RGDR4527ET-NTF (Natural Flat). Electric guitar with hardcase. Prestige Axe Design Lab. 7-string. Made in Japan. Spot.
RGD is a series of guitars designed with the goal of being the ultimate metal guitar. In modern metal, tuning down guitars to access fatter, heavier and meaner riffs is more a rule than an exception. On standard guitars, the scale length is a problem when tuning down, the strings tend to be like spaghetti and are difficult to get the guitar to stay in tune and the intonation goes out of tune. On the RGD series, the problem has been solved by making the scale on the neck 2,4 cm longer (673mm instead of 648mm). The difference in how stable the strings feel is great, but the difference in how it feels for the fingers to play on a longer neck is quite small, if you have large hands you probably experience it as an advantage with the longer scale.
The slightly beveled body makes the guitar extremely comfortable to play on, and the heavily beveled horns provide total access to the highest bands.
Neck: Wizard-7
The guitar is equipped with Ibanez Wizard neck profile, Wizard can most easily be described as a slightly thicker Super Wizard neck. It has the same flat fingerboard (430mmR), the same width and the same well-sharpened jumbo frets as the Super Wizard but is a little thicker. A neck for those who want what Ibanez is known for, an extremely fast and easy-to-play neck, but want a little more wood in the hand.
Body: African Mahogany
Mahogany is a tonewood with sound characteristics in the warmer direction, with a clear and prominent midrange.
Nut: Evertune
The nut is a solid Evertune.
Spec:
- 5-pcs Maple/Wenge Wizard-7 neck w/ KTS Titanium rods.
- Richlite top/African Mahogany body.
- Richlite fretboard w/Off-set Luminlay dot inlay.
- Jumbo frets w/Prestige Fret End Treatment.
- Graph Tech Black TUSC XL nut.
- Gotoh® machineheads.
- Evertune bridge.
- Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic (H) neck pickup.
- Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic (H) bridge pickup.
- Black hardware
- Hardshell case.
Neck:
- Scale: 673mm/26.5 .
- Width at Nut: 48mm.
- Width at Last Fret: 68mm.
- Thickness at 1st: 19mm.
- Thickness at 12th: 21mm.
- Radius: 430mmR.
The mics are connected on a 3-position toggle switch with a common volume, the modes you can access are.
1 - Stallmick in series
2 - Stallmick in series in parallel with neck mic in series
3 - Neck mic in series