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The ideal purple RG - Ibanez RG652AHMFX-RPB Review
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- Ibanez has a bunch of new guitars for 2021 and I had the pleasure of taking a good look at many of them. So let's see what they did right and what isn't to my liking... we'll find out in this video series!
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For those confused by the name: RG652AHMFX-RPB is RG (series) 6 (mid-level MIJ) 52(5-way selector for 2 humbucking pickups) AHM (Ash body Maple fretboard) FX (fixed bridge) RPB (Royal Plum Burst)
Actually, for these post-2014 models, 6 is the number of strings and 5 is the quality class.
@@altmaster3288 I’d say that’s only partially true tho. The MIJ Genesis line still holds on to the 5xx class. I’d imagine that the 6xx is representative of class AND number of strings here. What’s more is that the Indonesian line has only 1xx, 2xx, 3xx, and 4xx, and then the premium line jumps straight up to either 7xx, 9xx, 10xx, and 11xx. So it can be slightly confusing that way and so I think it is both class and number of strings with the Japanese guitars.
@@saarangnarayan123 That was my mistake for not making the comment clear enough: I should have said post-2014 RG Prestige models. There's no consistent system across the Ibanez range as a whole.
@@altmaster3288 you’re not wrong. But it started in 2003 with the introduction of the Prestige line. Until 2002 there was the three number (5xx, etc.) system. But with the introduction of the Prestige name, they added another number BEFORE the three numbers to signify class within the system. Hence there was the 1550, 1570, and later the 2550, 2570, etc. Of course there was the 3xxx and 2xxx lines earlier on, too which further complicates the matter. But I think the current system 65x and 75x are erstwhile 5xx guitars with the added string numbers. It so happens that said string numbers are also used to denote class to a certain extent considering that the indos have 1xx-12xx barring 6xx and 7xx.
@@saarangnarayan123 What about the RG5121?
The model name can also be used as a very secure password (if you can remember it).
By the time i finished reading that model name, the video was over
You gotta sound it out.
Lol
Everything on the long model name means something. Let me break it down for you:
RG652AHMFX-RPB
RG=Body Type
6=Prestige 6th series (it also doubles as how many strings, 7 strings start with a 7, 8 strings with 8, ect.)
52= The 2 means two humbuckers
AH= Ash body
M= Maple fretboard
FX= Fixed Bridge
RPB = Royal Plum Burst
5 = 5 way switch
Thanks for posting. Had no idea!
Thx!
@@LiesThatBind Nope, that's not what that means. Pretty much every Ibanez RG has a 5 way switch. Selector switch has never influenced model nomenclature
I'm a professional performer composer and in my opinion this is best gear review on youtube. I've bought 3 pieces because of your reviews and will buy the Ibanez RG652AHMFX in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your honesty and knowledge. Great playing by the way.
Yeah. Prove it Mr. Pro-Fessional!
It's purple.
It's quality.
It's pleasing.
Get one.
I have had an Ibanez Prestige RG Hardtail for a few years... Always reliable and sounds superb... The split/in between position on the neck pick-up is my go to for cleans
Engl and the RG= WOW sweetness!!!!
I love this model just as I love the nebula green version of it. My only gripe with it is the fact that it doesn't come with stainless steel frets. It's a 1.500 EUR guitar, it deserves stainless steel frets, Ibanez.
Awe, such a bummer! I was very close to buying this guitar, but I really want SS frets. Thanks for the heads-up.
@@Dubble_Bubble40 this guitar doesnt need SS frets, these make sound like a cream, PRS has at all no ss frets
@Max Sabotage thanks for the feedback, and that is good to know. I ended up going with the Schecter Keith Merrow 6 string, and I have been loving it. I'm hoping to learn to shred some day, because this thing is fast!
