What’s New at Adirondack Guitar: July 2019 Part 2

Things have been so busy this summer that we need to do another July What’s New to tell you about all of the great new and used guitars and amps that have come in! In the past couple of weeks we’ve had a bunch of beautiful new Martin guitars come in, awesome new Marshall amps, a couple of classic reissues and two vintage shreddy beasts inspired by Eddie Van Halen. 

A Bunch of ‘Little’ Martins

The short scale Martin LX series ‘Little’ Martin short scale acoustic guitars are the smallest guitars that Martin makes, but that doesn’t mean that they have a small sound. These ‘little’ Martins still deliver the tone you would expect from a Martin of any size, but come in a short scale size that is extremely comfortable for use as a travel acoustic or student guitar. Made with Certified Sustainable wood components, these little Martin acoustics will sound great whether you are touring, sitting on your couch, or hanging around the campfire.

Martin Left Handed LX1E Little Martin Acoustic Electric Short Scale Guitar with Gig Bag- Natural 

This Martin LX1E acoustic features a solid Sitka spruce top, mahogany high-pressure laminate (HPL) back and sides, and a warm satin finish that is extremely comfortable. Sporting a 23“ short scale modified low oval neck made from Rust Birch Laminate, with a Richlite fretboard, the LX1E little Martin feels incredibly comfortable in the hand, and delivers the silky playability you would expect from a full size Martin at a scale that is perfect for travel or student guitarists. Other premium appointments include a Fishman Sonitone preamp system with active EQ and built-in tuner, Certified Richlite bridge, compensated White Tusq saddle, and Chrome Enclosed Gear tuning machines for accurate intonation and excellent tuning stability.

This Martin LX Black acoustic electric features a high-pressure laminate (HPL) top, back and sides, and a warm satin finish that is extremely comfortable. Like all ‘little’ Martin acoustic guitars, the LX Black sports a 23“ short scale modified low oval neck made from Birch Laminate, and a Richlite fretboard that feels incredibly comfortable in the hand, delivering the silky playability you would expect from a full size Martin at a scale that is perfect for travel or student guitarists.

This right handed Martin LXK2 acoustic features a resonant Koa HPL top with matching high-pressure laminate (HPL) back and sides, and a warm satin finish that is extremely comfortable. Sporting a 23“ short scale modified low oval neck made from Rust Birch Laminate,  and a Richlite fretboard, the lefty LXK2 delivers the kind of buttery playability you would expect from Martin twice as expensive, at a scale that is perfect for travel or student guitarists.

The Martin 000-10E is a stage-ready auditorium style acoustic electric crafted with Sapele top, back and sides with Martin’s classic x-bracing for rich tone and excellent projection. This auditorium style acoustic sports a select hardwood neck with a high performance taper and aFSC Certified Richlite fingerboard, with incredibly low action that is nothing short of a pleasure to play. You will love the rich tone and responsiveness of the Road Series guitars, and Fishman MX-T electronics make the 000-10E stage-ready with a perfect blend of volume and balance. An onboard tuner in the soundhole is conveniently placed, making tuning a breeze, and prevents your tuner from being lost or ‘borrowed’ by bandmates.This small-bodied Martin is delivers the Martin tone and playability that today’s acoustic musicians are looking for at an affordable price.

Built for player comfort and massive tone, the new Martin Dreadnought Jr DJR10E delivers all of the thunderous volume you would expect from a Dreadnought in a slightly smaller body size designed for comfort and playability. The Martin DJR10E, in a beautiful vintage burst finish, has been newly updated with satin Sapele back and sides paired with a solid satin finish Sitka Spruce top with high performance scalloped X-bracing with a double asymmetrical tone bar, providing the massive volume and thunderous tone Martin Dreadnoughts are known for in a body size designed for comfort. 

Further refinements that enhance player comfort include a select hardwood neck with a hand-rubbed finish and a FSC® Certified Richlite® fingerboard, with a 24“ scale length and a high performance taper, making it extremely expressive with incredibly low action, and a shallow body depth with softened back edges that provide maximum player comfort.

The Martin Dreadnought Jr 10E comes stage ready with Fishman Sonitone electronics with built-in tuner and EQ and a host of hardware appointments, including plek dressed frets, a bone nut, FSC® Certified Richlite® bridge and all chrome enclosed-gear tuners that give this scaled down Dreadnought a premium feel and superior playability.

Great Used Amps

This gently used Line 6 Spider V 240 Watt 2X12 combo amp delivers a range of classic and ultra modern tones that will surely please the modern guitarist. The Line 6 Spider V is a 240 Watt digital modelling combo amp that is powerful and versatile enough for the working guitarist, perfect for the studio or stage, or any situation you put it in.

