The basswood rant continues; the above, alien-warded Ibanez RG1550 was discontinued in 2005. I bought it a year before its bow-out from the catalogs, when the retail price was still below SGD1K. It's a definite value-for-money Prestige unit as the feel & tone on offer speak for the exalted series it hails from.
I was itching to buy this guitar simply because back then, I still did not own any maple fretboard Ibanez guitar so the feel was definitely different & appealing. The default V-series pickups made way for Seymour Duncan's Screamin' Demon (B) & Distortion (N), the mid single coil was left stock. Upon this swap, what went missing was that excessive midrange response typical of in-house Ibanez pickups, in place was the grizzly Duncan growl in the bridge which sounds very fitting for black metal stuff. The neck humbucker is hotter in output, with this in mind, I had it set up to such an extent that it sounds louder than the bridge counterpart making it perfect for lead playing- no volume pedal boosting necessary.
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