Ibanez RG570

Typical fender style guitar with floyd rose I copy tremolo.
H-S-H setup, all Ibanez pickups
3 Piece guitar.
- Bolt On construction
- 2 Piece Neck

Very dull, muddy clean sound for ALL pickups and betweens.
Very low output pickups and noisy

Only good thing about the sound it produce is that it doesn't have ANY characteristics of it's own. so u can play with the sound in studio.. like put those 'lost in space' type of fx on to it.

Distortion sounds just plain...CRAP
clean sounds just dull... CRAP

the way i got it,
-1mm action from 12th fret
-neck bent
-tremolo fully unblanced(meaning its arse pointing right up)
-pickups touching the strings

Meaning - FULL BUZZing machine
I fixed it and now i have decent action, BUT the frets iteself are crap.. so the buzz is still there... it's IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of it.

The pickups were touching the frikkin 1st string, and couldn't use the tremolo cuz of it.

The Neck is too thin..

I would depend on it for gigs but i wouldn't take it neway cuz it sounds shit..

Good people I worked at IBanez...so I know who to contact...

I rang them and told that i felt about the guitar.. how shit it was..

Ironically, Ive worked at Ibanez in the past... Ive designed new models and tested them.

I gotta say this guitar is just fuckin piece of shit that Ibanez made with the scrap woods and hardwares.

Other RGs are pretty good for their money but, this is just SHIT

I have
for amps
Fender Super REverb Reissue '65 and a Marshall JCM 800 on a A/B splitter.

for guitars
Jackson - JS 20 (Modified by me. changed pickups, tremolo, body, and electronics in side)
Fender Strat 50s Relic

gotta say.
It really sounded good in the shop.. but come to think of it the guitar was plugged in to "flexitone" the one that sounds the same no mattar what guitar it is plugged in to. The neck seemed ok but when u play for over an hour u start to feel its dicomfort.

All the same features as listed by others, 24 jumbo frets, basswood body, maple neck with rosewood finger board, humbuckers in neck and bridge, single coil in the middle position, Edge locking trem.

This guitar can get a lot of different sounds with it's pickup combination. It sounds pretty good overall and gets a great high gain type sound but the cleans are a little mushy for my liking.

This guitar plays great, that's what I love most about it. I've owned several different models including a RG550 and a RG770DX. I scalloped the neck on this one which I really dig. It's one of those things you either like or you don't like but I do. The factory set up on this guitar was fine, no complaints here. The finish is a great looking metallick red which looks great with the black hardware. The Edge trems are my favorite. I actually like them better than Floyd Roses, they feel so much smoother to me.

These are very durable guitars, as I said before, I've owned several of these and they can take a serious beating. I would always gig with a back up but that's no fault to the guitar, you just never know what could happen live.

I've never dealt with them.

I think that these guitars are a good value especially what you can get these for used, I see them all the time for under $350. Tone wise, it's not anywhere near that of my USA Jackson but it does have it's place in my arsenal of guitars. I would pick up another one of these or maybe just get another Jackson if this were lost or stolen.

This guitar was made 2001!Made in japan, has 24 frets, volume ,tone ,5 way pickup selector.Ibanez v7 at the neck and IBanez V* at the bridge S1 for single.Its made from basswood, very light.the nack is maple with rosewood fretboard, the frets are jumbo wich are very good.i have a black pearl finish with sharkfin inlay as fret markers, i think they only sell this model at samash?it has an edge tremelo, wich works extremely well, ill talk about the tremelo later.i forgot what type of tuners they have.it came with a whole buch of allen keys and a booklet.it also has piezo pickups in the tremelo, produced by lr baggs. the piezos let you get an acoustic sound, very good.

I like playing hardcore punk and rock, i like staind, korn, mxpx, good charlotte, some system of a down,and led zeppelin.I have a fender princeton stereo chorus, its 90 watts, the clean is awesome on it, but the distortion needed some more crunch, so i bought a marshall jackhammer.helped alot . this thing rips!I like the neck on the guitar, great feature.Its light weight.the pickups it comes with are very good but,i rather put on my dimarzio super distortion.

