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Artist Series AD70CE Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar

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Well-built guitar with spruce and rosewood tonewoods and versatile L.R. Baggs electronics.

Alvarez dreadnoughts are powerful and rewarding. This acoustic-electric model is fitted with the L.R. Baggs StagePro EQ and Element pickup to optimize live performance. With a body of rosewood, the AD70CE will accent the bass and treble just a little more...perfect.

After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of Alvarez's culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Their tonewoods are carefully cured; components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques used are continually researched and developed, and the tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience. Alvarez believes the multi-award-winning Artist Series is one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today and demonstrates their commitment to design.

Artist Series
The term “solid top” refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. The Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include Alvarez's FST2 bracing system, bi-level rosewood bridge, real bone nut and saddle, great quality tonewoods and thin finish.

FST2 is a forward-shifted X brace design which means the axis of the X is closer to the sound hole to create a larger soundboard area allowing for more energy and vibration to be harnessed. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are carefully scalloped. The scalloping design was the result of years of continual development in their Yairi workshops. The Artist Series sound and personality is open and powerful. FST2 also creates very good balance so both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other.

Artist Series feel right and are exciting to play; no matter if you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For power, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a cedar top. All of Alvarez's tops are selected by their team and graded independently of their suppliers. If it isn't deemed worthy, they won’t use it. Top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models but all are stiff and finely grained.

Along with a more angled headstock, the Alvarez bi-level bridge increases string tension by making the break angle of the strings from the saddle to the top more acute. Improved string tension adds to the sound, feel and response, which are also heightened by the use of real bone nuts and saddles.

Artist Series also demonstrates their great finishing capabilities; the gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible, again to help optimize tone.

Case sold separately.

Features
Body
Body type: Dreadnought
Cutaway: Single cutaway
Top wood: Solid A+ Sitka Spruce
Back & sides: Mahogany
Bracing pattern: Forward-shifted Scalloped X
Body finish: High Gloss
Orientation: Right handed
Neck
Neck shape: Info not available
Nut width: 1.75 in. (44.45 mm)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Neck wood: Mahogany
Scale length: 25.5 in.
Number of frets: 20
Neck finish: Semi-gloss
Electronics
Pickup/preamp: Yes
Brand: L.R. Baggs
Configuration: Undersaddle piezo
Preamp EQ: 3-band
Feedback filter: Notch, Phase
Tuner: Yes
Other
Headstock overlay: Ebony
Tuning machines: Die-cast
Bridge: Ebony
Saddle & nut: Real Bone
Number of strings: 6-string
Special features: Pickup System
Case: Hardshell case
Accessories: None
Country of origin: Info not available
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Artist Series AD70CE Dreadnought Acoustic-Electric Guitar

Well-built guitar with spruce and rosewood tonewoods and versatile L.R. Baggs electronics.

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