I owned this bad boy back in the 80's it was my favorite guitar, I sold it at some point, and I still miss my baby. We do stupid things when we were young, selling this one was a mistake. I highly recommend this one it should be better than the 80's one due to improvements.
This is great that Ibanez is reissuing the 550 again and regret selling mine. This guitar was amazing right out of the box and could conjure up many tones!
@@jamesevans6335 The great thing about having an original 91 RG570 is I've played it for 30 years in all sorts of conditions and it's really roadworn now. No-one would buy it. And I would never sell it. It's beat up but it still sounds a million dollars and I wouldn't trade it for anything. My first Student loan in 92 was well spent. 🙂Luv and Peace.
this is so good. i ended up buying this guitar in RFR due to this video. and then even after i bought the guitar ,when im not playing it, i come back here to hear you play it. amazing riffs. i hope to reach that level some day
Holy moly I was literally looking forward to buying this guitar and my favourite guitar review channel made a video about it!!! I feel very lucky and ecstatic
I’ve been contemplating getting one of these for a couple years now and finally pulled the trigger 4 days ago. I’m chomping at the bit to hear an expected delivery date. Your video didn’t help my patience. You seriously made me want it NOW!!! Great video, awesome playing.
This guitar just looks awesome. I have a grgr120ex atm and I really like how it feels. This one will probably be 10x better. Need to get me one and This playing makes me want one even more!
Great demo! Shows exactly what the RG550 can do (as stock) with a great amp behind it. I have a 2017 Genesis in Road Flare Red and it is retina meltingly cool. Love it. 🤘 One minor correction. The RG550 Genesis has a Basswood body not Alder
I bought my original RG550 in Desert Yellow back in 1987. GREAT guitar. Wish I still had it, but I think this is giving me the nostalgia vibes again and will probably buy one of the new ones. The pickups weren't my favorite back in the day (replaced the bridge with a Duncan Pearly Gates) but for $1k it's hard to argue with. What a fun guitar.
Great guitar, stays in tune for a long time, neck is comfortable and the stock pickups are great. I have the exact same guitar. Only thing I've changed is the strings from 9 to 10's
I just put 10's on my RG500 for the first time. I can't believe that I didn't do it sooner. I run 10's on my strats tuned to standard, and I run 11's on my strats tuned to E-flat. I didn't think I'd like the bigger strings on such a wide neck with jumbo frets, but it really does round it out. It should've been shipped with 10's. I've also tried 8's on it. They were great for some stuff, and definitely easy on the joints, but the 10's are just more playable, and it really feels like the guitar was built around them.
A truly magnificent guitar! What an awesome palette of tones you demonstrated so well. Glorious sounding pickups. You even seemed to be producing riffs and melodies faster and more instinctively than in other reviews. Rock on!
You sold me man, I'm definitely getting one!! I was looking at one because they come in lefty and it's like the world is telling me I should have one being born in 87 - thanks for the awesome video man \m/
I recently sold my RG550 and now you’re making me want to buy another one haha. Amazing guitars, and great value, one of the few MIJ guitars you can buy for under a grand. Only sold mine because I didn’t get along with the Dimarzio Evo’s the prior owner put in. Can hear me play some Def Leppard with it on my channel. Great demo as always from another fellow 80’s lover. 😁
@@mrEmu7 Honestly, I prob should have done that haha. I have been wanting a road flare red one, the first one I had was purple, may jump on another one if a deal pops up.
So i just got back from my local guitar shop and now i have one of these. I saw it all the way across the store because of the color lol plays so well, im used to a strat neck
it's a very good guitar...very pro-level feel, Japanese quality and most important..great fret levelling...I have 0,9mm action on mine at 12th fret...no buzz..you can lower the nut, taking out the shims from underneath it..have a nice fast low action with great sustain and intonation!
I was looking for a video about this guitar. But I did. It pay attention to the instrument since I was so impressed with his style. Thi guy is an amazing guitar player!