My guitar was tuned were i bought it the setup was great and the action was adjusted just a little.bridge was perfectly in place.No problems at all , i give the factory setup a

This guitar will withstand live playing. bring an extra if u pop a string though.

never contacted them. heard bad things.

if u need a guitar that wont burn your money.dude buy a damn ibanez, very good for the money. i think they even compare to prs.dont get a cheaper rg though. the are very bad.i would buy this guitar again no doub6t if it was stolen.

I BOUGHT THIS ONE USED- IT HAS THE METALLIC SILVER FINISH. IT IS A JAPANESE MODEL PROBABLY A YEAR OR TWO OLD. THE BODY IS SOLID BASSWOOD AND THE NECK IS MAPLE WITH A ROSEWOOD FINGERBOARD. THE PICKUPS ARE DIMARZIO EVOLUTIONS(NOT STOCK) AND IN A H-S-H CONFIGURATION. THERE ARE 24 FRETS, JUMBO I THINK, AND A VOLUME AND TONE CONTROL. THE BODY IS LIKE THE STEVE VAI JEMS AND ARE VERY COMFORTABLE AND COOL LOOKING. THE TUNERS ARE GOTOH STYLE. THE BRIDGE IS AN EDGE TREMOLO WHICH IS A LESS STIF FELLING VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL FLOYD ROSE.

IT CAN SCREAM OR PLAY BLUESY SINGLE COIL SOUNDS. IT IS VERY VERSATILE BUT BETTER WITH ROCK AND METAL. THE SOUND IS VERY RESONANT AN WARM, AND THE LOWS AND HIGHS PREVAIL. I LOVE THE GROWL, CRANK, AND DISTORTION THEY CAN MAKE, BUT THE WOOD IS SOFT AND GETS DENTED EASILY.

THE ACTION IS LOW AND FAST, ALTHOUGH THE NECK IS A LITTLE THIN FOR MY TASTE. THE PICKUPS ARE EASILY ADJUSTABLE AND THE FRETS SEEM NICE AND TIGHT. THE FINISH COULD BE A LITTLE BRIGHTER AND THE ROUTING BEHIND THE BRIDGE COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. THE NECK POCKET IS ALSO HAS A SLIGHT GAP SO I HAD TO PLAY WITH IT TO MAKE SURE IT WAS ALLIGNED RIGHT. THIS MAY AFFECT THE SUSTAIN A LITTLE, BUT NOT MUCH. THE HARWARE LOOKS COOL BUT WEARS OF A LITTLE. THE SWICH IS FINE THOUGH AND THE ACTION IS THE BEST PART OF THE GUITAR.

I USE IT LIVE BUT TAKE A BACKUP IN CASE I BREAK A STRING. THE HARDWARE WILL LUST ALTHOUGH THE FINISH ON IT MAY WEAR A LITTLE. THE STRAP BUTTONS ARE SOLID AND BIG AND THE GUITAR IS VERY DEPENDABLE. YOU CAN ALSO GO TO TOWN ON THE BAR WITHOUT IT GOING OUT OF TUNE.

NEVER DEALT WITH THEM.

I'VE BEEN PLAYING FOR NINE YEARS AND OWN AN RG550, EX1500, AND A CARVIN LEGACY. I WOULD DEFENITELY BUY THIS GUITAR AGAIN BUT IN A DIFFERENT COLOR AS THE GREY NICKEL AS THEY CALL IT IS SPARKLY BUT STILL A LITTLE DULL. I LOVE THE ACTION AND PLAYABILITY BUT THINK THAT A LITTLE MORE ATTENTION COULD GO IN THE PRODUCTION. THE TREMOLO IS THE BEST OUT THERE AND THE GUITAR IS VERY VERSITILE AND CAN REALLY GROWL. I WISH IBANEZ MADE A VERSION WITH A TREMOLO THAT STOPS AT THE BODY AND DOESN'T PULL UP. A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE THAT BUT IT WOULD ADD MORE SUSTAIN AND YOU COULD PUT A DETUNER ON IT. BUT SINCE IT IS FLOATING, YOU CAN ABUSE THE HELL OUT OF IT WITHOUT IT DAMAGING THE BODY LIKE A NON-FLOATING ONE. GREAT ROCK GUITAR OVERALL BUT HAS A FEW PRODUCTION FLAWS IN THE FINISH. TYPICAL JAPANESE MASS PRODUCTION.

