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Artist Series AD70SB Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar

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Overview

Trusted tonewood combination paired with special bracing for exceptional balanced sound.

Alvarez dreadnoughts are powerful and wonderful guitars to play. Great quality tone from bass to sparkle and in everything in between. This one being rosewood will accent the bass and treble just a little more. The AD70SB features a tonewood combination of a solid A+ Sitka spruce top with sunburst finish, rosewood body, mahogany neck, and rosewood fingerboard. Other appointments include ivory ABS binding, premium die-cast tuners, a bi-level rosewood bridge, and abalone and MOP inlays.

Case sold separately.

Artist Series
Artist Series is now “The Award Winning Artist Series” – winning competitions and receiving rave reviews in the States, Europe and around the world. It’s a truly designed line of guitars that stands tall and sounds sweet in the solid top guitar market.

Hand-selected solid tops; forward shifted scalloped bracing, awesome tone and player experience….

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 really release the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series guitars are 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 a tone and player experience rarely found in affordable instruments. These components include Ibanez's FSTM bracing system, bi-level bridge, real bone nut and great quality tone woods. FSTM is a forward shifted X brace design. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are scalloped. Moving the system forward allows for a larger soundboard, which is optimized with a solid maple bridge plate for both strength and energy.

The sound is warm, open and powerful, and both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other. These guitars feel right and are exciting to play and responsive. Dig in and they shout right back at you, treat them gently and they whisper and respond instantly to the lightest strum or pick.

The solid ‘A’ grade Sitka spruce and cedar tops are hand selected from quartersawn wood. This ensures consistent quality, and its no secret better guitars are made from better wood. Ibanez tops not only look great, but they are stiff and strong and finely grained.

Features

Body
  • Body type: Dreadnought
  • Cutaway: Non-cutaway
  • Top wood: Solid Sitka Spruce
  • Back & sides: Rosewood
  • Bracing pattern: FSTM - Forward Shifted, Scalloped X 
  • Body finish: Gloss 
  • Orientation: Right handed
Neck
  • Neck shape: Info not available
  • Nut width: 1.75" (44.45mm)
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood
  • Neck wood: Mahogany
  • Scale length: 25.5"
  • Number of frets: 21
  • Neck finish: Gloss
Electronics
  • Pickup/preamp: Yes
  • Brand: Dean
  • Configuration: Undersaddle piezo
  • Preamp EQ: 1-band
  • Feedback filter: No
  • Tuner: No
Other
  • Headstock overlay: Rosewood
  • Tuning machines: Die-cast Premium
  • Bridge: Rosewood
  • Saddle & nut: Bone
  • Number of strings: 6-string
  • Special features: Bracing
  • Case: Sold separately
  • Accessories: Info not available
  • Country of origin: China

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