Ibanez RG MiKro GRGM21 - White

I've played the same Fender USA strat since 2011, and I've played it a lot. It's the first thing I would grab if my house was on fire. With that said, I didn't really want anything to replace it, but I wanted something smaller and easier to play in the bedroom and other places that make a smaller form a little more bearable (makes it so much easier to get into those port-o-potties). Anyway, it IS much easier to play in more cramped spaces, BUT, holy crap is this thing fun to play. And it plays GREAT. The feel of it is awesome. The only downsides I have, which aren't enough to care about for me for this guitar, are the neck width (a little small for my hands, but I have big hands), and maybe the dead, bland feel of the wood in this guitar. It's still worth the money, but there's a way that good wood sounds when a guitar vibrates, and this once definitely has zero of that. But that isn't going to affect playability or how it sounds to a degree. And for the money, it's just fine. In fact that's maybe not even fair to gripe about at all with a guitar this cheap. ALL new guitars need a proper setup. It also takes a few hours of playing to get it broken in a little bit. I highly suggest buffing out/polishing the frets (this took the most time, but it made the most difference for me), NEW STRINGS, adjust pickups, adjust truss rod. Besides the fret buffing, bridge pickup being too low, and a little neck relief added, mine was actually in great shape. I also adjusted the bridge saddles a bit to match the radius of the fret board. I am only saying all of the setup stuff because I am seeing a lot of negative comments about this guitar being junk because it plays like crap. It WILL play like crap out of the box. You have to do more than tune it... It's a music instrument. It desperately needs intonation and new strings. Ibanez did this at the factory but that was in China, and it happened many months before it showed up in your hands. It's easy to do, and it will get this guitar up to its potential. I can't believe the build quality of this thing for 150 bucks. I highly recommend it!

Best guitar for it's price range. I fell in love with this guitar. Everything feels premium quality. The built is just top notch! Even the strings that it comes with sound great. The action is perfection, the finish has had no issues after years, & the size makes it so fun to play. It also holds a tune for a long time! Thanks Ibanez for keeping great guitars affordable. I wish you'd make every kind of instrument!

I am giving this 5 stars taking in consideration the price point. I purchased this as a practice guitar. My use case is to have an inexpensive decent playing 3/4 size guitar to practice during the day. It's a great chair or couch guitar, even chairs that have arms. No need to pull out a valuable guitar. I can walk around the house and not bang the headstock or body into doorways and so on. For the price point I can't image something better. Like other reviewers, I found tuning stability to be the only significant issue out of the box. Users can try this: Please see the first pic. Once tuned to pitch, tighten to snug the Phillips head screws. This makes the tuners harder to turn. To restring or do maint. loosen the screws and use string winder or whatever. The idea being to not wear out the bushings by keeping them tight and using a string winder for changing strings. Keep them snug tight for minor tuning adjustments then loosen them when doing extreme tension changes. I also used lubricant on the string trees and nut. Red arrows point these places out in the two pics. I included a 3rd pic of the guitar with two of it's full sized brothers also made by Ibanez for size comparison. Out if the box I didn't do much but I did it in this order, not much different from any other new guitar. - Tightened tuning pegs, the only unique thing needed compared to other new guitars. - Lubricated string trees and nut (D'Addario friction remover is an option) - Tweaked the neck relief, not very functional truss rod, but very little really needed. It came good enough for my use case. - Oiled the fingerboad which was quite dry. (F-One Oil is an option) - Polished the frets which were a bit rough. (MusiNomad has a nice kit as an option) - Raised the string height on a couple strings because I couldn't increase the neck relief. - Checked intonation which was good enough out of the box for my use case. I have long respected Ibanez guitars and even more so now. At this price I am very impressed indeed!

I totally ordered this on a whim, quickly and because the color was vibrant! When I got it it was a beautiful little guitar! But it was very little! Is a 3/4 size! It said this in the description which I didn't read cuz I'm a dude, I am not sure what I'm going to do with this but it looks cool and it actually plays pretty decent.

