Ibanez RG570

Don't know the year, Japanese made, H-S-H, 24 fret, Floyd Rose. My Ibanez was lost in the basement of a music store. When the music store went under, they needed help cleaning out the basement (which use to be a small studio) I was good friends with the guys who worked there so I lended a hand. We found all kinds of great stuff, including this amazing Ibanez. It is a white finish, and had the crap beat out of it. The guitar besides being chipped and dented is all original. A versitiel guitar. Remember, this one is probally 10 to 15
years old

This is the best guitar I have ever owned. It has great sustain, and stays in amazing tune. This one looks like it's been through hell, but keeps coming back for more. This was when Ibanez "made" guitars.
Can scream metal or clean up real nice.

When we found it, it was in it's hardshell behind a huge pile of empty cardbord boxes. Besids a little rust it was o.k. Some new strings and a set-up it is fantastic.

Still going strong after a hard life. I play this guitar without backup at all times. I sold off all the rest of my guitars(strats, les pauls, other Ibanez') to play this one only.

Never delt

Fantastic find, I'm happy the guys I was working with let me keep it.
I don't know if I'd buy a new 570, I hear bad things about the new ones.

I have the standard 570, mostly same config as all the other reviews.
My 570 is finished in a sparkly green that really catches the eye.

My music style is mostly metal (speed, thrash, death) but I also play blues, southern rock, classic rock, and classical, among others. I just got myself a Boss ME-30 (you gotta try one!) and am playing on an old Gorilla GG-80 amp. I love the tonal diversity that I get with this guitar, through pickup combo's and such. The sound quality is definitely superior on this guitar. If I have to complain, I would say the sustain isn't the greatest, which surprises me considering the quality of wood used. That may also be this old gorilla amp I'm using. The ME-30 has definitely satiated my need for sustain, though!

This is a category where I am not an expert. My guitar's action, etc... are well suited to my playing styles, but I believe they could be better. I bought it used. It was a floor model, so it took plenty of abuse, but still looks, sounds, and plays great. One thing that drives me nuts is the G-string. When played open, or at the 5th harm. or 12th harm. there is a buzz from deep within the guitar, that I just can't find. you can't hear it through the amp. I think it must be a pickup spring or something like that. I have seated all the loose parts on the outside of the guitar, and the tremolo springs, but can't get it quiet. Guess that's what I get for getting a floor model...

There is no doubt in my mind as to the reliability and durability of this guitar.

Bought mine used. Couldn't take advantage of this.

I have been playing for 15 years. I own a Yamaha SE 150 elect. guitar, a Lotus Dreadnought acoustic, A Gorilla GG-80 amp, A Peavey Backstage 30 amp, A Boss XT-2 XTorsion (distortion) pedal, A Boss Me-30 Multi-effects pedal, A Rocktron Half-rack Distortion gate, and a generic (Kasino?) chorus pedal.
If I lost my RG570, I would be heart-broken. Don't know that I would get another RG570, but I would definitely get another Ibanez.

This Ibanez RG 570 is Gray Nickel, it has 24 frets and the pickup configuration is H-S-H, the pickups are Ibanez V7 on the Neck, S1 and V8 on the Bridge.
The controls are very ease to access and they work perfectly, i love the way the volume control and the tone control are, they just fit perfectly; it has 24 frets and they all are very easy to access, it has a Floyd Rose Edge Bridge and i think it works awesome.

It fits my music style perfectly, if there is something that i LOVE about this bad boy is that it's 100% Versatile, i like to play some heavy metal stuff, but i also enjoy clean jazzy tones, and this guitar just makes them sound perfect! You can get a totally clean sound with the original pickups, when i bought it i was going to change the pickups for some DiMarzio's, but as of now i am very pleased with the original ones.

The factory set-up was awesome, i didn't even had to worry about it. I took it to a technician and he has just amazed by how well adjusted it was, the pickups, the bridge, the neck, everything was just in the right place. The painting job is excelent too, it still shines and it really looks good!

I've been using this guitar for almost a year now, i play every single day for hours and hours... and as of now it's been INCREDIBLE! no problems so far! it's extremely reliable. I REALLY REALLY depend on it, it's like my baby! I would definitly use it without a backup.

The warranty is one year long, but so far i haven't used it! THANK GOD!

I love the RG 570, i really depend on it and for the price you pay it offers a lot of stuff! it's the best buy of my life so far!

