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Key Features
The Art & Lutherie Legacy 12 CW QIT is an ideal companion for the performing 12-string player craving a solid top with a distinct, vintage-vibe. With a solid spruce top and solid laminated wild cherry back and sides, the 12 CW delivers a clear, versatile, articulate, and powerful tone with a subtle hint of brightness, superb sustain, and strong mid-range. This model also features Aa concert hall cutaway body, which provides a balanced and defined sound whilst offering comfort and easy access to upper frets.
The Legacy also comes equipped with a Godin Q1T preamp system, offering a custom voiced preamp with an on-board tuner for an outstanding amplified performance. This rich-sounding electro acoustic also offers a vintage appearance via its stunning bourbon burst finish, pearloid pickguard, and antique brass tuners, perfect for the gigging or recording 12-string player with a vintage vibe.
Product Ref: 116365
With a concert hall body and cutaway profile, the Legacy 12 CW offers an incredibly comfortable playing experience with a balanced and articulate response. In addition, its body offers superb playability with a vintage feel, perfect for the player craving an old school look blended with comfort. For an added comfort, the Legacy comes designed with a cutaway profile, which offers an easy access to upper frets, allowing more technical abilities to be performed higher up the fingerboard with ease.
Not only does it offer comfort, but it also provides an excellent tone. The concert hall body produces a wonderfully articulate range of tones with an incredibly balanced response, accommodating a wide variety of techniques and genres. The overall tone produced is versatile and rich with a bright, articulate sound, whilst projecting bell-like tones with plenty of depth, complexity, resonance and sustain. Furthermore, it also accommodates fingerpicking techniques particularly well, while also being ideal for medium strength strumming and as a vocal accompaniment.
This model features a solid spruce top, 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, the 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.
This stunning solid top is attached to 3-layer solid lamination wild cherry back and sides, offering a great tonal output and durability. It also features a wild cherry laminate body, which projects a tone that falls between the mellow sound of mahogany and the bright tonality of maple. The overall sound produced is able to accommodate blues, folk, and old school pickers as well as medium strength strumming.
Constructed from silver leaf maple, this model's neck adds a bright tonal output with great sustain to the guitar's overall sound. The Legacy also features a double action truss rod, which offers stability and relief of the neck. With mahogany's incredible response, the player is certain to adore the 12-string's superb ringing sustain and subtle nuances that are projected beautifully. 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. It is sprinkled with pearloid dot inlays, providing the player with an authentic and elegant appearance.
In order to further enhance this model, it comes designed with Godin Q1T electronics. The Art & Lutherie Legacy 12 CW is perfect for the gigging guitarist, performing singer/songwriter, and recording musician. Simply plug-in to an acoustic amplifier or PA system and listen to the distinct, rich, and robust sound fill a venue beautifully.
The Godin Q1T preamp has been specifically contoured and voiced for the Legacy to ensure a rich and natural amplified performance. It features retro-inspired rotary controls for volume, bass, and treble, allowing you to add extra sonic-characteristics to their amplified sound. You're also certain to benefit from the preamp's built-in tuner, offering quick and easy tuning on-the-go.