Ibanez RG270DX

Bought for $300CDN. Made in Korea 2001. 24 frets with a black finish. 1 volume, 1 tone. H/S/H 5 selector. Powersound pickups. Bass wood body with roswood fretboard. I think maple neck not sure. ILT1 bridge or a lo-trs II, not sure. Single locking bridge. incredibly fast wizard II neck.

I play everything, mainly metalcore though. I use a H&H studio 50 watt amp. The pickups are s***. Its very low output and not versatile at all. The bridge clean sound is terrible. But with distortion its not that bad. However if you switch it to a dimarzio it sounds much better.

The action was perfect when i got it. It has a mediocre finish i guess. The pickups were finely adjusted. The amazing thing about the guitar is that the wizard II neck is incredible for fast soloing. The bridge is SO BAD though. i ended up stopping the tremelo bridge to a hardtail. that way it works so much better.

This guitar scratches easily but yes, this is not bad for giging. The hardware EXCEPT THE BRIDGE will last forever. The strap buttons come loose but once you tighten it it will be fine. I dont think this needs a backup guitar though.

With my previous guitar the customer support was excellent.

Dont EVER buy this guitar unless you are going to hardtail it(its pretty simple) or put a ofr. If you have a good amp the sound wont be too bad. I love the neck and how light it is. Its good for the price.

Not sure of the year of this Ibanez RG270DX, with it's Wizard neck, but it is a great guitar! I found it used for $259.00 in black and in great shape. Basswood body. I replaced the stock pickups after around a year of use. They were fine but nothing special. This guitar has a Hum - Single - Hum type configuration, so I really did some looking to see just what I wanted to make this beautiful little guitar into a beast. I wound up selecting a Tony Iommi Gibson PU in chrome for the bridge a black Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless in the middle position and an Nickle Angus Young Gibson PU in the Neck. The Floyd Rose licensed trmelo was tuned just right, but not replaced, or altered. The neck is maple with a rosewood board. You can see my son play this guitar on You Tube just go to lilhendrix132

OK before, but sounds awesome now!
Amps- Dr. Z 18 watt combo maz Jr. and Marshall stacks

The black finish is very shiny and gets fingerprints easily but so what! You can clean it quickly with computer monitor screen cleaner.

A very rugged guitar, but small string will sometimes break for wild divebombing and dragonforce type stuff - to be expected though.

Bought it used and have my own luthier. www.macphersonguitarworks.com
Denis shielded the insides against static buildup and she plays fine now with no noise.

Guitars - Gibson 1991 SG Junior with Iommi, Fender Strat Highway One with Custom 69's signed by Abagail Ybarra, !997 Fender Telecaster American Standard SB, Washburn EA9B acoustic.

It must be from vintage times, as I don't see them around much, but it was a great buy when I found it.

If anything an Original Floyd Rose tremelo would be a nice addition and maybe an EVH detuner.

I got this guitar from ebay and it was originally black but it have some paint damage so i repainted it white with a black pin stripe

ive also replaced the single locking floyd with a double locking had to do very minor sanding in the bridge cavity to make the double locking fit

ive replaced the neck pickup with a seymour duncan 59

its the h/s/h pickup up config

the sound out of the stock neck pickup wasnt that great thats y i replaced it with a seymour duncan 59 which isnt the best idea because that pickup doesnt come split and i didnt find that out till it was to late so now the 2nd postion on the guitar is blank but im gonna re wire it so its just the single coil instead of the half the neck and single like it comes stock the singles better then expected but not great and the bridge is actually not bad its really easy to get pinch harmonics all over the place but theres not much bass which i like

since i replaced the bridge after repainting it the action is ok i still need to get it set up cause when you take the bridge off you lose all the settings

nothings wrong with it so far

Its a amazing guitar espically if you get it used and take the money you save and mod it the double locking trem was a worth while upgrade you can get a kit for 50 dollars with a brand new double locking licensed trem and replace all the pic ups over time the neck and single coil first because they are the worst out of the 3 but its a very universal guitar that looks and can sound great

heard it all before... black finish, 24 frets, gay shark tooth inlays, basswood body, blahblahblah :)
i changed the pickups to emg 81/60 and had the (sucky) floyd rose fixed because i just don't need it...