At first glance, you'd think "wow, this guitar has a lot of features!" Well, it does have a lot of features, but it's the quality of those features that make it a mistake. But, for the sake of the features section, it has 3 pickups (hum single hum), a 5-way selector, a basswood body, an Edge tremolo, a Wizard neck, 24 frets, all-access neck joint, the works. I'll dig into all of these later, but, hey, what the hell, hoo-rah, it has features. Um...10.

My musical style is fairly diverse. I love listening to jazz, I like some classic rock sounds, I dig some blues, love classical, progressive, fusion, and even some modern rock and pop. I would say that this guitar suits some of my needs, but not most. For the sake of progressive and instrumental rock, it has what has become the standards-humbucking pickups, jumbo frets, you know. But the overall sound of the guitar is incredibly bright, sometimes too bright, even with the rosewood fingerboard and the humbuckers. This can grow tiresome, especially if you plan on playing anything really jazzy. I'm not asking for an archtop, but we could use a little more meat here.

I'm running it through a (forgive me) Fender Princeton Chorus, but I've heard it through others. I've played it through a 5150II once, and it still had it's boring little personality. Don't get me wrong, it's got good sounds at certain spots, but it needs work.

Likes and dislikes: I like the half-volume, 70% tone setting with some gain. This gives a really interesting, ballad texture lead tone.

Dislikes: Those lousy V7, V8, and S1 pickups. They just don't cut it. They want to be good pickups, but they can't!

The guitar was set up pretty crappy from the factory, and I'm told that this is pretty standard with Ibanez. The trem was set WAY too low, and it was buzzing just about anywhere. The trem angle was off as well. The pickups weren't adjusted well either, and I had to tweak them a while to get a nice, balanced sound. They were WAY too high, and the midrange was just taking over.

I suppose the top was nice, a metallic purple style color. Really a nice finish, I kind of like it, that's why I'm going to fix the guitar instead of scrap it.

Ah, a question regarding poor quality wood? Let's talk about that nice little Wizard neck. Many people gripe about this guitar not holding good tune, and here lies the source of all of their woes. Go ahead and try an Edge on any high quality axe (like a JEM or a JS) and you'll have wonderful tuning stability. But due to crappy woods and the lower neck mass of the Wizards, you get nothing. Any pitch-lowering will throw you out of wack, and forget about raising the pitch. If you want to pull up the trem on this axe, be prepared to unclamp and retune.

I doubt this guitar would survive very rigorous gigging. Like I said, you won't be able to hold tune very long, so have a few backups (in fact, if you have a few backups, sell them and this piece of trash and get a JS or JEM). I don't think the hardware will last very long, I have to work on it every month. I think the finish will last, it's been withstanding my sweat for over a year now.

The strap buttons are actually pretty solid!

No, I cannot depend on this.

Definately need a backup.

I honestly hate Ibanez customer support. Why should I have to see my authorized Ibanez dealer to have things done? What about people without Ibanez dealers close by? They need to kick this up a few notches.

I've been playing for 3 years now, and feel free to scoff. But I think serious players will agree with most of my review, this instrument is purely terrible. With the price you'd pay fixing it up, you could've had yourself a brand new JEM7DBK, or if you saved a little more, maybe even a 7VWH, which are far superior instruments which you won't have any problems with.

I don't wish I'd have asked anything before buying this, I just wish I'd have been more experienced.

If it were stolen or lost, I'd probably save up for another Carvin.

My favorite feature is probably the 24 frets. I just love having that range.

Unfortunately, I didn't compare it to many other axes in the store, I just had my mind set on the 570. I wish it had a better neck and better pickups, and I'd probably like it a lot better.

I have a late 90's model made in japan, it has 24 extra jumbo frets. the 570 has 1 volume 1 tone and a 5 way selector, h/s/h/ config. It came with v7/s1/v8 but i replaced with EMG's, which are active, not sure of body wood, fingercoard is rosewood, of cousre it is the rg body style and it has a recessed edge tremelo (very nice, no tuning problems) gotoh tuners w/ locking nut, it also has a super thin wizard neck

great for rock, punk, metal, could be good for blues i guess, i am using it with a zoom 3000 (very very nice!), orig. crybaby, metal zone, boss noise supressor, and boss ge-7 7-band graphic eq and a mesa/boogie dual recto combo,sometimes a randall warhead combo no excess noise, great sound quality, great distortion, good clean, especially if you add in a little chorus, i love everything about this guitar

best action i have ever seen that comes stock, pickups were adjusted great, great routing, no flaws

great, can put up with lots of punishment, great for live, hardware will definitley last, finish will also last, great strap buttons, but i still replaced with locking, dependable, i would use it on a gig without a backup

i have never had to use it

great dependable guitar

Made in Japan - 24 fret - H/S/H - 1 Vol, 1 Tone, 5-way Switch - Basswood Body, Rosewood Fingerboard - Superstrat all access body - Edge tremolo - Gotoh Tuners w/ Locking Nut - WIZARD neck - Iron Pewter paint on body, all hardware done in beautiful black chrome

