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I'm sure that this guitar was not designed to appeal to the Jazz Guitar Forum demographic
. But it is a small, easily transported guitar that can get an acceptable electric-acoustic sound plus other tones without feedback. Also, probably less fragile than an acoustic. The non-traditional look could be a plus for a lot of people.
In other words, it looks like a useful tool.
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01-23-2019 03:13 PM
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I'm intrigued. Bit pricey though, you can pick up a Taylor T5 for less I think?
I would very much like a guitar that goes from steel string acoustic to Frisell style tele tones. But wouldn't you also need two amps for good sounds?
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All I see is TWANGY AS
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I'm happy for people to think that guitar looks good, but to me that's the ugliest guitar I've seen in a long time
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I gotta say though, I was highly skeptical until I heard that Andertons vid -- call me crazy, but it sounds pretty damn good. Pete Honore is a great guitarist and will sound good on anything, but Lee Anderton sounds equally good in the video. It's a cool sound.
You can call me crazy twice actually, because I'm in love with this finish:
This said, though: I could get an Art & Lutherie Roadhouse for 500 bucks (made in canada, spruce top, fishman preamp), and stash the 1500 leftover for a rainy day, a holiday, a used james tyler, an 80s saab 900, 3 months rent(!), or a number of other things --- you get my point, it seems to be pricey for not a lot of value
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These are a hard pass for me. Whoever wants one can have at it.
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Coulda been a contenda:
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Rave review from a technology site.
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Ok. I guess to be fair to Fender I didn’t realize it was a platform for acoustic modeling pickups more than anything. It is meant to have just enough “air” to complement the Fishman modeling preamp and pickups to give you a better platform than a solid body.
I would have zero use for it, but I can see how it might be useful for a studio musician looking for an aceptable acoustic sound without expensive mics. Perhaps even the rare player filling a large hall but trying to recreate the intimacy of a coffee shop.
But then there is the price.... :-(
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The Tele lines and shapes always look good in their original form to me. These check off that box. That said, it is too bad they couldn't have made this work without rear routes. If they would have used the typical Tele control plate on the top I would be more into them. Rear routs just mess up a nice wood surface in weird ways. I wouldn't want any of these new ones for myself unless I got it for 1/10 of the list price.
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This is a pretty good marketing video put together by Fender. It appears they brought in a lot of heavyweights to design this model. I enjoyed watching this and would love to try one out.
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I predict that this guitar will be a winner for Fender. Nashville and other pickers will love it in the studio and live.
Maybe even a few jazzers will try it out for different timbres.
As for the price; there are always sales.
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2 grand for a funky hybrid with no neck pick-up ?
Looks nice for a fun fart-around at $200.
I give this model run one season.
Meanwhile I'll stick with my good old American Standard.
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I need to check one out in person, because I can't believe they are as ugly as they seem to be.
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This is novelty item... no?
Let a tele be a tele...
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Exactly. It may even be a cool guitar, but it's still missing the one thing every jazz player wants -- a neck pickup!!!
Originally Posted by vernon
I still can't get over the price though. I tend to think of a telecaster as a $650 guitar.
Around here that will get you a nice used American tele off CL. It will be interesting to see how the used market shakes out on these after the initial release.
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Bored out of my skull. Corona money just sitting in the account. GC now has a 6 month, instead of 30 day, return policy offering plenty of time for buyer remorse to fully manifest. Don’t own a Tele of any persuasion but the Strat with the version 2 of the pickup system is more appealing.
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listening to any of the demos should clear that right up for you
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i'll put this here. i get why it exists, but ultimately, i think that for the price of two decent guitars, you can get two crappy guitars... in one! not only is it neither/nor, but i'm not sure either side can be salvaged. maybe the electric tones can be improved, but i don't think you could employ an aura, tone dexter or even good old fashioned eq to get much more out of the acoustic side of it, like you could with a regular piezo'd acoustic. seems like it just is what it is.
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The Acoustisonic is kind of like the Pontiac Aztek of guitars IMO...
There was a Tele with a piezo a few years back--Nashville Power Tele. Not sure if they still make it. I played around with it once, and it seemed a decent enough guitar that could add some interesting shimmering sounds when mixed with the magnetic pickup, or do a decent acoustic impersonation (when combined with the right amp) if that was called for.
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This is kinda interesting. As I see it, there are two different approaches to these hybrid guitars. Electric guitars with added acoustic (piezo?) pickups, and "Electric Acoustics" with added mag pickups.
Two examples of the former:
PRS 24 Piezo
Carvin/Kiesel SH575
And the latter:
Taylor T5
Fender Acoustasonic
For myself doing a lot of music theater, the former have always fit the bill. I can use them to wail out like metal, or play smooth and jazzy, but then flip the switch and I can emulate a big steel string folk guitar.
I have never tried any of the latter, but I would definitely be interested to give one a trial ride.
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After much close reading of the reviews decided against the Acoustasonics. I want a flat top, not something that almost sounds like one.
Ordered a Taylor 414 CE V braced Spruce/Okangol, the standard Taylor. Took advantage of the buy one get a mini for $99 offer from Taylor. Took the Mahogany version. Should get here next week. GC says I have 6 months to decide if I like them.
Think I’ll call the mini hog, Petunia.
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That looks sweet! Taylor guitars are the most comfortable-playing and mellowest flattops out there, IMO. Originally Posted by TedBPhx
I was looking up something on the Stew Mac website today and came across one of their guitar kits—OM-style with Spruce/Okangol. It took all my strength not to click on the “buy” button. (My other main hobby is woodworking, and I have built one guitar before—a classical from a Grizzly kit. Hardly anything to be proud of, but it did get me interested in the possibilities.)
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Now they're doing a Strat version. Saw this commercial on the boob tube the other day. Quite long for a TV commercial - they ran the full song, including a jazzy solo by Nile.
Go to YouTube and scroll down the page a bit to see Nile's comment:
I like simple! My live-set pedal board just has a tuner, a chorus for one song, a wah that I play for 16 bars and a delay for the song "Let's Dance." We do a 90/100 minute set on average. When I played this axe I was not familiar it's fairly complicated set of voicing options. I played it just the way it was sent to me. I've now restrung it to my gauge strings and I've gotten it down to something that performs like a pretty solid jazz box. Like the way it sounds when I play the solo. Over the next few weeks when I get some "me" time, I'm gonna play with settings I think sound pretty dope, but I play light strings with an extremely light pick. That's been my sound since I bought my first arch top in the 70s. I love reading the critiques. They've been very helpful. Peace, Nile
And the funny comment that is reminiscent of an earlier post in this thread "It’s two guitars for the price of three."
The synth-like sounds in the vid must be coming from some stompbox, tho, as there is nothing in any of the ads for this axe that indicate it is supposed to sound like anything other than a guitar.
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