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Ibanez RGA8 8-String Electric Guitar  

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Explore the deeper, darker side of your musical soul.

The 8-string Ibanez RGA8 Electric Guitar boasts a carved-top mahogany body for tonal warmth, strong sustain, and playing comfort. The 5-piece maple/walnut neck has the surprisingly fast and effortless to play Ibanez Wizard II-8 profile.

The 27" scale facilitates the lower tunings used in modern heavy rock music and the 24-fret rosewood fretboard is dressed with dot inlays. The black finish and black chrome hardware add a sinister vibe to this metal machine.

Ibanez LZ8 pickups
The RGA8 is armed with Ibanez LZ8 humbucking pickups that are specially-sized for 8-string guitars with a wider magnetic field and produce a tight and warm sound. The RGA8 guitar's active pickups' ceramic magnets deliver a modern high-output fat sound, yet are tweaked to also produce a balanced clean sound. An active EQ circuit with a simple-to-operate on-off switch provides pure tone free of noise. A mid-scoop toggle switch provides additional tonal variety and punch. 2 AA batteries operate both the active pickups and EQ circuitry .

FX Edge III-8 bridge
The 8-string Ibanez guitar's durable FX Edge III-8 double locking fixed bridge has a low-profile for playing comfort and maximum vibration transfer, while also providing stability, tonal sustain, and helping to make string changes happen quickly.

Case sold separately.

Features

  • Style: Solidbody double-cutaway
  • Body: Carved mahogany
  • Finish: Black
  • Neck Material: 5-piece maple/walnut
  • Neck Type: Bolt-on Wizard II-8
  • Scale length: 27" (685.8 mm)
  • Neck radius: 15.75" (400 mm)
  • Width at Nut: " 2.16 (55 mm)
  • Frets: 24 jumbo frets
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood
  • Inlay: Pearl dot inlays
  • Bridge: FX Edge III-8 double-locking fixed
  • Neck pickup: Active 8-string Ibanez LZ8-N humbucker
  • Bridge pickup: active 8-string Ibanez LZ8-B humbucker
  • Controls: Master volume, mid-scoop toggle and 3-way pickup blade selector.
  • Tuners: Die-cast
  • Hardware: Black

Order a metal machine that is not for the meek.

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Awesome Guitar!

| Review By: Brian Ailport | 2 months, 2 weeks ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Features:

Fun to play!  I've been playing 7 string guitars for about 10 years and thought why not?  The RGA8 is a well built easy to play guitar.  I've tried every brand and model 8 string and the Ibanez line up is most comfortable to play.  Thin fast neck, decent weight balance similar to a 7 string, and great overall out of the box sound.  Fine tuners are great.  Active pickups.  What more do you need?

Quality:

Feels well built.  Neck is thin fast easy to play and straight as an arrow.  Bridge with fine tuners is a great option.  Locking nut insures it stays in tune.  Hardware feels solid.  Tuners are tight.  Overall very pleased with quality.

Value:

The feel and playability of this guitar makes it well worth the price. 

Overall:

I love this guitar!  Well built and ready to rock out of the box.  Alot of people change out the pickups but I think if your amp is at least a 100 watt tube amp the sound is clear and powerful enough already.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
30 years plus.
Style of music you play:
Guitar Instrumental.
Where you live:
Arlington Heights, IL

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1115070

RGA8 better than expected!

| Review By: Michael Mark | 4 months, 1 week ago

1 people out of 1 found this review helpful

Features:

The wizard neck is smooth and thin, the FX Edge III-8 fixed bridge with dual locking is awesome for staying in tune and having a mahogany body is a plus. Stock pickups need to be replaced and you need to find a case that will fit.

Quality:

I've been using mostly Ibanez guitars over the past 19 years I've been playing and this guitar is definitely of Prestige quality. The construction is solid and overall it felt awesome out of the box. First thing I did was change the factory tuning to EBEADGBE and adjusted the action. Plays super smooth and feels amazing. The drawback are no case and the pickups are definitely lacking. I replaced them with Seymour Duncan Blackouts and got a Gator case and now its perfect!

