I thought I’d make a short post about the Ibanez RG guitar because it is so consistently praised by guitar players who have tried it. The RG series came out in the late nineteen eighties and has a twenty-four fret thin neck that is built for speed. The necks are mostly bolt-ons but the RGT model has neck-thru construction. They also mostly feature The Floyd Rose tremolo system but there is an RG Fixed and RGA Prestige which have fixed bridges and a much warmer tone than the tremolo models.
The Floyd Rose tremolo system is made up of a lock situated at the nut which stops the machine heads being turned and a floating bridge where the strings are also locked. This combination of locks stops the strings from going out of tune and allows the strings to be loosened by use of the tremolo arm to a much greater extent than on other tremolo configurations. This allows for spectacular lowering of the pitch while playing. To use the Floyd Rose tremolo system you tune the guitar, put the lock on the machine heads and then fine tune using a set of special tuning heads. Most guitar players who use the tremolo arm find the tremolo RG series guitars stay in tune better than any other tremolo guitar.
The RG models come in various colors and shapes, the wood the guitars are made from vary as do the configuration of the pickups. The RG Prestige is the most popular. It features a distinctive biting tone which is typical of the humbucker pickups it features. If you ask around about Ibanez RG guitars you will find that the only area that guitar players complain about is the pickups. Many people just don’t like the sound of the single coil Humbuckers and either sell the guitar or replace the pickups. But as for playabillity and capacity to stay in tune, they are universally loved.
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