Wow!!! I'm just looking at this exact guitar, online, planning to buy it.... And you upload a video now... Can't wait to have this... Drooling much 😭😭😭😭
OK I’m basically saying what everybody else said here but here it goes. I bought this guitar Road flare redin 1987. Played out many bands with it all over the Northeast. Maybe 5 years went by and my nephew was just starting to get in the guitar. I tried to help him out and I saw this to them for 150 bucks. I have thought of this Guitar thousands of times up until this year 2024 I missed it never forgot about it and now just today I bought the genesis road flare red. I look forward to getting this back in my possession know it’s not the original one. My nephew now much older still has the one I sold him and he loves it. It’s his favorite guitar.
This is the first Ibanez guitar I've really been interested in but I wish Ibanez would offer them with rosewood fretboards and maybe add a black and a white model.
The ultimate shredding guitar. If you are that type of player, this is the best guitar ever for that. Forget Fender or Gibson, you need an Ibanez RG if you shred because of the wizard neck! Makes fast playing a breeze.
I have an original 1980's one, there's not much left of the original guitar left? It's had a new neck, new pickups, new wiring, new pots, new knobs, and it's having a new trem fitted at the moment!
Yeah that's unfortunately true! Even the body shape isn't the same! I own an 80s one and a new one! It is kicked comparing an p9p Les Paul with an Black Beauty 3 HB!
@@neilingleson2626 unfortunately true! It was my first proper guitar, I don't use it much now. I hated the trem, the way that the arm would never stay where I wanted it to? So it's having a Schaller trem fitted to it now. Hopefully it will be better?
The only original parts are the body, machine heads, and scratchplate! It was my main guitar for a few years. I never liked the trem on it, so that's why it's going, and it's got Dimarrzio pickups in it
For £950 which is what I payed for a 2019 RG550DX the quality of these MIJ guitars puts the likes of Gibson to shame, they don’t get shipped out until they’ve gone through a solid QC process & the workmanship is amazing.
Cool man I like your read on it. yep Some axes are just quick and this is one them. But now even better with the current electronics in it. You know it's a great guitar when you loss track of time lol.
I bought a fluorescent orange one in 1987, and it had a very rare matching fluorescent orange headstock. Unfortunately, I traded that neck with Mark McGee from the band Vicious Rumors, because I wanted a rosewood fretboard, and he wanted what I had, a maple fretboard. So now I have the black headstock. Fastest feeling neck I have ever felt on any guitar, which surprisingly helped me to play much faster. I don’t play metal style anymore, but anytime I pick one of these up at a guitar store, I can immediately play a lot of the shit I used to in the 80s.
Aloha from Hawaii high digging I really enjoyed the video man you ripping I like to guitar too I didn't realize I've been as made such a nice guitar I know need a Strauss has a good one so it reminded me of hers keep up the good work
I just bought RF few months ago and unlike my other Ibanez prestige, RG550 reissues have dodgy switch. Try to get them replaced if you pick one... just don't wait for bridge switch issues to happen.
Although it's not desert sun yellow anymore, I have an original RG550 from '89 I believe. Love it. Also, did I spy a Kramer Vanguard hanging on the wall? I have one of those as well, although it needs a neck. Long story, but I broke a friends Kramer neck on his strat and replaced it with mine, so still looking for one to get it back to playing again. Great vid BTW!
If Ibanez just fixed the neck joint to be like the other prestiges. This would be the greatest guitar ever. Funnily the neck on this is thinner than the other RG prestiges. It’s so fast it’s unbelivable
Aaaaaaaaaa So stoked i just bought one. Cant wait to feel the neck and shred it's ass off. And play ripping power chords for days. Gonna do everything with it. But i have some cheaper ibanez rgs, so this will be the first mij one ill have, and i cant wait to see and feel what kind of real difference there is.
The body is not alder, it's basswood and it is available only with maple fretboard, not a rosewood option. Great guitar, great playability, great tones and covers a lot of sonic ground!
Originally they did have the 550 DX which was rosewood and the shark tooth inlays but only available for like 2019-2020. didn't last long same w/ the 570 option which was rosewood fretboard and solid basswood body.
@@ryant3600 I know, I have the 1986 catalogue and a 1987 Roadstar I bought in '88. But, Dagan says that this is available now with rosewood fingerboard.
