Ibanez RG470

Ibanez 2001 model. Made in Japan. 24 frets, solid top, volume and tone knobs. 5 way selector. H-S-H pickups. with V1-S1-V7 pickups.

The sound of the guitar overall is great. But the stock pickups kinda hide the real beast inside. I changed the pickup with dimarzio fred in the neck position and tone zone in the bridge position. I love it. Especially the fred pickup. I am using it mostly straight to my vox amp. Occasionally I use boss me-8, boss od/dist. and delay. It sounds wonderful with each of them. The guitar will sound great for rock type music, also truly holds other kind of styles. Ive been playing for 10 years, thats why I kinda know about guitar playing styles =).

The factory set was kinda high so I brought it up to professional for re set-up. Everything after that was great! The wizard II neck feels like way expensive guitar. Slick and fast. The paint is wonderful, but I dont know if it will last long since I only bought it for 3 months.

I would give this guitar a high rating especially since I bought it for $300 but truly can fight the sound of more expensive guitars. Dont really expect much for the stock pickups though. The stock pickups still considered great compared to other standard/stock pickups in this price range. I would say the guitar is comparable to higher prices ibanez models like the RG 1570 prestige.

Japanese made. 2001/2 basswood body, maple neck w/ rosewood fretboard, 24 frets, lo-trs floyd rose trem, H/S/H pickups configuration (passive- V7 neck, S1 middle, V8 bridge), 5 way switch, 1 vol 1 tone, Titanium Ice colour (sparkly light purple), cosmo black hardwear. i'll give it a 9 because no guitar has the perfect features for everything, but the finish and features are all high quality.

i use this guitar for metal (dream theater type stuff) and the pickups suit this style perfectly. the humbuckers sound rich and are very responsive, good considering they are stock pickups. i prefer the bridge humbucker because it copes with distortion better, but the neck isn't bad either. the single coil adds a lot more variety to the sounds you can get, but i don't use it as mush because of my prefered sound. this guitar is certainly not noisy, however i have heard better. i would prefer slightly more powerful pickups.

this guitar had just been bought by a freind when i swapped my jackson jdr-94 concept for it. straight out of the shop the action was pretty high, as was the bridge pickup but i set it up to my liking in no time. there are a couple of dents from use in the shop but the only flaw that i can see in the building process is the locking nut is very slightly out of line with the edge of the fret board on the bass E side, however this makes no noticable diference to the way the guitar plays. not the toughest of finishes judging by the dents.

it's an ibanez - it'll last twice as long as a jackson. all the hardwear seems totally flawless and durable. the finish won't wear but it won't take hard knocks (this doesn't bother me though cos it's the way it feels to play that counts). i changed the strap buttons for schaller straplocks (always a good idea). i would never gig without a backup incase of strings breaking, but i am totally confident that this guitar is dependable.

1 year warranty i think.
never dealt with ibanez.

this guitar was well worth the swap. i got the jackson 2nd hand for #250. i have always prefered ibanez to any other guitar brand. the Japanese RGs are built to last, and the position of the controls is better than on jacksons (no knocking the volume when you need to flick the switch quickly). it would be hard to find a better guitar for the price of this one. jacksons may look a bit better, but you get loads more quality guitar for the money with ibanez. i might change the pickups later though.

mine's made in june 2001. standard rg features - new penny finish, which is basically copper like. (24fret maple wizard neck with rosewood fretboard, hsh pickup config(v7,s1,v8), 5 way switch, volume, tone. low trs bridge.

let me start off by saying that this guitar, and other ibanez guitars and most other imports are totally fuckin' gay and not at all worth full price or even fuckin' half price in many cases. i would have never paid fuckin' 450 for this shit, i got it for 200 and i bought it as a project guitar, and for that it fuckin' kills now. the bridge is basically locked down(5 springs, eraser to hold it up), it used to go out of tune like a bastard and spit strings.

anyway, back to sound. with the stock pickups i'd give it a 6. decent stock pickups but lack output and character. but they're not HORRIBLE like some other stock pickups, like epiphone for instance with their wax potted donkey turds.

