Quick Review - Ibanez Axion Label RGD71ALMS
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2022
- Ibanez meld cutting edge tech with the most incredible looks on the axion label range of RG and RGD guitars. This multiscale 7 string comes loaded with fishman fluence modern cermaic pickups, gotoh locking tuners, maccassar ebony frets and a pangapanga/walnut neck. The fanned frets enable perfect intonation and stability for the lowest tunings imaginable, and the sub zero treated jumbo frets enable longevity at a molecular level.
Performance courtesy of Sam Machin
Demonstration courtesy of Hickies Music
Music courtesy of Arcaeon 
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I’m watching this in bed early morning with the volume down using captions, and the riff towards the end shows up in captions as “foreign music” lol
I'll take it! :) - Sam
I always noticed the captions for tremolo pedal demos just says * Laughter * 😂
I was highly considering getting this guitar and I think this review really helped me with making the decision. Thank you.
So glad the video helped you! I hope you fall in love with your new guitar. Stay awesome - Sam
Same.
The intro song was sickkk and very well composed!!!
Cheers Pat! So glad you enjoyed it. Stay awesome - Sam
Finally a really good review on this guitar. I just purchased this one about a month ago. It is an unbelievable shred machine.
Just ordered mine man tou absolutely made this thing look great appreciate the hard work brotha im just now getting in on playing studio style instead of on an amp best thing ive ever done
Thanks so much dude! Hope you fall in love with your new guitar. Cheers! - Sam
Great demo - I bought this guitar from Hickies, partly based on this demo. Met Sam in the shop and he was very helpful. Excellent service and I’m very happy with my purchase.
Great playing, great store - keep it up!
Chris - Thanks so much for this! the channel has been very quiet as of late due to some changes in the store, but rest assured we are on track to picking up where we left off. This is the first reply to a comment I have made in months, and its this sort of thing that really drives me to carry on with this, so thankyou so much.
All the best and stay awesome - Sam
awesome! this is one in genuinely considering getting. it sounds absolutely beautiful, clean and distorted!
Im so glad you enjoyed the sound Wyatt, Hope you are having a great day where you are. Stay awesome! - Sam
Ty man, it was a great review. Helped a lot.
Thanks for the kind words! If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to ask. :) Cheers, Ollie
I just ordered mine, can't wait!
Have a great time! - Sam
I’m in the fence with purchasing one. How’s it turn out for you?
I just ordered one because of videos like this one ❤️ thank you for this video.
So glad that you found this useful, stay awesome! - Sam
😁 I hope you all have a wonderful day!
How do you like it? Considering buying one as well
@XxDr34M5xX _ I love every single aspect of it. Hands down my favorite guitar I have ever played. ❤️
@@atomicimota7512 nice, how is the tuning stability? 🙏🏼
just bought this, so excited for it to come soon!
Nothing like watchinh some gear reviews to add to the excitement of waiting for a new instrument, I fully get this! :) Hope you love your new Ibanez Zane, stay awesome! - Sam
How do you like it? Considering buying one as well
@@xxdr34m5xx_4 Well, I have a few things.
For context, I bought mine from Sweetwater and it supposedly had their 55-point inspection or whatever. However, it came and within the first like 30 minutes of playing I had realized my hand was bleeding profusely from the palm/thumb area. I ran my fingers up and down the frets, and lo and behold, their 55-point inspection was more like a 54-point inspection, and they had passed the incredibly sharp edges. Secondly, I had to spend a few hours intonating the hell out of it because their now 54-point inspection was more like a 50-point inspection, missing nearly all of the playability criteria. Now, I don't expect their inspection to be perfect nor a true setup, as they state on their site that it differs from a true setup, but I expect to not get physically harmed from my guitar or have to spend more time setting up than playing.
Anyway, the guitar itself is pretty awesome; I will mention that I'm an intermediate player, so I don't have the experience from many years of playing various guitars. But, with experience on an old Mexican Strat and a budget-ish ESP LTD, this guitar is by far my favorite now. It plays unlike anything else (in my case only the Strat and ESP lol). The main thing I'd like to point out is the neck; it is fantastic and incredibly fast, smooth, and comfortable. The fanned frets are unnoticeable when playing and the pickups sound pretty awesome. Lastly, it's super ultra comfortable ergonomic wise. I could play this thing all day.
