Ibanez NAMM 2020

[Nightside]

I still don't see a point for the richlite top

Look like a BM style ebony top but cheaper and lower maintenance.

 

[Nightside]

Besides, everyone was crying about wishing guitar companies would use more richlite. Ibanez listened.

 

[Spicypickles]

Looks fuckin dope, lame switch position though.

 

[Loomer]

I'm down with this one

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Besides, everyone was crying about wishing guitar companies would use more richlite. Ibanez listened.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

I still don't see a point for the richlite top

you get consistently black tops and it looks metal af. I still hate the bevels on the rgd though.

 

[ExileMetal]

That tiny strip of visible wood above the bridge

 

[dlam_ivs]

That tiny strip of visible wood above the bridge

1/10, literally unplayable.

 

[Merrekof]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5rriIHAWFE/?igshid=1knu9drvnfdud

Interesting....

Veeeeery interesting.. I wonder what price range these are going to be.

 

[LordHar]

Veeeeery interesting.. I wonder what price range these are going to be.

According to the specs he posted, and then seems to have removed, I believe the 6-string version was around $1700 (If I remember correctly)

 

[DCM_Allan]

That tiny strip of visible wood above the bridge

but remember that that is a digital made picture it's not the final view, the real one might not have that strip

look mi bridge there is no visible stripe and is the same bridge

 

[MaxOfMetal]

but remember that that is a digital made picture it's not the final view, the real one might not have that strip

look mi bridge there is no visible stripe and is the same bridgeView attachment 75867

That guitar has an opaque finish.

That strip is visible on any guitar with a top thinner than 5/8" and a Floyd route under a transparent finish.

It's just very visible since it's relatively light vs. practically black richlite.

 

[DCM_Allan]

I still don't see a point for the richlite top

Definitely I'm In

 

[Viginez]

very cool one.
also that's not a stripe, it's just the cavity not painted. it definitely should be.

 

[Merrekof]

According to the specs he posted, and then seems to have removed, I believe the 6-string version was around $1700 (If I remember correctly)

Thought it was gonna be something like that. This is the first Ibanez bass that I really, really want! Damn that one looks good!

 

[aesthyrian]

That tiny strip of visible wood above the bridge

Yeah, it's easily the best part.

 

[Alexlopez]

Yeah, it's easily the best part.

I like it lol

 

[jephjacques]

oh fuck that RGD owns bones, looks like I might be getting back into Wizard necks at the right time

 

[DEUCE SLUICE]

By 'choked' i assume you mean overtensioned? So for bass guitars with scales > 34" you just reduce the gauges of the higher strings to compensate and return to a desired tension. So it seems a gauge issue, not a scale issue.

Overtensioned on a typically set up instrument, for sure, but even with string gauges resulting in the exact same tension on a 35" scale as I have on a 34" it doesn't sound right to me. I've tried it all at this point. It's not only tension, the way the string vibrates is just different. Doesn't make it bad or good or whatever, but it's not what I like and sounds like it's missing something to me.

 

[ExileMetal]

1/10, literally unplayable.

Don’t get me wrong, I love basically everything about this. It’s just annoying on a $2000 guitar, feel me? It doesn’t feel intentional, so hopefully the actual model has the top all the way up to the hardware.