@@ryant3600 The sharktooth inlays were only on the 7 series guitars if I remember correctly back in 92. They had the V7 and V8s too. The lower RGs were refreshed in about 94 or 95 . They moved the RG 5xx to the round neck joint and changed the trem to the Low Pro Edge they refreshed the pickups to the V7s and V8s. Luv and Peace.
@@george.kollaros I played a black roadstar 2 RS440 my mate lent me in halls of residence at Uni in 92. It was an amazing guitar. The trem system was a pre floyd affair and super complex but it mostly held tune and the guitar sounded amazing. Very 80s Van Halen. I loved that guitar. Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 I was taking about the genesis series which brought back the 750 but called it 550 DX cause it has the rosewood fretboard and shark tooth inlays
I had a Gio back in the day I bought in a pawnshop that guitar played so well can’t remember why I got rid of it got an ltd hss Floyd equipped this one is really nice to play needs the frets level might upgrade pups to
It should say RG on it ,shouldn’t it? I’m happy to see they’ve replaced the INF pickups! I’m a Seymour Duncan guy myself but if my 6 high end Ibanez with Dimarzios I still prefer the ladder! You can see my guitars on my chan! My RG NT 42,Ibanez ZBT NT, Ibanez S570 and Jem Carbon 6 with Evo’s! My Jacksons,BC Rich and other 80’s guitars will post in our channel soon!
I love this guitar and I prefer the 2019 Ruby Red version with Shark Tooth inlay on the fret board. I wanted the red one but all they had at Guitar Center was the Blue guitar. I ended up buying a Prestige instead, but I still really want that Ruby Red 2019 version that is not made any more and hard to find. One thing I do not understand about the 2020 and older versions of this guitar is that some of them have sharp fret edges. That is shocking since it is a Japan made guitar. Now, I had a chance to buy a used 2019 Ruby Red version and it did not have sharp fret ends. But it had too much damage for the price tag. Love Ibanez, but I wish they used Seymour Dunkin JB pickups instead of their stock pickups.
Not Alder. Basswood like the original. V7 and V8 are not the orig pickups. Those were V1 and V2 The neck shape is also different. Genesis neck is bigger. They are still good guitars for the money. 😊
@@jrtme You could but I swapped a ceramic in my V2 and it sounds so awesome I don't feel the need for a new pickup. I also switched my V7/V8 magnets so the alnico is in the neck and ceramic in the bridge and it sounds amazing- especially the neck- why they didnt do this from the factory IDK
If anyone is looking for an original 1993 Rg550 in DY let me know. I'm considering listing on Reverb. Excellent + condition. Looks almost new. Comes with original pickups V1 and V2 and mint original case. Also signed by Steve Vai but you can polish off if that's not for you. Met him at a record store signing and he signed. Have pics.
If you get a good one of these they are amazing and a ridiculous deal but of 3 I’ve owned they all were kinda fucked up. A purple one had a chunky uncomfortable neck and a bridge that had an elongated saddle screw that dug into the trem cavity preventing it from functioning properly. 2 white ones had various fret issues although they had pencil thin ultra shreddy necks. Was worth buying 3 of them till I found the one that was ultimately amazing after a little fretwork. Its as solid and high quality feeling as a 3k guitar i own.
Ordered this guitar in purple on 3 occasions..I had fret sprouts every single time! Very unfortunate because I love the way these guitars look. I just didn’t want to spend $1000 on a guitar and then spend another 100-200 at a tech to get it right.
This is one of the best all out rock guitars ever made
I wish it just had an ebony fretboard, other than that it is pretty good.
This and Les Paul are the perfect rock guitars
you are not far from truth!
Impeccable timing, getting mine in two weeks. You just made me even more hyped Dagan!
Now you're gonna force me to get my 4th Ibanez!
I owned this bad boy back in the 80's it was my favorite guitar, I sold it at some point, and I still miss my baby. We do stupid things when we were young, selling this one was a mistake.
I highly recommend this one it should be better than the 80's one due to improvements.
A dude has to be stupid to dislike this video. Great playing. Great guitar as well.
Thanks for watching! 🤘
@@PMTVUK excellent video Dagan is superb on the instrument as always top bloke. Blessings from Glasgow 🎸🏴🙏🇬🇧
cool guitar and playing
@@racheladkins6060 and dudettes too?