Versatile guitar, but does it's best work playing heavy stuff - I'm using a Line 6 Flextone II, and the two make a good couple no doubt - when distorted, I like the bridge pickup all by itself, but when playing clean sounds, try the other switch positions for some interesting tones - the factory pickups are 'ok', but in my opinion, this guitar deserves better and I am going to replace them before long - this axe has a nice tone, and the factory setup was even adequate(allthough I intend to lower the action) - while this guitar is by no means all things to all people, it has a tremendous capacity for hard rock and metal, and it's passable on some other styles as well - part of its 'passability' is that it is easy to play due to the style of the neck and body

Factory setup was totally playable, some will want to lower the action further though - from the factory, the floating bridge was positioned properly and the tuning holds despite my attempts to rough up the tremolo - I have yet to find any flaws in construction, and from what I can tell, the Japan made Ibanez guitars put the Korean ones to shame - no offense to those who own Korean models =) let me just say that pound for pound, the Japanese construct a superior product to the Korean made Ibanez models(570 v. 470) - once you play a 570, you'll never be satisfied with taking the 470 home, it's that simple - handle this guitar with care though, not because it will fall apart, but the cosmetics are fragile - I barely bumped the headstock and I have a nice little chip/dent already - just mind the paint and such and you'll be fine

I already mentioned the fragile cosmetics, the guitar itself though seems quite solid - my strap buttons took a rogorous beating already without so much as a flinch - you can almost hold the guitar by the whammy and it always goes right back into tune without any problems whatsoever - the hardware is beautiful to look at, and my guess is, it will last at least as long as you would expect(if not longer) - I don't gig right now, but I would play this guitar live with no hesitation - a backup is essential though for more reasons than one, but only one reason has to do with the guitar itself - this is a nice Floyd Rose bridge, but if you break a string on stage, you be bummin see? - changing strings on this guitar is a more involved process than on some other guitars, so do yourself a favor, have a backup while someone else restrings your main axe - other than that, I'd say this guitar will get you through any gig with no problems - also, word to the wise...NEVER EVER take off all strings at once when changing them all - start with the high E and change them out one by one while retuning along the way =)

Never used their support - I'm giving an 8 because any company who makes a guitar this nice can't be all that bad

even if their support totally sucked, the product itself would still get high marks from me, I like this guitar a lot

I love everything about this guitar except for:

- stock pickups are ok, but some hot aftermarket pickups would really do it some justice
- thought the construction is solid, the finish is fragile

Some of my favorite things are:
- the Iron Pewter finish is very nice
- the hardware looks great
- the neck is easy to play and all access is granted
- crazy mad bends, divebombs, harmonics, you name it!

If this guitar were stolen or lost, I would definitely buy it again

made in 2000. japan. yeah you guessed, PIECE OF SHIT. 24 giant frets. h/s/h configuration. v7,s1,v8. basswood body. maple neck and rosewood fretboard. colors: sour apple and grey nickle. i had both and both were pieces of shit. went out of tune everytime i used the tremolo. i'm returning the one i just got to get a fender deluxe powerhouse strat. the only reason so many people get these are because so many popular artists use the, korn, limp bizkit, staind and so on. nothing included. nice neck though. thin. really thin. whatever happens don't get one of these. if you do get a late 80's early 90's model. those are nice.i'm lucky guitar center is letting me return this so many times. I thank them alot. temolo is nice but to bad it doesn't stay in tune.

nice sound except the single pickup. noisy as all hell. I play ska, metal, punk, and others. the humbuckers are nice for these.i use a fender frontman with reverb. nice amp.with a dod death metal distortion and dunlop origianl crybaby wah. cool sound effects. you can make alot with the floyd rose.

shitty set up. action way to low. buzzes like crazy. pickups seem loose and wobble a lot. the grey finsih is cool.bridge was set up ok. the ibanez logo on the head stock is sopposed to be like a mirror but has some wierd color.

i don't play to many gigs. nice hardwear. finish seems shitty and about to chip or wear off.nice strap buttons. extral big. no stap lock needed. strings break way to easy so iw ould always use a backup.

i emailed them about the tuning problem and i've gotten no reasponse after about 2 weeks. still havn't. i give them a 2 for atleast having it.

this is a stupid category. if you read the whole thing you'll know the over all rating. i'm tires of typing so i'll make it quick. don't get it. it sucks. it is a piece of shit. it is worthless and you should pay about 2 cents for these. i have no clue why people like these so much. i thought i was getting a good deal but i guess not. i would never buy guitar again/ i'm never going to buy another ibanez product in my life.

