Jumpstart IJX40 Review

The IJX40 Jumpstart Package from Ibanez includes a GRX electric guitar, 15 watt GTA15 amplifier with reverb, cable, strap, picks, headphones, electronic tuner, and gig bag.

Features:	8.7
Sound:	8.3
Action:	8.3
Reliability:	8
Impression:	8.7
Overall rating:	8.4
Users rating:	8.7
Comments:	6

Featured review by: unregistered, on june 23, 2009

Purchased from: Firehouse guitars

Features: It was Made in China in 2007.
22 frets
Solid Top
Maple neck,Rosewood Fretboard, Mohagany Body
The finish was jewel blue
The body style is rg, it is a cheaper versoin of the RG series ( like Epiphone or Squier exept Ibanez proudly puts its name on the headstock instead of by Ibanez)
FAT 6 bridge
Active electronics
5 way Switch, 1 volume and 1 tone knob
2 Ibanez single coils and 1 Ibanez humbucker
Locking tuners made by Ibanez
It came with an amp, a gigbag, tools, cable, picks, strap, headphones, instructional DVD by paul gilbert, Tab Book. // 10

Sound: I play mostly metal and rock, it suits it well. I sometimes use the Ibanez amp with it, More often I use a Roland Microcube with a Dunlop Crybaby Classic Wah pedal.

With the Ibanez amp it doesn't get very good clean tones unless everything's on 5, great heavy tones, when the gain is all the way up, you get a lot of humming, don't worry about it, you don't notice it when you're playing. There is amazing variety with this guitar. You Can get the sound of anything from a classic nylon string guitar, to the raw power of rock and roll that Slash used on apetite for destruction, to the extremely distorted guitars of 6 feet under. // 10

Action, Fit & Finish: The action was great, I've never had problems with this guitar. The pickups were a little too low for my likings, with a screwdriver at hand it's no problem. Everything was properly matched and routed. The only flaw my guitar contained was a tiny pencil Dot sized paint chip due to carelessness of the seller while letting me try it out. // 9

Reliability & Durability: This guitar is perfect for in the studio, on stage, or in the comforts of home practicing. This is an all around good guitar. I've had mine for two years now and a couple of screws are rusted. This is my only electric guitar and it's very dependable, I've never had any problems with it Live. The strap buttons are very solid. The finish is good enough to last, as long as you're not smashing it. // 10

Impression: I play rock and metal, this is a very good mach.I have been playing for 8 years, since I was 5, I own 1 more Acoustic guitar that was my 1st guitar. There are questions I'd whished I'd asked but the DVD aswered them all. If it were stolen, I'd buy it again, I love everything about this guitar, I hate nothing. I compared it to a Squier Strat, this is definately better. // 10

Reviewed by: unregistered, on july 10, 2008

Price paid: $ 300

Features: First things first, the features. This was my very first electric guitar, it had everything I wanted, 5-way selector, whammy bar, and a skinny thin neck that reminded me of a Fender Strat. And it had this glossy red finish to it that never faded or anything like that. The neck was Made of what I think was maple, and it had 2 knobs on the guitar; one tone, one volume. // 8

Sound: Personally I like the sound of this guitar, it does a lot of sounds I want it to make, if you mess with amp controls alittle you can make it sound exactly like santana. It plays Black magic woman perfectly in my opinion. and with the pickups and humbuckers it can play anything from low and grungy sounds to soft sounding solos. But I would not playa gig with this guitar. The cord going into the guitar sometimes won't stay in and it makes this obnoxouis cracking noise. So don't buy it if your looking for a back up guitar. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: It sounds okay straight from the factory but it will need some tuning. And the plastic covering the pickguard comes off easy enough. The finish I got came in a glossy red, but you can also get it in blue, but I like red so I got the red one, I think the is a black one too. There really werent any flaws I didn't already make clear. // 9

Reliability & Durability: Lets get this straight, don't use this for a live gig. If you like to walk around and do some awesome shenannigans while playing live you wont be able to that while playing. The cord make the guitar make a crackle noise if you move around and the strap some times slips off the strap buttons amking you drop the guitar and also making you look like and idiot. But it is hard to break. I will give it that. // 6

