Basic characteristics:
• Body material: Mahogany
• Neck material: Maple
• Fretboard material: Maple
• Pickups: HH
The electric guitar RG5120M by Ibanez, It has active pickups, which means that in addition to the coil, which is responsible for "translating" the movement of the strings into an electric signal, they also incorporate a preamplifier circuit in their construction. For this reason, they require a battery (usually 9V) to operate. Their advantages compared to passive pickups are that they almost eliminate noise and have a high output signal, resulting in a fairly clean and "full" sound.
The arrangement of the pickups equipped on the guitar RG5120M is HH, which describes the number, position, and type of the pickups. Specifically, the combination of the letters H and S stands for humbucker and single, respectively. For example, if we have an HSS pickup configuration, then the guitar has 1 Humbucker pickup and 2 Single coil pickups. Additionally, the order of the letters determines the position of the pickups, with the first letter representing the bridge position, the last letter representing the neck position, and the middle letter, if present, indicating the middle position. However, if the configuration has only one letter, then the pickup is usually placed in either the bridge or neck position.
Finally, the bridge, apart from the metallic frame, features a tremolo, which is a system of springs that allows you to move the entire bridge by manipulating a lever, in order to create special effects on the sound, as the name implies. Changing strings is more complicated, and the system needs to be adjusted by an experienced person to avoid losing tuning every time it is used.
