Sounds as good as expected, but the quality isn’t as good. It’s my 6th electric guitar and the first I’m sending back for repairs just 5 months after purchase (during which it had little use) because the bridge pickup is malfunctioning… The paint details near the pickups are very bad and the potentiometers were very poorly tightened. I was waiting for the guitar for many months and had great expectations of Ibanez's premium line, so I closed my eyes to the small details, but I should have returned the product as soon as it arrived.