Ibanez 6 String Acoustic Guitar Pack, Natural (IJVC50)

I started learning guitar a bit over a year ago and only played electric. I had a few songs I wanted to play but they just didn’t sound right on electric, so I bought this. Plus, I started to play non-standard tunings, and having a second guitar tuned differently is a lot easier than having to continually re-tune.

So, I’m not a master shredder or anything. I took it out of the box, played a song and fell in love. It has a nice sound to my ears, and after being plugged into an amp for a year, it does make for a nice change. Unfortunately, I tend to practice late at night, which I can do with a bluetooth amp on electric, but this is pretty loud with the wife and kid sleeping. I tested it out and I can use it out in the garage and annoy my neighbors instead of my family, but that’ll have to wait until after winter.

Most of the attachments are not too special. Having a bag for light duty use is nice, but the rest is nothing to write home about. That said, I bought a beginner electric guitar with the same assortment of accessories and at least having *something* before knowing which parts mattered to me and which didn’t was nice. None are terrible so that they’d be frustrating, but if you stick with it, you’ll end up replacing pretty much all of them.

It seems to keep in tune well enough. I’ve had it about two months, and only really had to tune it once after setup. I’ve checked it almost every time I’ve played with a tuner app on my phone, but at most it is a nudge here or there. The initial tuning was a bear – high E was both too sharp and too flat and the tuner couldn’t get a fix on it. Turns out it wasn’t properly seated in the nut, which for a newbie took too long to figure out.

For the price, I can’t complain. I think it sounds good and keeps in tune long enough, which is all I wanted for a beginner guitar.

This is for our 14 year old son. Who is starting guitar lessons. It is working great and it’s a real good quality guitar.

Recommended by a friend as a solid starter guitar so I ordered it. I was super excited when it arrived…until I saw the box it came in. I was expecting to open the box and see a pile of powder which was once a guitar. Much to my surprise, it was fully intact. Upon inspection of the guitar, there were a couple of dents in the finish which can only be seen if you’re really inspecting it and catch it in the right light. There is also a few scratches, the biggest being about 1.5″ to 2″ long just under the strings. None of this will influence the playability or sound, but I would’ve likely rated this a 5* if it had arrived unscathed.

This guitar is amazingly build. Sound is great, easy to play and guitar tuning remains in tune even after a week.