You just blew my mind!! I was so sure to finally buy this guitar in nebula green as I thought this was one of the greatest guitars at this price point with ss frets but now I’m left so speechless… I can see that the RG550 Genesis Made in Japan comes with Nickel Frets for ~950€ but the RG PRESTIGE for 500€ bucks more, made in the same factory (I think) and it doesn’t even come with stainless steel frets… wow
Thanks for taking the time to demo the clean sounds in every position. That's not always the case for other demos. 👍
This is stunning. I hope they don't stop making this after one year, it's gonna take me a few years to save for this!
Hopefully it will still be selling as the green nebula version is.
I was looking at this model when it first came out with the Nebula Green finish but never bought one. Walked into my local guitar store recently to pick up some strings and there was the 2021 Plum Burst model like it was waiting for me. Bought it. Flawless guitar. And for the price - I think you would usually have to pay about $1000 more to get the same level of quality in other brands. The only guitar I own that is absolutely flawless. Great review!
I have the Nebula Green with the Edge trem. It is an amazing guitar. I also own or have owned boutique guitars that cost between 4 to 10 grand US. I am not bragging, but I'm just saying I actually have something to base my opinion on. This guitar keeps up with them in all areas except gaudy bling(Parrots in the Jungle fingerboard inlay on one.) Bling doesn't effect the tone, playability or fit and finish though, and it still looks fantastic anyway IMHO.
Treated myself to one of these a few months ago. This was one of the reviews I watched in making a decision!
I was previously using an old RG550EX, but wanted something with a fixed bridge and decided to push the boat out for this Prestige model. Quite expensive, but for me it has been well worth it. It's a high quality instrument, a joy to play, and I look forward to picking it up every day! Cheers :)
Why did you decide to go against a tremolo bridge on your next guitar?
@@djbneozen A few reasons. 1) I rarely found a use for the whammy bar, so I was basically putting up with the downsides of a floating bridge for no reason, 2) it was a hassle to change tuning (even to drop D or Eb) and not something you can be spontaneous with really, 3) tuning stability was not good on my RG550 and I was looking for something that shouldn't have that problem, 4) restringing is so much quicker and less hassle with a fixed bridge, 5) on the RG550 various parts on the bridge needed replacing through wear & tear and it was not always easy to source new parts, but with the fixed bridge this should hopefully be less of a problem.
I would not say this guitar is quite expensive when you compare it to guitars of similar quality.
I've been looking at the older version of these guitars in the Nebula Green Burst. Same guitar as far as I can tell. Your review has been the most thorough and thoughtful. I think you covered all o the bases. Thank You.
I love this guy's melodic playing❤❤❤
I really do want one of these. Looks very comfortable to play and sounds great.
Why do you keep saying my name??
G...not J.... you doodoohead
I love my white RG 550 Genesis, it has a floating trem and is always in tune...
The Ibanez Floyd style trems, even the cheaper ones, are crazy good. Way above and beyond the Floyd rose 1000
Yeah, he talks nonsense about trems.
Undulating in this tiny room so close they could no longer contain it and his Royal Plum Burst into action with explosive flurry of legato. Languishing in a lush deep sea of tubular saturation, as a wash of satisfying warbles flowed over them crescendoing to a high gain squeal of fast pinch harmonics and heavily palm muted sweeping finally exploding with a glorious (Knock, knock, knock)😮 oh god somebody’s in here!
Sir your not allowed to take the merchandise into the restroom!!!
Loved the "Some noodling" part of the video. Very melodic soloing and great time.👍
It's beautiful. Very understandable you won't part with it.
The Multi-Tool! Lol 🤣 The way you said that, was that a throwback reference joke to the Hollywood blockbuster film the Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis and Mila Jovovich? At the airport scene when she says "Multi- Pass"? ... I think it was. If I am wrong then the world is not what I thought it was. Lol 😂
7:00 Leslie representing the whole guitar community in less than 10 seconds
Leslie and the RG-OMGWTF8675309-RPB are definitely both keepers!
Isn’t that Jenny’s signature guitar??
@@PooNinja Now popularized by Henning Tutone!
The guitar is so beautiful!! The colour is to die for!! I wish they would put this colour on a premium AZ
I have owned the nebula green version for 3 years. During that time it has been well used and trouble free.
