Ibanez AS73FM Artcore Azure Blue Gradation | A decent Epiphone 335/339 alternative? | Review & Demo

I bought the Ibanez AS73FM Artcore hollow-body guitar because I’ve always wanted a decent, affordable semi-acoustic, and this one looks the business in the Azure Blue Gradation finish!

I always thought it’d be a great alternative to an Epiphone 335 or an Epiphone 339, or even a Gretsch Streamliner. After owning it for a year or two though, I’m still not sure… so here’s my review and demo of it, and I’d love to know what alternatives you’d suggest. Please comment with those down below!

Check out Ibanez Artcore range here: http://bit.ly/ArtcoreRWM

And here’s the exact model on the official Ibanez website: http://bit.ly/AS73FM-AZG_rwm
Here are the timestamps for the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:26 Intro and all about the Ibanez AS73FM
03:18 Today’s rig

Clean sounds
03:34 Open chords on all three pickup selections
04:00 Clean picked arpeggios
04:37 Pop strummed barre chords
05:27 Country pop chords
06:31 60s soul riff
07:19 Pop picked/strummed riff
08:32 Indie chords
09:19 Bluesey/southern rock rhythm
10:06 Melodic clean lead
10:36 Tone controls test
11:13 Ringing alt-pop arpeggios
12:19 Strummed alt-pop chords
13:09 Me pretending to play jazz for 10 seconds...

Crunch sounds (amp’s Clean Channel with Greer Lightspeed)
13:21 Groovy classic rock riff
14:43 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
15:35 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
16:25 Indie rock riff
17:12 Open string indie rock riff
17:52 Indie chord rhythms
19:15 Choppy indie pop barre chords
19:50 Volume controls test
20:33 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
21:20 Big indie pop open chords

Crunchier sounds (amp’s Lead Channel)
22:12 Pop punk riffs
22:40 Hard rock riffs
23:12 Foo Fighters inspired alt-rock riff
23:30 Glam rock riff
23:44 Alt-rock riff

Heavy stuff (Drop D tuning, amp’s Lead Channel with Greer Lightspeed as Boost)
24:42 Chug test
25:02 Hardcore punk riff
25:15 Chunky power chords/alt-rock
25:41 Progressive rock riff
25:56 Hardcore punk riff
26:10 Mastodon inspired metal riff

26:22 My thoughts on the Ibanez AS73FM and build quality
27:38 Playability and the laurel fingerboard
28:20 Sounds and pickups
30:12 Final thoughts and conclusion
I ran the Ibanez through a Greer Lightspeed overdrive pedal into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: http://bit.ly/rwmBS200
Greer Lightspeed: http://bit.ly/rwmLightspeed
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): http://bit.ly/rwmFR4i4
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Enjoy!
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley - TrackTribe.

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