Ibanez RG560

I think this was made in 1990, but I bought it used so I'm not sure. It was made in Korea with 24 frets and a nice glosy black finish. It has volume and tone knobs, with a 5-way selector. This is the first guitar I've had with the S/S/H configuration, and I love it. I'm not quite sure what the woods are but they're perfect, not to heavy yet still real solid. This cutaway body has a Floyd Rose bridge, which gave me hell the first time I re-strung it, but now I love it. It's a dual locking guitar, and it came with the wizzard neck which is only about a half inch thick. All in all I think this is a great guitar.

When I was playing it in the store I noticed that it sounded a little different than normal. I had one of the people that worked there open it up so I could look at the humbucker. We found out that the previos own had dropped a Duncun Sceamin' Demon in there. This pick-up does what it says. It's nice because the difference between the single coil and the Duncun are so drastic you can get some prety rich sound coming out of it.

After I bought it I had to do a complete overhaul. Now that I screwed with I really like it. With the exception of a few minor scratches on the body(no pick gaurd) it is in perfect condition. I play a very wide range of styles:blues-metal and it works great for everything.

This is at least a ten year old guitar and it's still perfect. It can handle a lot.

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I've been playing for eight years. I have an epiphone Special II plus, an old peace of crap Samick, an Ibanez A/E, Line6 POD, Marshal G30, an old Fender amp, and some Boss pedals including the MT-2(if you don't have this pedal, GO BUY IT). IF my 560 was stolen I would definetly try to find another one. Basicaly this guitar kicks-ass, and I think you should check it out.

Japanese made ca.1990.
24 easy access frets
Finish is gloss black and is excellent except for a few dinges and scratches
Pickups are all Dimarzios H/S/S.The humbucker is a super distortion and the single coils are both dual rails.The humbucker is tapped and there is a switch that allows me to mix the bridge and neck pickups.
The neck is a wizard and is one of the best I have ever played
Bridge is an Ibanez Edge and tuners are Gotoh.
The guitar came with the Dimarzios a hardshell case and a dinky little Ibanez stand and cost 350 punts(Irish)second-hand

My first love is metal and hard rock and this guitar fits the bill.
It is an animal with my Boss metal zone and Marshall VS102R.
I run the guitar through a GT3 also and the clean sounds are superb,
especially some of the acoustic sounds with the tapped humbucker.
Tapping the humbucker gives that crisp clean "Fenderesque" sound and there are also some great in-between tones.The humbucker on its own is amazing with no microphonic feedback whatsoever and great sustain for feedback effects

Action is extremely low after I set the guitar to my specs
I heightened the pickups to gice slightly more output
The bridge is excellent for divebombing and harmonic squeals and generally making weird noises.My only complaint is that sometimes the screw in housing becomes loose(after excessive wanking) but this is a fairly regular occurance on this type of bridge

This guitar will probably be still around after I'm gone.
The finish is good considering I bought the guitar second hand and my main concern is that it sounds good and all the hardware works properly.
The strap buttons are very good. Not once have I dropped the guitar due to the strap slipping off
The guitar is very reliable, I haven't even had any string breakages.
It is my main gigging guitar and I've only ever brought a back-up once,which I didn,t even use!

I've never needed it,I'm into D.I.Y. anyway, but I've had any serious problems with the guitar
Personally I've never dealt with Ibanez but they do make good guitars

I've been playing guitar for 6 years now and consider myself extremely lucky to have found this guitar so soon into my "career"
I'm planning on eventually buying a high-end RG or Jem and this guitar is totally responible for my decision, it is just a fine example of what a good (rock/all round) guitar should be.The sounds are versatile, its a dream to play ,its lightweight and it bloody rocks.

H/S/S pickup config, one volume, one tone. floyd rose licensed trem w/locking nut. 24 frets, carved body to allow easy access to all of them, a blueish-gray color. all black hardware. gotoh tuners. 5 way switch, rosewood fretboard. all of this is extremely high quality, and the craftsmanship is very good. the guitar has a very slim neck, and the body fits just right when sitting or standing. this is definitely a metal guitar, and it's built to do the job.

i play metal, punk, and industrial/coldwave. this guitar is damn good for this kind of stuff. it's like a tone dream come true! i run it through a marshall shredmaster pedal, then my rack with an alesis MEQ-230 and an alesis 3630 compressor, then into my hughes and kettner vortex half stack w/ matching 4x12 and marshall 2x12 extension cab. this guitar is killer! it feels perfect, and it just makes you want to let loose with your riffing - the guitar does not hold you back!

well, we all know how floyd roses are. but like most of them, once you get it tuned, it stays in tune, and mine is not an exception. the neck is perfect for low action (and i'm sure it was designed for that anyway). the pickups are good the way they are (i only use the bridge) but i may try swapping a dimarzio evolution in just to compare the sound. i bought the guitar used so there were some scratches, but nothing major. i totally scored at only $250!!

