Thursday, January 15, 2009

Ibanez: XP300 (Part 2)

The XP300 is a simple guitar despite its protrusive body outline.

It features a bolt-on construction unlike its 700-series siblings.

I dislike the manufacturer's INF humbuckers (due to excessive upper frequencies) but in this guitar, they sound just right. I'm keeping them in the mean time, my spare Duncans will have to wait for other guitars. The XP300 also sports a fixed bridge, making re-stringing & tuning a simple affair.

Like its other XP family members, the instrument comes with one of the strap buttons detached. If you purchase a Xiphos, do not scream bloody 'cheat' when you see a hole in your guitar; check the darn accessory package.

6 comments:

sLash said...

hi, i got this guitar, but i can't find where to install the second strap button, can you help me please?

subversion.sg said...

hi :-) pls refer to the final pic in this post, the strap button belongs in the hole as mentioned.

sLash said...

i can't see any hole in the guitar on the pic o.O

subversion.sg said...

bro, pls look carefully :-)

it's in there in the shorter bout arm... he he.

sLash said...

oh ye i see it now.
but in my guitar there isn't!

Ijau D. Koceng said...

dude, i'm planning to get this beast next year... based on ur experience, if compared with other fixed bridge RGs within the price range (namely RGR321EX) how does it performed (or outperformed) both in sound and feel? thanks