Ibanez RGDMS8-CSM

RGDMS8-CSM (Classic Silver Metallic) Electric Guitar, Multi-scale, 8-string. The MS addition to the RG name is that the guitar is equipped with a multi-scale neck (often called Fanned Frets), which may look a little crazy to one who has never seen it before. Multi Scale is what it sounds like, simply that each string has a different scale / measurement, longer on the low / thick strings and shorter on the high / thin ones. Ibanez was the first to build Multi Scale, Fanned Frets, or whatever you want to call this amazing invention, on instruments that are not custom ordered boutique instruments (but a price tag after that). All in the name of finding satisfactory solutions to the problems that contemporary metal musicians encounter with low-tuned guitars. That is, the low strings become fluttery and indistinct if the "solo strings" are to feel playable. Or vice versa, if the low ones are good, the bright ones become almost unplayable finger splitters. To get stability in the low end, you need either a longer scale or very thick strings, often a combination of both. With multi scale, you get an instrument that feels and plays completely balanced across the entire register, the ultimate compromise between two conflicting goals. The recent development of music with lower tunings and more strings places completely new demands on what the instruments must be able to do. Traditional guitars with 6 strings, straight frets and short mensur simply do not work anymore, strings become like boiled spaghetti, intonate like a shot crow, etc. Multi Scale is a solution to these problems, in that all strings have different mensur. Multi Scale also has the advantage that it is extremely comfortable and ergonomic to play, it is simply nice for the hands. They follow the natural angle of the hand depending on where on the neck you play. The break-in time, the time to get used to playing with it, is zero. The hands adapt instantly without any problems whatsoever. The eyes take a little longer to adjust, maybe fifteen minutes or so. Instead of choosing a traditional angled bridge, Ibanez has used a technique they have been successfully using on their basses for many years called the mono-rail bridge. In simple terms, each string is a stable, stables that are completely separated from each other. This provides optimal isolation of each string and the strings can vibrate without affecting and inhibiting each other. These are instruments for those who want the best for low tuned playing. They are built to give a hit on the Richter scale and still be very good instruments even for solo / melody playing. Specs: - Wizard III-8 Multi Scale, 5pc Maple/Walnut neck. - 692mm/27,2 scale at 8th fret, 648mm/25,5 scale at 1st fret. - Nyatoh body. - Macassar Ebony fretboard w/White step off-set dot inlay. - Jumbo frets. - Mono-rail bridge. - Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico 9 (H) neck pickup. - Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico 9 (H) bridge pickup. - Fishman Fluence Voicing switch on Volume control (push/pull). - Coil-tap switch. - Gold hardware. - Gotoh® MG-T Locking machine heads. - Factory tuning: 1D#, 2A#, 3F#, 4C#, 5G#, 6D#, 7A#, 8F. - String gauge: 009/011/016/024/032/042/054/066. Fitting case: MR500C. Neck: - Scale : 692mm/27.26 - 648mm/25.5 . - Width 55mm at NUT. - Width 80mm at 24F. - Thickness 20mm at 1F. - Thickness 21.5mm at 12F. - Radius : 400mmR.