Ibanez RG270

I bought this guitar at a San Antonio Sam Ash retailer. The tag read $339.99; taxes included, the final price was somehwere in the range of $380 (I can't remember the exact price - it was awhile back!).

This is just a great guitar. From the top down: The Floyd Rose locking mechanisms allow bends to unimaginable lengths. Combine that with the tremolo and you can get sounds reminiscent of Joe Satriani, especially combined with the pickups. The H/S/H configuration gives you the edge and sensitivity of single coil with the warm smoothness of Psnd-1 humbuckers. I combined those with some nice, crunchy distortion and got a little chill in my spine. The intonation is great. I've played Fender for a long time, but somehow I never hit quite as many harmonics as with this guitar. That implies that the pickups are a tad too sensitive, but you'll quickly fall into the groove with the surprisingly hot single coil. The neck has great action. I'm an advocate of a lot of action, but solidity is a good thing occasionally, and this guitar is a very satisfying medium. I haven't had to retune the guitar for two years -- although the strings play a big part there (D'Addario extra lights) -- even as much as I crush the whammy bar.
One more note on the pickups: This guitar delivers awesome overdrive/distortion tone. Clean tone is a little twangy, even with the treble knob all the way down. Amp equalization can fix this, but it can become inconvenient if you're switching between tones throughout a song.

For my tastes, the tone knob doesn't do NEARLY enough to change that twangy, edgy lead sound into smooth rhythm, although you can use the 5-way switch to tone shift. On rare occasions, the high action on the bridge can be distracting. Also, although this hasn't happened to me yet, I've heard of problems with the input jack. Be very careful to use shielded cords, too, 'cause using that single coil, a lot of distortion, and a good bit of volume will give you some nasty buzz.

(on scales of 1-10)
Body: 10
Neck: 8
Headstock, locking mech., etc.: 9
Bridge: 10
Electronics: 8
Price: 8 (at $340, what a bargain!)
Overall: 9

In conclusion, it's a really great guitar, for anything from classroom teaching to large scale gigs. Choose your amplifier carefully, depending on the tone you want. I use a Peavey brain hooked up to two 26-inch enclosure speakers, and the sound is great. In addition, Peavey offers a damping switch that lowers the channel output by 25 decibels, so I've got a luxury afforded me there. I give this guitar a 5, outright: it's served me faithfully for two years, and it won't be long before I get another.

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I boght this guitar from a locar dealer and y paid 340$.

I basicaly like it 'cuz I love Ibanez, and I love RG. I love the shape of the rg models.
The nec shape is so cool and al like this guitar because every pick up setting sounds different, and the pickups are ok specially the brige hambucker. I calibrated this guitar and i had no problems with the neck or string buzzing at any fret wiht a good level possition of the bridge and an firm flat neck you wont have any problems. but this is a lower series on ibanez guitars so that wont last long, you have to perdiocaly tune up the guitar, i do it every mont of hard playing.

I dont like the colour that much, but since I desesperatedly wanted an Ibanez I basically had no choice. And everytime you try to tune this guitar the rest strings loose its tune result of the not so elaborated Floyd Rose tremolo bridge so its very enoing to tune it, it takes like more than 5 minutes everytime. plus you have to cut the ball-end of the strgings and thas a problem you wont find in any other higher series of ibanez. but you get used to it.


Average. At first look it seems like a good quality guitar but in a closer view you will see that this guitar is only AVERAGE, far from perfetc and away from very good. but it will last long if you take care of it until you save money and buy a better one. (that's what im doing) the finish is ok but the knobs and the rest of the circuitry is just average.

good one for starter metal kids, and good if you wanted an Ibanez RG and you want something better in the future. Good for gigs altough.

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i bought this baby al e-bay for 250 euro's (at the moment about 260 dollars)

I've been playing for quite along time and was interested in buying a Ibanez RG guitar. I chose the RG 270 because I was looking for something that wasn't too expensive but wasn't a piece of miserable crap. And this is exactly that and more. This guitar is very comfie to play, the contoured body is nice and the thin wizard II neck is very nice. It’s a real advantage that the neck has jumbo frets. It’s relatively light weight compared to some other guitars. The pickups are also pretty good. there not fantastic and there not crap but good enough for playing any type of music from punk to metal to hard rock to blues and clean stuff. It also stays in tune very well, I’ve only had to tune it once besides changing strings and I’ve had it for almost a year. Beside this all it a very good looking guitar J

Right now there is nothing I don't like about the guitar. One thing is that the pickups tend to buzz a little but it is no problem(unless you are a picky little brat) and it can be easily solved.

this guitar is very durable. The construction is great I haven't had a problem with it in the time that I have had it. the guitar is very sturdy and can take a beating. this guitar would last you a long time.

It's good for amateurs or professionals (though professionals got them expensive guitars I'd probably never touch)... It's not the best at clarity if you look for the CLEANEST sound, but on the bright side, it's also not the worst - Not even close. It's good for beginners because It's comfortable, compactable, and with special care, it will last for a long time. I mean, I put this guitar through hell and it sounds awesome. Just to imagine someone who uses it with no abuse, even better? So basically, you can play slow, or go all out, and get the same results. It also has 24 frits so you can get all the sounds you want. The guitar is still small when it has 24 frits, which makes it easier and faster to reach the notes. Ibanez always seems to have a good feel by the way their neck is constructed...It's Good to feel the music, Right? If an instrument frustrates you cause of the lack of good construction, of course someone is not going to like playing it. Like a piano with scratched, jagged ivory that feels like sandpaper. This guitar won't do that to you, the feel is just perfect! I thought that it would break in two years or i needed to do some operation on it. It turns out that the guitar will last for 20 more years, like the Explorer I talked about in the beginning. Don't misjudge it until you've played it, okay?

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I had a Ibanez grx70 and I wanted an upgrade, got down to the guitar store and bought it for 300.

absolutely nothing.... I mean mine was a used guitar but he looked good.... no scratces or whatsoever.

Everything about this guitar. The input jack. The pick-ups buzz all the time. Mine always got out of tune with every touch I did on that guitar. I really thought I had a good upgrade. It's more a guitar too good for a piece of crap and it's too much crap for a pro guitar if you kno what I mean, I had constantly problems with it (and now don't call me an amateur or something) I play the guitar quit some time (6 years)

well it is an Ibanez RG after all so yeah I like the shape and hum sin hum.
The pick-ups are buzzing all the time

well sorry guys at Ibanez or guys who have it..... my experience with the Ibanez rg 270 is absolute crap. I find it a piece of junk. Sorry

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