Dear viewers, you have probably seen that this video is 5 Years old and that nothing really happened on my channel since then. I am now considering bringing it to life again in a Month or two - If you LIKE that, like this comment! :) If enough people do, there will be 1 Video a week with guitar/gear reviews and sometimes tutorials and demos. Stay safe and thanks for watching!

@jcomm120

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, yes I'm interested. Your accent is lovely. Love to hear pretty licks on guitars instead of just loud rock roaring & buzzing. Would also be cool to hear about German music scene!

@aboveaveragebluesenjoyer9953

2 жыл бұрын

I would love for the channel to come back!

@Unknown-kr6nj

2 жыл бұрын

How is the guitar after all of this time? Are the tuners still fine?

@jai9587

2 жыл бұрын

Yes post more

@berndkiltzguitar3935

2 жыл бұрын

@@Unknown-kr6nj sold the guitar to a student and it is still fine all the way

I bought one of these a couple of years ago. I was blown away by the build quality, compares very well with my 2008 Gibson Les Paul at a fraction of the cost. It has mostly been replaced by my recently acquired Gretsch. I would strongly recommend this for anyone starting up.

This is one of the more credible reviews I've watched of any guitar. The man knows his craft.

@berndkiltzguitar3935

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@christopherecatalano

11 ай бұрын

Great player, too…I just ordered mine today, mostly based on this video.

@fckmunch

10 ай бұрын

​@@christopherecatalanowhat's your thoughts on the guitar, are you a jazz guitarist? I'm looking at this one too and this review convinced me. Although, I'm a finger picker, i fancy a jazz one.

@christopherecatalano

10 ай бұрын

@@fckmunch , it ended up being back ordered for up to 6 months in my Vancouver store, where I was informed that Ibanez has had a few supply and demand issues. I went to Tom Lee Music as they had a few slightly more expensive ArtCores…but instead walked away with a smoking deal (for Canada😂😂😂) on a nice Gretsch Streamliner. It may need a few soft touches from a tech, but the set up seems fine as is.

@fckmunch

10 ай бұрын

@@christopherecatalano sweet, nice one. Thanks for the reply. Enjoy👍

Berne - I really enjoyed those simple riffs and rhythm runs you laid down. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

I bought an as53 from a German student, here in Glasgow ( Scotland ) He had come home after a few beers and stood on the body while stumbling around in the dark. The lower f hole was caved in. He sold it to me for 60 euros. I spent around two hours doing some plastic surgery on her and she was beautiful once more. I really enjoy playing the guitar and the scars from the accident just increase her mojo. I don't know why. Great review, many thanks.

@tomcg7808

2 жыл бұрын

Gumtree/FB marketplace stories. Someone must write a book about it 😂

This is exactly the review I was looking for . Thanks

Thank you! I've been considering buying this guitar as my first and only electric to play alongside my acoustic. You really helped me confirm my choice.

Thank you very much Sir for this excellent demo. You gave me all the information I was looking for in a very clear concise way. Also, excellent diverse playing of style samples. Well done! Amazing little guitar for the money. I have a Les Paul, Strat & an Ibanez acoustic (old faithful) I am pretty certain that I will be adding one of these to cover the 4th base. Thanks again, David Douglas Adirondack Mountains, US

Awesome review!! Really informative and long enough and concise. Great recording sound too man!! Congratulations

Great review man, just what I needed to hear. Thank you

Really enjoyed this review - lovely playing and great information - thanks x

4 years later and they're on sale for 299. Sounds good. Another decent guitar which is similar is the Squier Affinity Starcaster.

@natearchuleta2003

3 жыл бұрын

Literally, saw one yesterday I might buy for 299

I have had my eye on these for a while now. just might be my next purchase. Thanks for the vid.

@cynicalbassist6929

3 жыл бұрын

Mike Payne you buy it?

The way you set the tone sounds awesome for jazz, blues, ballads. I really like its clean sound, with the first blues distortion you put sounds like the first Santana. You got a good bargain.

Awesome review, think i'll be buying one next week. Thank you very much :)

Excellent demo and playing...lovely touch Bernd!

I can't believe how good that guitar sounds for as cheap as it is.

@kipponi

8 жыл бұрын

+musicpro26 I neither. Ibanez don't want to do a crap guitar. Every beginner buy first cheap guitar (unless rich parents) and Ibanez knows this. So their cheap models are good enough even us professionals. One cannot even buy woods and electronics to make this guitar under 300€. My first guitar was strat clone back in eighties and the quality was not even close to nowadays, maybe woods had better then. Because good woods are hard to find for guitars. Plastic guitars are coming :(. Ibanez had luthite bodies with some guitars back to don't remember the year ? edit.that low string made my venetian blind resonate.

