I had a dilemma, I was asked to play an acoustic gig but I didn't have an
acoustic guitar in fact I didn't have any guitar I just moved to the u.s. I
had nothing, but I really love telecasters
so after a search online, i found this... It has Grover tuners that's always a good start
a bone nut a compound radius rosewood fretboard mini humbuckers or a mini
humbucker in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge the volume control and a tone
control arel push pull this gives you like a ton of options i can't explain
them all here but what I will do Is flash them up now...
you've also got this extra knob here this extra knob and this switch works in
conjunction with the piezo pickups yeah they're not exactly like an acoustic
guitar but if you're playing a gig with someone who is playing an acoustic guitar
these tend to blend a little bit better than just the magnetic pickups or just
the humbuckers, so in this position down here you're activating the piezo pickups
which sit just on the bridge saddles, in the top position you're activating the
humbuckers just the magnetic pickups, in the middle you can blend the two you've
got a mix of the two and that knob there controls the volume
of the piezo pickups, you get a belly cut which is really comfortable
plus the guitar is also molded just around there you can get your arm in a
bit better, on the back is a battery compartment underneath there is
the fishman power chip, there's also a little pot where you can increase or
decrease the volume of the piezo pickups so you can set them up perfectly to
match with the magnetic pickups and it might be just me but that's quite a
pretty headstock I like the fender looking headstocks
rather than some of the custom guitars that have got this sort of ugly thing going
on in my opinion, so it's a really solidly built guitar I'll put the specifications up
there so you can have a look but in my opinion it just feels solid it's really
easy to play I can get the action down low to where I like it even though
you've got the piezo pickups in there because obviously the piezo is are gonna
raise the string height slightly on the bridge I managed to get them down where
I like them and it plays really nice so during the gig that I did it worked
really well playing with another acoustic guitar, and this guitar
blended in really well plus also you can connect a stereo jack in there with a
Y split output so you can have the magnetic pickups going to an electric
guitar amp and you can have piezo pickups going to an acoustic guitar amp
or in my case going to the PA, it sounded great. Okay see you guys want to
know how it sounds let's find out.
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