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Product Ref: 106259
The Ibanez RG6UCS Prestige features a strong and sturdy basswood body finished in a captivating mystic night metallic colour, coupled with cosmo black hardware to create a truly eye-catching instrument. Players will love the elegant contours and the comfortable performance, suitable for a range of playing styles. In addition, a double cutaway design offers easier access to the higher frets and flexibility across the whole ebony fingerboard.
It’s neck is crafted from maple and walnut, creating an incredibly bright, smooth tone with and excellent sustain and stability. The addition of KTS titanium rods ensures the neck can take harsh punishment, providing an iron-like strength built for stage life. Although maple and walnut are a naturally smooth wood, the RG6UCS feature’s Ibanez’s super wizard high-performance profile which is designed for shredders. This design is optimised for lead guitarists, as its thin nature helps players perform swift and nimble runs with ease.
The RG Series Prestige Ibanez features an ebony fingerboard designed with a smooth, natural finish to deliver a comfortable playing experience. The ebony tonewood saturated the guitar’s overall tone with a very responsive bright, snappy attack, while providing the sustain with a smooth quality. It’s bound edges allow for a smooth play and fluid hand flexibility across the whole neck.
The set of Bare Knuckle Aftermath humbuckers provides the RG6UCS with the perfect tones for the modern metal guitarist, hand wired in the UK to deliver premium sounds. The Aftermath neck pickup features alnico V magnets, offering incredible power and a fat, clean tone ideal for fluid vocal-like sustains when driven hard. The Aftermath bridge pickup is equipped with ceramic magnets, delivering a quick low-end response for fast tracking and articulation when delivering killer staccato riffs. The two pickups are designed to offer excellent balance when combined, offering incredible dynamics and stunning single notes.
Ibanez’s legendary Lo-Pro Edge tremolo system delivers a smooth action for the most extreme of whammy bar tricks. Its low-profile design and recessed fine tuners offer the maximum level of playing comfort. The double locking design ensures the strings are locked in place for incredible tuning stability during long and heated performances, while the spring system ensures the guitar will return to its original pitch accurately, even after extreme use.
The RG6UCS Prestige is equipped with a set of Gotoh tuners and a locking nut to ensure the guitar stays in tune through the harshest performances. Its Gotoh tuners are to offer a quick and easy tuning for a truly stable performance. The locking nut is designed to work with the tremolo bridge, ensuring the guitar retains its original tuning even after performing harsh dive bombs.
The Ibanez Prestige series combines precision, performance, and playability to create a range of powerfully versatile electric guitars. Mixing high-tech manufacturing with old-world Japanese craftsmanship, the Prestige series is innovative in design and construction. The range is known for high performing fast necks, iconic pickup pairing and advanced electronics and hardware.
Over the past 30 years, Ibanez Guitars have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for electric guitar players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Although Ibanez guitars have been made since 1908, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they began to form an identity for themselves when artists such as Steve Vai and Frank Zappa began using their instruments. Now with a huge artist clientele across the globe, Ibanez are a leading manufacturer of electric guitars and basses and a first choice for many dedicated musicians.