When you look at the cost of groceries, health care, or even housing, it is clear that we live in an expensive time. But fortunately for guitar players, the price of great new instruments has never been lower.
Studio 1 Vintage Guitars provides impressive quality at a budget-friendly price.
Scale Length
The guitar’s scale length defines the distance between the nut and the bridge saddle, the points at which the strings vibrate to produce sound. Longer scale lengths sound brighter, with higher overtone clarity and tighter low-end response. They require more string tension, which can make them harder to bend but improves intonation.
On the other hand, shorter scale lengths can offer a more slinky feel and make it easier to fret notes and press the strings down. They can also benefit from higher gauge strings, which give them a bit of extra “oomph” to overcome the increased string tension.
The most accurate way to measure a guitar’s scale length is to measure from the centre of the nut to the 12th fret, then double that number. But, as always, the individual player’s skill and technique make the most difference in how a guitar sounds. And, of course, the right strings make all the difference!
Body & Neck
The neck of a guitar contains the fretboard and headstock and a metal truss rod that prevents it from bowing and twisting due to string tension and environmental factors. The neck also has a sound hole and bridge, which transmits string vibrations to the guitar’s top to create its overall tone quality. For quality Studio 1 Vintage Guitars, check this out.
A guitar’s neck profile is a personal preference, and each has its feel in the hand. Determining how a neck will feel before buying can be challenging, but knowing your playing style and what you’ll be using the guitar for can help narrow down your options.
Fret size is another important consideration. The larger the frets, the easier it is to play chords and use vibrato and string bends (soloing techniques). Smaller frets can be tricky to press down with enough force to create a note without going out of tune. A medium fret size, or medium jumbo’, is typically seen as the standard.
Hardware
When a guitarist wants a guitar that sounds old and beaten up, it is relatively easy to take some old hardware and put it on a new guitar. However, this can add up to a significant cost.
JHS realised they could produce world-class electric and acoustic guitars at much more affordable prices, and the ‘Vintage ICON Series’ was born.
This included the double cutaway AV6, loaded with a trio of Wilkinson W90SK stacked soap bar pickups and the now classic Vintage(tm) ‘roll control’. This allows each pickup to be rolled back from its humbucker output into single coil mode for great sonic versatility.
Sound
Vintage guitars have earned a reputation for sound quality that punched well above their price tag. Guided by a highly proactive team within JHS(r) located in Garforth, Leeds, the Vintage research and development line of acoustic, electro-acoustic, hollow-bodied electric and bass guitars has stayed on track and maintained consistency.
The evolution of the Studio 1 Vintage Gent library delivers a collection of tones perfect for all styles of music, from contemporary pop, rock and jazz to dance, funk and hip hop. The guitar’s matched woods create a rich, balanced tone that resonates and projects with exceptional clarity. For quality Studio 1 Vintage Guitars, check this out.
The instrument features a wide selection of strummed patterns, picked arpeggios and riffs with the ability to tweak each pattern’s length, timing offset, articulation and fret position. This flexibility means you can match the guitar to your playing style.
Studio 1 Vintage Guitars
A powerful, versatile engine delivering a massive library of strummed and picked patterns and arpeggios. Tweak pattern length, timing offset, articulation and fret position for unlimited creative combinations.
2020 saw Vintage’s Winter NAMM and Frankfurt Musikmesse launches raise eyebrows with music magazines and players alike. The V100MRPG’ doffed its cap’, as Guitar and Bass said then, to an iconic workhorse guitar.