S370 Review

S Series.

Features:	8
Sound:	8
Action:	7.5
Reliability:	9
Impression:	9.5
Overall rating:	8.4
Users rating:	6.5
Comments:	3

Featured review by: unregistered, on april 13, 2004

Price paid: $ 219.6

Purchased from: Bought Used

Features: Made in korea, 22 fret, 5 way switching, humbucker - single - humbucker model. Licensed floyd rose pro tremolo. Wizard 2 neck, rosewood fingerboard. // 10

Sound: Very good all purpose axe. Plays well with everything I play (blues, metal, rock)sounds especially good with a boss ds-1 on mid(ish) settings. 5 way switching allows for a big variety of tones. The only problem is the slight buzz when using a single coil with heavier distortion. The pickups had a little rust on them, but thats no problem. I would change the single coil though, as it is a bit dull. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: Very low action neck, the wizard 2 neck makes fingerwork extremely easy, but detuning it is a bit awkward, as you have to unscrew the nut everytime, which keeps the tuning stable, but awkward. The pickups looked a little overused, but still gave the sound I wanted. There was a small chip in the wood, but thats why it was only £120. // 8

Reliability & Durability: The guitar itself is very reliable and would definitely be gigable. I wouldn't go without a backup, but I'm paranoid about things like that. // 10

Impression: Finding this guitar was very lucky, and the wizard 2 neck makes playing with heavier gauge strings easier, and plays a lot faster than any other necks I have seen. A new single coil on it would make it even better, but that's not the end of the world as it is easily replaced. // 10

overall: 7.6

Reviewed by: doulittle, on january 07, 2008

Price paid: $ 395

Purchased from: Used

Features: This guitar is made in Japan in 2003. It has 22 jumbo frets and has a wooden finish on a carved top mahogany Strat body. The guitar has an Ibanez Floyd Rose. There's 3 controls: volume, tone and 5-way pickup selector. It has 3 humbleckers that I dunno the model. The tuners are the stocks Ibanez. When I Bought it, the guy did not gave me the case so I don't know what the included accessories. // 6

Sound: I Tried metal, rock, country, blues and jazz and it sound like magical. I plug it into my Mesa Dual Rectifier with my GT-8 and the sound was unbelievable. It sound not too noisy, not very bright and has a rich cool sound. The guitar is good for any harmonics: natural, pinch, tap etc. But it Need to change the pickups. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: I love the finish. The hardware used for this guitar is pretty solid. The only thing that I hate was that the guitar get scratch too easily. This guitar is too cheap. Ibanez need to put more feature on it like better pickups, better Floyd etc. The pickups were a bit to close to the strings, so I had to lower them slightly. // 7

Reliability & Durability: This guitar withstand Live playing! The guitar seemed to me solid but the volume and tone button isn't much. The strap button is pretty solid. You can't depend on this gutar for a show, when a string breaks, try to replace a string in 2 min with a Floyd Rose. The Finish is pretty cool. They did not paint the guitar, they only put some vernish. The guitar get scratch too easily. // 8

Impression: I Play Metal and it's very good for me. I'm playing since 3 years and with my Mesa it sound really great. If this guitar were stolen, I wouldn't buy the same guitar I would buy the Ibanez S2170FW. I love my guitar, I love the agressive tone it could have and the clear tone too. I Hate only the scratches. If you put DiMarzio pickups, Floyd Rose Zero Gravity and you put the S2170FW neck on it, it would be the best guitar ever been! // 9

Comments

[_vampire]

I'm interested in Ibanez S320. Someone tryied it out? Dare to make review? :]

[Kynyster_K]

yeah... so am i
anyone know what guitar jasin todd form shinedown uses???

[OXL]

Good guitar as long as you don't downtune it and put thicker strings on it. In that case the frets need to be sanded down. Or at least, that's my experience, tuned in C# with 0.11 strings. When it came out of the box it played fantastic. I'm going to bring it away soon for a tune up and I'm putting an EMG pickup I have lying around on it. I also like the inlays. When giging I always have a backup in case a string breaks or something likt that. (had some bad experiences in the past)