but anyway, the stock pickups had to go, now this thing has a dimarzio paf pro in the neck and a duncan distortion in the bridge. i'm gonna change the middle single coil to a cool rails but am not sure what to put to get a huge range of sounds on the guitar. maybe even a texas special or dimarzio virtual vintage blues. the pafpro and the DUNCAN distortion are probably one of the best matched pairs in existense, especially in this guitar, it's prog rock heaven. the basswood body takes away some grind and adds some roundness to the tone. i noticed that right away when i plugged in my charvel with the duncan distortion and the thing actually managed to SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME(that's when i figured out why it's called the duncan distortion). now i rate this guitar highly. it has a huge variety of usable tones, and will have more once my pushpulls arrive. stock, it's a decent instrument, but with or without modifications, i would not have paid a penny more than 200 for this shit. i'd rather get a 'deluxe' squier and do work on it the wood's probably from the same tree anyway.

first of all, as someone mentioned, this is totally fuckin' biodegradable!!!! the most horrible finish known to man, the bridge fades by itself. the finish falls off if you fuckin' play too many chords or something. and let's not even go to the setup. ibanez makes some of the worst guitars out there, and each and every one of them is jap. if you're 'lucky' yours is korean!!!!!!

mine has the bridge locked down, it spit strings at it's own free will(aside from changing colors) so now that's stopped. but also this helped me acheive the LOWEST FUCKIN' ACTION POSSIBLE. fuck lockin' trems they're gay anyway, especially ibanez bridges.

any guitar, including this one with the vomiting floyd, will withstand live playing. i don't see the difference between playing in front of people and playing in your bedroom, you're still playing the guitar, you're not mopping the floor with it at a gig...................well there are exceptions but those homosexuals(most ibanez fans infact) shouldn't be playing.
but anyway, the bridge has got to go, and it will, in a couple of months, me getting american floyd rose. i'm gonna have it sprayed with clear sealer, since the copper finish which is actually great looking, falls off like the chocolate layer on the icecreams when you take a bite. i would definitely gig with even the stock guitar though, most probably without the backup since i PLAY the guitar, not fuckin' dance with it and fuckin' have target practice or whatever.

i've heard so many bad things that i could write a book about them. personally i don' blame them for not picking up the phone. after a couple of phonecalls they probably realised they ship all the shit with colored primer on it. the fact that you need customer support shows there's something wrong. i never hear people callling fender for a new fuckin' left side for their strat because their pick knocked it out. but i'm not gonna rate them since i'm never gonna call the fags.

i've been playing for 2.5 years, probably all of it since playing guitars is all i do. i've gone through like 10 guitars now and i currently have 6.. i play straight through a marshall tsl602(yes all tube, no intels here). i know A LOT about gear and guitars etc now. i've made my major mistake in life(my ibanez s1540 with mods which ain't worth shit anymore) and i sure as hell know that any guy who likes the company ibanez is a huge fuckin' asshole, and any guy who actually pays full price for his ibanezs is a bigger fuckin' asshole. these guitars are worthless trash, fuck resale value, let's just talk about the guitar, half the paint is missing as you're paying for it. most never stay in tune, no matter how much you use the bridge(don't give me the you don't know what you're doing shit, i can fuckin' smoke you in my sleep). the pickups suck, sometimes the guitars are wired wrong(like my friend's rg3120). i picked up this as a project guitar when i saw it for 200 bucks, and after i'm done with it it'll be a good guitar, but otherwise, for 450 i'd rather buy a mexican fender, or a jackson(since i know how to pick 'em), or carvin and warmoth(great and AMERICAN). that's how everyone should go about with ibanez. buy 'em for like a hundred bucks in the used market since they have NO resale value, and rebuild 'em. otherwise they're horrible guitars.
i have no opinion on the overall rating.

Sparkly purple, H-S-H, 5way switch, lo-trs2 locking trem, 24 frets

I Play mostly punk/new metal on it but its also excellent for iron maiden, metallica, well, anythin u want really its so versatile. i run it through a zoom gfx4 fx pedal and a HH 100w professional power amp and a peavy 100w pa speaker. Any effect i can come up with the ibanez just makes it sound good. it is the best sounding guitar ive ever used in my 8/9 years experience, live, practicing and recording

The set-up and finish were excellent, my shiny new plaything!