@musicpro26

8 жыл бұрын

+German Guitarguy Yeah, same here. Back in the day you could buy an epiphone les paul special edition 2(which is absolute crap) for the same price. In any case, love your vids man, you've got a sub from me and everyone i forward your stuff to.

@barneycarparts

6 жыл бұрын

Yep computer controlled machining makes high quality much more likely plus the wood selection has gotten to be a science as well. I like my AS53 well enough. The pickups are ceramic so I agree there's just some clarity something missing in the highs. Over all its $300 of groovy fun.

@silvermediastudio

5 жыл бұрын

@@VEHICROS I'd like to hear one of these with the Ibanez ceramic pickups yanked out, and replaced with a good set of P90s or similar. Tune up the nut and frets if they need it. All that basic stuff to get the most out... and then see how it sounds with a high-end cable and tube amp. Almost like a slim L-5 clone.

@robmlisanti

4 жыл бұрын

Senshi I just played it today wonderful guitar

Great review. Yeah, I was going to ask what rock sounded like on it. Glad you covered that. Beautiful look, good price. I want one.

Just got one, so happy! It's really a good weight and nice satin finish.

Thanks for the review! Very informative.

Very nice playing. You make that guitar sound really sweet. I'm thinking about getting one...

Ooh I love the look of this!

Thank you, you are the only one I've seen that plays the guitar "dry" and demonstrates blues and jazz.

Great review. Nice to know the range of music this guitar is capable of playing.

Thanks, Bernd! Convinced me, just ordered one. Am a beginner, so when I deserve it I''ll replace the pickups.

perfect review, by far the best guitar review I've seen, keep it up man, love your videos

Nice video. I love your style. No guitar wanking theatrics. Just sweet clean style. Good job.

@abiliopedroferreira7899

5 жыл бұрын

Art Hall

@jonleuck2876

5 жыл бұрын

Love the way you play.

@MultiJorgeSantos

4 жыл бұрын

Artie Hall great

Five years later, I'm thinking of buying one of these guitars. I love my Ibanez Acoustic and looking for more of a Jazz guitar. Thank you for your review!

Thanks for recommendations and explanation details

Good, review sir and a good sounding instrument. I think I found my next guitar.

Love that Jazz tune you played

Great video. The guitar sounds really good. Your command of English is phenomenal.

Thanks for the great content.

Your review is the best! I bought this guitar used, and it had a neck repair, so I had to have a luthier intonate it; that was quite the task. At any rate, my dumb ass sold it after I bought a Grote jazz guitar (which is killer), but I get upset that I didn't keep it. It is such an easy guitar to play.

I'm a blues guitarist I'm loving my tone and my sound with my AS53

@royrytkonen5939

4 жыл бұрын

What's it like for bb King style?

@anasg007

3 жыл бұрын

@@royrytkonen5939 its so good

Many thanks for this helpful review. I bought one this morning and can’t put it down.

great review! thanks

Thanks for the review. Just ordered one of these on trans black

Great playing, Awsome sound. I have an Ibanez as 93. Beautiful hollow bodies.

Very Nice review! Thanks

Thanks. Really helpful!

I love my ibanez, a very well made instrument

I just bought one and I can't wait to shred on it

Great video! Thanks!

Herr Germanguitarguy, excellent review!

I'd love to hear you reviewing more cheap jazz boxes from Thomann :D

Excellent Review! You are a fantastic guitarist! Solid info provided in your video. Great! I own the Ibanez AMV10A - which offers better pickups and a few other enhancements (costs $100 more that this model). I played the AS53 when I was at Guitar Center and was very, very impressed. I own a Gibson Les Paul and many other guitars from Fender, Ibanez, Charvel, etc. Ibanez is leading the pack in terms of "value" for the $$. You simply can't find better made guitars for less money....

Very thorough and straight to the point - an excellent demonstration. I noticed that you said "massiv" and not laminated, meaning it is solid wood. I can't seem to find that stated anywhere, and I would be surprised at that price and on the base model in the range.

Very helpful, Thankyou.

Excellent.....Thank you !

Yep I played one of these 6 years ago and they sound great. Very close to buying it but bought my Tokai instead.

Danke.Gut gemacht.

Danke schön. I've seen one of these for sale (used) for a reasonable price, and this video helps me decide - I'm going to call the guy.

thank god a real musician, many thanks!!!!!