I bought this guitar used so i'm not sure when it was made. I do know it was made in Japan. I really like the two humbuckers with the single in the middle position. The Double locking Edge Floyd Rose bridge is really cool. It's got a Wizard neck and 24 frets, the neck is very comfortable and easy to get around on. The finish is a very cool Blue mixing into black type of color, I guess it could be called a Blue Sunburst. It came with an Ibanez Deluxe case. It came with just about the standard stuff except the whammy bar which I bought later for 10 bucks. It came with a strap and is strap lock equipped which is very good. I have an Explorer that took a fall and the top of the headstock got smashed off. I was able to fix it but a strap lock has been a requirment of mine ever since!

It suits my music style quite well, I play Metal/rock for the most part. I'm running it through a Peavey Ultra Plus Half stack. I have a Crybaby Wah before the amp and I run a Digitech RP-2000 through the effects loop. The pickups aren't bad. I am thinking about changing the bridge pickup to a Dimarzio super distortion for extra power, but the V2 pickup thats in there has a warm quality to it that I also really like. It's not as high output as some but it still rocks, so I may or not leave it in there. I am completely satisfied with the V1 Neck Pickup. It sounds great with clean tones and extended chord voicings. I love to use the neck pickup with a bit of chorus. It also sounds great for leadwork too. The Single coil S1 pickup produces a good strat like sound. I like to use the single coil to produce Tones like The Edge from U2 would use. Overall with all the pickup combinations it can cover a wide range of tones. The pickup switch did make a bit of noise but I cleaned that out and it's fine now.

The action on the guitar is low but not as low as i've had it before on other guitars. Since this guitar is used it has some Dents and Dings here and there but nothing huge. The The top of the Pickup selector switch has been changed to a white one, apparently there was something wrong with the original one.

This seems to be a pretty reliable guitar. It stays in tune very well. I could depend on this guitar for the majority of the time. I would probably use my Epiphone Explorer as a backup for this guitar on a gig though. When a string breaks with a Floyd Rose Bridge it just takes to much time to mess with when you are playing live.

I never had to deal directly with Ibanez.

I'm quite happy with this guitar. I wasn't even planning on buying it originally. I was just getting some strings at the store and I saw that that this guitar was in good shape and had a killer price on it. If it were stolen or lost I would probably get something else just because I like to have different kinds of guitars. I've been playing for over 6 years. I also have a Fender Duo sonic, an Ibanez RG-270, an Epiphone Explorer(with a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position)and a Gibson Sg Junior(with a Seymour Duncan Screaming Demon in the bridge position). I play a Guild acoustic that my Mom Gave me and a classical guitar that has no brand or serial number on it. The Classical was given to me by Mom as well. I also have a Fender Rock Pro 700 Amp, Crate Gx-15 amp, an Ibanez Tubescreamer Re-issue pedal, a DOD EFX prossecor and a shure Wireless. I haven't tried it through my old amps and pedals but i'm sure it would sound good through them. I love the fact that this guitar looks beautiful and sounds great! It will be on the front line of my guitar squadron from now on!

Black 1991 Model, Made in Japan.
24 frets, 1V, 1T, 5-Way Switch.
Basswood Body, Wizard Maple Neck / Rosewood Fretboard.
H-S-H (V-1, S-1, V-2 Ibanez Stock Pickups) changed to Evolution in Bridge, PAF Pro at the Neck, and a Dimarzio HS-2 middle.
Lo-Pro Edge Bridge, 25.5 Inch Scale, etc., etc., etc.
Came with Ibanez M-100C hard shell case, bridge and neck tools, maintence booklet, and warranty card.

