Closed-gear tuners with 18:1 ratio/26:1 ratio (bass/treble).Other hardware on the 5th Avenue Uptown T-Armond includes: Richlite is used for the fretboard, which has a 16” radius and 21 frets outlined by Pearloid dot inlays. The neck is crafted from Silver Leaf Maple to have a D-shape contour with a 24.84” scale length. Its body is crafted from Canadian Wild Cherry and has 2 large f-shape soundholes for a classic look. This hollow-body guitar oozes vintage style, in both aesthetics and tone. 5th Avenue Uptown T-Armond – Best Premiumīeen looking for a luxurious archtop guitar for your collection? Don’t pass up the Godin 5th Avenue Uptown T-Armond (see price on Sweetwater, Amazon). Quality craftsmanship and exquisite tonal possibilities are just a few of the highlights of this guitar. Overall, the Radium is truly a guitar that performs above other guitars in its price range. You can get the Radium in a number of color options, including: Sweetening the deal is the fact that a gig bag comes included with the Radium. The tone knob doubles as a coil-split, allowing you to split the humbuckers into single coils for expanded tone. To make the most of these pickups, a 5-way switch, as well as a volume and tone knob, are provided. Tonally, the Radium takes its inspiration from the Godin Radiator, featuring an HSH pickup combination. The fretboard is crafted from Rosewood to have a 12” radius, with 22 frets outlined by Pearloid dot inlays. Mahogany is used for the neck, which has a D-shape contour and a scale length of 24.75”. Its shape is similar to the Godin Stadium, which is a sort of modified T-style guitar. The Radium has a body consisting of Canadian Laurentian Basswood. This guitar is essentially a hybrid of 2 of Godin’s most popular guitar models. With so much flexibility built into the design, there are bound to be sounds found for all to appreciate, and the hybrid nature of the Multiac Grand Concert Deluxe offers a nylon-string option perhaps more attractive to players that might not otherwise consider a traditional classical acoustic path.If you have a decent budget and are looking for a powerhouse guitar, the Godin Radium is for you. Purists may not want much of that, but I’m no purist and felt it was totally cool to dial up some drive, especially when playing lower stuff on the wound strings. Having a three-band EQ at your fingertips is handy, and I dug the tape saturation simulation slider. The powerfully articulate tone from the hex pickups alone is awesome, as is the spacious Lyric microphone tone, but the blend is truly the bee’s knees as it offers the best of both worlds. Purists may not want much of that, but I’m no purist and felt it was totally coolīut the Grand Concert Deluxe is ideal for serious nylon-string performers requiring fine playability and a top-shelf amplified tone that’s flexible enough to suit any style on any stage. Undoubtedly, that’s going to feel quite flat and wide for players accustomed to playing steel strings. The neck feels distinctly classical, with a fretboard radius of 24 inches and width at the nut measuring a full two inches. I loved the snappy string quality, which is especially noticeable on the wound strings and attributable to the relatively long 25.66-inch scale length. This Grand Concert Deluxe played wonderfully right out of the box. The Grand Deluxe is far heavier than a typical acoustic guitar and about a pound lighter than a typical solidbody electric guitar. It serves the dual function of allowing for greater amplified volume before feedback as well as acting like a little speaker positioned perfectly for the player’s ears and adding a bit of natural compression. Little holes in the preamp area act as escape hatches for pressurized sound waves in the body chamber. It’s not very loud, but a dual-chambered solid mahogany body and solid cedar top give the Grand Concert Deluxe an inherently nice warm quality. The amplified sound is certainly the star attraction, but the acoustic tone is better than one might expect. I was able to get quite loud before encountering feedback, and when the low mids did start to wail, a simple press of the phase button ate it right up.

Playing in a percussive fingerstyle, I found an awesome balance of balls and nuance by setting the blend slider smack dab in the middle.Īmplified via a little Fender Acoustic Junior Go, the tone was surprisingly huge. The Lyric is designed to focus only the top vibrations, which sound open and light in comparison to the fundamental piezo tone.

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