This is great that Ibanez is reissuing the 550 again and regret selling mine. This guitar was amazing right out of the box and could conjure up many tones!
They've been reissued for 3 years
@@jamesevans6335 The great thing about having an original 91 RG570 is I've played it for 30 years in all sorts of conditions and it's really roadworn now.
No-one would buy it.
And I would never sell it.
It's beat up but it still sounds a million dollars and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
My first Student loan in 92 was well spent.
🙂Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 good on you sir peace love and good happiness stuff
this is so good. i ended up buying this guitar in RFR due to this video. and then even after i bought the guitar ,when im not playing it, i come back here to hear you play it. amazing riffs. i hope to reach that level some day
I have this guitar.. and it is my absolute favorite.
That trem system can handle anything. Simply amazing
I nearly bought the HM Strat, then realised this is made in the same factory and WAY better. love it.
Holy moly I was literally looking forward to buying this guitar and my favourite guitar review channel made a video about it!!!
I feel very lucky and ecstatic
I had a yellow RG550 back in 87 🤘🏼 Love them..🤙🏼
I got purple one, its like chameleon it can turn into blue red or purple under different lightning. Lovely
Purple Neon.
Mine too.
I owned an original one back in the 80's and they were great guitars, I definitely would like to get one of these. 🤘
I’ve been contemplating getting one of these for a couple years now and finally pulled the trigger 4 days ago. I’m chomping at the bit to hear an expected delivery date. Your video didn’t help my patience. You seriously made me want it NOW!!! Great video, awesome playing.
I've still got my RG-570 from back in those days, and it's still fun as hell to play.
Fun as hell? 😳i dont think hell is fun..
@@loudwire637 hahaha
That just looks like one of the most fun guitars in the world
Ibanez always hits it out of the ball park at any price range!
I could listen to that intro all day
Love that pale maple neck
This guitar just looks awesome. I have a grgr120ex atm and I really like how it feels. This one will probably be 10x better. Need to get me one and This playing makes me want one even more!
Bought myself the Road Flare Red for Christmas. I love it.🤘
Ive had mine in, Road Flare Red ,one year now and haven't changed one thing about it, I love this guitar.
I had to change the pickup instantly on mine.
I still have my RG550 in white that I bought new in 1990. Still a really great guitar!
MY goodness, I absolutely love it!
Great demo! Shows exactly what the RG550 can do (as stock) with a great amp behind it. I have a 2017 Genesis in Road Flare Red and it is retina meltingly cool. Love it. 🤘
One minor correction. The RG550 Genesis has a Basswood body not Alder
I can't agree more. Road flare red is the way to go in this series.
wnted one since they came out in the 80's finally getting mine this week
🤘🤘🤘
I bought my original RG550 in Desert Yellow back in 1987. GREAT guitar. Wish I still had it, but I think this is giving me the nostalgia vibes again and will probably buy one of the new ones. The pickups weren't my favorite back in the day (replaced the bridge with a Duncan Pearly Gates) but for $1k it's hard to argue with. What a fun guitar.
Great guitar, stays in tune for a long time, neck is comfortable and the stock pickups are great.
I have the exact same guitar.
Only thing I've changed is the strings from 9 to 10's
Why did you change?
I just put 10's on my RG500 for the first time. I can't believe that I didn't do it sooner. I run 10's on my strats tuned to standard, and I run 11's on my strats tuned to E-flat. I didn't think I'd like the bigger strings on such a wide neck with jumbo frets, but it really does round it out. It should've been shipped with 10's.
I've also tried 8's on it. They were great for some stuff, and definitely easy on the joints, but the 10's are just more playable, and it really feels like the guitar was built around them.
A truly magnificent guitar! What an awesome palette of tones you demonstrated so well. Glorious sounding pickups. You even seemed to be producing riffs and melodies faster and more instinctively than in other reviews. Rock on!
Commenting to say that guitar looks incredible
Oh the hair tones....😍🎸🎶🔥
You sold me man, I'm definitely getting one!! I was looking at one because they come in lefty and it's like the world is telling me I should have one being born in 87 - thanks for the awesome video man \m/
Better order one right now.
