200$ vs. 2000$ - GUITAR METAL BATTLE! - Cheap vs. Expensive

Does a cheap guitar suck? Or can it indeed be enough to record your music? Is the amp more important than the guitar? In this video I play a 200€ budget GIO Ibanez from the new Ibanez 2021 lineup and it competes against my most expensive guitar! An Ibanez Prestige for 2000€. Let’s see - or better hear - where you can hear differences of tone and clarity. I have included different sound samples: #1 - Introduction - 0:00 #2 - Rammstein - Du Hast -1:13 #3 - Lamb Of God - Laid To Rest - 1:44 #4 - Slipknot - Psychosocial - Pitch Shift Test - 2:21 #5 - Slipknot - Psychosocial - Shred Solo Test - 2:55 #6 - Metallica - Master Of Puppets - Clean Test - 3:53 #7 - Metallica - Master Of Puppets - Digital Amp Test - 4:11 #8 - Summary - 4:49 #9 - Endcard - 6:10 Furthermore I DID NO TWEAKING like I would do it on a fully produced mix. All I added was a low pass and a high pass filter to leave out frequencies that would hurt the ear and for the solo I added reverb. You can h