Ibanez RGT42

I bought this guitar used at the local Long and Mcquade store for $500.00 Canadian plus tax. The exact same guitar was at the store new for $770.00

This guitar is a shredders dream! To start with, the hardware is great quality, tune lock thing is great (for guitarists like me, see below for details) the pickups sound bright and are great for distorted sounds as well. The floating tremelo is by far the best i've ever played, its sensitive and smooth and just perfect. The guitar is playable as well, light and agile, and the bottom cuttaway (unlike my last guitar) goes right down making all 24 frets easily accesible. I also love the nech-thru design, it feels awesome. A great guitar.

As i said before, i love the tuning lock because A)i love using the wammy bar with deep drops and whatnot, and B) i seldom stray from standard tuning. For a guitar player who likes to go between drop D and standard or whatever other tunings you like, the lock might be a pain because its takes a while to re-tune. Thats all i can think of on the downsides.

As i said before, the hardware has been great. Ibanez has two shops, the higher end guitars are made in a shop in Japan and the lower end guitars are made in Korea. This guitar is from Korea, but is one of the best guitars out of that factory. My teacher has one of less expensive guitars that comes from the higher end factory (about the same price as mine) and they are comparable in quality. The body hasn't chipped or anything, the construction has been fine.

This guitar is great for any type of guitarist, especially the shredders out their. Buy this Guitar!!!

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I ordered the guitar off of MusiciansFriend.com for $599. I had a Fender strat, but i wanted more versatility

I like the neck-thru design of the guitar. I also like the looks, It is a sharp guitar.
The binding sets the whole thing off. But beware, black pearl isn't very black, its kind of a charcoal. I also love the floyd rose tremolo on it. It stays in tune perfectly


I would like the neck to be a bit thinner. It has a substanial feel and is a good neck, but thinner would be better. Also the stock pickups could be better, maybe some Seymour Duncans?

The guitar is rock solid, and I would feel safe taking it on the road with me. The whole guitar is built to last

If you want a good mid priced guitar with solid construction and that will last a while, this is it.

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The RGT-42 is part of the "budget" line that Ibanez has. They were originally made over in Korea, but they moved over to Indonesia later during the years. The guitar features a mahogany body, five piece maple/walnut neck, rosewood fretboard, 24 jumbo frets, sharkfin inlays, an Edge Pro II or Edge III bridge (depending on when it was made), two humbuckers, one volume, one tone and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is a well put together guitar. I found a few flaws in the few models that I played throughout the years such as sharp fret ends, but that's kinda to be expected for MIK and MII guitars. I'm also not a fan of the bridge they use. I find it feels cheap and doesn't flutter like I'd like it to. To make matters worse, I'm not sure if they're replaceable with other Edge models. You'll have to look that up yourself if you decide to ever replace the bridge. That said, the neck-thru construction is a bit rare in Ibanez guitars, so that's definitely a plus.

SOUNDS

The guitars seem to be fairly resonant from what I've heard. The mahogany really helps even everything out and gear this more towards a metal guitar. The low end and midrange helps push the amps into overdrive easier vs other woods. While there are two humbuckers, it's a fairly versatile setup with the five way switch and the tone knob. You can get tons of different tones with this thing. I highly recommend replacing the pickups in this guitar, though. The stock ones are absolutely horrible, and that applies to pretty much the entire Ibanez line.

OVERALL OPINION

If you're looking for a budget RGT, this is probably one of the models you'll look at. However, I recommend just picking up a Japanese RGT if you can afford it. I find the fretwork to be better on those models, and they tend to resonate a bit more for whatever reason. Whichever you get, be sure to replace the pickups immediately as the stock Ibanez pickups are pretty awful, in my opinion.

Series RG Corenne
Wizard II neck-
American Basswood body
24 Jumbo frets
Edge Pro II tremolo bridge
IBZ INF1 micro (H) neck
IBZ INF2 micro (H) bridge

UTILIZATION

Mache trs enjoyable, fine and fast
Easy Access in acute
light guitar and not too big, easy to play sitting or standing

SOUNDS

It is suitable for just any style
I play with this guitar plugged into a preamp and an amp johnson jstation peavey classic 50/50
I like the position humbucker gives good sharp treble and a pretty good dynamic
micro serious position can give quite good results for sounds and bluesy cliars

OVERALL OPINION

Cel has been a year that I have this guitar. I was looking for a 2nd guitar to give a little more versatile alternative to my bc rich I use to play the heavy metal.
I had the opportunity to buy this guitar at a price of nine ts INTERESTED, I found her beautiful and well finished for a trs Coren, it's almost like an ibanez of SERIES prestige.
the neck is so thin and fast that it became my main guitar, the only criticism that I would be the pickups especially acute micro is not too much to play for the big metal sound quite fat but Dynamic with good all the same.
otherwise the usual guitars are new books with rglages cans, any Manir I always pass it to a rgler my taste, I also added two springs in the vibrato as playing with a draft strong enough