Alvarez Artist AD60ce Dreadnought Acoustic/Electric Guitar

Description

Artist, Dreadnought

The Artist Series Dreadnoughts is crafted to achieve outstanding levels of fit, finish, and tonal ability. They are powerful, articulate and voiced to get the best from the Dreadnought body mass through the FS6, forward-shifted, scalloped bracing system. Sonically, they have a broad projection with clear, sonorous bass frequencies and lively trebles.

The AD60ce is a powerful, bold and open guitar constructed from all-Mahogany laminates and A+ solid, North American Sitka spruce top. It has a flawless, thin gloss finish on the top, which exudes a lustrous shine, complemented by a semi-gloss sheen on the back and sides. These features help the soundbox vibrate and respond intuitively to your playing.

This cutaway model allows for easy access up the neck, and is finished in the flawless Shadowburst and fitted with the LR Baggs StagePro Bronze. The StagePro Bronze is a small-footprint side-mounted EQ incorporating the renowned LR Baggs Element under-saddle pickup. This is a low-profile unit with a large backlit tuner, volume, bass and treble controls and phase. The battery box is built into the end pin jack compartment for easy access with a simple push to open and change batteries.

About Alvarez Artist Series Guitars…

Alvarez Artist Series represents a commitment to quality and care. The goal is to create an instant bond between you and your guitar through meticulous design in bracing, voicing and overall construction. Every component–from the bi-level bridge to the solid bridge plates and neck blocks–is carefully considered to deliver the best response possible from solid-top construction.

Artist Series guitars are responsive with impressive projection and balance that make them both rewarding and inspiring to play.

With a huge selection of body shapes and wood configurations, Artist Series has a guitar for everyone. For a more focused, woody tone, choose a Mahogany top. For a broader, more open projection, choose Sitka. For a warm response to a lighter, melodic touch, choose Cedar.

The Approach to the Build…. All of the solid tops are selected by a team and graded independently of the supplier. If it isn’t worthy, it isn’t used. The laminated backs and sides are uniquely constructed with Mahogany as our middle layer, and the inner and outer layers are always matched.

Artist guitars strike the right balance between strength and vibration, crafting a voice to both inspire and give players “tools in the tone.” Alongside this approach to development lies our respect for sourcing, preparation and nurturing the wood we use to make our guitars. No matter how considered design may be, it can only be as good as the wood we use to realize them.

The all-solid wood tops, backs and sides, as well as the mahogany used for the necks, go through a curing process developed over years to create stability, strength and tonal benefits. Depending on the wood and its use, this process takes many months or even years for some of the models.

After months-long seasoning, we perform an extra drying stage in thermo-kilns to further enhance wood stability and improve resonance. Alvarez calls this process ATR–Advanced Tonal Response. ATR is a form of torrefaction–oxygen controlled, vacuum curing at special temperatures to remove more moisture and volatiles such as saps and sugars from the wood.