I think a lot of it is in his hands, man. What an amazing player.

@berndkiltzguitar3935

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Just ordered mine. Thanks Bernd 🙂

Super, Vielen Dank!

I was very interested in this guitar. Your review is simply the best i saw in youtube. Thank you.

@berndkiltzguitar3935

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Bernd, Thanks for the review. I was on the fence about spending more on an AS73 or AS93 but ended up buying the AS53 which arrived yesterday - I am very happy with the AS53. After a slight tweak to the bridge (details below), the action is awesome - it plays and sounds great. I get what you mean about the pickups which I think is because they are ceramics but they are still humbucking. At $300 shipped this was a steal; FedEx messed up the delivery (it arrived 48 hrs after their tracking claimed it was delivered) but now it's here, it's undamaged, it's beautiful, and nice to play. I may try the pot change suggested below but the pickups are OK for now. Details on my (wannabe Luthier) adjustments. Using the bridge screws, I adjusted the string height at the last fret to 1.5mm (low E) and 1.25mm (high E) and the action at the first fret was then around 0.3mm plus there was 0.35mm relief (slightly concave) on the fret board at the 7th fret. So all I did was tweak the bridge screws half a turn and it was near perfect for my tastes.

@magnusoddsson8168

3 жыл бұрын

Any comment on how thick the neck is already at the 16th fret? Compared to my other guitars playing high up is less comfortable. Actually this is such a common playing position I wonder why no one has mentioned this. Dropping the action certainly helped somewhat.

@jean-pierrehall2914

Жыл бұрын

Hey Ted. How’s the AS53 panning out. I plan on adding one. Thx JP

@tedmawson260

Жыл бұрын

Jean Pierre, it’s still a great guitar but I have nicer ones now like an AS93 that my wife bought me for my birthday. I will probably sell the AS53 soon

Ibanez artcores are serious guitars, they play well, hold up mechanically and sound good. Ive owned em. They are quality instruments imo.

This video shows clearly if you know how to play you can make a cheap guitar sound fantastic, and it does. Similarly if you have a very expensive guitar and cannot play then the noise will not sound like BB King. Its that simple. Practice makes perfect. Also guitars made anywhere in the world ALL use the same CNC manufacturing equipment and software programs, China. USA, Japan. Indonesia etc. Its just that labour costs are lower and so the final price is lower than Gibson. Also quality control is much better in the east than the west. Practice is the key. Ibanez and Epiphone make great es335s👍

Great demo. Excellent guitar playing of all styles. What’s not to like ? Just bought one.

thanx for the review

Wow! great guitar playing & great review! i will purchase one soon. i mainly play Hammond organ and looks like it stayed in tune for you. very important for me on my recording tracks...Marcel ,..the Mad Swede

You can find AS73 brand new for $400 US so that's really what I would love to see you review. The pickups and some other specs are better.

I love my as53. Stuff some gain on it and the infinity pickups sound great, I can’t play jazz so I use it as a rhythm machine. The bridge is great for muting.

@chrisbee8009

4 жыл бұрын

Same reason I am going home to a new AS73.. can't wait.

Thanks for the awesome review! Can you please do a review on the AS 153?

I think that just as a good golfer can hit great shots with mediocre clubs, a good guitarist such as yourself can make an even midstream guitar sound good. Love the look and perhaps the setup and new pickups could make it awesome.

@robfenstermacher7573

2 жыл бұрын

Das finde ich auch.

I bought the smaller version am53 same guitar for 299usd very happy ok very good demo review

I have a similar looking guitar but it is an Ibanez AF55 guitar, it has a thicker body and only a single cutaway and has a tail piece but it is in Tobacco like yours and has no covers on the humbuckers. I put flatwound jazz strings on her and she plays good unplugged acoustic and also through an amplifier. It's a good guitar.

Sharp looking budget guitar!

Hi Bernd, i have one of them in my mini collection of guitars, is very nice ,simple but elegant, good acoustic and soft body.. I have to keep it in the garage along many other beautiful masterpieces due to lack of space, But all of them are well carefully wrapped and in their respectives cases protected from dust,humidity and dirt. I can't wait to move to a bigger house and have a special room for all of them ,also i want to design some metal stands or rack to show them all together.. Thanks for sharing your views.

Thanks Bernd !

Danke sehr!