Overall, I'd say if you're willing to have to set it up a bit but in return have a great guitar for what you pay for, I highly recommend it. I would caution you about Sweetwater when buying expensive things, though. I don't know what you think of them, but their customer service to me was pretty great, but never really helped with any of the guitar issues.
@@gilernt thanks a lot man, I'm from Europe so i will buy it from thomann, they usually care about this stuff too, but my fender strat (mexican) has some rough edges, too. But it should never be so severe that you'd hurt yourself..
smooth playing 👏
Glad you liked it! Thanks very much for that, Hope all's well. :) - Sam
Dam I want one, looks and sounds sick 🤘
Nice riffs man
Very much appreciated Steve, stay awesome! - Sam
My dream gear, I gotta admit...
I've come so close to getting one myself haha, glad you love it Carlo! Stay awesome - Sam
OMG this intro was awesome
Really glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much - Sam
Bought it also got it today it’s amazing
So glad to hear you are enjoying your new guitar!
Cheers - Sam
How do you like it? Considering buying one as well
I was set on the ESP SCT607B" steph carpenter signature Tele, with the Fishman fluence pickups, I'm sure glad i waited, this guitar is a much nicer one especially for its price point
Esp is getting stupid with their prices, even eclipsing the Ibanez prestige, which I'd personally call superior.
Good call. ESP quality is great, ESP prices are not, and it's worth comparing his Fishman's to the old models with EMGs that arguably sounded better. Or even better imo his Around the Fur era tone which was a JB -his Fishman sigs are based on the Seymour Duncan JB tone wise, but I really think just a standard JB sounds better.
You have a Cort X-70 behind in showroom. Excepting the scale length and the 7th string, would you consider the X700 as good as the Ibanez?. Thanks.
Nice riffs
Thanks so much man! - Sam
Amazing demo. Best guitar demo i have heard. Usually expecting someone to show off a metal guitar playing some BB king or something. Reapect to that but its a metal guitar lol.
If you still check this, did the neck feel too thick? Like holding a baseball bat normal vs holding it upside down?
Thanks for your kind words regarding the playing style dude, Im accustomed to how 7 string guitars feel and play, so would say that I found this neck to be particularly easy due to that classic ibanez profile, however would always reccomend trying the instrument first to guage wether the slightly larger neck is right for you. Stay awesome - Sam
I just got this guitar. It plays amazing btw. Any one else feel that the Moderns are lacking. I decided to go after the Abasi pickups instead.
What are your thoughts on the neutral fret being on the 12th VS a guitar with a neutral on the 8th or 9th like the Cort 507 ?
this is a dumb question, but i recently got into extended range guitars and drop tuning with my first 7 string and was wondering what pick size you recommend as i don’t want something extremely thick, but not too thin to not be able to really slice that 7th string quickly
I would go for a Jazz 3 XL Flex 1.0mm! Hope this helps! - Sam
Came to see if channel recommended jazz IIIs, he does, I got onto them 20 years ago and still have the same 2 I bought, they are indestructible and give you full control over your attack.
Hello! I bought an ibanez rg71alms bam guitar. My guitar frets are in very bad condition. Yellow or rusty color result.. What to do?
Hi there! Did you buy your guitar from a shop or an online vendor
Great track. Killer tune. Not sure if i dig the mids from those pups though.
Thanks so much for that! And glad you where able to get a good idea of what they sound like. Worth trying them out through a different setup if you ever get the chance! - Stay awesome! - Sam
Thank you for review! It's incredible instrument, thinking about multiscale 7 string e-guitar.
Intro was insane! What's name of it? :)
So glad you enjoyed it Mark! And so glad to hear that you are entering the world of 7 string guitars. The Intro is from a song called "Ezekiels Wheel" by my band - Arcaeon. Here's a link for ya -
ruclips.net/video/bb3O62L_yU8/видео.html
Thanks for your kind words! Stay awesome - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStore Omg! Sounds powerful. Incredible song! Thank you! ;)
Glad you're enjoying it! Where are you based? they're touring fairly soon. :) cheers, Ollie
Sweet, what amp are you using in this?
Hi Noah, thanks for your question! Im using the Nueral DSP Archetype Petrucci plugin. captured the DI using a JBL DI box and a Fender GTX50 for self monitoring. Hope this helps! - Sam
Question: are you deliberately using a fast shutter speed on your camera? I’m trying to convince people to shoot with 180 degree shutter because fast shutter is too choppy.
