Skip to main content
Music Radar MusicRadar The No.1 website for musicians
(opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)
  • Guitars
  • Amps
  • Pedals
  • Drums
  • Synths
  • Software
  • Pianos
  • Controllers
  • Recording
  • Buyer’s guides
  • Live
  • DJ
  • Advice
  • Acoustic
  • Bass
  • About us
  • More
    • Reviews
Magazines
  • Computer Music
  • Electronic Musician
  • Future Music
  • Keyboard Magazine
  • Guitarist (opens in new tab)
  • Guitar Techniques (opens in new tab)
  • Total Guitar (opens in new tab)
  • Bass Player (opens in new tab)
More
  • 9 next-gen drum plugins
  • SampleRadar: 163 tape loops samples
  • Best free music-making software
  • Best electric guitars 2023

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

  1. Home
  2. News
  3. Total Guitar

Splurge, save, steal: Ibanez seven strings

By Total Guitar
last updated 6 July 2020

Three guitars, three price points

  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
Splurge: Ibanez UV70P
£1049/$1755

Splurge: Ibanez UV70P

This premium axe takes the 7-string guitar back to where it all started: Steve Vai's 1990 Universe.

The UV70P adds an Edge-Zero II locking vibrato, while three Ibanez Blade pickups provide the tonal firepower. Whether you can pull off the neon green is another matter...

Page 1 of 3
Page 1 of 3
Ibanez Iron Label RGIR27E
£599/$1000

Ibanez Iron Label RGIR27E

Assuming the classic RG outline, this axe rams an extra string into the lightning-fast format, as well as an uber-cool killswitch, plus EMG humbuckers and your choice of hardtail bridge or Edge-Zero II vibrato. If metal is your stock in trade, the RGIR27E delivers the goods.

Page 2 of 3
Page 2 of 3
Ibanez GIO GRG7221
£209/$349

Ibanez GIO GRG7221

Seven strings, two humbuckers, 24 frets... for £209 ($349)?

At this price, there's no excuse not to give that extra string a whirl, and with Ibanez promising the same inspection and setups as its more expensive models, this Gio's playability should be as slick as its Black Night finish.

Page 3 of 3
Page 3 of 3
  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
  • (opens in new tab)
Total Guitar
Total Guitar
Social Links Navigation

Total Guitar is Europe's best-selling guitar magazine.

Every month we feature interviews with the biggest names and hottest new acts in guitar land, plus Guest Lessons from the stars.

Finally, our Rocked & Rated section is the place to go for reviews, round-ups and help setting up your guitars and gear.

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/totalguitar (opens in new tab)

  1. Positive Grid Spark Go amp
    1
    Positive Grid reveals the Spark GO: a really small guitar and bass amp
  2. 2
    Best Epiphone guitars 2023: our budget spanning picks of the greatest Epiphone guitars available right now
  3. 3
    Watch Miley Cyrus’s Flowers being recreated in GarageBand for iPhone in less than 10 minutes
  4. 4
    How to sound like Depeche Mode using soft synths in your DAW
  5. 5
    Tony Banks on why he would have “screwed up” In The Air Tonight if Phil Collins had given it to Genesis
  1. depeche mode
    1
    How to sound like Depeche Mode using soft synths in your DAW
  2. 2
    Tony Banks on why he would have “screwed up” In The Air Tonight if Phil Collins had given it to Genesis
  3. 3
    4DSOUND, the 'world's most advanced' spatial audio sound system, makes its debut in London next month
  4. 4
    Positive Grid reveals the Spark GO: a really small guitar and bass amp
  5. 5
    9 next-gen drum plugins that could change the way you make beats

MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab).

  • About Us (opens in new tab)
  • Terms and conditions (opens in new tab)
  • Privacy policy (opens in new tab)
  • Cookies policy (opens in new tab)
  • Accessibility Statement
  • Careers (opens in new tab)

© Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number 2008885.