Thanks for the post. This is great information. I was looking for more accurate info on inharmonicity on the bass strings!
Ibanez RG9 Prototype
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Thanks for the post. This is great information. I was looking for more accurate info on inharmonicity on the bass strings!
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trent6308
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This thing would be a good way to make your bass player redundant!
HighGain510
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Plus that's a BIG piece of maple considering how large the body is on a 9-string!
Gorgeous quilt, can't wait to drool over it in person tomorrow! 
Fanned frets aren't essential for 9 strings. It seems to be a preference with many or most of the guitarists here, and that's fine and cool, but ... for many years there have been non-fanned 9, 10, 11 and 12 string basses and the owners are very happy with them. Garry Goodman has a non-fanned 29" scale 12 with a gauge .286 on the bottom. I guess it's down to if you're comfortable with the extreme change in tone across the strings, ERBers seem to be more comfortable with this.
Anyway i would love an RG9 for tuning in neutral thirds and other weird microtonal open tunings. Another possibility would be open tunings with smaller intervals between the high strings, for interesting dense chords.
This is the most gorgeous Ibanez guitar i have ever seen.
Anyway i would love an RG9 for tuning in neutral thirds and other weird microtonal open tunings. Another possibility would be open tunings with smaller intervals between the high strings, for interesting dense chords.
This is the most gorgeous Ibanez guitar i have ever seen.
Plus that's a BIG piece of maple considering how large the body is on a 9-string!
If I remember correctly all the other RGs(6,7,8s) have the same size body. This one almost certainly has to be bigger otherwise those pickups would look even more preposterous assuming they are the 5.0s
Edit: just measured and a 5 inch pickup would leave ~1.875 inches of body from one side of the neck pickup to the contour where your leg would go while sitting.
DuncanPlaysGuitar
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This looks great fun, but I can't see 9 strings working that well without fanned frets.
TomAwesome
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It's labeled "RG9 Prototype" so I think this is something they're working on for production.
The original RG8s were listed similarly if I remember correctly. Though, besides string count, there wound up being next to nothing in common between the Protos and the later RG2228.
While they might be working on this, it's worth note that it did take a few years to get the RG2228 to market after the two originals were made. That included bouncing between multiple artists.
While I'd like to think more will come of this, I have a feeling they just made an exhibition guitar more than anything else.
themike
Chug Life
Absolutely no use to me but that is one goddamn sexy looking Ibanez....... like...... mmmm...... yeah .....
Yep.
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With the right string gauge and set up a low C# would work. It also fits the normal tuning scheme of the guitar. I'm also pretty sure you wouldn't' be able to get a high A on a scale length that long.
Dopey Trout
Silly Fishy
I find it impossible to take T Mac seriously after Seven the Hardway.
Like Randy said, never saw him make proper use of an 8
Like Randy said, never saw him make proper use of an 8
Santuzzo
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EDIT: just re-read, and I think I misunderstood what you meant.
I guess you meant that T-Mac did not really use the 8 that much, I got it. Sorry, my bad. Disregard what I said above.
Nice lookin' guitar!
A low C# on a 27" scale, no fan?
Clarification needed on that.
While I do get a very bad case of arthrotendocubitalcarpalitis looking at this guitar I'd be totally into watching T Mac justify its existence.
A low C# on a 27" scale, no fan?
Clarification needed on that. While I do get a very bad case of arthrotendocubitalcarpalitis looking at this guitar I'd be totally into watching T Mac justify its existence.
Dopey Trout
Silly Fishy
What I don't know can't hurt me
I think you picked up on it but just for the sake of clarity, the only 8 string stuff I heard of his was Seven the Hardway, which is far from taking full advantage of the instrument, the move to a 9 seems redundant
themike
Chug Life
It is tuned to E B G D A E B F# C#
I love them both but they are - its Tony Mc-Fucking-Alpine.
I really dig the top. Wonder if Meshuggah and Tosin feel one upped(I doubt it though)
I love them both but they are - its Tony Mc-Fucking-Alpine.
HOKENSTYFE
HeartWyrm
What is it about Ibanez and natural tops being, off? There always seem to be something amiss with their non-burst edge or unbinded(sic) tops. Like it's incomplete or something.
TristanTTN
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Per Nilsson!
From their Facebook page:
"Who would like to hear a 9-string song on the next Scar Symmetry album? Or would it be taking things too far? Give me your 50 cents!"
From their Facebook page:
"Who would like to hear a 9-string song on the next Scar Symmetry album? Or would it be taking things too far? Give me your 50 cents!"
BenEllerGuitars
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Well, here the thing.... This was apparently built for Macalpine right? That dude rocks some crazy light strings. He's not a high tension player at all. I saw his rig rundown in the back of Guitar World and he uses something like a 50 for his low B! He's not the type that would want a 30 inch monster scale guitar.
Oh, and Seven the Hard Way was absolutely horrible.
Oh, and Seven the Hard Way was absolutely horrible.