Build quality is better than my korean Schecter sun Valley Shredder but nowhere near as good as my Schecter USA Sunset II.
You have a ton of amazing guitars however that one really looks like you... Love my RG you recommended to me, amazing video as always 💜
I wish the 6 string version of this color came with a trem, sure there is a 7 string but I want it in 6 string :(
Of course I've haven't tried this model but I always try out the newer models. They are very good...
.....but I keep going back to my 1994 JEM77 FP.
I had a FP... I so regret trading that in.
I actually really like that binding color. Gives it a cool funky vibe.
Got the green sevenstring recently, and I freakin' love it. And just when I settled with the thought that I'm gonna get an HSS AZ and be done with it, they release this thing. Why are you doing this to my wallet, Ibanez?
I can't decide between this guitar and the RG 5121. Can anyone suggest one over the other??
I need one of these Ibanezs in my life
Love that one Henning, agree the neck is a little hot. Can’t get over how nice that maple pops with the plum burst sweet
Do you think it's versatile enough to cover stuff from Gary Moore's Corridors of Power album through Black Sabbath and all the 80s rock-metal to Joe Bonamassa and Black Country Communion, The Winery dogs etc? I need super versatile shred machine since I can't buy strat, tele, LP and some super shred machine at once. In fact I may never be ;)
It will do all that... not perfectly, not exactly, but you can get away with it
ESP LTD is killing the game atm...almost every release in 2021 comes with STAINLESS STEEL FRETS with the cheapest probably at $999 ( Proper Duncans, Hipshot bridge and Roasted maple neck. Made in KOREA )...I would personally choose KOREA over INDONESIA anyday due to their better craftsmanship and stricter QC
I'm still waiting for that non AZ STAINLESS STEEL budget range from Ibanez, maybe a barebones RG with stainless frets on the sub $800 or $700 range.....ESP LTD drew first blood here...STAINLESS STEEL FRETS is definitely future
Schecter went out with SS frets before ESP did, even Ibanez did. Worst thing is, ESP doesn't offer it on the E-II or Japanese customs...
I'm not sure about how ESP runs things anymore, lots of stuff even points towards the Original Standard line and E-II are made in China and finished in Japan (big turnoff)
LTD 1000 series has been moved to mainly be made in Indonesia. I have seen some of the newer ones being made in Korea, I dunno if it's a 50/50 or 25/75 etc etc
But this is Japanese, and I would choose Japanese over Korean anytime. Also that 17mm thick Prestige Wizard neck is more than enough to make me limit my options to Ibanez only. :(
But muh Ibanez neck!
Seriously. I have a cheap LTD, a mid 7string Ibanez, an old Cort MIK, and Ibanez neck is the most comfortable by far.
Spot on with the critique of the Air Norton! While the combination works in whammy-equipped guitars that have a pickguard or mounting rings, body mounting really muddies both the Air Norton and the Tone Zone.
Why?
@@zerotoguitarhero5023 TZ in particular is probably the bassiest pickup that Dimarzio make. Although it makes up for the lower frequencies that are lost in whammy-equipped guitars, with a fixed bridge, it basically adds mud. At least in my experience with the TZ in 4 guitars.
AHMFX: AH Ash body, M Maple fingerboard, FX fixed bridge.
The ultimate RG is the new Reb Beach inspired Koa model - RG6PKAG. Hope you’ve got one to review!
SOLD!! Holy smokes I want that guitar, and it is already in my Thomann wish list.
That ENGL is really good, works well
Nice these are fantastic guitars and my old ass back appreciates it
Happy new year! I like this PPST a lot. For me, thats a countable improvement. And the small studio as well! I like the "cuddly" environment.
At least, the light from the back gives you a slight gloriole. 😜 Big thank you!!
Love the noodling sounds so good I want to buy this guitar or the RG 1070 premium , love the look of the 1070 neck and top which would you suggest? This guitar sounds so good to me.
Major want. Love the purple front with natural ash back.