My style of music is mostly metal, but if the song is good I'll learn it. I've used this guitar with various amps, Marshall JCM 900/1960A Half stack, Crate G200CXL ministack, Peavey 5150 Half stack, it's sounded great coming out of all of them (with a little tweaking on both the amps and the V/T controls on the guitar). After 9 years of playing this guitar in different climates (Mississippi, New Mexico, etc.) it got a little noisy when switching between pickups, but after a shot of contact cleaner I was ready to go again.

I can best describe the tone of this guitar as "warm". Basswood really seems to stand out as the wood to use if you're stuck as to whether to pick a Ash bodied or Mahogany bodied guitar. The sustain isn't huge, but its there. To sum it all up this guitar's tone really fit the sound that I wanted.

With the H-S-H pickup configuration you can really get any kind of sound you want. The effects you have, your amp, and in the end your own personal style are really going to determine what you can get out of this guitar.

Personally I have no dislikes about this guitar. The only thing that got close is the stock pickup sound. But 30 mintues, a couple of pickups, and a soldering iron can fix that. The balance of this guitar is excellent, the Wizard neck is the most confortable I've played. Even having large hands I became very confortable with this neck very quickly, Fretting the E-string with my thumb has allowed me to do some really fun stuff since I bought this guitar.

The guitar was bought from American Musical Supply originally and came setup perfectly. I popped open the locking nut tuned the strings to pitch and was able to play this guitar within half an hour of opening the box. The guitar was packed in the case and shipped in the original box from Hoshino USA. The fit on this guitar is awesome. The frets where perfect, and the neck pocket finish crack that so many people have noticed with Ibanez's has yet to appear at all.

The Black Finish on this guitar was impeccable, and even after ten years of use is still impeccable (some minor pick and buckle marks aside). The black finished bridge has a very small amount of pitting but its nothing compared to the Original Floyd on my friend's Fender Strat.

Overall, this guitar came out of the box in excellent condition, and has maintained that condition over the years through 3 interstate moves (and a little bit of polishing on my part over the last 10 years).

I've played this guitar live many times, I've used and abused it on many an occasion and its withstood everything I could throw at it. The worst that's happened was the High E-string breaking when I decided I was going to see how high I could raise the pitch pulling back on the bar (first time I ever had tried a FR style bridge at the time).

With a little maintenance (just like any guitar needs) I've had no rust apeear on the hardward, no paint chips, and no problems with the durability of the hardware.

The stock Ibanez strap buttons are excellent for live work, I opted for a change-out to Dunlop Strap-Lok's after getting my second guitar to speed up change-overs.

I've depended on this guitar for a long time. It was and still is my amin guitar, live and in recording. I'd use this guitar without backup anyday of the week, month or year. The absolute only reason I'd use a backup is because of strings breaking. Until there's an unbreakable string I think guitars with a Floyd Rose installed are gonna need a backup.

I've never dealt with Hoshino USA concerning this guitar, but I've dealt with Ibanez/Hoshino USA on a few aoccasions. In every instance they've been perfect. My biggest problem has been with a few select authorized retailers who didn't understand the difference between the Edge and Lo-Pro Edge bridges and some of the other Ibanez parts.

The warranty that came with the guitar was for one year. Its no lifetime warranty, but then again guitars aren't exactly a solid piece of steel like a Craftsman wrench so I didn't expect anything huge.

I've been playing for about 12 years now. I had a MIJ Fender Strat before this guitar. Compared to the Strat this guitar has been a god-send. Since buying this guitar I've bought 6 other RG's and everyone of them has proven to be just as reliable, and well-built as my first. The only thing I wish I would have known more about before buying this guitar was the Floyd Rose system, but I've come to believe through years of use that the benefits of the Floyd outweight the cons of it. I choose this guitar originally after checking out it and some other guitars at the local music store. after comapring it to BC Rich's, Peavey's, Washburn's and HM Strats I felt it was the guitar that best suited me. If this guitar were stolen, I'd replace of course. I'm not going to make the usual death, torture, and mangling threats I've seen. I would say however that "severly pissed" would be a massive understatement.

