cee's Reviews

Just as any other mid-priced Ibanez, but a bit more badass

This is my first Ibanez, and having no prior experience to playing other Ibanezes, I think this one has really great value.

For about $500 new (I believe), This plays exceptionally, build quality is very solid. I had to inspect the wiring and overall finish to make sure and there are no major nor minor flaws in the guitar.

Very decent effects pedal specially for beginners

This was my very first effects pedal and it hasn't been able to entirely disappoint me yet. This multi-effect has a lot of presets to choose from (36 customizable effects and 36 factory built-in effects) which means you are free to make as much presets as you like. The effects simulate real-life pedals, amps, cabs such as the Boss Metalzone, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Fender Bluesman, Marshall Plexi and a lot more (I don't remember all of it sorry). Also, the MFX-10 does not only keep effects, amp sims and cab sims but also a tuner (I'll get to this later), a metronome (or a drum beat pattern; it also has a tap tempo feature btw) and a 20 second loop if I'm not mistaken.

Some of the things that I don't like much is that the tuner is not much reliable (e.g. the 6th string can only be tuned to D and above and It doesn't go down to C# below; This is from my experience since I use a string gauge of 10-48 or 10-52 which is why the tuner might not recognize the pitch or anything like that.) also, The pedal arrangement is quite strange, this is how it goes: Compressor - Effect (Dist, OD, Wah) - Amp Sim - Cab Sim - Noise Gate - Effect (Chorus, Phaser, Tremolo, Stereo) - Delay - Reverb

As far as I know, clean effects go first in the pedal chain + Noise Gate before Compressor I think?

Overall, I think that this effect is pretty good specially for those who want to explore and/or learn about certain types of effects and for brewing pedals and amps,cabs without actually having to buy them (yet, at least.)

My first guitar since 2015, still amazing after 5 years!

This guitar is actually my first electric, and I think that this guitar is an exceptional guitar for a student-level guitar to be honest. Build quality is very nice for the price of $200 (I got mine for approx. $150 because mine was a B-stock)

Stock pickups (which is the LH-100) were very high-gain, as opposed to other stock pickups from student-level Jacksons, Squiers, Deans, and such. Put it on a high gain amp or some OD/Dist pedals and it saturates easily. Not my cup of tea so I had it replaced with LH-150s from my LTD EC-256 (funny because they did not differ much except that the LH-150 had a coil split function which sounded better in a Basswood body than a Mahogany body)

Hardware is very nice and durable, I only replaced mine because I don't like the color of Black Nickel. Electronics are reliable as well, after a year, I did turn it into a project guitar and replaced the stock bridge with ones that have a roller saddle for less string breakage and more sustain (supposedly), replaced the pickups as well as the wiring scheme for better versatility.