Ibanez RGA8?

[muckypup1]

With all this lower tuning I am wondering when we will start using 15" speakers ....lol

If you wanna tune that low play a bass!

Haha, I just want to play some groove metal, but really really detuned groove metal lol

I wouldn't mind using 15" speakers haha, Dimebag used them

 

[muckypup1]

My Schecter V8 has a 26.5" scale and it does me just fine.

I've tried one, didn't like it at all. Then again, I owned the Rg2228 for a while and didn't like it either. The scale's just too short and the bridge sucks. The pickups on the RGA were pretty horrible too, even compared to the Emg 808's I didn't like either.

Now see, here my fucking problem is I'm getting 2 completely different opinions here about the scale

I want this guitar. Really, really bad.

You've caught my GAS then

 

[crazykarl]

From experience, the rg2228 tunes to F# just fine, so the RGA8 should be fine too. I dunno bout those pickups though...

 

[dcb]

pickups on this one had to be returned on the model we received. they did not work -> no sound at all... even our luthier couldnt fix that.

so the new one worked, but they like ass... worst thing about this : the bridge has some serious problems - qualitywise : id save for the rg2228 (had this baby now for almost 4 years)

off topic : i was offered a custom PRS 8 String... could get it for 7K$.... man i need to sell some stuff right now, haha.

 

[mot666]

I just got an rg2228. great guitar.

 

[muckypup1]

I just got an rg2228. great guitar.

The price difference though -

Rg2228 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/produ...=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base

Rga8 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/produ...=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base

Its way too much for me to buy the RG2228

 

[DominikJW]

the pickups needs to be changed as soon as you get the guitar. I got the RGA7 and those semi-active 3 V pickups are the worst invention ever...

Plus fucking ONE. I even managed to break them when tried to install two 18V batteries and get rid of that ridiculous RGA EQ shit. Now I've got 707 and couldn'y be happier

 

[muckypup1]

Plus fucking ONE. I even managed to break them when tried to install two 18V batteries and get rid of that ridiculous RGA EQ shit. Now I've got 707 and couldn'y be happier

Dude, I just checked your soundclick link, what the hell did you use for the Lithium song?!?! It sounds so good!

 

[Harry Hughes]

The price difference though -

Rg2228 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/produ...=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base

Rga8 http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/produ...=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base

Its way too much for me to buy the RG2228

Personally I feel the Japanese build quality and far superior neck make the 2228 a MUCH better guitar.
2228s are floating around on the used market, so snap one up.

 

[mot666]

you get what you pay for

 

[DominikJW]

Dude, I just checked your soundclick link, what the hell did you use for the Lithium song?!?! It sounds so good!

That was my old 7321 with D-Sonic, quad tracked, some ampsims, don't remember which ones extacly Sounded good but I wanted kinda different tone, more beefy, tight and smooth so I traded the 7321 for a RGA7 and swapped the bridge p-u with a 707. I'm going to use it to track guitars for an upcoming EP of my band, so stay tuned!

 

[Ola Englund]

Plus fucking ONE. I even managed to break them when tried to install two 18V batteries and get rid of that ridiculous RGA EQ shit. Now I've got 707 and couldn'y be happier

Yeah the EQ is useless. Cuts the mids way to high. I stuffed a couple of Blackouts in mine... It sounds ace now.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Haha, thats kind of what I want to do, like tune the whole guitar down a step or two, so the low F#, becomes D#

Do you think that a 27 inch scale would be long enough to tune down a bit?

You want to tune down to bass standard tuning down a half step and want to know if 27" is fine... Given that bass guitars typically use a .100 gauge string and a scale length of 34", I'd guess not.

 

[Notuern]

.. Looking at those graphs for the EQ, its virtually the opposite of a TS = It makes the sound less tight, and you wont be able to get a single harmonic out of the guitar.
WTF