But if you look past its Art Deco aesthetics, you’ll notice that the two Seymour Duncan ’59s can be coil-split, for both full-on humbucker chunk and sparkling single-coil tones. If you’re quick to judge, you might write this off as a guitar made purely for jazz. + Versatile switching + Classy aesthetics – High-end look not for everyone Read the full review of the Eastman Romeo LA here. Price: £1,499 Build: Fully hollow, spruce laminate top, mahogany laminate back and sides, set maple neck with 12” radius ebony fingerboard, pearl dot inlays, single-acting truss rod, 22x Jescar 47104 frets, bone nut Hardware: Göldo 3-Point Vario tune-o-matic bridge, Les Trem vibrato tailpiece and locking tuners Electronics: 2x Seymour Duncan Radiator Phat Cat P-90 pickups, 2x volume, 1x tone (bridge pickup only), 3-way toggle pickup selector switch Scale Length: 24.75”/629mm The tone control also only works on the bridge pickup, meaning the warm neck pickup sound is a little more full-bodied. Its swooping arm goes well with the Radiator covers on the Seymour Duncan pickups, too, evoking the same retro-futuristic style as the asymmetrical cutaways.Īs for the guitar’s sound, the radiators disguise the fact that these pickups are actually Seymour Duncan Phat Cats, which are humbucker-sized P-90s that bring a nice amount of clarity and punch to an already acoustically resonant hollowbody. One of the most striking design elements, the vibrato system, actually came out of necessity: the carved top wasn’t flat enough for a traditional Bigsby, and so Eastman instead opted for a Göldo Les Trem. + Punchy P-90 tones + Les Trem unit is stylish and stable – No neck pickup tone controlĪesthetics aren’t everything, but it would be doing the Romeo LA a disservice not to mention it. Gretsch G5622 Electromatic Center Block Double-Cut.The 12 best hollow and semi-hollow electric guitars to buy in 2023 at a glance The main purpose of the centre-block is to suppress feedback: when playing at high volume and/or gain levels with a hollowbody design, the body will vibrate sympathetically with your amplified sound and you’ll find it hard to control feedback.Ī semi-hollow design’s centre-block mitigates these sympathetic vibrations so, in practice, a semi is better suited to the player who wants to play with heavy overdrive, distortion or fuzz without struggling to mute their instrument every time they take a hand off the fretboard.
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