Hey ich dieses Teil auch zu Hause, als meine Blues Gitarre. Ich liebe sie. Und weil sie so geil trocken klingt, habe ich ihr das LR Buggs Lyrik Microfon eingebaut, und nun hab ich obendrein noch einen richtig schön dreckig klingenden Natursound. Wie Du sagst, sie liegt super in der Hand, und ist für den Preis echt sauber verarbeitet. Ich stehe auch auf Naturnahe Lackierungen, und das war auch ein Grund warum ich mir sie erwählt hab. Meine ist made in Indonesia. Ich würde für diese Gitarre auch gerne ein paar Hunderter drauf legen, damit die Arbeiter dort auch vernünftig leben können. Vergleichen mit meiner PRS Hollowody SE 2 Piezo macht klanglich keinen Sinn. Ein Einzylinder Motor ist anders als ein Vierzylinder. Aber für alle die etwas mit Charakter suchen, ist die Ibanez ein Versuch wert. Dein English ist super. Du verwendest glücklicherweise nur Worte, die ich auch verstehe :-) Alles Gute ;-)

I recently built a strat,,,,plywood body, old cheapy neck which I refinished and stained,,,,pickups etc....I am stunned at how good it sounds,,,and the initial guitar cost me just over a $100....yes nice pickups in it..but plywood body, old Vester neck...looks and feels great, has that woody Strat tones I love, and is as good as any other strat (I have bought and sold about 20)!! You don't have to spend a lot to get a decent guitar!! Also in this video though he is using a great amp though, but still....

Great review 💯 Dont know if you tried to put some fuzz those hollow ibanez work insane in that combo..

I just bought one for €253.. It's great!

thanks man I never had watched a review of this model, my dream of course is a real Gibson 335, but I am not rich man lol... so I love ibanez, I have a blazer custom made, and a rg 270 from Korea, and one of my heroes, play into a ibanez, but like you said it is cheaper and I was looking for a used as 153 or As93 but I never thought about as 53. Now I am thinking about buy one and change the pickups

@aussierule

8 жыл бұрын

You know man, times are changing. You can get a fucking AMAZING instrument for a very moderate price these days. The brand snobs stuck in their old ways discourage people from trying "cheap" instruments and being impressed by them.

@LuvhandleR

7 жыл бұрын

Affordable, cheap implies inferior quality

Hi, great review thanks! Is this the Tobacco Flat or the Transparent Black Flat finnish?

Great review. I would like to get into jazz in the future. But for the moment I play Blues and classic rock, think Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Chuck Berry. What guitar would you recommend? Thank you...

You tried the AS93? And if you have, what do you think about the difference between the AS53 and AS93? I'm thinking about purchasing an AS53 too, I have the AS93 and I love it very much.

Thanks for the review. What type of amp are you using ?

Are that ceramic pickups?? Really great sound and playing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Awesome info! This or the AF55? Are they the same guitar?

🙏 thanks

Hello from Savannah Georgia home of Benedetto Guitars a very fine Jazz guitar maker . I was looking at this guitar because I wanted a semi-hollow sound , but not spending a fortune . I'm not a Jazz player , but I love Jazz .

I just bought one, the spec is actually improved. More... Towards Freddie King, Dennis Greaves sounds though... Maybe it's got better hardware now, but the pickups are further away from jazz, I feel, really. Wonderful review!🍀

What kind of pickups would you use to upgrade to if you wanted to play like light rock stuff like summer of 69, or 3 doors down, go go dolls etc ?

I have been looking at the Epiphone semi-hollow guitars but they are all ply wood! so ok they put a fancy spin on it but they are not solid-wood built.. well done Ibanez!

Great review. Just found you. Your English is excellent. Dankeschoen meine freund. Ich lernen Deutsche langsome

Yeah . i want one

good review I just saw this guitar in my local shop for around £200 which is very cheap but it sounds good. How do you think this stands up against the Epiphone ES 335?

@TheDoobiesnatcher

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that the Ibanez certainly is a good buy for someone looking to buy their first 335 esque semi hollow body they are always reasonably price in my local guitar shop!

Es bellísima esa guitarra 7w7

Hey Bernd, I was thinking of buying this guitar used. You mentioned the pickups being okay. If I was to spend the money I saved + some extra on some new pickups, which would you recommend?

ThANKS COMRADE

Hi Did you try the as73 and the asv10a (vintage one) ? I think they re the same. The as73 ans asv10 have both classic elite pickups. The asv10 is reaaaaally sexy. But 100 euro more expansive. If it s only for the relic i think i ll buy the as73. For the bluuuuues :)

Is this guitar a good option for playing alt. rock on it? Something like Muse.

you have some nice stuff on your channel but i see its been quiet for a few months. what are you plans?

I added some Gibson delux tuning keys and Gibson knobs it just gives the guitar a cooler look