Value:

For the price, you can't beat it. All you really need to do is change the pickups and its killer.

Overall:

Now this guitar is perfect for me! I recommend the RGA8 to anyone interested in extended range guitars or going from a 7 to 8 string.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
19 yrs of guitar playing
Style of music you play:
rock/metal/jazz
Where you live:
carrboro, nc

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1107323

physics are great.. electronics are little no go...

| Review By: Omar Khan | 10 months, 3 weeks ago

5 people out of 7 found this review helpful

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as i said again.. just change the pickups.

I just bought this guitar about two weeks from now.. and i love the way i can move around the whole board .. it's like butter man.. smooth and every thing.. but i didn't like the sound of the pickups there.. may be it's me... cuz i never fell in love with an active humbuckers before..

little heavy but you will get used to it in the first 5 min.

last words i would say the best guitar.. just change the pickups.. then you'll get a monster between your hands.

wood is amazing.. just the elecitronics.... are a no go.

you sure can get alot with it's value.. but i would say you can get such a guitar with it.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
3 years.
Style of music you play:
all kinds of metal.
Where you live:
iraq.

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1024038

Really, Ibanez?

| Review By: JHMYX666 | 11 months, 2 weeks ago

7 people out of 25 found this review helpful

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I must admit, I typically expect much better from Ibanez, especially for a guitar at this price.     i usually like their instruments...BUT NOT IN THIS CASE!!!!     Tone is crap, electronics suck, locking bridge system is annoying, and the neck is almost unplayable.

It was completely atrocious!     The electronics couldn't handle the low notes, despite the extended scale, the overall tone was very muddy, and the neck felt like a caveman's club (and I have LONG fingers!).     I was really disappointed with this instrument.     Save yourself the insanity and go buy a Schecter.     The Damien 8 isn't bad, the Devil Spine-8 is awesome, and the Hellraiser C-8 is beyond amazing.     If Schecter isn't your thing, give Agile a shot.

 

I wouldn't bother with an 8-string from Ibanez.     The only reason Dino Cazares and Meshuggah get a good sound from their Ibanez guitars is because they are all custom shop models, and these guys are using top of the line amplification and studio effects.

Neck - Almost unplayable.     Ibanez is generally known for their necks, and in this case, I'd say they came up short...that's putting it LIGHTLY, I might add.

 

Electronics - Active/Passive toggle is completely useless.     Passive mode sounds god-awful, active mode is mediocre at best.     Pickups in general were highly disappointing.

 

Bridge - A double-locking bridge system has very little use if it's not actually a tremolo system.     The bridge on this guitar was a major annoyance to me, and wasn't very comfortable to mute on, either.

 

Tuners - One word:     CHEAP.

I really would have expected better from a reputable company like Ibanez.     Better luck next time...

Only if I were looking for an el-cheapo beater 8-string.

Do you own the product?:
No
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
8 years experience, Metal and rock guitarist
Style of music you play:
Groove Metal, Death Metal, Power Metal, Punk, Hard
Where you live:
Northern Virginia

Did you find this review helpful? yes no873696

Solid neck and platform, useless electronics.

| Review By: of-the-Island | 1 year, 3 months ago

5 people out of 7 found this review helpful

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The neck  is great... I expected that from an Ibanez over $400. The frets are dressed nice, and action/intonation was great right out of the box. The pickup's and controls sound... dead. They produce a sound more like a digital saw type sound than anything resembling the natural, articulate chimes, harmonics and tones from steel strings. I am playing through a Budda Superdrive 80 so it is definitely not my amp. But for 800 dollars - even if it is entry level - should have some decent enough pickup's to play through a nice amp. I was excited to play this thing but I'd rather play it acoustically. Back to the store we go.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
15 years of playing, 4 years building guitars
Style of music you play:
progressive, latin, jazz, experimental,
Where you live:
Florida

Did you find this review helpful? yes no986002

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