Overall, I'd say this guitar is one of the best I've ever played. It's not an Ibanez JEM/Universe, PRS, Les Paul, or anything like that obviously. But this guitar is a workhorse, it sounds like I want it to when I need it to. For the money this is the JEM you can afford, the Strat that can do much more, and a Les Paul without the chiropractic bills. Alot of the mail-order companies are selling this guitar for $609 now, compared to an American Strat for $800+ I'd say this is the better value.

Bought this guitar in 1995. This is an excellent guitar but it comes with some cheap junky pickups. Dump those suckers. I replaced them with a PAF Pro and a FRED. (same as on the JS1000). NOW, this guitar truly sings and it can "growl" as well. The neck is great. Good deep cutaway body.

Serial Number:42479. Made in Japan in 1988 or 87 bought in 98 from idiot friend for 170$. It has 24 jumbo frets,5way selector ,h-s-h configuration to give the split hum position in the 2 and 4 position. Original v1 and v2 humbuck and s1 single coil.It's got a rosewood fingerboard thats a dream,the original wizard thin neck (very thin)
with reinforced carbon rods, 3piece basswood body. The body has does deep cutaway like the jem style guitars. Though it was bilt to match the Jem in many ways the angle of the neck and some other things are the only main differences. It's a nice sparkle wine red finish.
Floyd rose Edge trem not that new lopro crap.
Gotoh fine tuners are rock solid for keeping the guitar in tune.
It included the hardshell case and all tools.

It is the guitar i always wanted. It's great for metal to Jazz because of the split feature on the pickups. Great for that midrangey strat tone and to get that pantera style sound. Great for Vai and Satch fans to.

I currenctly use a marshall g 10 mk.II amp with only a digitech whammy pedal. When playing with the pedal the sound gets so fat it's incredible. The 5 position is so full and rich. The tone matches yngwies soloing tone. All and all the guitar is excellent for multiple varietys of sound the pickups will take the abuse.

only thing i don't like about it is the tone nob is useless.
It doesn't add weight to the sound. Maybe i'll have to change it
But its a classic guitar so originall must be better.

When i bought the guitar from my friend he had removed the locking nut and had locked the brige in a fixed position. I of course got it up to the original setup and ajusted it to the buzz tuning system(At least i think). Anyways the action is very low i mean 4/64 of the frets. The pickups are never a the same position but i found that putting them a 1/8 of an inch away from the strings give the real sound of the guitar. The guitar was beautiful. No nothing i could notice execept for the multitude of scraches and dents in the finish.If you want to buy this type of guitar don't get the sparckle finish it's to easy to dent. The only other thing is the volume control knob was loose. I quickly fixed that and just put a flat head screw driver in between the hole and pushed down to split the apart.

This is my main guitar i play it live and practice. But i learned the hard way that floating floyds can speal disaster when strings are broken. So now i carry a back up guitar with me every were. The only hardware problem i have is on the 2 string saddle there is a wear that always seems to cut my string at the same place i just use a file to remove it but i thing the metal is to soft. i might have to change that little thing but other that that it's ok.
I know that i can depend on it when the strings are brand spanking new. I can pull the bar up 2 steps and it'll sound off the wall.

Never had to deal with them my music store had everything i needed.
Anyways the guitar is almost 14 years old i think the warranty is over.
But i would not have to ask them i'm a very good guitar tech i learned everything i know on this guitar.

i've been playing guitar for over 11 years now. I've owned a fender 666 guitar that was made only for like 5 months and sold it to my bro.
i owned a couple of other no name guitars that were all spared for parts. I have a classical yamaha guitar and i own a ibanez 7 string gio wich is my backup guitar.
if it were stolen or lost i would probably cry my ass off. This is my first guitar and i did everything with it. my favorite thing on this guitar is the pickups you would think after 14 years of playin the would die out but not the case. the out play any seymour or dimarzio pick up out there.

