Metal Maniacs, listen up please. If you’re tired of your old guitar that just doesn’t seem to put out enough distortion or play fast enough then you might be in need of an Ibanez RG1570. The RG1570 price is typically around $1000, but for a top quality, 100% Japanese-made guitar, this is a steal.
Top Quality Construction
The RG1570 Ibanez flagship model of Prestige guitar is a slim body made up of top quality basswood. The long double cutaway horn design is a super-strat appearance, which allows the guitarist to play quite easily on the highest part of the neck. The Japanese Prestige series are Ibanez’ best quality guitars and will go up against the very best instruments in the business.
The Wizard Neck
For extremely fast playing, it’s always nice to have a slim neck to shred on. The RG1570 is equipped with what many in the Heavy Metal world consider to be the best neck in history: the Wizard 2. With its lightning fast and strong 5-piece maple neck, the Ibanez RG1570 electric guitar is a challenging beast to keep up with but with a little practice you’ll be shredding with the best of them in no time at all. The cavity for the bolt-on style neck has been greatly improved to reduce the size of the heel, making it much more comfortable to play on. Something I really like about the rosewood fingerboard are the pearl dot inlays. They are simple yet effective, not fancy.
How Heavy Is It?
At around the 22lb mark, the RG1570 is decently light and is comfortable to play during longer jam sessions. I’ve played on lighter guitars that weren’t as well balanced as the RG that were much more uncomfortable to play.
Electronics and Hardware
This guitar is loaded with 3 pickups: a single coil middle, and 2 humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions. These Ibanez designed pickups have extremely high output and are perfect for Metal and other music that requires higher gain. There are 5 possible combinations you can select for the pickups, but if you know your wiring (or alternatively you can get an expert to do it) you can achieve more combinations with a little bit of tweaking. The Edge Pro tremolo system is considered to be among the best in the industry, right up there with Floyd Rose originals.
Sound
Once you hear how good the RG1570 sounds on a distortion channel, you'll question yourself why you didn't buy one sooner. The right combination of wood, thickness and pickups is very important for achieving a well balanced tone and the RG1570 has accomplished that. The sound is very articulate, crisp and clear, leaving you with endless possibilities in your playing style.
If Metal is your game, there are very few other guitar instruments on the market that can match the Ibanez RG series in quality for the money. Ibanez guitars has been making these instruments since 1987 and they just keep getting better with each revision.