Ibanez S561 S Series 6-String Electric Guitar Sea Foam Green Matte

I have experienced buzz during the colder months but all I had to do was tune up the neck and I was good I have also had issues with the guitar staying intune I usually have to re tune it after playing for an hour or so. But in my opinion this has the best electronics of the price bracket I would say the pickups are more versatile and perform better in a lot of circumstances then my gold top Les Paul which was more then double the price. Not to mention the wizard neck which is just a fun neck to mess around on so thin and so easy to play.

I honestly can believe that it plays as well as it does at the price point. The pickups have great versatility and sound pretty darn good.

The best feature of this guitar is its very thin and fast neck, it is easy and fun to play, and it has really cool looks. The electronics have a good variety of tones, but do not perform that great with a lot of gain. This guitar has a a very slim body, it's super light weight, and it is good instrument overall for the price. I did not experience any fret buzz, and it was well set up when it arrived. However, I did experienced difficulty keeping it in tune because the nut is made of plastic.

Guitar has nice looks and is really lightweight. Feels lighter than it even says it is. But in a good way. The Sea Foam green is a great looking matte finish and it passes the looks test from afar. Issues I personally had which lead to me returning. 1. Fret Buzz at first fret from Low E through G 2. Intonation way off of these same strings, B and E were OK. 3. Some sort of glue or epoxy or something on edge of fret board. Darker than the board itself, looks to have been remnants of something used during assembly that wasn't wiped away of excess 4. small chip from when tuner holes were drilled creeping out from the tuner post on the back of the headstock on the Low E string. 5. Output jack in on face of guitar and its recesses are body colored but this one had missing paint inside where primer or original body color could be seen. 6. number of sharp fret ends. No fret sprouting, but enough there to be annoying and borderline bad enough to cut you. Issues not specific to my guitar were, the pickups just sound thin and honestly just cheap and almost toy-ish. I had to A/B with a few other guitars to make sure I was hearing it right and not something wrong with my amp settings. The single coils have a pretty high noise floor, more than I would expect, and the hum bucker sounds thin and lifeless. So, just basically really bad out of the box. If it was only the issues I could fix with some time I'd have let it go, but the headstock and the fretboard issues just made it too much without the overall playability and sound to redeem it. I wanted to like this guitar. Yes it's cheap-ish, but its cost is enough that I expect better than that. Especially from Ibanez who I've had great luck with even on their entry level guitars.