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certainly be on your shopping list. With a solid spruce top matched
to mahogany back and sides, there’s a lot of wood adding to the
impressive tonal qualities of this guitar. Additional attractive detail
touches include understated rosewood binding beside multiple black
and white purfling, with contrasting abalone rosette work. Rosewood
is the bridge material, with rosewood featuring further as neck binding.
The imposing natural-finish high-gloss top VGA900N features pickups
and preamp courtesy of Fishman, this time in the form of an Ion+
preamp with a Fishman Sonicore undersaddle pickup as the sound
source. Excellent value at £249.00 rrp. Featuring the
same specification, build and electronics as the
VGA900N, this time available in an attractive
Sunburst finish with mock tortoiseshell
scratchplate, also costing £249.00 rrp.
plenty of room for an easy playing style with
open ringing chords matched by crisp detail on
single note lines too. The natural-finish V1200N
is an electro-acoustic model, and features
Fishman’s higher-spec Aero Blend preamp,
with Fishman
Sonicore
pickup,
Grover
tuners
and retails
at £399 rrp.
VEC1400-12
VEC1900N
V1200N
VGA900SB
Vintage V1200N
Another Grand Auditorium model,
this time featuring an elegant
Florentine style cutaway, marked by
its pointed leading edge, as opposed
to the more ‘conventional’ rounded edge
cutaway design. The V1200N offers a classic, high-spec tonewood
combination, where the expansive solid spruce top is mated this time
to solid mahogany back and sides, with the low-mid tonal bias of the
mahogany adding body and fullness to the brighter tone of the guitar’s
spruce table (top). Attractive rosewood/maple/flame maple forms the
body binding, whilst elsewhere on the guitar, the overall higher grade
materials spec means that Indian rosewood is used for the fingerboard
and ebony the bridge.
As a 41” Grand Auditorium model, the 648mm scale length leaves you
Aero Blend Features:
• Built-in microphone with mic blend control
• Brilliance control for additional tone shaping
• Notch, onboard anti-feedback control
• Smaller footprint than standard size preamps
• Volume control
• Bass, Middle and Treble control knobs
• Phase control button
• Low battery indicator (9V battery)
• Flip-top housing to access integrated battery
compartment
• Pre-wired Fishman Sonicore pickup
• Low profile control knobs
Vintage models equipped with Aero Blend:
V1200N, VEC1400-12, VEC1500N, VEC1900N
Good to see a 12-string in this
new line-up, especially as we’re
big 12-stringer fans at Gear, whether
electros like this, or bona fide electrics.
Being a Dreadnought bodied cutaway, the
VEC1400-12 is a big old beast with a big old sound to match,
from its solid spruce top and solid mahogany body, matched to a
mahogany neck. Available in Natural Satin plus 10% gloss finish,
with Indian rosewood fingerboard and Indian rosewood bridge, and a
pleasing multi-ply binding laminate of black/white/abalone/maple.
Plugged in, the VEC1400-12 will give a huge wash of sound filled
with ringing harmonics, thanks also to the processing power and
high quality signal source to the Fishman Aero Blend preamp system .
£499.00 rrp.
Vintage VEC1900N
Vintage VEC1400-12
Also a Grand Auditorium model with a cutaway style body, the
VEC1900N has a solid German spruce top in a high-glossed Natural
finish, mated to solid lacewood (a variable-colour sycamore) back
and sides, and a mahogany neck. The Indian rosewood fingerboard
and bridge offer a pleasant understated look, matched by contrasting
wood binding. As with the other Grand Auditoriums in the new range,
the VEC1900N is fitted with a Fishman Aero Blend preamp and
Sonicore pickup as well as Grover machineheads. £549.00 rrp.
Ion+ Features:
• Onboard easy to read 7-segment LED tuner
• Bass & treble controls for enhanced tone shaping
• Smaller footprint for easy access to controls
• Volume control
• EQ shaping control
• Phase control
• Low battery indicator (9V battery)
• Surface mounted battery compartment
• Pre-wired Fishman Sonicore pickup
• Low profile control knobs
Vintage models equipped with Ion+:
VE900MH, VGA900N, VGA900SB
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