i play black metal... this was my second guitar when i started out playing in bands at 14, in a thrash/death metal band. and it still lasts me, though i made a pickup change to emg 81/60. but even the "powersound"-pickups didn't sound that bad at all. i used them for several years... quite mediocre, i would say, but not TOO bad.
fitted with reasonable pickups, this guitar really is a working tool. it won't let you down. though i'm quite picky i don't hate anything about the sound of this guitar.
i use it along with a mesa dual rectifier and the fitting mesa standard 4x12... nothing more to say, i guess ;)

everything fine, just needed some tiny little neck and action adjustment as i prefer a pretty low action. didn't even have to take it to the store... and... i mean, after 7 years everything's still fine... never had to re-adjust it somehow...

believe me, it will... it has never let me down.

never had to deal with them.

been playing for 12 years now and been through a whole lot of styles... this guitar is quite a nice one that (considering some slight modifications, based on your personal needs) will last you for years... i own a custom made telecaster and a gibson sg standard... the ibanez doesn't stand back that much. for (black) metal, this is my perfect tool.
to say the least: this isn't celebrity, this one is working class.

Don't know the exact year mine was built, guess it must have been 2002, made in Korea.
24 frets, Solid-body, 2 PSND Hums, one PSND SC, 5-way toggle-switch...I think the reviewers before have basically mentioned every stock feature ;)
Escept that mine has a very interisting paintjob on it, can't tell whether it's green, silver, blue or grey, suppose it's something in between...I think at Ibanez they call it Moon Shadow or something..

The sounds that you can get out of this baby really cover a wide variety - from Blues to Metal (which is what I used to play). Most of the time I ran it through my V-Amp, straight into the mixer, without using a guitar amp, and it sounded good. I also played it before a Marshall Valvestate 8100, sounded even better.
THe pickups are - don't believe anything else - pretty good. I mean they don't come close to Duncans or DiMarzios, but for the fact that they're stock, they really sound decent.
What concerns me a little is that the guitar in its whole doesn't have that plenty of low-end, but that can be easily regulated with the EQ on your Amp.

I bought mine at a local music store and they set it up all right, only thing I needed to do was set the action a little lower so I could play solos more easily. After doing that I was immediately amazed by the thin neck and the great playability.
Finish rocks, the color looks great in stagelight and the inlays are cool, used some furniture polish on the whole instrument and everything sparkles and shines :D

I've gigged with this axe I don't know how many times and it never let me down or go out of tune. Hardware is built solidly, the volume and tone knobs never needed to be changed as with my other Ibanez, Very dependable.

Been playing for about 5 years, this was my first guitar that I've invested a little more money in and it was competely worth it. I don't know what the other reviewers did wrong with their RG s but mine is solid, dependable and in great overall condition, even after 4 years of playing.
I love absolutely everything about this guitar, although there were moments when I wished it had a little more sustain. but nevermind.
I own an Ibanez SZ520QM as my new weapon of choice so I'm selling this one, but I bet I'll be crying when I ship it ;)
I really link some really good memories with this baby, one could say it's become a part of me....

24 frets with cool tooth inlay
double locking floyd rose
2 humbucker, 1 sing power sound pickups
5 way pickup selectorglimmering blue finnish

pickups surprisingly good. no way as bad as some folk say. i can get very thick smooth distortion for riffing on bridge humbucker and sweet sound for soloing of the neck pickup plus sounds good on clean with the single.

no complaints. looks amazing and fret inlays are so much cooler than the dots on the standard 270.

only had it a few week no complaints whatsoever.

never needed to call them but i like them anyway.

no complaints at all. absolute beast and very good value. good rock guitar.

made in korea, has 24 jumbo frets. h/s/h configuration, licensed floyd rose tremelo, 5-way pickup selector, volume, tone controls.

this guitar no sustain. NONE. except the low e string which rings forever, but any other note is only audible for about 3 seconds max. as soon as i can afford it, i'm upgrading the pickups. despite having no sustain, you can get a pretty decent amount of sounds out of it besides the obvious metal tones.