1990
Rosewood neck
24 fret
electric blue
Floyd bridge
SUPER NICE WIZZARD NECK

This thing rock better than any other guitar I have.
I put a s.duncan in the bridge (trembucker).
My best guitar! Old blue rocks better than my strat or Jackson dink.
I can squeal or growl with this puppy.

Action was too high from the shop. Had to lower a bit.
Other than that,no problems.

Paint is chipping,but I have beat the hell out of this thing for 10 years!! Trem is holding up great. Had to resolder a new jack in but that is fine for a old axe. I never gig without a backup, but if I had to pick one guitar, it would be my old blue.

Not very good. I needed a neck for a rg 550 and could only go through
a dealer. I hate that.

Playing for 13 years.
I LOVE THIS GUITAR!!!
I am going to buy another one so I have a backup.

this guitar was made in 1990, japan , all black (perfect metal look), black hardware, floyd rose lincenced floating bridge, locking trem, gotoh tuners, v1, si, v2 HsH, pickups, volume and tone controls, jumbo frets, rosewood fretboard,

this suits my style well, which is metal when playing this guitar, i also have a mecxian fender strat, so it shits all over that in this field, it is pretty noisy, but i put it through a shit load of volume and dist, i use a DOD grunge, with an adaptor put up to 12 volts, an ibanez flanger, and a peavy 80 watt Bandit 112, and it burns on that setting, i should add that i tune it down 2.5 steps and drop B, 52 - 10 gauge strings, and it manages this setting extremly well

pickups, action was pretty good, strings buzzed and bridge and to re-set up for the heavier guage, but that was fixed when i got it serviced, this guitar is also very easy to play, does weigh a bit, but not to much, looks great and feels great to play,

its made in 1990 so its around 10 - 11 years old, and i got it second hand, its in pretty good condition too, the "ibanez" logo came off in some places so i had to re- paint it, knobs are loose and the volume came off, locking nuts have a little rust, but thats just cause the dick that owned it before me never played it and just left it to gather dust and debree.its strong and i would use it live, a back up i think would be needed just in case

n/a

ive been playing for 3 years, and i have played a few guitars in my time, this is the best for my style hard rock/metal, and i just love the look of the thing, it sounds as evil as it looks too, i might put an emg 81 in the bridge if i get some money, but the v2 is fine, except it is noisey.

It's the 2000 model, made in Japan. Pickup config: H/S/H It's got an Ibanez V8 in the bridge, a V7 in the neck, and an S7 single-coil in the middle. The pickups are passive.
The body is basswood, and the fingerboard is rosewood. The neck is an original Wizard neck made of maple with a strip of bubagina (spelling?) in the centre.
The finish is IP (iron-pewter) which basically looks like a sparkling black colour. The body style is similar to the KH-II ESP guitar.
The bridge is an Ibanez Edge tremolo. Tuners are Gotoh SG-38 die cast tuners.
It came with a couple instruction manuals and a bag of allen keys.

The sound definitely suits my musical style (metal, industrial)
I'm currently running it through a 10 watt Ross combo and a Peavy Mynx bass amp. I use a Boss Metalzone for distortion and a Boss ME-30 for effects. I find that it gives off minimal noise while not playing even with distortion cranked up. The sound is very devestating with distortion, and if you fiddle with the volume and pickup selector you can get a more vintage strat sound as well. The sound is very versatile. Harmonics are easy to pull off as well.
I like everything about the sound, although I think EMG-81s would make this guitar absolutely perfect.

The guitar was set up decent, but definitely needs some adjustment. The tension on the tremolo seems to be too little, in that the string tension is pulling it up a little too much. Nothing major though.

I'm treating this guitar as if it was made of glass, because I've heard it scratches very easily...

not yet.

I've been playing guitar for 7 years and own two other guitars. One being a Yamaha SE112 and the other being a G&L strat copy.
If it were stolen or lost I'd buy it again.
I love pretty much everything about this guitar, it's gorgeous.
I compared this guitar to the RG470 and decided to go with this one because of the finish, the extra strip of wood in the neck and the Edge Tremolo. I wish the guitar had EMG 81's in it.
This guitar plays like a dream, and actually makes playing easier, as opposed to a strat-style guitar. Very well designed, I can tell Ibanez put a lot of work into this aspect of the guitar.