This 240 Watt Line 6 modelling combo comes equipped with a two 12“ speaker system, headphone output and auxiliary inputs and USB connectivity, making it a total solution for modern musicians looking to combine classic power with the latest in digital technology. Featuring hundreds of authentic sounding amp and effects models, and 128 professionally crafted preset guitar sounds with personalized editing features, the Line 6 Spider V 240W is capable of everything from iconic guitar sounds by classic artists to brand new guitar sounds the world has never heard before. 

With an onboard chromatic tuner, built-in metronome, headphone input and real-drummer loops, the Spider V from Line 6 delivers all of the features you have been looking for in a rehearsal or gigging amp, and Mac/PC, iOS and Android connectivity (through auxiliary and USB inputs) makes the Spider V at home in the studio as well. There is virtually no limit to what you can do with this amp!

The Marshall JCM TSL 602 is a 3-channel tube combo amp that delivers the outrageous overdrive you can only get from a Marshall, along with classic clean and crunch tones that make this a highly versatile tube combo amp powerful enough for any musical situation. Each channel has independent volume and gain settings, with an independent EQ for the clean channel and a shared EQ for the crunch and overdrive channels and independent reverb levels on the clean and lead channels.

Powered by 4 ECC83 tubes in the preamp and 2 EL34s in the power section, the Marshall JCM TSL 602 delivers enough power to rattle the windows, with a refined and versatile tone that travels well through a variety of musical genres. A tone switch allows you to instantly scoop mids, while a bass boost switch tightens up the bass, giving you instant access to a variety of sonic possibilities. No matter where you’re going musically, this incredible Marshall combo can get you there.

This gently used Marshall Origin 20 1x10 20 watt combo combines classic styling with modern features that allow you to craft your own individual sound. The single channel delivers 20 watts of classic Marshall valve tone and features new Marshall Powerstem technology that allows you to use high, medium and low power modes to craft your sound to your venue. Whether you are playing a small to medium sized venue, a recording studio, or just your bedroom, the Marshall Origin 20 has a power setting that’s appropriate to your setting, without sacrificing on any of that classic Marshall tone.

Powered by three ECC83 valves in the preamp section, and two EL34 valves in the power section, the Origin 20 delivers classic harmonically rich British tube amp tone in a stylish package that looks as . Don’t let the fact that this amp has a single channel fool you -- this Marshall is loaded with new features that make it incredibly versatile. Using the presence control, you can increase high frequencies, while increased volume will deliver a more overdriven tone. Using the ‘Tilt’ control allows you to blend voices while the footswitchable boost adds an extra level of gain that is perfect for lead playing.

 

Old World Craftsmanship

The left handed Kremona M25E steel string acoustic guitar features a solid Spruce top with Mahogany back and sides, giving it bright and singing treble tones with world class projection, with a sense of softness around the edges. With classic dovetail neck construction, you are assured of a faultless transfer of tone, while the 24.4 inch scale length delivers easy playability and perfect intonation.

The satin finish Mahogany neck feels solid and comfortable in the hand while the lefty M25E’s Venetian cutaway allows easy access to the highest frets of the 20 fret Rosewood fingerboard, making this steel string acoustic perfect for chording and lead playing. With a TUSQ nut and saddle and proprietary satin gold tuning machines, you will enjoy rock solid tuning and impeccable intonation. 

The lefty Kremona M25E acoustic electric comes equipped with LR Baggs EAS-VTC Element preamp, an active system with volume and tone control (VTC) pairs the Element undersaddle transducer with a preamp that includes a small, removable soundhole-mounted volume and tone control for additional convenience and sonic versatility. The VTC is designed to tame unnatural low-end thump by mimicking the actual dynamic response of the guitar, giving the M25E a natural, realistic acoustic sound when plugged in.

Two Classic Reissues 

The Gibson Firebird, made legendary in the 1970‘s by iconic players like Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Brian Jones, and  Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, is back, available in this 2012 Gibson Tribute edition in a gorgeous satin sunburst finish. Featuring a distinctive Mahogany Firebird-shaped body with a revealing nitrocellulose lacquer Vintage Sunburst finish, delivering the vintage styling you’d expect from a modern Gibson classic.

The neck is all Maple in a classic 70‘s shape, which starts out thinnest at the first fret and gets progressively chunkier as you move up the neck to the 12th fret, but never too thick to hamper easy playability. With a scale length of 24.75“ and a 12“ fretboard radius, the string tension is low and the feel is extremely comfortable. The 22-fret Maple fretboard is baked to a beautiful caramel color and joins the body with a Mortise & Tenon neck joint which makes accessing the highest register of the neck extremely easy.

