A friend had an SA160. It's a decent entry-level guitar. Nice cleans.
First Ibanez purchase
This is my first post here and Iam considering buying my first Ibanez!I was at Sam Ash last nite playing Ibanez's,esp and jacksons and fell in love with this Ibanez Sa160 played great,sounded great and had good harmonics it felt like the guitar played its self.Just wanted your thoughts and opinons on her!Thanks ahead of time!Look forward to chatting with you guys!BTW!I have been playing strats until now!Fell in love with the humbucker and fast neck now I see why sooo may great guitarist play Ibanez!
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Thanks for reply!I played it mostly in shred setting I thought it handled very good but than again I have been playing single coils.
Sweet!the one Iam looking at is goregous its a SA160qmtg
It was weird I was playing some top end Ibanez,Jacksons and esp that were double the cost of the sa160 and I liked the tone and playability the best of the sa160,definately gonna buy one!
http://www.guitarsetc.net/guitar_el/ib_sa160qmtg.html
It was weird I was playing some top end Ibanez,Jacksons and esp that were double the cost of the sa160 and I liked the tone and playability the best of the sa160,definately gonna buy one!
http://www.guitarsetc.net/guitar_el/ib_sa160qmtg.html
the SA160QM has a visually pleasing laminate top but i'm not a fan of such cosmetics, it adds nothing to tone. more importantly, you should acquire the one which adds value to your playing, regardless of the versions being discussed here. good luck with the purchase!
Thanks!I've only been playing a few years so Iam sure things will change in the future but I guess for now this one is doing it.Thanks guys for replies!
If you're not so hot on the tremolo, why not consider the Artist or SZ series?
I spend some time on the tremolo just dont wanna deal with the floyd but I want the Ibanez tone and playabilityKamikaze_1 said:If you're not so hot on the tremolo, why not consider the Artist or SZ series?
Iam just curious why would this guitar be classified as a entry-level guitar?bpd111 said:A friend had an SA160. It's a decent entry-level guitar. Nice cleans.
I really like that SA160 
, anybody know if it's possible to swap the trem with a Wilkinson VS-100 without any routing?
Regards
André
, anybody know if it's possible to swap the trem with a Wilkinson VS-100 without any routing?Regards
André
Its defined as this by its price range, not necessarily actual quality level, its a well playing guitar, thats my opinion on the subject, with a good trem, at least in so far as it has a knife edge on it, smooth travle, and works well for vibrato, but forget about dive bombs and pull ups with a non-locking systemshreds da bluez said:Iam just curious why would this guitar be classified as a entry-level guitar?
Am I seeing things?But the Andy Timmons guitar seems very similar to the SA......
It is fairly similar as far as general shape goes, but a much different guitar hardware wise, think of it like a 6 cylinder mustang, and a cobra, two entirely different machines that look identicalshreds da bluez said:Am I seeing things?But the Andy Timmons guitar seems very similar to the SA......
Thanks!I know i haven't been playing a long time but long enough to decide what feels good to me and sounds good thats why I was asking,also I've tried some other Ibanez's out rg's jem and I guess at this point they were kinda of hard for me to control/handle plus they all have the double locking sytems which seem like alot of work when changing strings.sniperfrommars1 said:Its defined as this by its price range, not necessarily actual quality level, its a well playing guitar, thats my opinion on the subject, with a good trem, at least in so far as it has a knife edge on it, smooth travle, and works well for vibrato, but forget about dive bombs and pull ups with a non-locking system
The AT200 and AT300 are based on the SA series. If it's good enough for Andy then it's good enough for anybodyshreds da bluez said:Am I seeing things?But the Andy Timmons guitar seems very similar to the SA......
PS I'm a bit of a Timmons fan
^ That is a beautiful guitar. Welcome, Shreds Da Bluez.germX said:the Sa160 comes in 2 forms- mahogany/ ash (SA160AH). the latter has a killer top end.
SA160AH
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The SA guitars look alright and I like the body style, but I can't deal with those single coils. I really wish that Ibanez made one of those SA guitars with dual humbuckers and a simple fixed bridge. Now THAT would be one sweet guitar.
they are a good guitar..they do look alot like a AT300.
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