OOH, heres where it fell flat on its face
1) the top strap nut comes loose frequently
2) the volume knob is a bit faulty, when turned all the way down it still gives out sound. you have to turn it back a bit to mute it.
3)It dosnt stay in tune as well as it should considering the locking nut!!
4) chips really easy due to soft body and im a clumsy mo fo

never used 'em

AWESOME ALL ROUND

Ibanez RG-470
2001 model made in Japan
Serial No. F0123139

I have had this guitar for about a year now

It has a Basswood body in a contoured strat type shape, slightly more "Metal" though. In a nice purple colour that looks a little sparkley close up.

25.5 inch scale Wizard II neck, maple with a rosewood fretboard with 24 jumbo frets and an AANJ(All Access Neck Joint)

Double locking floating trem system using the Lo-TRS licenced Floyd Rose trem

H-S-H, ibanez V7-S1-V8 passive pickups with a 5-way selector switch

Master volume and master tone knobs

Came with all the hex keys needed to do a full set up, got a free strap, spare strings and a couple of picks free too. No hardcase though

im giving it a 9 because it would be nice to have a hardcase with it

I mainly play rock/Metal, mostly a mix of power/thrash/prog/death metal although i do plenty of clean mellow stuff for recordings at uni and at home too. This guitar gives out some pretty good sounds given the right equipment, although it is mainly directed towards a rock/metal setting.

The stock pickups are pretty good, but lack that something that turns good tone into really good tone. And they are not the quietest pickups on the planet, not really noisey, just prone to feedback a little more.
The humbuckers in the bridge and neck are both using Alnico 5 magnets and have a fairly balanced output.

The Bridge pickup, to my ears, is the worst of the pickups. With my setup the high up can be a little too edgy, sometimes a bit harsh.I compesate for this by rolling the tone pot back about a quarter or a third and that sweetens up the high end.
Also the low end doesnt sound tight enough for me, and can get muddy at times.
Overall it comes off sounding a little thin, lacking body and being a bit overbright. Although it is a quite useable tone and cuts well.

The Neck humbucker is the better sounding pickup, its quite smooth sounding and full giving a pleasing lead tone, but the low end can get really muddy, especially if you are using lots of gain, but if you stick to higher notes for high gain lead parts it sounds great.
and it can sound a little too punchy when using it clean.
Overall it lacks personality and sound a bit sterile, Although it is definatly a good pickup, these are just niggles i have with it.

If you play lots of clean then using the "in between" sounds will work very well. settings 2 and 4 have a noticable drop in volume, not too much, but it can be really usefull for cleaning up an over driven sound. It sounds a lot cleaner than the humbuckers by them selves, has less punch and a slight twang or quack too it, these can be great used for a lush clean sound.

The tone knob is quite usefull for taming the bridge pickup or getting a slightly jazzier tone from the neck, but the volume isnt quite consitent and stops having much effect at about three quaters or more on.

im giving it a 7 because of those small niggles with the pickups. it is a great guitar, its just that those areas arent quite great

The loveley Purple finish is really nice, it came pretty much perfect, nice and shiney. Finger marks arent too much of a problem but the body is a little softer than some, probably because its made of basswood, so it dents a bit easier.

When i brought this guitar it was fitted with 9s and the action, intonation etc... were spot on. the nice low action made it really easy to play and the combination of the flat fretboard and jumbo frets makes it super easy to bend. Although some of the fret wire at the treble side is a little rough so you have to be carefull sliding up and down. its not too bad, just a little anoying.

The pickups were fairly well ajusted, but i did raise both humbuckers a little and balanced the pole pieces a little better.