I recently sold my RG550 and now you’re making me want to buy another one haha. Amazing guitars, and great value, one of the few MIJ guitars you can buy for under a grand. Only sold mine because I didn’t get along with the Dimarzio Evo’s the prior owner put in. Can hear me play some Def Leppard with it on my channel. Great demo as always from another fellow 80’s lover. 😁
Were you around in the 80's?
Might have been worth it to swap them for something!
@@mrEmu7 Honestly, I prob should have done that haha. I have been wanting a road flare red one, the first one I had was purple, may jump on another one if a deal pops up.
No Matter What Guitar You Play, I Always Enjoy The Playing, Tone and Reviews.
Thanks Rob! 🤘
I got a 2019 in Ruby Red & I love this thing…. Flog the hell out of it & stays in tune too
You're really good at playing. Would've been cool to play a gig or two together. Glad you did some Steve Vai. Perfect guitar for it 🤘🔥
So i just got back from my local guitar shop and now i have one of these. I saw it all the way across the store because of the color lol plays so well, im used to a strat neck
it's a very good guitar...very pro-level feel, Japanese quality and most important..great fret levelling...I have 0,9mm action on mine at 12th fret...no buzz..you can lower the nut, taking out the shims from underneath it..have a nice fast low action with great sustain and intonation!
Lovely bit of Jake at 4.48!
I was looking for a video about this guitar. But I did. It pay attention to the instrument since I was so impressed with his style. Thi guy is an amazing guitar player!
Wow!!! I'm just looking at this exact guitar, online, planning to buy it.... And you upload a video now... Can't wait to have this... Drooling much 😭😭😭😭
Usually only come around for the Bass stuff, but I love watching Dagan. Keep rocking! :D
OK I’m basically saying what everybody else said here but here it goes. I bought this guitar Road flare redin 1987. Played out many bands with it all over the Northeast. Maybe 5 years went by and my nephew was just starting to get in the guitar. I tried to help him out and I saw this to them for 150 bucks. I have thought of this Guitar thousands of times up until this year 2024 I missed it never forgot about it and now just today I bought the genesis road flare red. I look forward to getting this back in my possession know it’s not the original one. My nephew now much older still has the one I sold him and he loves it. It’s his favorite guitar.
Guitar is AMAZEING! Comes with the “edge” trem…original
Best guitar neck ever built
This is the first Ibanez guitar I've really been interested in but I wish Ibanez would offer them with rosewood fretboards and maybe add a black and a white model.
Look at the rg550dx has rosewood
Just bought this guitar for my 13 year old daughter for Xmas!
Dad to die for!❤
Love your reviews man, you rockin out and then like "oh yeah and the pickups..." 😂
fantastic timbre both clean and crunch of this guitar ,
I even have one with dimarzio ibz pickups year 94
'Just play it fast and the copyright wont get me' fucking madlad...
copyright...really? on a fucking demonstration?...fuck
The ultimate shredding guitar. If you are that type of player, this is the best guitar ever for that. Forget Fender or Gibson, you need an Ibanez RG if you shred because of the wizard neck! Makes fast playing a breeze.
I owned original RG550 Black with rosewood wizard neck, I had 1st year made RG550, I miss her😢but I love my 7VWH Jem😊
I have an original 1980's one, there's not much left of the original guitar left? It's had a new neck, new pickups, new wiring, new pots, new knobs, and it's having a new trem fitted at the moment!
Yeah that's unfortunately true! Even the body shape isn't the same! I own an 80s one and a new one! It is kicked comparing an p9p Les Paul with an Black Beauty 3 HB!
Sounds like triggers broom 🤣
@@neilingleson2626 unfortunately true! It was my first proper guitar, I don't use it much now. I hated the trem, the way that the arm would never stay where I wanted it to? So it's having a Schaller trem fitted to it now. Hopefully it will be better?
Dang, you wore that thing out! 😎Cool.
The only original parts are the body, machine heads, and scratchplate! It was my main guitar for a few years. I never liked the trem on it, so that's why it's going, and it's got Dimarrzio pickups in it
I had an all original one of these in the late 80s it was the left-handed purple version, should’ve kept it!
