RGDMS8-CSM Classic Silver Metallic Multi-Scale

RGDMS8-CSM Classic Silver Metallic, Multi-scale, 8-string.

The MS addition to the RG name is that the guitar is equipped with a multi scale neck (often called Fanned Frets), which may look a bit crazy to someone who has never seen it before.

Multi Scale is what it sounds like, simply that each string has a different scale/time signature, longer on the low/thick strings and shorter on the high/thin ones. Ibanez was the first to build Multi Scale, Fanned Frets, or whatever you want to call this amazing invention, on instruments that are not custom ordered boutique instruments (but a price tag after that).
All to find satisfactory solutions to the problems that today's metal musicians encounter with low-tuned guitars. So that the low strings become fluttery and unclear if the "solo strings" are to feel playable.

Or vice versa, if the lows get good, the brights become almost unplayable finger-splitters. To get stability in the low you need either a longer scale or very thick strings, often a combination of both parts. With multi scale you get an instrument that feels and plays completely balanced across the entire register, the ultimate compromise between two conflicting goals.

The musical development of recent years with lower tunings and more strings places completely new demands on what the instruments must be able to handle. Traditional 6-string, straight-fret, short-scale guitars just don't work anymore, strings become like boiled spaghetti, intonate like a shot crow, etc. Multi Scale is a solution to these problems, in that all strings have different scales.

Multi Scale also has the advantage that it is extremely comfortable and ergonomic to play on, it is simply nice for the hands. They follow the hand's natural angle depending on where on the neck you play. The break-in time, the time to get used to playing with it, is zero. The hands adapt immediately without any problems. The eyes take a little longer to get used to, maybe a quarter of an hour or so.

Instead of choosing an angled bridge of the traditional type, Ibanez has used a technique they have successfully used on their basses for many years called the mono-rail bridge. Simply described, each string is a stall, stalls that are completely separated from each other. This provides optimal isolation of each string and the strings can vibrate without affecting and inhibiting each other.

This is an instrument for those who want the best for low-tuned playing. They are built to give results on the richter scale and still be very good instruments even for solo/melody playing.

• Wizard III-8 Multi Scale, 5pc Maple/Walnut neck.
• 692mm/27.2" scale at 8th fret, 648mm/25.5" scale at 1st fret.
• Nyato bodysuit.
• Macassar Ebony fretboard w/White step off-set dot inlay.
• Jumbo frets.
• Mono-rail bridge.
• Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico 9 (H) neck pickup.
• Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico 9 (H) bridge pickup.
• Fishman Fluence Voicing switch on Volume control (push/pull).
• Coil tap switch.
• Gold hardware.
• Gotoh® MG-T Locking machine heads.
• Factory tuning: 1D#, 2A#, 3F#, 4C#, 5G#, 6D#, 7A#, 8F.
• String gauge: 009/011/016/024/032/042/054/066.