Ibanez Axion Label RGD71ALPA Electric Guitar - Charcoal Burst Black Flat Reviews
The Axion Label RGD71ALPA 7-string Electric Guitar from Ibanez represents the type of attention to detail that has the modern metal player in mind. This sleekly designed, streamlined axe features a poplar burl top with layered ash and nyatoh back and sides that is lightweight, resonant, and ready to rock right out of the box. A bolt-on, Nitro Wizard-7 5-piece panga panga/walnut neck with Macassar ebony fingerboard is ideal for both lightning-fast djent-style runs and chunky power chords. Driving the tone of this searing axe is a pair of Bare Knuckle Aftermath humbucking pickups that kick out some serious high-gain tone. A Mono-rail bridge rounds out the RGD71ALPA, ensuring stellar resonance and mind-blowing articulation.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Almost perfect and worth the wait
First impressions of this hard to find (for good reason) loaded 7-string were why would they allow this guitar to ship with a plastic nut, nickel frets and without a hipshot bridge? It's really shocking that they would be willing to sacrifice those critical features when they have Bare Knuckles in them, a 5-piece neck and exotic woods. I'd gladly have paid the $100-150 cost increase. Even more if it came with an Ibanez case.
Now the good stuff!
After the inevitable personal preference string change (Top heavy-Bottm light) and a full setup, this guitar is a shockingly good player. The neck is great, fast, straight and action low. The guitar balances perfectly and is very light. The pickups are typical BKP fare…exceptional! The coil tap is a nice touch.
This guitar can be setup to be a shredders dream. The wood choices are extremely exotic, lightweight and beautiful!
So a replacement nut will be installed and I'll look into a possible replacement bridge, this one isn't terrible, just not the best.
It took a few years to finally catch one,of these, but well worth the wait!
Update to above review
So I need to update my review-first I found out this guitar ships a whole step down-usually in descriptions any tuning other than standard is indicated-it wasn't here. No biggie-it needed a proper set-up regardless so no big deal. BUT- Sweetwater read my feedback of the flaws on the side on the neck and my issues with set-up and asked for more details/a picture. So I sent a pic. They agreed there were flaws that should've been caught during inspection and they made an appropriate adjustment for me even though I had already stated I was just going to keep the guitar and live with the flaws! THAT my fellow musicians is stellar customer service and why I will continue to be a loyal Sweetwater customer. I'm keeping the review of the guitar at 4 stars as the guitar from the factory was not quite the standard I'm used to from Ibanez-but it is still a beautiful and killer sounding guitar!! Thanks again SWEETWATER (5 stars for sweetwater!)
Beautiful...needs a proper set up
Been waiting and finally got this beauty. Full disclosure-I am an Ibanez guy-I own over 30....Positives-The body and neck are gorgeous. Sound is amazing-effortless sustain. Coil tap sounds great with my clean tones. But its hard to play as is...
Negatives-frets are a bit sharp on the edges-I have cheap RG's that are filed better, there are some flaws on the side of the neck-minor-but when you pay 1400 for an instrument with no case...it came tuned to drop A? Intonation was off and bridge was set perfectly flat. Action is pretty high and when I brought it up to standard pitch-the high action made it hard to play. Overall-I love the look and the sound-I'm disappointed in the inspection and set-up (Not all from here-bit not the first I've wondered "what set up") But I love it enough to keep it and work on it to get it where it should be. Love the Aftermaths as stock-sound killer to match a killer body!