this guitar seems very sturdy and i'm quite sure i could tour with this without worrying about a thing. all the hardware is very tough and industrial grade - very very precise feeling. the RG500 series kicks ass, and i love my 560! the strap buttons are VERY solid (i don't even feel like i need strap locks on it like my other guitars). yes, i would use it without a backup.

never needed it. i hear it sucks though, like any big company.

if this guitar were stolen, i would definitely get nothing less than it - i might look at the JEMs, but i would never settle for anything of lower quality than the 560. i don't know how much variance there is between the different guitars in the same series like there is with fender, but my 560 is exactly the tone and feel i have dreamed of for a long time, and i am 100% satisfied with it

This is a 1990 model Ibanez RG560. Pretty funny story: a friend of mine had it, put EMGs in it, driled a large hole out next to the tone knob which damaged the tone knob hole, covered with stickers and duct tape. He bought a messed-up Jackson, and took the electronics form the Ibanez and put them in his Jackson. He gave me the Ibanez, and I put a Duncan at the bridge, an Ibanez single in the middle, and a single-sized rail-type humbucker in the neck. It has the best tone I've ever heard. Great neck, the bridge is in a great position (I palm mute alot). Great guitar.

The sound is very full. It has great sustain, and the harmonics are very good. The neck pickup is great for lead work. The middle is just kind of there. The bridge has high output, and is great for metal.

I got it used, and as you can guess, the body damage was a pain. But epoxy makes great body filler! A sticker over the damage makes it unnoticable. Alot of dings and chips in the Grape Ice finish, and the blond neck was stained and had to be bleached. The bridge had slight surface rust, which came off with a brillo pad and was covered up with a black magic marker. The only plate on the back still there was the plate over the bridge springs.

I'd say this guitar is worthy of taking out on a gig. The finish seems to be in good enough not to chip any further. I would always bring a back-up for fear of a broken string. The strap buttons are locking strap hooks, and the hardware seems like it will last.

If this guitar were stolen, I'd track down the theif. I have two other Ibanezes, and this one is the best of the three.

Super strat body H/S/S style , stock Ibanez USA pickups.. USA made 1 tone , 1 volume. 5 position switch. frosted pink finish (like Andy La Rocque's) Floyd Rose Edge brdige , gotoh tuners - locking THIN THIN THIN and wide neck... perfect for shred , came with hih bag pickups aer passive, did I mention it's bound and has mother of pearl shark tooth inlays? GORGEOUS!!!

I play metal/neo classical/shred so the guitar is a dream come true (actually it's my second 560) I use a DOD G7 rack processor via Peavy 80 watt amp with a traynor cab , the guitar plays and looks like a dream .. I can get ANY tone imaginable... from clean to dirty to overdrive to hard thrash... it's all there I love it

umm...let's just say I can't put 3 pieces of paper between strings and frets (I use Ernie Slinky's 9-42's) and it DOESN'T buzz anywhere the neck join is SOLID thick steel , the binding is exquisite as are the mother of pearl shark tooth inlays , the controls are smooth and well geared as is the pickup selector

the hardware is solid, as is the guitar... everything is well crafted and assembled.. the strap buttons are tight and well placed, If I had one axe to depend on live it would be this one , in fact I've started using it instead of my S540LTD during jams and shows

I haven't dealt with the company...there was no need to , the guitar is flawless..

I've been playing 7 years, 5 in bands.., I use mostly Ibanez guitars: S540LTD , RG560 , 2nd RG560 , RG custom , les paul copy , Yamaha classical , custom V , I use DOD effects through peavy amps. if the guitar was stolen I'd try and hunt down some more, I just love the 560 series... the guitars are pefect...

about a month after i bought a used Japanese Jackson(good guitar, but you could tell it was not from the "real factory") i traded it to a friend for an 87 Ibanez RG560. What a smart move! Its an odd metallic green with h/s/s and 24 rosewood frets. pots are volume(a bit too close to the high E) and tone with a 5-way switch. pick-ups are stock and the bridge is a recessed ibanez rose. the neck is VERY thin and wide(i checked out some new rg's with the wizardII neck and lemme just say that the 87 rg560 makes a new rg feels like a piece of furniture!)

my style is buckethead(www.bucketheadland.com if you call yourself a shredder and dont know buckethead, well go get schooled) spliced with balsac(gwar) and ron thal so i want as much bottom and high with as little midrange as possible. i play through a digitech 2120 to a alesis quadraverb to a carvin power amp. now with this set up i can even get my $30 global to rip, but the rg560 provides and awesome range in tone. for the purpose of being fair i will say the rg560 w/ stock pick-ups offers a wide range of sound.

