On mine i changed the nut and add a 100k resistor( act as high pass filter ) wired serial with the bridge pickup hot wire at the pickup selector. Sorted the mushy low end and sound more killer with the kemper.
I'm an Ibanez player with 5x Ibanez guitars and right now, they're in la la land. They're off making all that new age multiscale, headless etc stuff, and the 6/7 string RG's that most of us will use are totally neglected. Barely anything with stainless steel xjumbo's, except in the super pricey range. For me in Australia, it's like $3000+. Schecter just released their new Sunset guitars for $899 USD, ($1500AUD in my country Australia) Half the price, with xjumbo stainless steel frets, graphteq nut, locking tuners. Ibanez's at the same price have a plastic nut and shitty nickel frets they don't even bother to polish properly. Getting a bit pissed with Ibanez now, it's like they don't give a fuck about their users and just want to milk us for the privilege of having the word Ibanez on the headstock.
You are 100% correct. I'm actually about to get the red sunset 7 string and I've been an ibanez fan ever since I started guitar but I'm done with being ripped off. Andrew Baena sold me on these new Schecter Sunset models. His video on them is incredible
@HiThereFaceHere I've got 2 kieth merrow guitars and the new John Browne tao7 and they smoke my Ibanez guitars, completely stock, with no intention or need to mod them.... like I have to with my Ibanez guitars.... and they all have stainless steel frets and none of them had plastic effing nuts
@beautague9163 I'm actually torn between the sunset 7 and the new white Merrow 7 for just a little more. His new USA model in the blood burst is the greatest axe I've ever seen and is one high-end model that I think actually is worth its price tag of almost 5k
Bumped into one of these in a PMT while picking up a midi controller, it looked very nice and had a feel of that lovely neck because why not? Great review as always!! We want more, tell Dan to send you all his guitars to review ha ha :)
Another great review. I think where the Prestige line reels me in a bit more is in the value retention and resale value - at least currently. Things could change though. I'm also not crazy about the wood choice on this neck personally since I don't like an open pore feel on a neck. Hard to keep clean depending on how they're finished. Even with that small subjective qualm, this is a great sounding and eye catching guitar!
Even if it was 50% of the guitar the prestige was (I personally think I prefer this for half the price), this looks like a more premium guitar with the aftermath pattern carried over to the body, but that’s just me🤷 And personally I think this set of pickups sounds better than the fusion edges. Keep up the good work!
I love this guitar. Ibanez midrange (axion label) is pretty good for the money compared to the high end models. Vack in the day when Ibanez used to produce the cheaper line in korea. That stuff was really great for the money too.
Oh hey I'm recording a few songs with that one and the rgd71alms lmao they work better than a few 3k+ guitars we got laying around in the studio so they definitely nailed it with these. Happy to see you using the kemper more fam, makes me happy as a kemper user haha Edit: I've had the 71alms for about 2 years now and used it heavily, so far the frets have held out without any issues so the treatment is pretty damn good from my experience.
Great to hear! I still need to find out exactly what the Subzero treatment does. Honestly I go round the houses on modelling gear and really enjoy some of it (see Headrush). But I always come back to my Kemper, 10 years old and still the best sounding thing I've used that isn't an amp. Also the best/lowest latency and feel IMO.
My observation...... For the money change the nut this 🎸 is 🔥😮 I don't think I've ever heard tones that brutal yet on your channel and believe me as much as I'm a fan of your channel I've heard sooo many killer tones you make this one just really stands out. I can hear every note even in those insane gain tones. Those BN pick-ups look insane . Badass playing and riffing as always brother have a blessed day dude 😎👊
Great review and great guitar. I really would like a review of the RGD 61 ALET on DropA or another low tuning. I am thinking about getting that guitar but cant find any review with low tuning.
Lovely looking guitar that! I just checked and it's 26.5" scale so it should be able to handle Drop A no problem if you basically treat it like the bottom 6 strings of a 7 string. Match the string gauge etc.
@@GuitarCinemaOfficial yeah also do this with my 27.7" PRS. Its just weird to see no in depth review of that guitar like you do in your videos (especially with downtuning)
Gibson used to offer something similar called cryogenically treated frets. Didn't last very long iirc. Not sure why and IF the treatment actually did something positive. Good review as always. Cheers! Edit: Holy shit, man. You were not lying about those pickups. They sound absolutely superb!
I genuinely scoured the backpages of forums etc in preparing for this review to find out exactly what Subzero treatment involves but nobody knows. I will drop Ibanez customer support an email. Thanks for watching!
This sub zero thing is for stainless steel frets only. There are no nickel frets with sub zero feature. I own an Ibanez RGD71ALMS from the axiom line (the one with purple-blue-green finish, fishman fluence pickups and fanned frets). This has sub zero stainless steel frets and I can only tell good things about it. It feels slightly different in the fingers too. Hard to explain.
Noticed in the last few reviews you were using the Kemper. Falling out of love with the HeadRush or just wanted to change it up?........HeadRush Prime review?
