Ibanez RGA8
Mon, 06/02/2012 - 14:40
Sorry for posting so many questions haha, but this is my first time recording and have no one else to ask. I have an Ibanez RGA8 and I've been recording my rhythm sections with it, I use my Jackson RR24m for the leads and sounds fucking good and clear but the RGA8 sounds a little shitty, definitely the shit stain stock pickups and will have to upgrade them but can anyone please tell me how to make them sound better? any tricks or patches and effects that you know sounds good with this guitar and pickups?
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 05:04
#2
mayones look really good 
and beautiful, I'm thinking about getting a Carvin 7 string but I'm not sure how they are? The RGA8 is really pissing me off, on the lower strings if you push harder the notes change so my recodings sounds like my guitar is out of tune 
haha
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 14:26
#3
same with a billion guitars 
...try to get emg 808 . the rga 8 s mohogany is good and also the neck (27") is very confortable..that guitar isn t build for ibanez stock pu but for smart people how buy with 100 $ good PU and achieve the same sound of others 8 strings guitars medium price range 1200-1600 $ ..if you dream a "no problems" 8 strings guitar the range is different..2000-3000 $ . i ve never played carvin s guitars , so i can t say anything
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 14:42
#4
I've heard mayones is really expensive, how much was yours and are you happy with it?
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 15:10
#5
it is work in progress it will arrive end of this month sorry but i can t say how i paid it
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 15:59
#6
sometimes, the thing is on the strings D:
what gauge are you using & what tunning?
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 17:05
#7
Not quite sure what gauges, living in South Africa you take what you get... but I play in dropped A, I can import new strings but it takes a month - 4 and you risk losing it too
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 17:17
#8
Dropped E sorry
Wed, 08/02/2012 - 21:52
#9
Do not forget the Ibanez RGA8 come factory preset. So even if you change the strings, either gauge & settings, the truss rod will need adjusting. Without compensating for that change the strings, intonation & tuning will be suspect.
Unless done by a trained luthier....sometimes we are our own worse enemy...
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i had the same guitar, it s impossible to make stock PU sound better...they are very muddy...but i changed them with seymour duncan blackouts 8 and then the guitar worked better...i think that with a mohogany body the better and low cost choice is emg 808 PU, the S D(my opinion) don t work well on that guitar, then i sold the rga and i bought a schecter hr c8...now the problem is 26,5" scale
...no problem as you know i ordered a mayones regius 
....finally...change stock pu