very nice low action, and this neck is amazing. especially for the price, i only paid $199 for it and my $700 jackson doesn't feel this good. the neck on this one is a little fatter and rounder, more comfortable for me. jackson necks are paper-thin and flat, mine in particular is very short. the double sharkfin inlays are very nice, and the white binding really make this guitar neck-tastic, i can't emphasize that enough. also the neck is very long and great for downtuned playing. i keep the ibanez in b and my jackson in e or e flat. playability is excellent. the particular color of the body and head are solid black

i've banged this thing around quite a bit over the past 2.5 years that i've had it. it's pretty durable so far, except that i accidentally set it down with the tremelo arm pointing towards the ground so it messed that all up to where the arm is useless. i just unscrewed it and haven't bothered trying to fix it since i never used it.

i bought the guitar used, so it already had a fair amount of scratches all over the body (how someone scratches the hell out of the entire body -front and back- i do not know) but nothing to complain about, that stuff doesn't bother me.

never dealt with them

i've been playing for about 8 years, the only other electric i have is a jackson randy rhoads rr3. i play them through an ancient fender champ or some big old traynor amp and a basic korg multieffects pedal/danelectro chorus/dod compressor. the sustain on this guitar is so bad it's retarded, compared to the jackson which only has duncan design pickups. it can, however, get many more varieties of sounds than the jackson. plays excellent though, i'm sure it will kick a lot of ass as soon as i upgrade the pickups. playability far outweighs the sound, but for the price i guess it's good.

24 frets
raspberry color
black hardware
shark tooth inlay
wizard II neck(slim as hell)
locking trem
h/s/h pickups configuration
powersound pickups

i own this guitar, a schecter blackhawk and a dean custom zone, and thisis by far the best one. it came with stock powersound pickups which are pretty good for some blues work but i play mostly heavy metla/hardcore...so i needed a pickup change. i went with the emg 81/60 combo and took out the single coil. sounds like a beast.

the neck is what really stands out for me. i just love the feel, its perfect for playing some lamb of god or killswitch engaged. the inlays are pretty cool too. when i bought the guitar the whole licensced floyd thing was broken. it was fixed though very easily. stays in tune

iv had this guitar for about 4 years now...its plays just as good(if not better) than it did four years ago. iv never had anything go wrong after i got the floyd fixed.

havent had to deal with them yet

great guitar....ibanez are the way to go for all styles of music

2001 Korea, Korean Ibanez can be good, just look around. Although if you have the money, I advise to go Jap.
Good old 24, for shredding pHun
5 Way pickup switch, tone and Volume - would have been nice to have seperate volume controls for Morello style stuff, but then again the guitar would be more of a "knob" than an instrument ;)
H/S/H Pickups - Crappy Ibanez passive Powersounds 1/S/2, your NOT buying the guitar for these ;)
Basswood body, check other reviews for rest, i forget ;)
Fully locking Floyd, stays in tune quite well, but not a good as Edge bridges.
Wizard 2 neck, nice, thin and pHast :D

The Powersounds, are designed for all styles and kind of suck at all of them. They are muddy pieces of crap. Basically, I always ended up with Treble heavy setups in order to accomadate this.
This has nothing to do with the wood, Basswood is anything but bassy. It is pretty much average in bass/middle/treble, and is a GOOD TONE WOOD, Ibanez use it in pretty much all Prestiege models - with the exception of the JEMS.

To put it straight, the initial sound is sub-par. My, #140 Encore sounds better and that is a shockingly bad guitar. But, this is what all Ibanez are like and why they are perfect low/mid range guitars. Buy a model like this and replace the pickups, they fit the p.o.s powersounds on more expensive guitars so if you find a good lowend RG your in business.

EMG 81/S/60 or 85's would turn this guitar into one mofo beast, DiMarzio ToneZone's are great in the Bridge also. A good set of Duncans would do the trick.
But that is where the versatility is, change the 3 pickups and you could cover ALL styles.

And for the record I use - Marshall TSL100 Head /w Marshall 2x12, Fender 15R for practice, korg Pandora 5 (headphone pHun) and had a little Marshall MS2 but they suck. Also tried this in a lovely 1970's Vox AC120.

Rated this an 8. With your own pickups it would be 9.5/10, but the Powersounds bring it down.

Mine was setup nicely, but it had been at a the Musicgrounds for a couple of months so I guess they will have set it up right.

Only problems are the noisy tone/volume controls and pickup selector.

The guitar would be alright for a gig virgins first time, but it really should be a backup. If your a serious giger you'd want something alittle better ;)

Floyd-Rose - can be a liability for string changes though...

