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Hey, friends,
Aaron Lee Tasjan here with the California Special Acoustic Series from Fender.
We're going to take you through some of the features of these unique instruments
and play them a little bit for you and see how they sound.
Let's check them out.
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So the first guitar we're going to take a look at is the Malibu Special,
the smallest body of the three styles.
All of the guitars in this series come in this beautiful matte black finish.
The great thing about these
smaller body styles, again,
just a really great punchy tone.
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Let's talk about the Fender and Fishman designed preamps and
tuners that are in these guitars.
Really great sounding preamps, sound great on stage.
Great at home, plugging away through an amplifier.
In fact, right behind me
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is a Fender acoustic SFX amplifier.
So we can hear what that sounds like.
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The second guitar we're going to take look at is the Newporter Special.
It is the medium body size of the three guitars.
So each instrument in this line of guitars features an all solid
design mahogany back and sides and a Sitka spruce top.
Beneath this beautiful matte black finish is some really nice sounding solid wood.
When it comes to an acoustic instrument, that's what you want.
This guitar just is going to offer you a great amount of versatility.
kind of no matter what style you're after or up to, this guy is up to the challenge.
Let's just take
a look real quick
at what that could
sound like.
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Okay, lastly we are checking out the Redondo Special,
the largest body size of these series of special guitars.
Each of these guitars features a Pau Ferro fingerboard.
Kind of a interesting combination of sort of a softer feel,
like a traditional rosewood neck would be, blended with what a harder,
like an ebony or a maple neck, might offer.
So it's kind of a great in between point.
A C-shaped mahogany neck, not what you would typically see on an acoustic guitar.
The neck is a little thinner.
Whatever your hand size is you're going to have a pretty easy time playing up and
down the neck.
The Redondo Special,
it's going to give you the full
spectrum of the acoustic range,
a really great, full-bodied sound.
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Thanks for checking out the California Special series of guitars with me.
Stay tuned here for more videos.
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