sexta-feira, 19 de abril de 2013

Ibanez RGR465M CA


So I recently acquired this beautiful Ibanez RGR465 CandyApple. I was never an Ibanez fan to be honest. The name sounded to spanish cheap replica guitars, but over the years, watching Petrucci (long time ago when he didn't look like a fat homeless virtuoso), Vai, Reb Beach and ultimately  the guitar god Paul Gilbert, made me look at these guitars with other eyes. To the point that I told to myself, I gotta try that neck! Always heard amazing things about Ibanez necks! This one has a wizzard II incarnation  and I must say, I'm very pleased with it so far. And also with everything else. Ibanez is not that bad at all, and I only tried under-a-grand Ibanez... Could I tell the difference if I tried a Prestige?

The neck is 3 parts maple with maple fretboard and some kind of plastic (I guess) dot inlays.
I actually prefer the reverse headstock, and the tuners are ibanez, probably the cheapest, but they are pretty sturdy and do their work well, although with a locking nut, you don't really need €100 machine heads. I thought about some other upgrades. I heard terrible things about the tremolo bridge Edge III, and so I thought about changing it immediately  but when I got the guitar, it looked rather good. I heard Gotoh makes all Ibanez tremolos, but I don't know if that's really true. I had a Floyd Rose Special ready to install, but so far the Edge III behaved really good, so I'm still not sure if I should just leave it. The routing is perfect for an original FR, I heard they even got sewed for that, but the studs look smaller, so I dont know if it will  be a direct swap yet. the pickups are pretty much perfect for now, two Dimarzio with configurations that I dont seem to find anywhere. I'm pretty sure it sounds like this:

5 way selector starting from all the way up:
Pos1 - neck humbucker
Pos2 - neck humbucker paralel wired
Pos3 - both humbuckers
Pos4 - bridge single coil with neck single coil
Pos5 - bridge humbucker

This is made in Indonesia, and its allright, some things are not perfect, like for example the cavity routing for the back plastic covers someplaces is deeper than around half mm. The tone knob needed screwing. The plug in is TIGHT! I dont know if thats good or bad, but if your cable gets pulled by accident, its really unlikely that it will come off. The tremolo is well designed and looks like its made of good quality steel, I see no reason for it to be more unstable than other ibanez tuners. I want to get some plastic knobs, 80's style, but the ones that came are also quite good, for swells and everything.

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