Name: Ibanez RG Standard RG8 8-string Electric Guitar - White
Brand: Ibanez
SKU: 7959
Availability: InStock

Ibanez RG Standard RG8 8-string Electric Guitar – White

8-strings: It’s All About Options With the Ibanez RG8 solidbody 8-string electric guitar, you get options. Put up a wall of sound with huge, thick chords; launch runs that start really low; play bass lines; discover new chord voicings – the possibilities are endless. With its maple/walnut 5-piece neck, string-through-body fixed bridge, and IBZ-8 humbuckers,…

8-strings: It’s All About Options

With the Ibanez RG8 solidbody 8-string electric guitar, you get options. Put up a wall of sound with huge, thick chords; launch runs that start really low; play bass lines; discover new chord voicings – the possibilities are endless. With its maple/walnut 5-piece neck, string-through-body fixed bridge, and IBZ-8 humbuckers, this axe is built for hard-core front-line duty. The RG8 doesn’t feel like a 6-string with extra strings — it’s an amazingly playable instrument unto itself. Considering an 8-string? Check out the Ibanez RG8.

Ibanez wrote the book on production 8-string guitars

8-string guitars are a breed apart, and they can bring an otherworldly intensity to your music. To prove the point, check out Animals As Leaders to hear dueling Ibanez 8-strings as majestically wielded by Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes. Why Ibanez? Well, the company pretty much wrote the book on production 7- and 8-string electric guitars. The Ibanez RG8 sports an ideal 27-inch scale that keeps your low strings sounding nice and tight, even with dropped tunings. Ibanez’s 8-string design and construction techniques (a 5-piece neck and a string-through-body fixed bridge) contribute to the RG8’s unique, authoritative, eminently musical voice.

IBZ-8 humbuckers deliver articulation, sustain, and tonal versatility

The Ibanez RG8 is fitted with two IBZ-8 humbucking pickups. Regardless of the tuning you’re employing, you get clear articulation, long sustain, and awesome tonal versatility. Designed specifically for 8-string guitars, the IBZ-8 gives you the clearest, fattest low end you’ve ever felt from a guitar pickup, along with sparkling highs. It’s this kind of tonal versatility that makes the Ibanez RG8 ideal for metal, fusion, and most any flavor of rock.

A universe of tuning options lets you forge your signature sound

There are quite a few ways to tune an 8-string guitar. The Ibanez RG8 comes to you with a factory drop tuning of 1D#, 2A#, 3F#, 4C#, 5G#, 6D#, 7A#, and 8F. Where you go from there is your business. Tune in major thirds. Bracket your standard 6-string guitar tuning with a low B and a high G or A. The possibilities are enticing, aren’t they? Ibanez RG8 is an affordable opportunity to forge your signature sound. Go for it.

Tech Specs

General
Number of Strings 8
Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
Body
Body Type Solidbody
Body Shape RG
Body Material Meranti
Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
Color White
Neck
Neck Material 5-piece Maple/ Walnut
Neck Shape Wizard II-8
Neck Joint Bolt-on
Radius 15.75″
Fingerboard Material Jatoba
Fingerboard Inlay Dots
Number of Frets 24
Scale Length 27″
Nut Width 2.165″
Nut Material Plastic
Hardware
Bridge/Tailpiece F108 Bridge with Individual Saddles
Tuners Ibanez Closed Gear
Electronics
Neck Pickup IBZ-8 Humbucker
Bridge Pickup IBZ-8 Humbucker
Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone
Switching 3-way blade pickup switch
Miscellaneous
Strings D’Addario, .009-.065
Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
Manufacturer Part Number: RG8WH

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