There is something about the way the Kemper "feels" that I just can't quite get from other modellers. I blast it through a Zilla 2x12 on the floor behind me for the playing sections and it just has that instant response and punch of a real amp. I can certainly get tones of equal or better quality from the Headrush (See the full review of the Prime on the channel) but never the same feel. It's a subtle thing, maybe its all in my head..
Another great informative video. I prefer the Japanese made. As an ESP LTD guitar fan, I really like this Ibanez guitar, but I prefer the Japanese one. I believe these two Ibanez (Indonesia and Japan) it has an exact same story with LTD and E-II guitars which the quality is very noticeable. Keep up the great work bro.
The problem with Ibanez is they unnecessarily release too many very similar guitar models with not very different specs or character. For god's sake why to produce so many prestige models and do bulls..t. Do create couple of class/models for each body shape and that's more than enough. Today's prestiges are like usual RG series 10 years ago
I dont get it. If they had added stainless steel frets and a graphtech nut this guitar would have been perfect. At least the but man. Buyng a graphtech nut costs 10 bucks for us endconsumers. Ibanez would get these for so cheap.
@@Quastenflossler As I said in the video personally I'm not fussed about SS Vs Nickel but I know buyers at a certain price demand them nowadays so they definitely need to move with the times soon!
I have this guitar. The nut is crap. A pain to get it tuned and impossible to keep it in tune. Tried with vaseline and graphite, only a slight improvement. Going for the graphtec now
This would be perfect with a reverse Headstock
Agreed, one of my favourite features about the Prestige!
Reverse headstocks are too 1987 for me.
I got this guitar play it every day and love it with all my heart js 🔥
On mine i changed the nut and add a 100k resistor( act as high pass filter ) wired serial with the bridge pickup hot wire at the pickup selector. Sorted the mushy low end and sound more killer with the kemper.
I'm an Ibanez player with 5x Ibanez guitars and right now, they're in la la land. They're off making all that new age multiscale, headless etc stuff, and the 6/7 string RG's that most of us will use are totally neglected. Barely anything with stainless steel xjumbo's, except in the super pricey range. For me in Australia, it's like $3000+. Schecter just released their new Sunset guitars for $899 USD, ($1500AUD in my country Australia) Half the price, with xjumbo stainless steel frets, graphteq nut, locking tuners. Ibanez's at the same price have a plastic nut and shitty nickel frets they don't even bother to polish properly. Getting a bit pissed with Ibanez now, it's like they don't give a fuck about their users and just want to milk us for the privilege of having the word Ibanez on the headstock.
Longstanding companies nearly always have issues moving with the times..
You're not wrong lol
You are 100% correct. I'm actually about to get the red sunset 7 string and I've been an ibanez fan ever since I started guitar but I'm done with being ripped off. Andrew Baena sold me on these new Schecter Sunset models. His video on them is incredible
@HiThereFaceHere I've got 2 kieth merrow guitars and the new John Browne tao7 and they smoke my Ibanez guitars, completely stock, with no intention or need to mod them.... like I have to with my Ibanez guitars.... and they all have stainless steel frets and none of them had plastic effing nuts
@beautague9163 I'm actually torn between the sunset 7 and the new white Merrow 7 for just a little more. His new USA model in the blood burst is the greatest axe I've ever seen and is one high-end model that I think actually is worth its price tag of almost 5k
Bumped into one of these in a PMT while picking up a midi controller, it looked very nice and had a feel of that lovely neck because why not? Great review as always!! We want more, tell Dan to send you all his guitars to review ha ha :)
That's more or less the plan 😂. Thanks for watching!
Another great review. I think where the Prestige line reels me in a bit more is in the value retention and resale value - at least currently. Things could change though. I'm also not crazy about the wood choice on this neck personally since I don't like an open pore feel on a neck. Hard to keep clean depending on how they're finished. Even with that small subjective qualm, this is a great sounding and eye catching guitar!
Fair point. Always a buyer for Prestige stuff although I do find their 7 String stuff to depreciate a little more than the 6. Thanks for watching!
Even if it was 50% of the guitar the prestige was (I personally think I prefer this for half the price), this looks like a more premium guitar with the aftermath pattern carried over to the body, but that’s just me🤷
And personally I think this set of pickups sounds better than the fusion edges.
Keep up the good work!
Agreed!
I love this guitar. Ibanez midrange (axion label) is pretty good for the money compared to the high end models.
Vack in the day when Ibanez used to produce the cheaper line in korea. That stuff was really great for the money too.
Great riff at 0.18 in the intro
My brother got this guitar recently, absolute beauty 🔥
This is sick! Great playing like always.
Thanks for watching!
Oh hey I'm recording a few songs with that one and the rgd71alms lmao they work better than a few 3k+ guitars we got laying around in the studio so they definitely nailed it with these. Happy to see you using the kemper more fam, makes me happy as a kemper user haha
Edit: I've had the 71alms for about 2 years now and used it heavily, so far the frets have held out without any issues so the treatment is pretty damn good from my experience.