Hey Henning! Actually like your new set! Pretty nice! 👍
Like for the string change sounds!:D
5:00 ... and it was at this moment, he realized he F***ed up. LOL... 😅Amazing playing bro.
I like the blue and green one they already make so thank you for reviewing this one
Pissy greenish yellow, yeah... that's making me want one.
great looking guitar.
I think I still like the old green one better. Great color though.
I never would have dreamed Ibanez shred stuff would sound so good in clean and mildly over driven playing. I think you just sold a guitar for them!
Beutiful finish and i always love the Gibraltar bridge
The ahmfx is my first electric guitar, got it bc I played my buddy’s green 7 string and NEEDED the brute force pup tone. Was astonished how much I disliked the stock sound when I got it out the box!
That color is so aweesome
Just got the same guitar in Green nebula burst!!!
Just bought one of these from Sweetwater , can't wait to play it, I'm an traditional 7.25 strat player, the 16.9 kinda worries me ,lol
Nope thats a great fretboard radius..try a compound radius 12"-16" and see how you like that..play great but if the guitar has a Floyd Rose style locking tremelo they can be a pain sometimes..luckily I have learned over the years how to adjust them if needed..that helps a lot to learn how to adjust your guitar(s)...the Gibraltar 2 bridge fixed bridge that comes on some of these are really good.
I have the 7-string nebula green burst one, had it for a few years now. Great guitar.
Nice! I just bought an RG752AHM used. Should be arriving next week. Super excited!!
Love the color but man I just can't get behind glossy finish guitars. The smudges and fingerprints are visible for miles around.
Just recently got myself an RG7421 and went for the Flat Walnut finish and I love it, it's a simple wood yet lovely guitar that looks almost green tinted in the right light and you can't see any of my dirty ass fingerprints anywhere on it. Glossy guitars look great on display but they just wind up looking dirty the more you use them.
I do agree with you on the pickup positions lol (neck is no 1).
Pretty sweet guitar, but I prefer the AZ line myself.
What a beauty... I really want the 7... If they'd only do that without a trem aswell, but guess I'll have to lock it then, its just too minor of an inconvenience to not fall in love with it ^^
I neeeeddd ittttt. Just wish they did this colour on the trem version!
Very cool color, would kill to see it on an RG5320 with a maple cap.
Does it have nickel frets or stainless steel frets?
Nickel.Dont worry you ll change it before tear down those frets.
The awful naming convention is something I love to try to decode every year lol. Usually they do make sense when you look at the spec sheet and try to match letter to feature, but this one I'm a little unsure about!
RG, duh.
652, 6 for six-string and 52 to probably to separate it from all the other 6 string RGs.
A, might be for Ash body
H, is either for humbuckers or for the "Super Wizard HP" neck, but you would have to know the specific neck name to get that from an H!
M, for Maple neck and/or fretboard
FX, I cannot fathom what this is supposed to be.
RPB is the color, that's usually last.
FX is fixed bridge, H is humbucker
@@Stigz86 Awesome, thank you!
Just a word of warning, this may be the only prestige line ibanez that doesn't have the prestige edge treatment. (Actually in the present line this one and the RG5120M are the only ones that don't have it). Probably not that big a deal and you can always get it done, but it's a pretty bad feeling having to take my brand new japanese ibanez to a shop to have them round the fret ends....
(And these pickups are very meh imho).
love this shirt today Henning! fun cool! :) super, got my coffee!
I really would appreciate a AR520h review.
Great review btw.
Royal plum burst sounds like how you get princes and princesses. Just saying, Ibanez.
Such a shame the 7-string version (which I'm in the market for) *does* have a wiggle stick (which I don't want). Fortunately, there are other options in Axion Label 7-strings coming out from Ibanez as well. Hope to see those on the channel at some point...
Fret board 430mm=16.9" or in English, pretty flat and shredy ;)
I love low pro and pro edge trem systems, they are about 500 times better than Wilkinson trems. The massive mass of metal give the guitar lots of sustain too.
A RG without one should be about 300 quid.
Have you played a Gibraltar II?
