![]() D’Angelico’s signature design language is present here in spades, with gold hardware joining a flame maple top, back and sides to dial up the luxury even further. That’s not to say the guitar is a rejection of the old-school semi-hollow, however – far from it. WATCH NOW: Daniel Donato tells us about his approach to playing and why he likes D’Angelicos.The semi-hollow construction also makes this gain-friendly than you might think, and the shallow C neck carve will happily be sped across by the more aggressive player. ![]() The inverse is an option, too, with the neck humbucker excelling at warm yet articulate jazz voicings and the bridge pickup bringing the bite when split. 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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