Fender Acoustasonic® Player Jazzmaster, Rosewood Fingerboard, Antique Olive

Description

Fender Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster gives you immediate and affordable access to the hybrid world of the Acoustasonic series. Its solid spruce and mahogany body delivers an impressive acoustic voice that can be sent to an amplifier or PA via the Player Jazzmaster’s piezo pickup. When you need a more powerful sound, you can switch to the Acoustasonic Shawbucker pickup, allowing you to go from folk and bluegrass flatpicking to fat rock and soul in an instant. A blend control lets you mix these two ends of the tonal spectrum to get the best of both the acoustic and electric worlds in a single guitar. Add the Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster’s modern “Deep C” neck profile and the guitar’s comfortably shaped offset body, and you get effortless playability that a typical dreadnought guitar simply does not offer.

For the Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster, Fender has developed a specially calibrated Acoustasonic Shawbucker pickup with a higher output than the standard Shawbucker, which is necessary due to the Acoustasonic guitar’s unique body construction. The Acoustasonic Shawbucker features magnetic pole pieces that are factory-set from the rear and compensated to work with bronze strings. This calibration allows the Shawbucker to produce a clean electric tone that is convincing and surprising given that it comes from an acoustic instrument. When you connect it to an amplifier and experiment with the blend control, you will be greeted by a tone that ranges from fat and clean to something that would sound just as good blasting through a 4×12” cabinet.

Fender has done a fantastic job of translating the style and playability of the iconic Jazzmaster into an instrument as sophisticated as the Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster. Its playability is an outstanding compromise between styles. From the familiar offset body to its rosewood-finished Modern Deep “C” neck, everything about this guitar is familiar, so you will feel right at home.

If you are looking for a more traditional acoustic tone, you can access the Fender Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster’s piezo pickup and get a nuanced and resonant acoustic tone created by the guitar’s beautiful solid grand top and mahogany back and sides. It is the perfect complement to the guitar’s Acoustasonic Shawbucker and is capable of giving you a rich and organic tone. But if you feel like experimenting, the blend control allows you to borrow the best elements from this guitar’s six electric and acoustic tonal settings, which you can access via the three-way switch.

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