I love my original edge, but the Gibraltar II and the Hipshot High-Mass are both great hardtail bridges.
Given that color scheme, the binding needed to be black. Maybe white, I guess. But cream makes no sense. Still a very cool guitar.
Hope to see a Lefty version of this
...and not in black. Lol.
Only thing I’d change is the knobs. Back to a fender style, or a plastic speed knob. Never been a fan of the metal ones. Thanks for getting dressed up in your Pajamas for the review too. Waiting for Santa to bring you the rest of those Ibanez guitars are ya? 😉
Maybe the binding is glow in the dark.
Finally, a guitar review.
what? I had one last week!
@@EytschPi42 oh, well... um.
. Tonfuchs doesnt count then mmmkay?
THREE whole bird's eyes?!? TWO pieces of Walnut VENEER in the neck?!?
I appreciate your willingness to call out stuff like that.
Well, it's not that it's a new thing, but it doesn't take all that much to add strength, so the walunt stripes do what they're supposed to.
17:06 shows a good bit more than 3 bird eyes.
I will buy nebula green :) I think good value for money
Great review 👏🏻
That is one beautiful guitar. I didn't like the other 2021 color, nebula green. Otherwise a dream guitar. Floyd Rose is so much pain in the ass, after all these years I finally understand I want a hardtail guitar. Good video but a bit of criticism, wearing a dark plain shirt might have highlighted the guitar better
Nice job that playing was boss.
10:04 the guitar cable touching the couch just bothers me
Henning ist eine Legende
The 2021 Ibanez models marathon review can begin...
Purple rain purple rain~ play that with this RG
Why, why they dont have 6 string with floyd rose?????
they do... standard RGs... tons of them
@@EytschPi42 I know. I mean this exact model, with purple color.
Very nice. Sweet ax.🤘
Have the green, want to put a paf pro in the neck, dont love the tone zone for Riffs. Any good alternatives to the Tonezone ?
They should of just called it RG Purple Fuck Yeah
Lol
Yep love my rg652
If the controls were better positioned I would buy one.
Beautiful guitar as always from Ibanez! What’s the backing track title?
no clue... something from Elevated Jam Tracks
I hope they will add a good quality Wilkinson/Gotoh style bridge soon to this combination like AZ models.
Don't expect that for RG models. They will probably add another version with Edge (Floyd style) double locking Tremolo, though. This guitar is identical to the already existing RG652AHM-NGB (Nebula Green Burst). So it's essentially just a new color for an already existing guitar. The nebula green burst one has two versions, the fixed one and the one with the Edge Tremolo. I don't know any Prestige level RG models with a vintage style tremolo.
They used to make the RGV, but none of y'all bought it.
For me the perfect combination would be this guitar with a different colour + Seymour Duncan pickups + same 17mm/19mm neck (or 18mm/20mm) neck thickness with carbonfiber rods + stainless steel jumbo frets + high quality Wilkinson/Gotoh type of tremolo bar.
By the way, Ibanez RG721MSM with Seymour Duncan Jazz (neck) and JB (bridge) pickups sound like this:
ruclips.net/video/GR-9e93dCfY/видео.html
All the RG has recently (for the past couple of years) been going back to the lopro edge bridge for their prestige and edge zero 2 for their premium.
My cheaper RGA has a parallel setting on the neck PU, and I like it for the bluesey stratty stuff. But really, I didn't buy an Ibanez for playing classic rock. I got a couple of other guitars better suited to that.
I'm really beginning to feel a need for a purple guitar.
13:00 to 13:06 - Please make a video out of that : "How to change your guitar strings in 6 seconds!!!"
Nice Fifth Element drop ;)
And what's the name of the guitar???
Im getting one of these but lead time in UK is May or June. That sucks.
So you don't get a caramelized/baked maple on a $1500 guitar from Ibanez, but you do from a $1200 guitar from Ibanez? Makes no sense to me
The only downside with these maple fretboards is that the frets lack the prestige fretend treatment. So it’s interesting that you went with this model.