Ibanez RG652AHMFX-RPB

Excellent guitar

Top sound especially for modern metal.

High quality.

Great for shred, not so for clean

Awasome instrument with gorgeous look. Absolutely magnificent color. Very hot for lead with high gain and overdrive. But clean sound is kinda flat and not impressive. However that is not what this guitar was built for.

Excellent access to high frets. Volume control knob location close to the strings is pretty convenient to fast turn your sound on and off but it also has a drawback for me personally. As a seasoned Les Paul player I'm used to play with wide sweeping movements, what is called from the elbow, when it's appropriate and you can't do it on this instrument because of volume knob and pickup switch. But as I mentioned above this beauty is not made for chord playing on clean sound and it is probably a matter of habit. The neck profile is too thin for me but it also seems to be due to a long time spent with my LP.

Case is pretty nice and multi-tool icluded worth a special mention. It is very usefull and helps a lot for tuning.

So if you are looking for a metal (and other high overdrive/distortion genres) guitar this instrument can be an excellent choice. But if you need one universal tool for all types of music perhaps this is not the best option.