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i have been playing guitar for about a year and half, my first guitar was a squier bullet guitar so i needed a new one, i called around and found an Ibanez RG470 used for $250, with a retail of $600 i figured somthing had to be wrong with it, i was wrong..

i love the feel of the guitar and the locking tremelo system is really nice, i love it a lot, i dont have the standard pickups, the person who had it before me replaced all of them all i know is that the neck and bridge pickups are dimarzio and the middle pickup is a fender lace sensor red. I wouldnt trade this guitar for anything.

The low E string buzzes, but that might just be because i bought it used, other than that i have no dislikes.

It has great quality to it, nice sound and the construction is amazing as well

If you are looking for a new guitar and want a great guitar for a fair price then buy this guitar, it is handsdown the best guitar i have ever played.

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I was looking for a new guitar that was gig worthy and to replace my old guitar. I didnt have a lot of money and was looking at around £300-£500. My local guitar shop had this unit in special and had been custom tuned to fit steve vai style playing, Perfect! I purchased it brand new for £400 after having £50 knocked off because it had been sitting in the shop for about 3 months.

The neck is extremelly slick, very easy to play on and the fretboard is superb for tapping, legato, sliding, bending etc etc It also helps that the action is lowered just right so pulling off these lead techniques was a sinch! For the price, the pick-ups are superb, excellent sound quality when playing lead and traditional metal. Perfect for live gigs but may need some tuning for studio recording. The weight of the guitar is nice, not to heavy and not to light so the natural sustain is great. Its small and doesnt get in the way when moving towards the 24 fret and the selecter switch and knobs are out of reach when doing these solos with your playing hand (but you can easily get to them with your picking hand) The locking tremelo system is also great, it takes about 3-4 attempts to get the tuning in place once new strings have been put on, since i purchased it back in september 2002, i have had 3 new string replacements and only ever had to tune it when i replaced the strings. Also the body is tough as hell, i have smashed it many times (hitting walls by accident etc) and only little chips of the body work have come off.

Things i dont like about the guitar are just the fact that you cant down tune it without having to change the action setup. Because i have my strings on a low action, dropping to D would cause the system to mess up and lower strings to vibrate against the fretboard. This is not the guitars fault, its because its been changed to suit standard tuning and solo'ing.

The body is tough and built to last. Its taken many hits and only scratches and chips have appeared, none of the hits have effected the sound, fret board etc etc

Everything stays in place as it should

I love this guitar, i would like to down tune it but you cant have everything. If you want to down tune, get a guitar without a floyd rose or change the action on this one before you do. i have had fun using this guitar and would recommend it to anyone who wants to start gigging or learn lead guitar

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I was looking for a new guitar that was gig worthy and to replace my old guitar. I didnt have a lot of money and was looking at around £300-£500. My local guitar shop had this unit in special and had been custom tuned to fit steve vai style playing, Perfect! I purchased it brand new for £400 after having £50 knocked off because it had been sitting in the shop for about 3 months.

The neck is extremelly slick, very easy to play on and the fretboard is superb for tapping, legato, sliding, bending etc etc It also helps that the action is lowered just right so pulling off these lead techniques was a sinch! For the price, the pick-ups are superb, excellent sound quality when playing lead and traditional metal. Perfect for live gigs but may need some tuning for studio recording. The weight of the guitar is nice, not to heavy and not to light so the natural sustain is great. Its small and doesnt get in the way when moving towards the 24 fret and the selecter switch and knobs are out of reach when doing these solos with your playing hand (but you can easily get to them with your picking hand) The locking tremelo system is also great, it takes about 3-4 attempts to get the tuning in place once new strings have been put on, since i purchased it back in september 2002, i have had 3 new string replacements and only ever had to tune it when i replaced the strings. Also the body is tough as hell, i have smashed it many times (hitting walls by accident etc) and only little chips of the body work have come off.

Things i dont like about the guitar are just the fact that you cant down tune it without having to change the action setup. Because i have my strings on a low action, dropping to D would cause the system to mess up and lower strings to vibrate against the fretboard. This is not the guitars fault, its because its been changed to suit standard tuning and solo'ing.

The body is tough and built to last. Its taken many hits and only scratches and chips have appeared, none of the hits have effected the sound, fret board etc etc

Everything stays in place as it should

I love this guitar, i would like to down tune it but you cant have everything. If you want to down tune, get a guitar without a floyd rose or change the action on this one before you do. i have had fun using this guitar and would recommend it to anyone who wants to start gigging or learn lead guitar

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I bought the guitar from axemail.com, based in colchester, a great shop to do business with, must be about 5 years old now. I think it was about £400.

I've played it practically every day for the last 5 years, gigged it too, and it still looks amazing, the odd scratch but nothing for the amount of use its had. Its sounds great, plays awesomely, the neck feels great, and I use it for everything from blues and jazz to punk and metal. I absolutely love it, and I'm not sure I'd ever get rid of it.