The neck is a wizard II neck and is very similar to the wizard neck, its flat, wide and thin, but not as thin as the wizard neck, although the difference is only a couple of mm. I personaly prefer the slightly thicker profile of the wizard II and utra necks, they feel more comfy to me.
The AANJ and the really big lower cutaway alow pretty much totally unrestricted upper fret access, the next best thing to a neck-through

The Pickup selector is not noisey at all, although the plastic bit in the end did start to fall of after about 8 or 9 months, i just pushed it back on hard and it hasnt come off since.
The volume knob is a bit crackley but the tone knob it fine.

The top strap nut does come loose slowley, i have to tighten it a little every couple of weeks, no real big problem. theres no risk of the nut falling out, its just anoying

Im giving this a 7 because of the volume pot, the strap nut and rough fret wire edges.

I have played live with this guitar loads of times, plus a weekly practice were i get a little rough with the trem. Its held up fine so far.
I have giged without backups before as well and it was fine, although, having a floyd rose trem on it, i wouldnt advise using it without a backup because the strings take ages to change

The trem was the main problem at first, its a Lo-trs trem which has a bit of a bad reputation. its mainly the lo-trs II on the korean ibanez guitars that are really crap.
This trem isnt a perfect float trem, it slightly up tunes if i pull up on the bar and dont push down a little before letting go, i could most likley fix this by sharpening the knife edges but i havent found the time yet.
The other problem was that when i first got it the high E, B and sometimes the G strings would sometimes snap at the saddle it i pulled up on the trem bar too much. After i set the float angle on the trem properley it wasnt quite so bad but still happend.
This all changed after i switched to 10-46 gauge strings. now i can leave the strings on for a couple of months and abuse the trem loads and they are fine.

The strap buttons are big, and they arent angled like some, i have never ever had my strap fall off, not even once.

The finish, apart from a couple of dings, is as good as new.

I feel as that as long as i have a fairly new set of strings on, this guitar would not fail on stage

Im giving this an 8 because of the trem

Never dealt with them

I have been playing for around 7 years and i can play a fair bit of Satch and Vai stuff so im not a beginner, and although i havent had many guitars i have played plenty.

When i bought this guitar i had spent a couple of week trying out guitars at the, very few, local music shops. I played mainly Ibanez but also some B.C Rich, lower end Jackson, Yamaha and a few others and this came out on top.
It has all of the features i wanted. H-s-H pickups, floating floyd rose trem, great neck, 24 frets and a fairly light body.
It makes a great stage guitar that, when set up right with heavier strings, is very reliable. And the main thing is that its fun to play, it just feals really easy and unrestricted.

There are some bad points, the pickups and the trem mainly, but you can do a direct swap for an OFR(Original Floyd Rose) and some new pickups and it would rival many more expensive guitars.
It would be great if it came with these, but then it wouldnt be #450

Overall it as a great bang for buck guitar, it looks good and plays very well but im going to give this an 8 because it is definatly not perfect, even if it is cheapish

Ibanez RG470m Made in Japan, Standard 24 frets, 5-way pickup selector, solid pain finish, floyd rose bridge, locking nut, thin neck, no accesories.

The guitar sounds amazing with basically any amp. I have tried this guitar on Fender frontman 15 watts to my Marshall MG100DFX, the guitar sounds amazing and has a lotta tone. This guitars suits better for heavy music such as death, black metal etc. And many black/death metal guitarists use Ibanez RG470 (ex: Skinless)

Titanium ice finish, which is actually great as you can make it reflect any color you want using proper lightning. The guitar didnt have any problems except the screw hole for the strap buttons was huge, and the buttons didnt fit

Ibanez Rg470 isnt a reliable guitar considering the fact it takes 3 hours to retune and re-string my guitar because of the fuckin floyd rose bridge. The finish was awfull, and it has chipped from several places. The strap buttons sucked and i had them replaced because the screw hole for the straps was too big
On the bright side, the guitar didnt ecnounter any problem even with severe abuse. It has fallen several times on stage, but it didnt cause any trouble

Ibanez said that i could get it fixed at any ibanez authorized dealer, and i found out i couldnt ( i brought it online). But the people who i brought it from were nice enough to pay for the repairs

good for metal

This guitar comes with a Wizard II neck, basswood body, rosewood fretboard, 24 jumbo frets, Floyd Rose Licensed Double-Locking Tremolo, a V7 Humbucker at the neck, V8 Humbucker at the bridge, and a S1 Single-Coil pickup in the mid. 5-Way toggle switch, 1 volume and 1 tone knob. Mine has a sparkly copper-colored finish with black hardware.