The Alnico Mini Humbucker pickups are brand new from Gibson and come both in the neck and bridge positions. Built with a kind of a hybrid design, these mini humbuckers combine elements of the pickups used in the Les Paul Deluxe from the 70s, and the Firebird pickups from the 60s.

The Tribute 70‘s Firebird is wired just like many other Gibsons with two volume controls, two tone knobs, and a three way pickup selector switch.

The Gibson Tribute 70‘s Firebird combines iconic Firebird styling with brand new innovations like a baked Maple fretboard and newly designed Alnico mini-humbucker pickups, giving this vintage reissue a new and more modern sound. If you’re looking for vintage styling you can’t get much better than this gorgeous Gibson reissue at this price point!

This gently used limited edition 2010 Epiphone Wilshire electric guitar evokes a bygone era in the history of American guitar making. The original Wilshire was one of the iconic “Kalamazoo-made and designed” Epiphones that came out in 1959, only two years after Gibson purchased Epiphone. For over a decade, Epiphone guitars were produced side by side with vintage Gibson guitars and were among the best sounding guitars of their era, loved by greats like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter. 

This gently used Epiphone Wilshire is a reissue of the classic Epiphone Wilshire design featuring a vintage symmetrical double cutaway Mahogany body with set neck construction and a glued-in neck joint that makes the upper register of the fretboard extremely accessible. The Mahogany neck is made with the classic 1960‘s Slim Taper profile with a 24.75“ scale length and a flat and super comfortable 12“ fretboard radius. This Wilshire’s neck feels really comfortable in the hand and delivers the kind of smooth playability you’d expect from a much more expensive guitar.

This gently used limited edition 2010 Epiphone Wilshire electric guitar delivers all of the vintage styling and classic tone you could ever want from an affordably priced guitar. Featuring a highly resonant Mahogany body in the distinctive Wilshire double-cut body style, and a slim-taper mahogany neck with a 24.75“ scale length and a Rosewood fingerboard, this used Epiphone Limited Edition Wilshire delivers vintage tone and a luxurious feel at a surprisingly affordable price point.

Two Van Halen Inspired Vintage Beauties

This vintage used Kramer Focus 1000 FR features the classic pointed hockey stick style headstock made iconic by Eddie Van Halen whose influential Kramer design (the Kramer Baretta) changed the face of the guitar world forever. In the late 80’s, the Focus series were the more affordable alternative to the more expensive Van Halen models, featuring the same minimal styling and appointments that made Kramer a favorite of metal guitarists at the height of the hair metal craze.  

With the Focus 1000 Kramer pared down the classic double-cut design to the bare minimum with a single powerful humbucker pickup in a slanted position and a single volume knob for controls. The humbucker pickup is voiced for hard rock and metal and is very powerful, but cleans up nicely at low volume settings, allowing you to control your dynamics with ease.

The Maple neck is sleek, thin and smooth, perfect for shred, metal and classic rock, and has a 22-fret Rosewood fingerboard with a flat radius that will let you fly from one end to the other with ease. A Floyd Rose locking tremolo system ensures that your tuning will be locked down no matter how many dive bombs and whammy bar tricks you have in your arsenal.

The Peavey Wolfgang Special, named for Eddie’s son and bass player Wolfgang Van Halen, was designed in partnership with Peavey Electronics shortly after Van Halen’s departure from Ernie Ball in the mid-90‘s. With a body shape similar to the Ernie Ball Van Halen guitar, the Peavey Wolfgang  was produced between 1995 and 2004 and is still a highly sought after guitar to this day.

This gently used vintage collectible Van Halen Signature Peavey Wolfgang Special guitar offers many of guitar legend Eddie Van Halen’s favorite features for ultimate shredability including an ultra lightweight offset basswood body with belly cut to fit comfortably against your torso and deep cutaways to allow easy access to the highest register of the 22-fret satin finish maple neck. The neck itself is a thing of beauty, with a compound radius fingerboard that facilitates exceptional speed and comfort, and a silky smooth finish that makes it super comfortable to play.

Equipped with two EVH humbucker pickups that deliver an array of hard rock/metal tones including shreddy resonance, amazing sustain and full throttle crunch. The Peavey Wolfgang also has a special Floyd Rose locking tremolo system equipped with a special D-Tuna device that allows you to instantly access a drop-D tuning which Eddie is known to use frequently. With two versatile EVH humbucker pickups and a specially designed Floyd Rose trem with D-Tuna for instant drop tuning, you will be able to play through your entire set without switching your guitar once!