XP300FX Review

All the features of this guitar are excellent. This guitar is perfect for the Rock/Metal Guitarist who wants a beautiful shaped body and easy playability.

Features:	9
Sound:	7.5
Action:	8
Reliability:	9
Impression:	9
Overall rating:	7.5
Reviewer rating:	8.5
Users rating:	6.5
Votes:	29

overall: 8.2

Reviewed by: joshmallow, on april 04, 2012

Price paid: £ 200

Purchased from: Second hand

Features: All the features of this guitar are excellent in my opinion, simply because they suit my playing style of Rock/Metal. Year made: Unknown. Frets: 24 Jumbo Rosewood fretboard. Fixed bridge. Body shape is very similar to a Jackson Warrior. // 8

Sound: The sound out of this guitar is perfect for my playing style of Rock/Metal. The stock pickups are very responsive to the dynamics of all sort of different genres but mainly heavier distorted playing. I currently using it with a Laney HCM60R and a Behringer noise suppressor running through to cut down the amps hiss (which all amps do at high volumes with alot of gain) and it seems to me that this guitar was just made for bone crushing gain and distortion. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: The action on the guitars neck is very fast yet easy to work with regardless of if you are actually playing a fast song or a slow blues jam. The pick ups are adjusted perfectly for me but maybe that's because I bought it second hand off another guitarist who played the same style as me. The flaw it had when I got it was a small dink near the volume nob, but that doesn't affect the tone or playability in any way whatsoever so I didn't care. // 9

Reliability & Durability: I've already gigged once with it and I have to say I was impressed at how well it took the beating of being hauled around in the air for a solid hour and a half with no problems. I've only had it about a month or so but giving how I'm an Ibanez guy anyways, I think that it will last a brave bit longer than a couple of months. // 8

Impression: This guitar is perfect for the Rock/Metal Guitarist who wants a beautiful shaped body and easy playability. I have been playing on and off for I don't even know how long and I have used many different guitars and amps and this guitar really has set the bar high for what I have played with. If it were lost or stolen I would get it again but giving the current economic climate I highly doubt I will even let this badboy outa my sight if I though something was gonna happen to it. // 8

overall: 8.8

Reviewed by: MetalSaint, on october 10, 2012

Price paid: $ 300

Purchased from: From a dear friend.

Features: As I know it was released in 2009. It was made in Indonesia. 24 Frets (Jumbo frets). Wizard III Neck, 25 Scales. Solid-Top. Body wood: Mahogany body. Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood. Thru-body stringing of hard tail models enhance more sustain, tighter tension and superior articulation. It's a Xiphos model. XP300FX. It's got an Ibanez Fixed Bridge. Active pickups. Master Volume, One tone control. 3-way switcher. It's got INFINITY 4 in the bridge position and INFINITY 3 in the neck position. And I like the sounds of it. Non-Locking Tunings. I got it with Case, Caple, Strap. // 10

Sound: It's good for Metal and rock. I use Peavey Vypyr 15-Watt. It's not noisy. The sounds is very good for lead or rhythm guitar. And It's good for beginners too! I started with it. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: It was good! The guitar was used for a year! Before I got it! And the strings lasted all the years! Also with 4 months when I got it! I actually replaced the strings because the 1th was was not good! But other strings wow! The guitar don't have any flaws. // 7

Reliability & Durability: It's with stand live and you can play it while sitting! It's so comfortable live or just sitting on a chair or even a sofa! Yes! The hardware! Seems to last long. Strap normal white strap. Nothing special. // 10

Impression: I play metal. It is a good match. I'm still learning through. I have also a Yamaha 310. No. The guitar satisfied me. I probably get a new one! Because its good to get another guitar! Because you can't stick to a guitar forever! Even if its so good. I did. The only thing I want to replace from this guitar. Is the pickups. They are good! But not good enough like the EMG!. I wish it had the EMG 81 and EMG 85 pickups. // 10

Comments

[stealstrings]

k cool.

[The^Unforgiven]

A nice, unbiased review. The scores seem legit, considering the standards of this price range, and Ibanez does tend to have an incredible bang-for-buck ratio. You might have commented on things such as finish and overall build quality, though.

[Diony x]

I have played this for almost two years now.. It's good for sound and reliability, but I would recommend something else, because the sound is not that good and it is VERY unbalanced. 7/10

[derek8520]

"It's good for sound and reliability"

"the sound is not that good"



Makes sense.

[Von II]

It's so obvious that guitars like this get a bad user rating, just because of the shape.

[MetalSaint]

Iv'e bought this guitar and it's amazing!! for playing rock or metal it's good and it's also good to begin with as a beginner

[Gitaarbanaan]

active pickups?? I believe infinity pickups are passive..

[MaggaraMarine]

The review by MetalSaint is again a good example of how you shouldn't write a review. Just answering the questions and there's no depth at all in the review, everything is just "good". You could tell why it's good. And there are also some grammar mistakes.

[MetalSaint]

I do what I can I'm not a genusis!

[MaggaraMarine]

I understand but you could take a bit more time to write the review. Some more depth in sound section. We want to know how different pickup positions sound (bassy, trebly, good, bad (why?), warm, thin, dull, dead...) and how it sounds on clean and distorted channels. How does it work if you play different genres, how much variety, what bands do you play (metal and rock are pretty wide genres and I think everybody plays them at least some songs), could it do blues or jazz (why, why not?) and you didn't explain why you gave it a 7. Also the pickups aren't active (they would need a battery if they were active). Does it stay in tune? Have you gigged with it?

If you had answered the questions I asked, it would have been much better review. But yeah, you learn from mistakes so make sure your next review will be better.

[Metalxorxdie]

these guitars are amazing...the only thing that was a downfall about them is they are heavy at the headstock so they tend to tilt when using a strap...this can be fixed though by readjusting the strap button, but you should look up the process on how to do this correctly, or take it to a guitar tech at a music store

[vanillaicebizki]

This is an awesome guitar. Sounds great with hot inf3 inf4 pick ups. Feel is good. The only flaw with this guitar is that the guitar is neck heavy one. When you play the guitar standing up, the nect tends to dive.