I honestly can't remember at this point, what type of exact setting would you have used, and on what camera for this type of work with this kind of lighting? genuinely very interested. :) - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStore Thanks for your open-mindedness. My brain is not in “camera mode” right now but the details as I can recall them is you want your shutter speed to be about 2x your frame rate for natural-looking motion with a little blur. If you use 24p the 1/48th shutter; 30p:1/60; 60p:120th shutter. Relative to that, a slower shutter will create more blur and a faster shutter will create less blur (more choppy).
The reason one may use a faster shutter despite wanting natural motion blur is to control exposure; a faster shutter lowers the amount of light hitting the sensor. However, while this may be valid for photography when shooting video it has the consequence of changing how motion looks. Sure, blur is also a factor in photography but there you typically don’t want any blur whereas with video you do.
Technically, the setting you need is manual exposure, fixed frame rate, fixed shutter, variable aperture, and variable ISO. Depending on camera, keep your ISO low enough to not have visible noise. You can control exposure with aperture (lens dilation) and/or neutral density (ND) filters. In a studio, you can simply adjust your lights and/or put curtains on your windows.
I prefer a natural look and think it’s the best to use as a primary. Of course, choppy strobe-like video can be a fun effect but I find it distracting, amateurish and adolescent to use as a primary ratio.
All I can ask is that RUclipsrs experiment with different shutter speeds relative to their frame rates to see the effect. There are also videos that filmmaking youtubers have done which demonstrate this.
Ultimately your job is to serve your audience and hopefully make yourself happy doing so. If you like choppy video then by all means use it but I personally get nauseated by it. Cheers.
kind of a bummer there’s no coil split like the RGDMS8
definitely will buy one if it has stainless steel frets
After a good amount of searching, I could only come up with the details regarding the sub zero treated frets, and not specifically treated. A question direct to Ibanez may be worth the enquiry! - Cheers! - Sam
Whats the range on the multiscale? I assume 25.5”-27”?
Yes
Correct!
What's the different between this and the rgd71alpa?
Very different guitars! Bare knuckle aftermath set is the biggest difference to the tone, they are (as well as being very awesome too) very precise, focused set, with a compressed low end (as opposed to the fishmans that are very wide, high output tonally balanced set) The neck on the alpa is standard, as opposed to a multiscale, fanned fretboard. There are some familiar specs on both such as the neck material and body shape, but I'd really reccomend trying either of them before making a decision as the fanned fet board isnt for everyone , and the pickups are very different feeling and sounding on each model. Hope this helps! - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStore Thanks this helps a lot, they name their guitars pretty closely but have different price points gets confusing.
Great video! What was the tuning and how's the tuning stability on this guitar? Does it get close to evertune perfection?
Thanks so much for that, and thanks for your question! I tuned it to open F# for this video, and it handled it pretty well with the same strings it came with! Not even remotely close to evertune, being that I had to tune between takes. That being said, a monorail bridge sounds alot nicer than an evertune in my opinion! Hope you are doing well, and stay awesome! - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStore thanks so much for the detailed reply! I'm just curious now about the sound: do you think evertune sound bad compared to a monorail (or a hipshot style bridge)? Thanks again! 😊
@@flprmn9448 no problem! So before trying one and on more than one occasion I had spoken to people using an evertune for the first time (one of which who plays for Sylosis, an established band with members who know their guitars) and they had mentioned how the evertune drastically effected the tone of the guitar, I tried one out and loved the functionality but noted that it sounded alot like one of the larger hipshot floating trems I have on a guitar of my own. I got really into comparing the sound of bridges and how the depth of specifically rhythm guitar sounds when using different bridges and am still on the hunt for the "perfect" rhythm guitar, where the material, style and overall tone of the bridge is tight, deep and just the right amount of snap where it doesn't go into Floyd rose or indeed evertune territory, as I find they are good for leads but again slightly lacking in depth in comparison to a fixed/string through/non floating bridge. There are purists out there that will say it doesn't make a difference, but from my experience with the hundreds of guitars I have played (hate blowing my own horn) I can say that I can feel and hear that it does. Hope this helps! - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStore That's really good information, very helpful. I got my first 7 string two months ago, a Jackson Soloist Chris Broderick signature but I'm not liking it as much as my hardtail 6 string (a Schecter Reaper-6). The Jackson has a Floyd Rose, and having not used one before it is certainly very different. I wanted to get into both extended range and tremelo so thought why not kill two birds with one stone, hence the Jackson. But from my experience so far, the trem isn't really helpful for that low B string, I only find myself using it on notes I'm playing on the higher strings. One of the first things I noticed was how different it sounded acoustically, just sounded tinny and lacking resonance. Not such a huge difference when plugged into an amp but it was still one thing to put me off. I've also found that even with the locking nut it goes out of tune easily, and I can't get the lowest string tuned properly in drop A. It can be flat when played open, and then sharp when played on the 7th fret.