One problem is that my floyd rose sometimes has problems staying in tune nowadays, and tuning it is a bit of a hassle, but the pro's of a floyd rose outweigh the con's, but I'm looking at getting a tremsetter, so all that should improve anyway. Also, I've thought about changing the pickups for Dimarzio Tone Zone's or PAF Pro's for a fatter sound, but for the money I think it couldn't be better.

Its really built solidly, everything's really tough and the finish (Mine is Jewel Blue) is excellent, and still polishes up really nicely (A bit of Auto Glym Super Resin Car Polish works like a dream!!) The electrics are great, no hum or noise, all in all excellent built quality

An awesome guitar at an awesome price, I don't think you could find better for the money. I've just ordered an Ibanez SZ520QM to have along side it to offer a guitar with more tuning flexibility, and a warmer sound. Can't wait till it arrives!!!!

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I bought this guitar for Guitar Center in Rockville for $300 used, new it costs $500. I bought it mainly because of the pickups and neck.

Almost everything. Mainly the pickups and the neck. It has a wizard neck, which compared to my old guitar(Squier Strat) lets me play up to twice as fast. The pickups are great too. Two humbucking pickups, one at the neck one at the bridge, and a single coil in the middle. Great lead sound on the neck pickup, and the bride humbucker is great for rythym. With a five way pickup switch, you can get almost any desired sound. With the Floyd Rose tremelo system, the string stay in tune much longer, although it is harder to change them.

The only problem with this guitar is the middle single coil pickup hums a little, but hardly enough to be noticed. Also the jack for the cord is a little lose, but that may just be a problem woth my particular guitar.

The construction is great on this guitar, good finish, lightweight.

This guitar is great for intermediate players. When you buy it make sure you know how to use the Floyd Rose Tremelo system, dont worry you'll get it

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I bought this guitar at Guitar Center for $520 after trying out on my amp at the store, an Marshall AVT50 Combo.

You can get a real wide variety of tones out of this guitar, blues, rock, but mainly metal, this guitar is great for shredding, which I do alot of and the openig fade to black solo sounds perfect with the neck pickup, this guitar is great for Metallica, Megadeth, or Slayer. At first the neck felt pretty clumsy to me but now it feals pretty good.

This guitar doesn't have fretboard that u can slide your fingers up and down on, sometimes your fingers just stop on one of the frets. The neck feels pretty good, but I can play a lot faster on a PRS, a Gibson, and the more expensive Jacksons, but all those are over $1000 dollar guitars.

the paint on the body chips really easy, i've hade the guitar for like 5 months and there's already a bunch of chips on it, and it takes about half an hour to change strings, but after that a string never goes out of tune or rarely brakes.

shredding and fast hard solos sound great on this guitar but the quality of everything on it isnt that great, but this is an awsome guitar for the price

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I purchased this guitar new after trying out the lower end RG300 series. Paid $700.00 canadian over 1 year ago.

Locking Tremolo system is nice, never goes out of tune. Pickups are deadly. I run it through a Peavey Bandit and an effects pedal. You can muster up a whole variety of sounds with this axe. From SRV to Santana. Not great for jazz though, I miss my old Sheridian for that fat sound.

Break the high E string, and the whole thing goes out of tune ( a real hassle during a lead break). Changing string gages from 9 to 10 means an hour or more setting up. You have to adjust the spring tension on the trem, and also adjust the trem settings. A bit of a pain,but once set up, it holds the tuning. The Jumbo frets are too soft. Mine are starting to show a lot of wear(Only one year old and I don't play the thing everyday.)

This unit is solid and cool paint scheme (New Copper Penny finish) I really love the neck. A buddy of mine owns the same guitar and told me it's fast. I did not know what he ment , until I bought mine. Fast, slick you name it. ( I actually do play faster on this guitar)

Better fret wire would make this one heck of a guitar.

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Bought slightly used in 1999. Paid about $350

It's light, the low strings are easy on the fingers, narrow neck is easy to work with.

What I don't like? Grab a cup of coffee folks, there's going to be some reading here.
Let me say first off that I'm not very good with a guitar. I've messed around with them since Jr. High (I'm 32 now) but knew I'd never be really good, and just don't put a lot of effort into practice. I mainly just hack-out songs from tabs when the mood strikes. With that said:
- Tremola system. Out of about 10 electrics with tremolas that I've owned (including some pretty cheap ones - Cort flying V for example), this is the absolute worst. I can't keep this thing in tune for anything. I don't even put the whammy bar on anymore for fear of bumping it and knocking it out of tune. I don't use the fine-tuning knobs for the same reason.. just a slight bit of pressure and it's worse than when you started.
- Low strings. Even though it makes playing easy in standard tuning.. tuning down 1/2 step (which seems to be around 1/3 of the rock songs out there) makes for a buzz on several strings that has made me put the thing back in it's case.
- Tone control seems more like a fine-tune volume knob.. it doesn't seem to do much with tone at all, other than on the high end.
- plug comes loose constantly, even after locktighting the lock nut.