I love this guitar. I run it thru my 535Q Crybaby, Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger, and Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Distortion into my little Peavey Envoy 110 amp. What can i say? For early Metallica, Slayer and other fast crunchy metal this thing can punch it. I've been tryin to tweak my setup for months now and couldn't seem to get much lead-way in terms of gettin a sound with scooped mid that didnt muddy up with bass or screach with treble and still get enough out-put to hear it. This guitar is the answer to my prayers. To keep it realistic, i'll give it a 9.....but thats just because they didnt include free EMG Actives with it :-)

Again, almost perfect. I'm really skeptical about floating tremolos, but with the action on this guitar i really dont care what i have to do to string it up and tune to perfection. The finish is beautiful and the actions low enough to do the stuff i need, but not so low that its riding down on the body when i do palm-muting (IMHO Fender sucks....) Only thing i can find to complain about....every now and then my fingers accidentally hit the volume knob....boo-hoo...

This guitar, like any good Ibanez would definetly withstand live torture. I can say much about deterioration since i just got it, but ive had to trouble with fairly-treated Ibanez guitars b4 so i dont predict a problem. I wouldnt gig it without a backup, as that is just stupid no matter how good of a guitar u think u have.

I've been playin for over 3 years now and this is the finest guitar ive ever had the privledge to own. I cant think of anything id wish for it to change except to have factory installed EMG actives, but hey....toilet seats arent made of gold either...peace out and happy playing

I think it was made in the year 2000 (if someone can tell me how to find out exactly pleas E-Mail me). It was made in Japan.
24 Jumbo frets, solid top, 1 volume, 1 tone, 5way selector, Pickups in H/S/H configuration made by Ibanez neck-V7 mid-s1 bridge-v8, Passive electronics, Purple-blue basswood body, Flamed Maple neck, Body style- super strat, Double locking floyed rose licensed tremolo called Lo Trs. The neck is called "Wizard" but in the catalog it says "Wizard II" but it's not ("Wizard" is better than "Wizard II").

I play matal, mainly leads: Kirk Hammet, Zakk Wyld, Glenn Tipton, Marty Friedman and so. I'm using Marshall MG15DFX amp and Marshall Jackhammer distortion/overdrive pedal. The stock PUs are lousy ones. The two humbackers sounds bassy and hollow: the one in the neck is muddy, the one in the bridge isn't hot enough and they both lacking "personality". The single coil is fine for clean - I cant tell for sure because I'm not an expert in "clean", but anyway it's not the kind of a guitar you want to use for clean.
I gave 6 to the PUs but to everything else I give 10 because when I'v changed the PUs it became a perfect guitar for my style!!!

I've bought it used so I don't know which flaws are from the factory but everything is functioning.

Everything looks like it would last.

I've been playing for a couple of years now. I had aSquire Stratocaster and an Epiphone SG both of which sucks. I went to the store to buy a Jackson (probably DXMG) but the were ono in stock and the salesman convinced me to buy this one which has "the same feats and quality and a lower price". If it was stolen I'd probably buyJackson instead, its stock PUs are better and besides Jacksons look cooler and have much better history.

Mine was made in Japan as it says "Japan" on the back of the headstock and all the tuners say Japan. I don't know what year, but it's a RG 570 TI it says? This is 2002 so I'm guessing it's a 2001 or 02 guitar.. I can't seem to find it on their web site though for the 2002 models, so I'm guessing a 2001!

It has a great thin maple neck with rosewood board, 24 frets that are huge which I love, etc.. The rosewood is killer on this guitar.. It's a purple color with specs of glitter or something.. very light colored purple.. Very nice.. Basswood body, low TRS trem.. which stays in tune great so far, etc.. Has a 5 way switch, one volume and one tone.. Great set up.. HSH picups.. The brdige is an Ibanez v8 Humbucker, then a V1 I think it is single coil in the middle and a V7 in the neck.. The pickups are a little muddy in my humble opinion, but I've always played with high output EMG's or Duncan Distortions, etc.. I think I'm going to put in either a Dimarzio Tone Zone or Evolution in the bridge.. If anyone has a suggestion of the two, please let me know! Email me please!

