[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:14:12 -0500 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:54:39 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_1 POSTED: 12/18/2009 04:26am]]> Comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:26:57 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_2 POSTED: 12/19/2009 12:42pm]]> Comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:42:42 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_3 Ibanez Gio-FAIL.

I mean, if its your first guitar or your low on money, thats cool. But I'd never buy one. Save up and get a real Ibanez if you can, They're great.Not to offend Gio owners,

POSTED: 12/19/2009 07:00pm]]> Comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:00:10 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_4 POSTED: 12/21/2009 12:00am]]> Comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:25 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 12/21/2009 12:10pm]]> Comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:10:39 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_6 POSTED: 12/21/2009 05:22pm]]> Comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:22:26 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_7 POSTED: 12/22/2009 11:01am]]> Comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:01:22 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_8
Checked.
POSTED: 01/01/2010 06:55am]]> Comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:55:39 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_9 POSTED: 01/01/2010 09:35am]]> Comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:35:51 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_10 POSTED: 01/08/2010 02:00pm]]> Comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:00:04 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_11 For a first guitar it is very good i think.
POSTED: 01/17/2010 03:13pm]]> Comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:13:58 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_12 POSTED: 02/01/2010 09:12am]]> Comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:12:12 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_13 Cheers!
POSTED: 02/22/2010 06:31am]]> Comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:31:40 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_14 POSTED: 03/02/2010 08:13am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:13:16 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_15 POSTED: 03/02/2010 06:30pm]]> Comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:59 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_16 POSTED: 03/04/2010 04:09pm]]> Comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:09:22 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_17 POSTED: 03/08/2010 06:45am]]> Comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:45:11 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_18 POSTED: 03/15/2010 12:08pm]]> Comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:08:38 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_19 POSTED: 04/24/2010 09:27pm]]> Comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:27:14 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_20 POSTED: 07/16/2010 06:30pm]]> Comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:30:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_21 i love it

POSTED: 08/19/2010 05:38pm]]> Comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:38:37 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_22 POSTED: 10/11/2010 03:52pm]]> Comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:52:44 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_23 RaziBoy wrote:

By the way, this thing has no pick guard. Weird eh ?

see that big white section on the body?
...that's the pickguard..
POSTED: 10/14/2010 01:14pm]]> Comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:14:40 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_24 everjump wrote:

How can you give to a cheap guitar 9,6/10 with only a year practice? For 325 there are better alternatives. Yeah I agree, with one year experience people shouldn't review any guitar due to not playing very many types and styles of guitars. A good guitar as an alternative would be the Squier Vintage Modified Stratocaster. I bought one as a back up to the Fender US Strat I use to have. Since then I have sold both Strats and I have a PRS SC250, PRS Tremonti, and an Ibanez RG350DX which for an extra $75 added to the $325 Ibanez Gio price tag will get someone a nice RG350DX. The stock pickup are good but I upgraded to a DiMarzio PAF pro and a DiMarzio X2N in the neck and bridge, but kept the stock middle because I like it's tone. After 10 years of playing I have a great guitar collection.
POSTED: 10/22/2010 03:17am]]> Comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:17:03 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_25 AlexHaase wrote:

RaziBoy wrote:

By the way, this thing has no pick guard. Weird eh ?

see that big white section on the body?
...that's the pickguard..

Umm, the actual Ibanex Gio has no pickguard....
POSTED: 12/07/2010 08:16am]]> Comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:16:38 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_26 JAM SAXON wrote:

i have a black one with the gio logo on the head stock with a star on the i. does this mean anything? also it is excellent with great action and a nice bridge, anbd everything else is great. my dad even says its better than his SG...

Gio means that it's a cheap Ibanez guitar. Gio is their cheapest series and there are many Gios there. It just means that the guitar costs something like under $300.
POSTED: 03/03/2011 01:00pm]]> Comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:00:08 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_27 POSTED: 03/31/2011 06:01pm]]> Comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:01:26 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_28 POSTED: 04/01/2011 05:26pm]]> Comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:26:27 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_29 POSTED: 04/01/2011 05:34pm]]> Comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:34:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_30
There's not an original GIO guitar. All the GIO series guitars have GIO logo on their headstock. There are GRGs, GRXs, GAXs... I think almost all the Ibanez guitar series have a GIO model. GIO is just the cheapest guitars in the series.
POSTED: 04/04/2011 07:01am]]> Comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:01:34 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_31 POSTED: 04/20/2011 01:58am]]> Comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:58:08 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_32 POSTED: 04/20/2011 10:22am]]> Comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:22:25 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_33 POSTED: 04/20/2011 10:27am]]> Comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:27:11 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_34 POSTED: 05/26/2011 01:13pm]]> Comments Thu, 26 May 2011 13:13:04 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_35 POSTED: 06/26/2011 05:19pm]]> Comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:19:58 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_36 DO NOT BUY GUITARS MADE IN CHINA! Any guitar from there is made with FLEXABLE PINE WOOD . Since the pine wood is flexable the guitar will never keep tune and will also never sound correct. A guitar made anywhere else is made from a less flexable wood. I believe this wood is mapple ,but I can't say for sure I havn't looked into it.
POSTED: 09/06/2011 12:35pm]]> Comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:35:02 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_37 POSTED: 11/01/2011 10:43pm]]> Comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:43:41 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_38 POSTED: 02/21/2012 11:19pm]]> Comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:19:06 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_39 POSTED: 05/30/2012 08:03am]]> Comments Wed, 30 May 2012 08:03:12 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_40 dicknoran wrote:

I think by reading all of the above comments, that there is more than a few variations of the gio, mine is an all black 24 fret without a pick guard. I have been playing for 5 years now, and the last 3 I have been playing my gio daily without any problems. I also have an rg350ex and an epiphone, and play them through my vox vt50 and my line 6 spider IV 75w. With my gio I keep it tuned to sharp c drop b for slipknot and other low heavy stuff, and unless i bang it or constantly bend on it for hours on end, it stays perfectly in tune. As for the sound, I prefer it over my other guitars for metal or hard rock. I think for the price and playability of it, you cant go wrong.
Gio is a series by Ibanez. Or it isn't even a series. It's more like Gibson has Epiphone, Fender has Squier and Ibanez has Ibanez GIO. They are the cheapest Ibanezes. Then there's also the prestige line that are the best, made in Japan guitars. GIOs are made in China, regular Ibanezes in Indonesia I think and Prestiges in Japan.
POSTED: 05/30/2012 04:15pm]]> Comments Wed, 30 May 2012 16:15:46 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_41 POSTED: 03/14/2013 02:52pm]]> Comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:52:11 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/ibanez/gio/index.html#u_42 POSTED: 05/16/2013 05:54pm]]> Comments Thu, 16 May 2013 17:54:39 -0400