Never delt with them. Never needed to :P

6 Years of Playing, but my gear collection is alittle small due to - money - problems hehe. Student loan shall increase my collection though :D

Guitars
This
Encore Les Paul fake crap
Soon to be ESP HC-1000 (ooo sweet) and possibly Ibanez S (loan :P)

Ampwise
TSL 100 /w 2x12
fender 15r
MS2 (poo)

FX

Korg Pandora (nice tool)
Crybaby Q wah
Boss Supershifter
Digitech Digital Delay
Marshal Guv'nor

and a tuner :D, and good leads.

I bought my RG270DX off ebay (big mistake) for $300 in 2000. I thought it was a great deal at the time (chalk it up to inexperience), but now I know that sitting down and actually playing a guitar before buying is a much better idea. Everything about the guitar is standard for the 270DX (24 frets, HSH pickup config, cheap pickups, cheap tuners, etc.), except mine has a dark metallic green-ish color that I haven't seen or read about anywhere. Maybe it's the special addition, I don't know? I don't know when this was made. When I got it, the pickups had some corrosion on them, the frets showed slight wear, the intonation was off, and things were generally out of whack. I wish this guitar was as nice as some of the other reviewers made the 270 seem. The guy that owned this before obviously didn't bother taking care of it.

I used to play this thing through a Boss MT2 Metal Zone and a Randall 15 watt practice amp, and every single setting sounded like clanky garbage (with or without MT2), although the Metal Zone improved the gain and distortion considerably. I couldn't get a decent sound out of it then, and I can't now, even with my new Marshall AVT50 combo (once again w/ MT2). The clean channel shows much more promise than the distortion, but still worthless. This guitar is simply incapabable of producing any worthwhile sounds. The neck pickup is extremely muddy through any channel, and the bridge pickup is clanky/harsh/super bright through any channel. For example, when fretting a note on the high e string on the 12th fret, a sound resembling the screaming of a dieing cat is emitted, sustaining for about 3 seconds, and then muting all together. I've decided it's good that it sustains for only 3 seconds. Even though the tonal might of a Marshall improved the tone greatly (it is a Marshall, after all), the tone coming out of the guitar is still incredibly unrefined and harsh.

Once again, there is really nothing good to say about it here. The action was super high toward the bridge and very low near the nut. Being new to the guitar world, it took me quite a while to figure out that the neck was very bent, and the input jack was broken. Seeing as how I knew nothing about troubleshooting guitar problems, I took it to a guitar shop and told the guy to fix the jack and troubleshoot/fix any problems he encountered. He ended up totally shafting me; he just fixed the input jack and adjusted the intonation a little bit but charged me about 150 bucks. So here I am, 5 years later, distrusting guitar shops and pissed off at my crappy Ibanez. I learned how to adjust the Floyd Rose, but I still don't know how to fix the neck problem. The pickups are still oxidizing, the gears in the tuners have all but completely gone out, and it still sounds like a shrieking cat. I have to tune it every day. On a more positive note (the only one), the green-metallic finish is flawless!

I can actually say something positive here! The guitar has held up to 5 years of solid playing very well. The finish has been quite scratch resistant, and the hardware, although cheap, has never actually broken in half or anything. The strap buttons are solid, and I've never broken a string while playing it. I can only assume that with proper care this thing could hold up to live playing for a long time (but never without a backup).

Never dealt with the company.

Despite being built quite solidly, this guitar is absolutely ruined by it's sound quality and fit/finish. The electronics are trash, and the neck is still very bent. The input jack has broken three times. I am very reluctant to take it into a shop, and I don't know anyone that knows anything about repairing guitars. At this point, I don't even think it is worth repairing. If anyone knows why the action is so low on top and so high on bottom, please contact me. Maybe the truss rod needs adjusting? If this were stolen, I'd be awefully surprised, then I'd laugh at the thief's misfortune. After playing 5 years, I really, really need something better, but I'm poor. This guitar does no justice to my Marshall AVT50; in fact, the AVT is probably pissed because it is hooked up to this guitar. I pretty much hate everything about this guitar, it makes me angry every day, and sometimes I just stop in the middle of playing because it sounds/plays so terrible. I regret it so much that I didn't get to play this before I bought it off eBay; I might have known better even though I was a newbie. What a waste of 300 bucks.