Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

[choppermn]

My first guitar is an RG120 dual pickup basswood, split neck cheapie, and the pickups in it are awful, for me to put 200 into fixing the tone doesn't seem to make sense to me, i'm thinking i am better off getting a strat(mim) which i'd have to wait a while for, but if I were to upgrade what pups do you recommend for an Ibanez(Metal sound is what I think i'd shoot for in this for an upgrade):smokin:

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

Welcome to the forum.

Ehm, if the neck is split the guitar is scrap anyway, isn´t it??? Or do you mean something else?

"Metal sound" is about as vague as you can get, and we could essentially recommend every pickup ever made and be right.

What kind of tone are you looking for, along the lines of Who´s tone inspires you? And using what other equip?

 

[choppermn]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

the neck is jointed which I didn't notice until I had already decided I hate this guitar, so it's very cheap
metal sound i'd have to elaborate as drop D, speed 80s speedmetal stuff(my Agile 3000 is for bluesy-rock)
I have to say i'd prefer the sound of Dave Murray's early days,(one of Iron Maidens guitarists) so I will research what he was using back then, other than a very customized strat.

 

[choppermn]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

After playing around with it for a while last night, i deemed the RG120 is worth upgrading, and after much forum searching I have an answer, either go with the Dave Mustaine set, or JB-jazz, the price is the same, but how hard would wiring these in be?

 

[pinto79]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

not hard at all.

Post a pic of your RG120 if you can. I recently got an RG110 that is amazing to play!

 

[User_name]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

I've got an Ibanez RG with a small split around the neck joint. If it's like most it's just in the finish so don't worry about it. Ibanez RG's are notorious for doing that. I've seen EBMM JP models with the same problem also.

 

[neosadist]

Re: Ibanez RG120 worth fixing, or not?

My first guitar is an RG120 dual pickup basswood, split neck cheapie, and the pickups in it are awful, for me to put 200 into fixing the tone doesn't seem to make sense to me, i'm thinking i am better off getting a strat(mim) which i'd have to wait a while for, but if I were to upgrade what pups do you recommend for an Ibanez(Metal sound is what I think i'd shoot for in this for an upgrade):smokin:

First, I'd say that almost every guitar is worth upgrading to Seymour Duncan. I'm on my second guitar mod already. So long as the guitar is made of decent woods and has decent hardware, it's worth it.

Second, uh, for that sound, I'd go with what the tone wizard suggests, or a set of dual distortions. But it depends on if you're ONLY playing metal on it. My opinion: only metal: dual distortions; versatility: go with tone wizard.