![]() ![]() The small LED will flash red when you’re down to about two hours of charge. This dished Tele-style output jack plate also houses the power-in socket for the rechargeable Lithium-ion battery (a full charge should give you around 20 hours of playing). This thing loves effects! It also sounds great as a really swampy slide guitar. We were surprised just how good a rhythm guitar this is with more crunch and gain than we’d considered, and that’s before we add some dirty fuzz or ambient delays and reverbs. ![]() You could pretty much find a place for this in anything from old blues to modern country, or more classic Americana or altrock. There’s a bit more body and output to the sound compared with our reference Strat, albeit with a shorter note decay, and there’s a lot of fun to be had kicking in various boosts and overdrives. Swap over to your electric rig and the three shades of that clean magnetic pickup are equally impressive. PRS’s Hollowbody II Piezo allows you to do exactly that with its PRS/LR Baggs piezo pickup system, but it’s a more serious investment with full retail from $4,900 / £4,749.īy design, the Acoustasonic platform is about much more than simply giving you some pretty impressive acoustic sounds. In many cases, via dual outputs, you can use two amps – one for the acoustic side, the other for the magnetic. Taylor’s T5z Classic (which has a dealer price of around $1,999/£1,900 with gigbag) is a recommended example. Shape aside, it has less crunch for the electric voice and the acoustic sounds are slightly different from those on the Stratocaster.Ĭonventional acoustic/electrics typically stay in the analogue world, mixing an under-saddle piezo or body/neck sensors with one or more magnetic electric pickups. This Strat’s obvious competitor is the Acoustasonic Telecaster, which is priced the same. Okay, the electric sounds are tighter and maybe don’t work quite as well in this environment, but the acoustic/electric mix in position 2 is a very usable acoustic/electric hybrid. The addition of the top pickup in position 3 adds a touch of ambience to the sound as well as making the top livelier if percussion is part of your style simple rhythm taps sound very natural. In positions 5 and 4 you really should be able to find a sound whether you’re strumming hard where those dreadnoughts do their thing or losing your pick for some mellower fingerstyle on the smaller-body voicings, which don’t sound ‘small’ at all if we’re honest. Plugged in, it’s a different, mainly acoustic world. Gauge and string type aside, you’re playing an electric guitar here.įor the creative musician, or simply someone who wants quality acoustic sounds in a very ergonomic package, there’s nothing quite like this ![]() Setup on our sample was pretty much bang on 1.6mm on treble and bass sides. ![]() In terms of playability, you’ll have to get used to a tougher feel if you’re coming from your regular Strat, because it ships with Fender Dura-Tone coated phosphor bronze 0.011 to 0.052- gauge strings.īut the ‘deep C’ neck profile is exactly the same as Fender’s Professional series, except it has a slightly flatter fingerboard radius. We initially plug in via our acoustic pedalboard to an AER combo and from the off it’s game on. The heelplate here is contoured and inset, plus we have the Micro-Tilt adjustment to precisely set neck pitch – very handy with the acoustic-style bridge (Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis) Like any classic Fender, the neck is held in place with four screws. ![]()
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