Instrument Type: 6-String Solidbody Electric Guitar
Neck Specifications: Wizard III 1-piece Maple bolt-on neck (satin polyurethane finish)
Body Material: Solid Meranti body with All-Access Neck Joint (AANJ)
Pickup Configuration: Ibanez Quantum HSH Configuration (Passive Ceramic humbuckers at neck/bridge, Passive Alnico single-coil at middle)
Hardware & Bridge: Edge-Zero II double-locking tremolo bridge with 10.8mm string spacing and black hardware
Scale & Nut Width: 25.5" (648mm) scale length; 1.692" (43mm) top-locking nut
The Ibanez RG470DX Standard brings iconic high-performance engineering into a dependable, road-ready instrument built to handle intense studio tracking and high-speed live performances. The physical foundation features a balanced, lightweight solid meranti wood body sculpted with aggressive, deep double-cutaways. This geometry maximizes physical comfort against the player's torso while offering an unrestricted forearm rest. Carved out at the back is the precision-engineered All-Access Neck Joint (AANJ), eliminating the bulky heel structure found on traditional bolt-on guitars. This smooth contour pairs seamlessly with a fast-playing Wizard III maple neck, which measures a slim 19mm thickness at the first fret and flattens out perfectly along the back to optimize thumb placement and maximize fretting hand velocity.
The bound jatoba fretboard provides a structurally rigid playing surface that accentuates natural midrange bite and top-end harmonic separation. Spanning a full two-octave range, the 24 jumbo nickel-silver frets are laid out across a flat 15.75-inch (400mmR) radius. This flat design lowers the action across the entire board, preventing wide string bends from choking or buzzing out during complex upper-fret maneuvers. The premium fretboard is dressed with iconic white sharktooth position markers for immediate visual navigation under chaotic stage lighting. To protect your tuning under aggressive physical manipulation, a top-locking nut clamps the strings completely rigid at the headstock. This hardware alignment handles radical down-tuning shifts or intense string bending without experiencing pitch drift.
The acoustic profile of the tonewoods is converted through a high-octane trio of passive Ibanez Quantum pickups wired in an expansive HSH array. The neck and bridge positions utilize custom-engineered humbuckers packed with ceramic magnets to push out hot, focused output with tight low-end tracking and an aggressive midrange growl. Splitting these humbuckers is a central alnico-magnet single-coil pickup, engineered to inject a bright, glassy snap and crystalline note separation that keeps cleaner chord voicings highly transparent. Managing this multi-pickup network is a 5-way blade selector switch, a master volume control, and a master tone pot. This interactive layout enables musicians to shift effortlessly from saturated, high-gain rhythm chugging to bell-like parallel single-coil combinations.
Extreme real-time pitch manipulation is driven by an authentic Ibanez Edge-Zero II double-locking tremolo bridge system. Designed to lock the strings securely at both the saddle and the nut, this low-profile floating bridge maintains flawless return-to-pitch accuracy during radical dive-bombs and high-frequency vibrato flutters. The bridge structures a standard 10.8mm string spacing to deliver an even, comfortable layout for sweeping and alternate picking techniques. On the side of the lower bout, the guitar implements a highly reliable mono-unit output jack. This single-piece solid metal assembly is engineered to prevent the internal washer from loosening or spinning over extensive use, completely eliminating contact failures, electrical shorts, or loose jack plates during live performances.
Instrument Type: 6-String Solidbody Electric Guitar
Neck Specifications: Wizard III 1-piece Maple bolt-on neck (satin polyurethane finish)
Body Material: Solid Meranti body with All-Access Neck Joint (AANJ)
Pickup Configuration: Ibanez Quantum HSH Configuration (Passive Ceramic humbuckers at neck/bridge, Passive Alnico single-coil at middle)
Hardware & Bridge: Edge-Zero II double-locking tremolo bridge with 10.8mm string spacing and black hardware
Scale & Nut Width: 25.5" (648mm) scale length; 1.692" (43mm) top-locking nut
The Ibanez RG470DX Standard brings iconic high-performance engineering into a dependable, road-ready instrument built to handle intense studio tracking and high-speed live performances. The physical foundation features a balanced, lightweight solid meranti wood body sculpted with aggressive, deep double-cutaways. This geometry maximizes physical comfort against the player's torso while offering an unrestricted forearm rest. Carved out at the back is the precision-engineered All-Access Neck Joint (AANJ), eliminating the bulky heel structure found on traditional bolt-on guitars. This smooth contour pairs seamlessly with a fast-playing Wizard III maple neck, which measures a slim 19mm thickness at the first fret and flattens out perfectly along the back to optimize thumb placement and maximize fretting hand velocity.
The bound jatoba fretboard provides a structurally rigid playing surface that accentuates natural midrange bite and top-end harmonic separation. Spanning a full two-octave range, the 24 jumbo nickel-silver frets are laid out across a flat 15.75-inch (400mmR) radius. This flat design lowers the action across the entire board, preventing wide string bends from choking or buzzing out during complex upper-fret maneuvers. The premium fretboard is dressed with iconic white sharktooth position markers for immediate visual navigation under chaotic stage lighting. To protect your tuning under aggressive physical manipulation, a top-locking nut clamps the strings completely rigid at the headstock. This hardware alignment handles radical down-tuning shifts or intense string bending without experiencing pitch drift.
The acoustic profile of the tonewoods is converted through a high-octane trio of passive Ibanez Quantum pickups wired in an expansive HSH array. The neck and bridge positions utilize custom-engineered humbuckers packed with ceramic magnets to push out hot, focused output with tight low-end tracking and an aggressive midrange growl. Splitting these humbuckers is a central alnico-magnet single-coil pickup, engineered to inject a bright, glassy snap and crystalline note separation that keeps cleaner chord voicings highly transparent. Managing this multi-pickup network is a 5-way blade selector switch, a master volume control, and a master tone pot. This interactive layout enables musicians to shift effortlessly from saturated, high-gain rhythm chugging to bell-like parallel single-coil combinations.
Extreme real-time pitch manipulation is driven by an authentic Ibanez Edge-Zero II double-locking tremolo bridge system. Designed to lock the strings securely at both the saddle and the nut, this low-profile floating bridge maintains flawless return-to-pitch accuracy during radical dive-bombs and high-frequency vibrato flutters. The bridge structures a standard 10.8mm string spacing to deliver an even, comfortable layout for sweeping and alternate picking techniques. On the side of the lower bout, the guitar implements a highly reliable mono-unit output jack. This single-piece solid metal assembly is engineered to prevent the internal washer from loosening or spinning over extensive use, completely eliminating contact failures, electrical shorts, or loose jack plates during live performances.
