Cato Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) Fender's new 'Acoustasonic'. There's quite a gushing article about it here https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fender-acoustasonic-guitar Parts of which I suspect have been cut and pasted directly from Fender's own press release. It seems to be a sort of acoustic focused variant of the Line 6 Variax concept with several acoustic 'voices' and some solid bodied electric ones all available on one instrument with the promise of none of the feedback issues sometimes associated with putting an acoustic through an overdriven rig or pedals. Personally I like the aesthetics but I'd to have to be really impressed with it before I decided that I really needed to own such a thing. Edited January 22, 2019 by Cato 2
Andyjr1515 Posted January 26, 2019 Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Fascinating...it would be interesting to see its strengths and weaknesses against the competition - especially head to headed with my own latest acquisition mentioned in my Nemesis thread on Basschat. To explain, just picked up my Gillett Contour 6 electric in Rocklite that has been doing the shows for the past two or three months. I'll do a full review thread as soon as I can find the time to fully put it through its paces Edited January 26, 2019 by Andyjr1515 2 1
EdwardMarlowe Posted February 1, 2019 Posted February 1, 2019 Interesting concept. I remember when the Variax first came out and all sorts of gearheads would line up to sneer at it and call it a 'toy'. This looks more conventional. I can see it being very cool for a session player to take for recording if it's got the sounds nailed, tough for live performance, in all honesty I doubt the average audience member really registers anything more than clean or dirty. Still, for the player woh wants a wide range of sounds in one guitar, I can see it having its uses.
darkandrew Posted February 3, 2019 Posted February 3, 2019 (edited) It's hard to tell in the photo but can you adjust the saddles and therefore the intonation / action or is it all fixed? Edited February 3, 2019 by darkandrew
Cato Posted February 4, 2019 Author Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) I've not seen one in the flesh, but from the pictures and video demos the bridge doesn't look like it's adjustable. Although I can't say for certain one way or the other. Edited February 4, 2019 by Cato
Killstarz Posted February 6, 2019 Posted February 6, 2019 (edited) I can't decide if I really love the look, or absolutely detest it. I watched the Andertons video about it and they really seemed to like how it played/sounded. Edited February 6, 2019 by Killstarz
MWH Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Very Tele isn't it ?, an ash tray and a control plate in even more contrasting timber would kill or cure it.
Daz39 Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 It's 'interesting' - seems it should satisfy the Venn grouping of people who say 'Fender are dull and never release anything actually NEW,' and those who say 'Urgh, the Dimension Bass? What were Fender thinking? Go back to what you know.'
