson, Iron Gear etc. So if you grab it and you like it ... go for it...
Top 10 riff of 2021!