And it you would like a good guitar thats is almost identical to the jem series guitar buy a rg570 it's almost half the price and it's as good quality as those 1500 dollar guitars

Oooh, a chance to wax lyrical about my favourite guitar. Love it to bits. Bought it in 1991, I used to have a Roadstar II which I liked. The RG570 second hand even then, so it must have been one of the first in Australia. Midnight Blue, crazy hot pink humbucker at the bridge (never been able to figure out what model it was), S1 simgle coil in the middle, and V1 at the neck. Ibanez Floyd Rose I used to have a Gallien Kruger 2100 amp with blue and pink stripes that matched (this WAS coming out of eighties, after all). Other than that pretty standard RG.

This is the fun bit. I angsted over sound for years. I had a Strat I regret selling, a '65 Epiphone Wilshire, an Ibanez A40 hollowbody. I ended up really poor with only the RG570 left. When I got money again I thought about selling it because I thought the sound was too neutral. The guy in the shop told me I was nuts, this was one of the most versatile-sounding guitars ever made. I took his advice and I'm glad I did. I'm running it through a Marshall 9001 valve preamp into an original 65 Fender Bassman 50 Watt Blackface with a 2x12 cab. I also use a Boss ME-30 and a Dual Overdrive sometimes. It was all a matter of learning to use the pickups and volume settings on the guitar properly. It'll never really sound like a Strat, it's but closer to a Les Paul, but now I've got my own sound going I don't care.

Well made indeed. Love Ibanez. The neck's wide and flat and superfast, I treat it with lemon oil. The only faster neck I've played (never having been able to bring myself to try out things like PRS' in a shop) was a Gibson SG90.

I don't have much use for the Floyd Rose, I like to bend two strings at once so I chocked the bridge underneath behind the springs. I left three springs in for resonance, and it's rock solid action and tuning wise given I hit the strings pretty hard. The extra resonance has helped me squeeze strat-ish sounds out using the middle pickup. It's lacquer is still great despite years of hard work. After 10 years the only things need fixing are disrty contacts in the pickup selector and one of the pickup mountings came adrist when one of my kids attacked it.

Never dealt with them. Love Ibanez tho.

The only other guitar I have (I play trombone and bass as well) is an old Profile Strat copy with Di Marzio's which sounds great but needs some work. The Ibanez I could never part with. The new ones look nice too. If you find one cheap second hand, go for it.

This guitar has 24 jumbo frets, Wizard neck, iron pewter finish, and an Edge Tremolo system (Floyd Rose licensed). It has a H/S/H pickup configuration with a 5-way selector switch.

This guitar is pretty versatile. I can rock hard with the bridge pick-ups, play some funky rhythm figures using the middle pick-up for single coils, and even get some mellow jazz tones with the neck pick-up.

There is just one tone and one volume control, and the light body tends to cut the sound fullness a little, but I can get around that by adjusting the amplifier. All in all, a good sound.

The finish may be kind of plain for some, but that doesn't bother me. At least the neck is fast and the action is adjustable. This guitar is relatively lightweight and is comfortable for both sitting and standing.

I've had this guitar for two years, and it will last a while as long as the neck holds up in the ever-changing New England weather. That was a big problem with my last guitar, but that's another story. This guitar should be all right as long as I keep the guitar in case when I'm not playing. The finish is solid and the strap buttons seem very reliable.

I'll have to use a backup only because if a string breaks, it will throw the rest of the guitar out of tune. But the guitar stays in tune really well.

N/A. I've only dealt with the dealer for an occasional setup.

Any electric guitar is a good guitar as long as it plays well and stays in tune, two of the strongpoints on the RG570. It also has a good sound. Reasonably priced. I tried a Fender Strat and couldn't justify paying an additional $250 for that.