the previous owner let this guitar sit out in his room with the window always open! this played a little havoc with the neck, but after a good strobe,fade an intonation i could bend into outer space and get harmonics from fret 1 to 24. the pick-ups had corrosion on the magnets and the trem had a bit of rust, and for $60 i got the magnets buffed and the trem stripped and powder coated. action was hideously high when i got it(soon fixed). once this guitar was given about $100 of tender loving care it rivaled and new rg(ok maybe not an rg7621)

i bought this guitar because it was a classic 80's shred ibanez first, but second because it had never been dropped, dinged, scratched, or anything similiar. i havent broken a string yet(i change strings about every 3 weeks), and since having it tuned up have not had any tuning problems. i have fallen too deeply in love with this rg and could not take it to a gig, but im sure it would be a champ and a half

my first guitar was an ibanez ex-series(korean) which was a decent beginner axe. this was around 91 and an 87 rg560 would have run me about $400. since picking up this rg560 for $200(trade) and investing another $100 i have not picked up my carvin, and hardly play my rg7621! i wouldnt mind replacing the hummer with something active and bassy, but other than that its a shred machine!

basswood "superstrat" body, S/S/H config (i got two dimarzio single coils and an EMG81 in the bridge), was all passive (got with dimarzio in bridge but i changed to get more output and treble). maple neck, rosewood fretboard, dot inlays. 24 jumbo frets. Ibanez floyd rose edge tremelo, gotoh tuners (black). Thin thin thin wide neck (like i like it), i got with a case.

I play neoclassical shred-type metal. It sounds really good for that, but i think i would replace the pickups with EMG-85/EMG-SA/EMG-SA if this guitar wasn't 11 years old (I don't want to spend the money on it right now). I use a Peavey Ultra stack and a digitech RP-20 and that's it. It has like a bright punchy tone with the EMG81, and I can get a good metallica sound like on And Justice for All, but I tend to boost my mids a LOT so I get a fatter smooth sound. I like smooth!

When I got it the action was too high and it had .08s on it (i use .10-.46). everything else was adjusted okay though.

it's 11 years old and i put it through hell and back (dropped about 35 times, fell over from a stand, an amp, fell out of the case, etc etc) and it's pretty fucking good. One thing though is the neck joint is all cracking now and the frets are worn down really good.

pretty good. a little slow!

I use a Schecter 7-string as my main axe (see review), also a Ibanez RG-570 (see review). If it were stolen or something, Id probably get a custom ESP. Honestly I didn't compare it to anything when I bought it i just bought it because I wanted a guitar with a tremelo and humbuckers and my old guitar sucked (an Epiphone special).

This is a 1990 RG560, made in Japan. It has 24 frets, bolt-on neck, standard Ibanez deep cutaway and Gotoh tuners. The hardware is black. This guitar has a kind of hybrid Edge tremolo(about a year before the lo-pro shit came out) It's not as high as a standard edge, but it's not as low as a lo-pro... Pickups on a 560 are S/S/H, making it just slightly different than a 570 (same guitar, but H/S/H) There's no pickguard, and no gay binding. The color claims to be "Grape Ice" but it's like metallic purplish thing -- pretty cool, I've never seen another one like it. It came with Ibanez pickups, which promptly saw the screwdriver and wire cutters. It currently has a DiMarzio Humbucker from Hell in the bridge and two DiMarzio Fast Track II's in the middle and neck positions. The Fast Track II was designed to be dropped into a single-coil strat bridge, to get Humbucker sounds out of the space alotted, but the things sound massive in this guitar, especially the neck pickup. The body is basswood, neck is maple and fingerboard is rosewood.

This thing is a hotrod. The DiMarzio pickups can get any combination of sounds, from baby soft to metal screaming mad. There's no noise and it's a perfectly balanced sound. I generally play with more bottom end, so I crank the resonance & low knobs on my 5150, but this guitar just drives that amp perfectly (makes me wonder how in the fuck EVH makes it sound so gay when he uses it...)

Action has been fine from day one. It spent two years in a case and the last six in and out of my hands. The neck is perfectly straight (and it's an Ibanez Wizard neck -- so perfect they won't sell you one unless the guitar is attached.) The stock pickups are somewhere in the dump, but they really didn't sound bad, a little noisy (from what I remember) but okay. (I just had DiMarzios in the box already...)

I am mean to things. I break stuff easily and generally tear shit up. This guitar has withstood the test of time. Sure it's got nicks and dents (dropping a microphone on it does that...) and the edges are a little chipped but there aren't any cracks, despite the weak spots that have developed. The volume knob (once black) has worn away to a beautiful gold dome (makes me wonder why gold hardware costs more...) but it's kind of neat, so I'm not planning to put a new one on. I could play this guitar forever without a backup. It only breaks strings when they are old and it never goes out of tune.

I called after I got it and gave them the serial number so I could find out when it was made -- I got in 1992, looking at a '92 catalog, and this guitar DIDN'T have the lo-pro edge like the one in the catalog. Turns out this one was in the back somewhere, forgotten since 1990. I think it came with a year warranty, but I probably voided that when I surgically removed the pickups.

This and my RG7620 are it. I recorded my last album mostly with the 7620, cuz the B string adds so much, but I had to go in with this guitar to add parts and make it feel right. If this guitar were stolen I would kill myself. I've never seen another 560, and certainly not in Grape Ice, and certainly not with Pink and Green pickups. If I could find one, I'd scoop it up immediately (even if I still had this one.)