Key Features
- Ideal for travelling musicians thanks to its compact and comfortable size
- Studio and stage ready due to built-in Q-Discrete electronics
- Clear and powerful sound produced by solid spruce top
- Vintage look offered by denim blue finish and antique brass hardware
Art & Lutherie Roadhouse, Denim Blue Q-Discrete Overview
The Art & Lutherie Roadhouse features an old school vibe for the player with a vintage persona, offering a ninety-five percent Canadian wood construction, a compact and comfortable parlour Roadhouse body, a solid top, and Q-Discrete electronics, provide the travelling player with an ideal companion for taking on the road. With a solid spruce top and 3-layer solid lamination wild cherry back and sides, the Roadhouse produces a rich, full, and versatile sound that is articulate, well-balanced and beautifully resonant.
In addition, the overall tone produced combined with its Roadhouse body accommodates a wide variety of techniques and genres but is particularly well-suited to numerous picking styles while being perfect for roots music, old school blues, and slide techniques. To further enhance this model's perfection, it comes equipped with Q-Discrete electronics, offering basic sound tweaking for live and rehearsal settings. A gigging musician's dream.
Product Ref: 116366
Full Description
View Full DescriptionSculpted for perfection
This model's top has been crafted from a solid spruce, which produces a broad dynamic range with a crisp, articulate tonal output, providing a rich, pleasing sound that only gets better with age. In addition, its top adds to the guitar's rich sonic performance and delivers a focused, clear sound with deep lows, a warm mid-range, and bright singing highs.
Furthermore, its stunning solid top is paired with 3-layer solid lamination wild cherry back and sides, which offers a great tonal output and excellent durability. The Roadhouse's wild cherry solid laminated body projects a tone that falls between the mellow sound of mahogany and the bright tonality of maple. Lastly, the overall tone produced is able to accommodate blues, folk, roots music, slide techniques, and old school pickers as well as medium strength strumming.
Stunning tonewoods
Constructed from silver leaf maple, this model's neck adds a bright tonal output with great sustain to the guitar's overall sound. Additionally, the Roadhouse also features a double action truss rod, which offers stability and relief of the neck. The neck has been topped with a rosewood fingerboard that adds warmth and clarity to the guitar's sound, while providing a smooth, energetic platform for the left hand. Its fingerboard is sprinkled with pearloid dot inlays, providing the player with an authentic and elegant appearance.
Parlour body
The parlour body, perfect for smaller players, blues enthusiasts, and the travelling musician. This authentic-looking parlour is also known to as the Roadhouse, designed to be the ultimate travel companion and offers a balanced, articulate, and resonant sound. Additionally, being compact and comfortable with an entirely new playability, the Roadhouse is perfect for life on the road as and offers easy and incredibly comfortable playability, perfect for long sets and studio sessions. It is also particularly well-suited to a variety of picking techniques.
Ready for stage and studio
To add to the Roadhouse's retro vibe, this model comes equipped with a Q-Discrete preamp system, providing the player with optional amplified performance, perfect for live events and studio sessions. Additionally, the Roadhouse features two stylish, yet authentic-looking, knobs placed on the guitar's top for tone and volume control, providing a vintage aesthetic for the player with a truly retro-vibe.
Specifications
- Product Code: 047079
Body and Bridge
- Top Material: Select Pressure Tested Solid Spruce
- Body Material: Solid Laminated Wild Cherry
- Body Type: Roadhouse - Parlour
- Bridge: Rosewood
- Colour: Denim Blue
Neck and Fingerboard
- Neck Material: Silver Leaf Maple
- Neck Type: Double Action Truss Rod
- Scale Length: 24.85''
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 16''
- Fingerboard Inlay: Pearloid Dot
- Nut: Tusq
- Nut Width: 1.72''
Hardware and Electronics
- Electronics: Q-Discrete
- Hardware Colour: Antique Brass
- Tuning Machines: Open-Gear 18:1 Antique Brass
- Pickguard: Pearloid
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