Impression: Overall I think it's a great begginer guitar that's why I'm selling mine to get a sweet, sweet Ibanez GRX20Z. But this guitar is great for alt rock, classic rock, pop rock, emo rock, and soft rock. But it's not very good with metal or scremo, so don't buy it if you are a metal head. Well I'm done peace and war to everyone to who thought this was helpful. // 8

overall: 7.6

Reviewed by: Zapht, on december 10, 2007

Purchased from: Watermelon Music

Features: The IJX40 Jumpstart Package from Ibanez includes a GRX electric guitar, 15 watt GTA15 amplifier with reverb, cable, strap, picks, headphones, electronic tuner, and gig bag. Ibanez also includes an instruction DVD, book, and chord chart to teach you how to wail. The Ibanez electric has a maple neck with the GRX sleek profile for fast and furious playability. It also has a rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, 22 medium frets, an alder body, three Powersound pickups with a humbucker at the bridge, and the FAT10 bridge for sustain and great intonation. The GTA15 amp has 15W power, an 8" speaker, clean and overdrive sounds, reverb, an active 3-band EQ, and a CD input so you can play along with your favorite guitar jams. // 8

Sound: The Ibanez IJX40 offers a fairly wide range of souns qualities. It sounds best on low deep notes. It has a fair amount of distortion but not enough to play much of any metal. The amp will also whine when the gain is turned all the way up. This guitar can range from playing funk to rock but it lacks the ability to create anything spectacular. It has a pretty full sound until you put on a lot of distortion which is when it starts to lose some fullness, but it doesn't lose a lot. The biggest deal is probably it's lack of ability to create much noise while palm muting. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: The only real flaw I found was on the cord between the guitar and the amp, it doesn't really want to stay in. If you are pulling on it too much (which isnt that much) or have the cord at a weird angle the sound might not make it to the amp which sucks when your in the midst of playing a song. Also occasionaly when your playing in the farthest pickup you occasionally hit the volume and the wammy bar can get in the way. // 7

Reliability & Durability: It's pretty durable. The clear plastic coating comes off easily near the screws but other than that itsa pretty well built guitar. I still wouldn't use it in a gig without a backup or at a gig at all seeing as how the cord often comes undone. It's not for live shows but mainly for practice. // 8

Impression: I play industrial metal which doesn't match with this guitar but I'm still a beginner so it's ok. I do highly recommend this as a first guitar since it comes with a ton of stuff, a good amp and a durably guitar that isn't too fragile. If you are more talented though I suggest this guitar only to people Who want to play something either funk or just regular rock since you can't shred much with it. One thing I do like is that it actually has "volume" and "tone" written on the knobs for them and not just plain black ones for you to figure out. The cord falling out does get pretty annoying but it is fixable in an open space. If stolen or broken I'd recommend getting something else so you don't end up with 2 amps 2 tuners 2 cases 2 of everything that wasn't stolen. Unless you want all that. If youve had it for awhile (over 4-5 months) I recommend getting a guitar more suited in the direction of music your interested in playing. This is a pretty good well rounded guitar, great for beginners! // 8

Comments

[SupaHNinjaH]

puts some new strings on this guitar and get a new amp and and all that good shit and this guitar is actually good

[zern]

This was my first electric guitar, and is a GREAT first guitar, it comes with anything and everything a new guitarist needs. Yet it has the price of a cheap guitar and the durability and sound of an expensive one. Great buy.

[DemonicTurtle66]

This is my first guitar. Its great, but then again its my first and only electric guitar so I don't really know that much at the moment.
I do highly recommend it for anyone who is thinking about learning electric guitar. I plan on getting another guitar and leaving this one in lower tuning for heavy metal songs so I don't have to keep down tuning.

[justine3563]

my friend have this guitar ang yeah,it is great especially for beginners..

[jhotym]

this is an amazing guitar, u get what u pay for and then some. also my very first electric guitar. ive been playing for about 4 years now. and i have a collection of ibanez guitars, but this guitar started it all

[3popopo]

im buying it from a friend for 85$ AU
i allready have an Epiphone SG 400 and a crappy strat coppy.
im gonna put EMG 81 pickups into this baby (Kirk hammets pickups) and thur it into a metal machineee yeahhhh...
and ill make my crappy strat a pink floyd dream (new paintjob) and putting Dave Gilmours pickups MuHAHAHAAH

now i just need the money...