For £950 which is what I payed for a 2019 RG550DX the quality of these MIJ guitars puts the likes of Gibson to shame, they don’t get shipped out until they’ve gone through a solid QC process & the workmanship is amazing.
Cool man I like your read on it. yep Some axes are just quick and this is one them. But now even better with the current electronics in it. You know it's a great guitar when you loss track of time lol.
Best Video in ages! =p
😃😁
If the headstock came in all black this thing would look perfect
Still have my 1989, same color. Still my main guitar, with Dimarzio Steve's Special / Air Norton pickups.
I have an original RG550 from 1987, just posted a video about it on my channel, really wish I could play it like that ❤
I have one too, bought it in 1991, a red one.
I bought a fluorescent orange one in 1987, and it had a very rare matching fluorescent orange headstock. Unfortunately, I traded that neck with Mark McGee from the band Vicious Rumors, because I wanted a rosewood fretboard, and he wanted what I had, a maple fretboard. So now I have the black headstock.
Fastest feeling neck I have ever felt on any guitar, which surprisingly helped me to play much faster. I don’t play metal style anymore, but anytime I pick one of these up at a guitar store, I can immediately play a lot of the shit I used to in the 80s.
Great video! I really want one even more now
Aloha from Hawaii high digging I really enjoyed the video man you ripping I like to guitar too I didn't realize I've been as made such a nice guitar I know need a Strauss has a good one so it reminded me of hers keep up the good work
I have the RG450 in that exact same color! LOVE IT!!! Mine has the shark inlays
I just bought RF few months ago and unlike my other Ibanez prestige, RG550 reissues have dodgy switch. Try to get them replaced if you pick one... just don't wait for bridge switch issues to happen.
Although it's not desert sun yellow anymore, I have an original RG550 from '89 I believe. Love it. Also, did I spy a Kramer Vanguard hanging on the wall? I have one of those as well, although it needs a neck. Long story, but I broke a friends Kramer neck on his strat and replaced it with mine, so still looking for one to get it back to playing again. Great vid BTW!
That guitar suits you, Dagan!
good lord all this for 1k. Great demo
If Ibanez just fixed the neck joint to be like the other prestiges. This would be the greatest guitar ever. Funnily the neck on this is thinner than the other RG prestiges. It’s so fast it’s unbelivable
I have the 550DX with the shark tooth inlays. It is my deserted island guitar.
❤RG550 in my icon pic❤
Anybody that has this guitar , is it as gorgeous in person, as it is in pictures and video?
I have an original RG550 from 1989 and yes, it is a beauty ❤
Aaaaaaaaaa So stoked i just bought one. Cant wait to feel the neck and shred it's ass off. And play ripping power chords for days. Gonna do everything with it. But i have some cheaper ibanez rgs, so this will be the first mij one ill have, and i cant wait to see and feel what kind of real difference there is.
The body is not alder, it's basswood and it is available only with maple fretboard, not a rosewood option. Great guitar, great playability, great tones and covers a lot of sonic ground!
Originally they did have the 550 DX which was rosewood and the shark tooth inlays but only available for like 2019-2020. didn't last long same w/ the 570 option which was rosewood fretboard and solid basswood body.
@@ryant3600 I know, I have the 1986 catalogue and a 1987 Roadstar I bought in '88. But, Dagan says that this is available now with rosewood fingerboard.
@@ryant3600 The sharktooth inlays were only on the 7 series guitars if I remember correctly back in 92.
They had the V7 and V8s too.
The lower RGs were refreshed in about 94 or 95 .
They moved the RG 5xx to the round neck joint and changed the trem to the Low Pro Edge they refreshed the pickups to the V7s and V8s.
Luv and Peace.
@@george.kollaros I played a black roadstar 2 RS440 my mate lent me in halls of residence at Uni in 92.
It was an amazing guitar.
The trem system was a pre floyd affair and super complex but it mostly held tune and the guitar sounded amazing. Very 80s Van Halen.
I loved that guitar.
Luv and Peace.
@@ianedmonds9191 I was taking about the genesis series which brought back the 750 but called it 550 DX cause it has the rosewood fretboard and shark tooth inlays
My dream guitar😢
I had a Gio back in the day I bought in a pawnshop that guitar played so well can’t remember why I got rid of it got an ltd hss Floyd equipped this one is really nice to play needs the frets level might upgrade pups to
It should say RG on it ,shouldn’t it?