I loved my lost Ibanez RG full sized guitar. Haven't played much since, then recently had to have surgery on my fret hand and decided it would be good therapy to pick up a guitar again. My acoustic wasn't working well for this, so thought of getting a 3/4 scale electric. I so like this smaller scale, easier on my fret hand, nice neck (reminiscent of the wizard neck on the RG), great quality manufacturing. I plan to swap in some Seymour Duncan pick-ups and lower the saddles on the bridge a bit more, but for now, factory pick-ups it is. I play thru a Bugera V5 Amp which I purchased from Amazon. It's a wicked little amp. { edit } Finally took the leap this past Christmas and upgraded the pickups in my miKro. Santa brought me two Seymour Duncan pickups, I must've been extra good this past year, a Custom Custom for the bridge position & a Pearly Gates for the neck. Since the pick guard was being removed for the installation, I decided to upgrade all components attached to it. I purchased genuine Gibson 500k potentiometers for the volume & tone, a NOS Russian.022 paper in oil capacitor for tone control, & a genuine Fender 3 way selector switch. I don't like being harsh on the factory components, but if I was manufacturing inexpensive guitars, it would be difficult to go cheap on the woodworking. Thus leaving the rest of the instrument to find corners to cut. The factory components work, they are an acceptable starting point from which to customize your axe. If you really want to hear your miKro sing, scream & weep then change your p-ups. It is a strange feeling spending $250 on upgrades for a $150 guitar, but if like me, you find this 3/4 scale to be your baby, it's soo worth it. I'm very, very pleased with the p-up combination I've selected. As a side note, I'm running my miKro thru a Palmer pepamp/pocket amp (which I highly recommend to all guitarists, buy it, you won't be sorry), then a coliseum reverb by ModTone and finally into a small PA system.

I have small hands and several 24.75” scale guitars including an SG and a 24” scale Duo-Sonic. I play for fun and record on a 24 track and in my 70’s. I wanted something in a 22.2” similar to the Byrdlands Nuge plays and the John Lennon 3 pickup Rick he used in early recordings. I got this Ibanez Mikro as a low cost mod platform. It came with level frets all across the neck and smooth fret ends. I’m playing it for a while before deciding if and what to replace. It’s holding tune pretty well but eventually will get roller string trees and locking tuners. The pickups have a bite that I like and sound ok with volume rolled back so I may just leave them. My SG has P90’s so my songs tend to be gnarly. This is a legit first guitar for kids, people with small hands or a travel guitar.

I'm a beginner with small hands (cannot hold down an F bar on a full size) but now I can play all the bar chords on this guitar! I bought a 3/4 Fender Squier Mini Strat for my first guitar since everyone said to get a Fender Squier and I thought it was okay, but I bought this one afterwards and now I don't pick up my Fender anymore. The sound quality seems much better, stays in tune better, and overall feels and sounds much more legit. It's also slightly heavier than the Fender and the back of the neck is slightly slimmer than the Fender, so the Ibanez feels better in my hands. Also, in case no one tells you: the black night guitar is not solid black, it's glittery. You can see it in some of the customer photos when the light is at the right angle. I usually hate glitter but I like and justify it since it's REALLY subtle and looks like the night sky with stars (hence the name I guess). I also took it to a music shop and paid $25 to get it touched up where needed since I have no idea what I'm doing, and it sounds great. LOCKING TUNERS: If this will be your main guitar then perhaps it would be worth investing in locking tuners to help with the tuning issue, such as Hipshot Grip Lock tuners with 10mm peg holes. Hipshot has a universal mounting plate so screws aren't an issue and you can just drop these right in with no drilling, but otherwise make sure you get one that fits from different brands. Hipshot locking tuners are ~$130 on their website but ~$70-80 on Ebay. Locking tuners also make string changing super easy.

Lost my index finger and gave up playing for years because the stretch needed and most of what i played i utilized all 4 fingers and I was devistated. My son said to me daddy you cant play guitar because your boo boo finger. He is only 4 😊I decided I would relearn with the other 3 to show my son if you loose something it doesnt mean you cant anymore, you can always relearn ,Improvise and overcome . So I thought a shorter scale will allow me to make those stretches between my middle and Index and was I on to something. This is an Awesome short scale guitar. Back of the neck is smooooth ,perfect C shape. Minor setup needed. This is made well and the price cant be beat for what you are getting. Nice black with gold to silver spec paint job. Pickups pretty good as well. I Love this thing and its the perfect size for my son to start learning if wants later on.Please keep up the qaulity good pricing Ibanez .

This guitar is solid, and the neck is extremely easy to play. I feel empowered, because I can reach the low E string. As an adult with short fingers and a smaller palm size, I had to do my research. This guitar fit the bill. It looks like an instrument made for adults that children can use. Not the other way around. I left the protective plastic on the face of the instrument, so it looks a bit off in the picture. It's not in the way, so I left it for now. I did remove the protective plastic from the pickups. I purchased this from Cosmo Music, and it arrived with a grantee that it works and was set up. It was ready to play on arrival. They also packaged it securely using a second box filled with bubble wrap. The courier crushed the outer box, but the guitar and it's box were in perfect condition.

Good delivery time, no problem with the guitar at all… All in good shape. Well done.

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Me gustó todo. La relación calidad/precio es buena.

Je suis impressionné par la finition du corps, et des frettes, l'érable du manche est très beau. Le son en disto est pas mal du tout et largement convenable en son clair. Bref rien à redire, pour le prix c'est difficile de faire mieux pour une guitare d'enfant.