Quality is about what you'd expect at this level for a strat. It feels fairly solid, but be careful with it.. the finish chips easily.

I had a second-hand Magnum Les Paul clone that I bought for $50 in high school (they were about $150 new) that could run circles around this thing. The second worst musical investment I've probably ever made. (the first being a $40 keyboard)

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$489-American Musical Supply.

I like the pickups on the axe, and the light body, but mostly the NECK!!!!!!There is nothing I like more than a wizard neck. and get a tremolo stabilizer in there and whammy away!


I don't like the feedback on the pickups, especially the single coil, and the tone knob doesn't have as much effect as i would like.


It is put together well, with responsive pickups, with a great warm sound.


I definitely got my moneys worth. I love the axe! Get a tremolo stabilizer in there and BOOM its an awesome axe, or if you like higher quality guitars, get it and beat the s*** out of it. You'll love it.




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For CHARACTERISTICS gnrales see RG 470
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UTILIZATION

Channel enjoyable trs, trs fine enough and fast
Easy Access in acute
Grip gnrale, trs comfortable standing or sitting.

We can blame a lack of lightweight ffective and finesse of pots (volume Tone

SOUNDS

I find him a good sound palette, with a lgermanque of personality.
The two double permit "to send" in distortion and show INTERESTED in clean sounds.
The single and double splits slamming it sounds good.

OVERALL OPINION

For me it's a guitar that suits me because, both as ergonomically sound.
I find plutt versatile.

-Made of Core
24 frets, rosewood handle
Pink floyd-UNDER LICENSE (not a Floyd Rose original)
Gold hardware-
-3 Di Marzio pickups: 2 humbucker (neck pickup: pickup INF1 AND: INF2), a simple micro (center INFS1)
Flame-table rostrum
Slecteur 5-positions

UTILIZATION

The handle is extremely enjoyable. there is nothing to say on it. It is late and use trs s'avre as good as my ESP.
Access in acute is more than adequate. not need to bend in half to get the dernire freight. In short, the shape of the guitar (very classic stratode) has never caused this kind of gap.
Rah lalalala, but what it's heavy! THE FIRST time I port, I hallucinated Yet not one of the Paul ... but hey, it, I am used. the wood is beautiful, Aesthetics, it suits me ample.
I think the position is very well slecteur. I surf easily from a microphone the other. Ds time without doing expr but hey it's something else! : P
Despite the fact that it is only one FLOYD ROSE LICENCED, the guitar does not dsaccorde at the slightest touch of vibrato. trs's really important when you know that licensed floyd rose is really devastating! (Manir I expect any change to the original one even if it is correct).

SOUNDS

This is the heart of the matter, the sound: D

The guitar is quite versatile. I think it sounds great for blues, funky sounds, rock and metal. Quite often trs honntet I use the neck pickup. It largely meets its rle to find classic sounds. For cons, the bridge pickup is not too early. This is a typical configuration (INF1-infs1-INF2). I used a roland cube 15x amp classic and I am satisfied. I RPET the guitar versatile enough to be patient condition and know perfectly the guitar. The fat handle and a micro lens is simply not bad at all. I blame the fact that the search of his s'avre longer than some of my guitars.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had five months. Must say that I had to learn to love it. She did not tap into the eye but as far I learned to love this scratching to the point of using it more often than others. For the simple reason that it is my birthday present from my wife so sentimental value standard.

The guitar can get on scne with you, but train yourself to know well with perfectly.

Of course I would make that choice, it is I who have also chosen: D

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UTILIZATION

Channel pleasant
the action on mine is very low, as I like hair cell
problem, however, floyd
I changed mine a few years ago (one Gotoh), has worked better
I just change the inserts, is a super
tuning is very stable
So, think about adding the price of a new floyd more or less short term by buying ... which simply is not profitable
5 bp for floyd
if 8

SOUNDS

Sounds pretty linear, like many IBANEZ
I changed the microphone by an acute TB4 rab and I had in the middle by a hot rails
dj has sounded more organic
I was rather rouve not bad, but it's a sound that is not very typbr /> has the advantage that it sounds good in all circumstances, in all styles

OVERALL OPINION

I have a fairly participation with this guitar, I worked a whole month of t when I was 17 years for me to pay
So, I can not speak ill
she told me acompagné everywhere, it served me compose songs bcp
Increasingly, it is able to ring for funk and mtal
so 10
Now, the problem remains of Floyd and the fact that the sound is not very typ ...