Great to hear! I still need to find out exactly what the Subzero treatment does. Honestly I go round the houses on modelling gear and really enjoy some of it (see Headrush). But I always come back to my Kemper, 10 years old and still the best sounding thing I've used that isn't an amp. Also the best/lowest latency and feel IMO.
Great review as always BTW
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Cool man!!!! Great video! . p.s. That RGD has made me seriously consider getting that thing on Black Friday/ My Birthday!
Great guitar for the money! I've seen them used for as little as £700 now.
My observation...... For the money change the nut this 🎸 is 🔥😮 I don't think I've ever heard tones that brutal yet on your channel and believe me as much as I'm a fan of your channel I've heard sooo many killer tones you make this one just really stands out. I can hear every note even in those insane gain tones. Those BN pick-ups look insane . Badass playing and riffing as always brother have a blessed day dude 😎👊
They are just CRAZY punchy in the mid range! Thanks for watching!
Solar has a simular looking guitar called S1.7PB, I wonder which will be the best to buy
Great review and great guitar. I really would like a review of the RGD 61 ALET on DropA or another low tuning. I am thinking about getting that guitar but cant find any review with low tuning.
Lovely looking guitar that! I just checked and it's 26.5" scale so it should be able to handle Drop A no problem if you basically treat it like the bottom 6 strings of a 7 string. Match the string gauge etc.
@@GuitarCinemaOfficial yeah also do this with my 27.7" PRS. Its just weird to see no in depth review of that guitar like you do in your videos (especially with downtuning)
@@maxreis9534it's a model Live Louder stock so I will add it to the list and see what I can do! 😉
@@GuitarCinemaOfficial that would be absolutely amazing
beautiful axe dude and the pu's outstanding
Very unique pickups probably not for everyone but amazing at what they do.
Gibson used to offer something similar called cryogenically treated frets. Didn't last very long iirc. Not sure why and IF the treatment actually did something
positive.
Good review as always. Cheers!
Edit: Holy shit, man. You were not lying about those pickups. They sound absolutely superb!
I genuinely scoured the backpages of forums etc in preparing for this review to find out exactly what Subzero treatment involves but nobody knows. I will drop Ibanez customer support an email. Thanks for watching!
This sub zero thing is for stainless steel frets only. There are no nickel frets with sub zero feature. I own an Ibanez RGD71ALMS from the axiom line (the one with purple-blue-green finish, fishman fluence pickups and fanned frets). This has sub zero stainless steel frets and I can only tell good things about it. It feels slightly different in the fingers too. Hard to explain.
I almost bought an Ibanez back in the day
Noticed in the last few reviews you were using the Kemper. Falling out of love with the HeadRush or just wanted to change it up?........HeadRush Prime review?
There is something about the way the Kemper "feels" that I just can't quite get from other modellers. I blast it through a Zilla 2x12 on the floor behind me for the playing sections and it just has that instant response and punch of a real amp. I can certainly get tones of equal or better quality from the Headrush (See the full review of the Prime on the channel) but never the same feel. It's a subtle thing, maybe its all in my head..
Bareknuckles 👏
Crazy honky!
That action looks horrible or is that just a bad photo ?
It was a touch on the high side.
Another great informative video. I prefer the Japanese made. As an ESP LTD guitar fan, I really like this Ibanez guitar, but I prefer the Japanese one. I believe these two Ibanez (Indonesia and Japan) it has an exact same story with LTD and E-II guitars which the quality is very noticeable. Keep up the great work bro.
Yep very similar brands and I believe the Indonesian stuff is actually made in the same factory! Thanks for watching!
The problem with Ibanez is they unnecessarily release too many very similar guitar models with not very different specs or character. For god's sake why to produce so many prestige models and do bulls..t.
Do create couple of class/models for each body shape and that's more than enough. Today's prestiges are like usual RG series 10 years ago
I still remember when made in Japan was for the cheaper stuff like the Jackson Performer series!
You ain't the CEO relax
I dont get it. If they had added stainless steel frets and a graphtech nut this guitar would have been perfect. At least the but man. Buyng a graphtech nut costs 10 bucks for us endconsumers. Ibanez would get these for so cheap.
Even the 2K Prestige doesn't have stainless frets. They are brilliantly made at least.
@@GuitarCinemaOfficial it's like ibanez just keeps making up excuses to not use stainless steel. Schecter has them esp ltd has them, jackson has them
@@Quastenflossler As I said in the video personally I'm not fussed about SS Vs Nickel but I know buyers at a certain price demand them nowadays so they definitely need to move with the times soon!
I have this guitar. The nut is crap. A pain to get it tuned and impossible to keep it in tune. Tried with vaseline and graphite, only a slight improvement. Going for the graphtec now
@@paulhoffmann4521 yea like i said. Should be industry standart. Or bone nut but whats the point in going with that?
Du no why but I hate Ibanez guitars except the bass section,don't like the fretting space especially higher oneck