It could be that it just needs a proper professional setup but even with that done I would still have to adjust my playing style, just chugging on the low string or doing djent style riffs and it goes out of tune slightly before returning. I've read about mods that can make the trem dive only or completely locked which could help when I want to play those kind of styles, but adding in even more I'm not so keen about like the back of the neck being glossy (I prefer the feel of wood) and the fingerboard not feeling as nice as my Schecter I've already decided I want to try a different 7 string. Actually just bought the Cort KX507 and seeing your demo of it was helpful, it should be arriving in a day or two so I'll see how I get on with it. Being £340 cheaper than the Jackson is a big plus, and I've really wanted to try the Fishman pickups - and even the more premium brands don't seem to include the coil split on the Fishman Moderns so pretty great that Cort does; I use coil split a load. I am wondering if the Cort is too good to be true for the price but hoping I'll like it, I believe it's made in the same factory as my Schecter which is my favourite playing guitar out of all of the ones I've picked up (which isn't that many to be fair - no more than 10 different models in total; I've been a drummer for 15 years but guitar is a more recent interest). I'venever played multiscale before so that may take some getting used to. Maybe I'll go for a 6 string with a Floyd or other trem in the future for the vibrato fun!
@@dreammachine86 Great to read this Luke!
would reccomend getting the guitar setup profesionally as you said. It may seem annoying to have to do so, but I've had nearly every guitar I own setup upon buyingthem if they are coming straight from factory/warehouse. I didnt do this once and waited a long time (with a strandberg boden OS) and the difference it made was next level.
I'm also so glad to hear you have made a choice absed on one of our videos, that makes me very happy to know I have helped in some way!
All the best, and stay awesome! - Sam
What do you have it tuned to?
Open F sharp!
Good god
0:52 so many cuts and couldn't find a take where you played as recorded?
No excuse for sloppy playing and bad editing!, Im working on my craft day by day, just as many people are on this channel, but appreciate the constructive feedback just as much as the people who are enjoying it. Thanks for pointing this out and in some ways makign sure I focus on making sure I do a better job in new videos (which will be coming soon!) Hoep you are having a great day where you are. Cheers - Sam
@@HickiesMusicStoreno hard feeling, keep up the good work, I just miss single-take covers of ye olde youtubes)
Nooo why does it have to be active pick ups?? :( Otherwise a perfect guitar
Interested to know what it is that you dislike about active pickups specifically? Have you tried a set of fishman humbuckers before? - Sam
This guitar is specifically engineered to be a metal guitar. Why wouldnt there be active pickups on it? Lol if there were passive pickups on it no one would buy it.. and fishmans are the absolute best active pickups on the market. Theres literally 0 things wrong with the electronic choices on this guitar.
Fantastic guitar and video. Please take a drink of water before you record your voice.
Thanks Alex! I reckon a slightly better microphone might go a long way too 😉 Cheers - Sam
Half the world has one by now lol
See you are enjoying Ibanez guitars too! Great playing and choice of guitar. Cheers! - Sam
I love how you’re playing the most violent crap ever and your face is just: 😐
string go brr 😐
@@HickiesMusicStore more like string go BRRRRRR
Would be a buy for me if it didnt have these horrid colours :(, cool guitar non the less anyway ofcourse
You can get this in silver with gold hardware too!
www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/rgdms8_1p_01.html
I'm currently considering this guitar or an ESP LTD H3-1007. Or another LTD in this price range. Which one would you choose/prefer? Any opinions would be appreciated.
The H31007 is an absolutely wonderful guitar and I would always reccomend ESP/LTD guitars to anyone after this sort of thing. A shame we dont have a dealership with them! Thanks so much for your question - Sam