I’m happy to see they’ve replaced the INF pickups! I’m a Seymour Duncan guy myself but if my 6 high end Ibanez with Dimarzios I still prefer the ladder! You can see my guitars on my chan! My RG NT 42,Ibanez ZBT NT, Ibanez S570 and Jem Carbon 6 with Evo’s! My Jacksons,BC Rich and other 80’s guitars will post in our channel soon!
I love this guitar and I prefer the 2019 Ruby Red version with Shark Tooth inlay on the fret board. I wanted the red one but all they had at Guitar Center was the Blue guitar. I ended up buying a Prestige instead, but I still really want that Ruby Red 2019 version that is not made any more and hard to find. One thing I do not understand about the 2020 and older versions of this guitar is that some of them have sharp fret edges. That is shocking since it is a Japan made guitar. Now, I had a chance to buy a used 2019 Ruby Red version and it did not have sharp fret ends. But it had too much damage for the price tag. Love Ibanez, but I wish they used Seymour Dunkin JB pickups instead of their stock pickups.
really hoping to see Dagan do the 40 anniversary squire tele and strats
they should make more white RG550s
why only that one limited while they keep making yellow red purple
Best demos ever as always I just wish he wouldn’t have to use that amp
Very cool 😎 will be purchasing one
Not Alder. Basswood like the original. V7 and V8 are not the orig pickups. Those were V1 and V2 The neck shape is also different. Genesis neck is bigger. They are still good guitars for the money. 😊
wdymfor the money,gheyre good guitars full stop
@@kudos4201 not as good as the original. They cut corners.
Swap the magnets
@@bc454irocz89 why not just do a pickup swap? The build quality is going to be corner cut as well. It’s not just magnets.
@@jrtme You could but I swapped a ceramic in my V2 and it sounds so awesome I don't feel the need for a new pickup. I also switched my V7/V8 magnets so the alnico is in the neck and ceramic in the bridge and it sounds amazing- especially the neck- why they didnt do this from the factory IDK
I wonder if he gives lessons online? I love how he plays!
I've got a 91 Purple Neon RG570 and I think the RG550 came first so maybe early 91 or 90.
I think it has a basswood body and not Alder, right?
Yup.
That thing rips! You aren't bad nriethr
Its weird they didnt make the White version more available.
I can only find the yellow, purple and red everywhere.
I’m waiting for some ec-1000 videos
If anyone is looking for an original 1993 Rg550 in DY let me know. I'm considering listing on Reverb. Excellent + condition. Looks almost new. Comes with original pickups V1 and V2 and mint original case. Also signed by Steve Vai but you can polish off if that's not for you. Met him at a record store signing and he signed. Have pics.
Is it built by Fujigen?
Should be it is part of the Japanese prestige range Fujigen make all of them afaik
yes it is
Recommend for an beginner ?
How does it compare to Jiva10? This one is cheaper, but which is better?
How does it differ from the rg25th anniversary with the ibanez /dimarzio pick ups?
Is it good for metal?
YES
If you get a good one of these they are amazing and a ridiculous deal but of 3 I’ve owned they all were kinda fucked up. A purple one had a chunky uncomfortable neck and a bridge that had an elongated saddle screw that dug into the trem cavity preventing it from functioning properly. 2 white ones had various fret issues although they had pencil thin ultra shreddy necks. Was worth buying 3 of them till I found the one that was ultimately amazing after a little fretwork. Its as solid and high quality feeling as a 3k guitar i own.
Ordered this guitar in purple on 3 occasions..I had fret sprouts every single time! Very unfortunate because I love the way these guitars look. I just didn’t want to spend $1000 on a guitar and then spend another 100-200 at a tech to get it right.
@A A Bad enough to slice open a finger.
I assume you can try a dive bom with this one? (Idk how to do it though) I’m just afraid to break the bridge 😅😢
In terms of versatility what is better, evh wg or rg 550?
nice axe kidda
hello! Little question , If you ever played Jackson x series soloist sl3x , does it plays same ? Is Ibanez better or not?