Sounds great so far.. Really acoustically loud.. Like my old wolfgang really.. I think it will sound better once I install new pups and I'm going to install them directly in the body of the guitar like my old wolfgang and then block the trem maybe although I do love to raise the pitch of the note when jamming, so maybe not..hehe.. It's a tad bright in the bridge pickup when distorted, or a tad harsh I think.. Maybe the mid is harsh.. I don't know, but to me it's a tad thin sounding and harsh and I figure it is the trem that does this..
The guitar sound pretty good really.. for most anything.. I think it would do blues well, clean well and metal ok.. you might want stronger or higher output pickups for metal..

Mine was perfect.. I mean perfect.. and the store told me it came that way from the factory.. I actually tried this Ibanez against a couple others including a white Jem of some type which had the Evolution pickup which I really liked, but this guitar sounded acoustically at least as good unplugged, etc.. and is just as easy to play.. easy to get to all of the frets, etc.. I don't or didn't like Ibanez in the past, but I must say this guitar has made me a believer.. I traded a really beat up Gibson XR 1 (Predecessor to the Gibson Studio for it) because it was so damn heavey and it didn't even sound as good to me with the Gibson Dirty Finger pickups as this thing does.. Those japs would rather commit suicide than make a bad product I think.. It's very Jackson like to me in that it works well for the money.. It's about a 500 dollar guitar I think usually.. but that's just a guess..

Don't know yet.. Because of the Trem you might want a backup.. I'm currently not playing in a band, but have and anything can go wrong.. I'd guess it would be reliable though.. It's built well it seems.. Everything seems aligned properly, set up properly, etc.. I did lower the trem just a tad and lowered the pickups just a tad as I don't like pickups with too much output too close to the strings or you'll deaden the strings.. With EMG's you don't have to worry about this of course..

Havnen't dealt with them yet.. Don't have a clue.. Does have a warrenty but I doubt I'll ever need it.. I think it's a year..

I've been playing for too many years.. on and off for about 24 years.. I'm 41.. and I'd guess this is a great guitar for begginers and experts alike.. It seems very nice sounding, better than average, is lightweight, comfortable more so than 99% of the guitars out there which was a requirement for me and my old aching bones to rock out with.. hehe.. Part of the reason I dumped the LP XR1.. Has the correct pickup combo for me to get most sounds from Clean to Metal, etc..I'm giving it an 8 because of the stock pickups, and no case with my purchase as the dealer told me it didn't come with one.. Otherwise it's a very good guitar.. I also wish it had a neck re-inforcment like the wolfgang did with it's neck.. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with this guitar for an all around guitar to jam with.. Will do about whatever you need.. Much better than a standard strat with it's big neck, weak sqeauly pickups, etc.. for much less money..

I think it's a 2000 japanese guitar.
24 jumbo frets
laminated top (great golden-like color)
volume & tone
5-way selector H-S-H V7-S1-V8 passive pickups

It has all what I need!

I play mostly metal, and it sound great! I use it through a 65-watt valvestate, sometimes through a korg AX1500G or sometimes straight to the amp, and it sound great anyway!

I really like the pickups, and the humbuckers are practically noiseless

I use this guitar with 10-46 strings

I got this guitar from a sealed box (she didn't spent any time at the store being showed up, so nobody played her before me!!!! hehehe) the factory settings wasn't so bad, but after a calibration the guitar turned to be incredible to stay in tune, with a great action, the pickups height was just fine, I haven't moved them.

However the floyd rose came somewhat bad-painted, I haven't noticed any factory flaws, and the volume knobs tend to get dirty very quickly and make noise when being turned up and down

I have used this guitar without backup many times, I definitely trust on it.

This is a great guitar, I would definitely recomend a calibration so you can enjoy it fully.