Fender Highway Series Parlor, Rosewood Fingerboard, Natural

Description

The Highway Series Parlor model is an innovative guitar design that combines the playability of the Parlor model with the comfort and portability that come from reducing the guitar's body depth. Although the feel when holding the guitar is compact, the solid tonewoods deliver a full unplugged sound, and the guitar is equipped with a Fishman Fluence pickup system that is tailor-made for use on stage. The body has a genuine X-braced soundbox, and a special bolt-on mahogany neck that ensures stability on stage.

The Highway Parlor is certainly playable unplugged, but it truly comes into its own on stage. Its thin body naturally suppresses feedback and delivers a professional and pristine sound when amplified. In addition, it works well with pedals, which opens up the possibility to play and experiment with the guitar's tone.

The Fender Highway Series Parlor has a spruce top while the back and sides are made of mahogany. The warm and soft attack of the mahogany complements the parlor model's tone, and the spruce top ensures that the tone is bright and present.

The Highway Series body shape borrows design elements from Fender's Acoustasonic series. Just like the Acoustasonic guitars, the Highway model works well on stage and naturally suppresses annoying feedback! Due to its feedback-suppressing properties, the Highway Parlor can function at much higher volumes than a traditional electro-acoustic guitar can.

The renowned Fishman Fluence pickup system gives you access to a world-class electro-acoustic tone; without noise or hum. The Fluence pickup system is uniquely optimized for the various Fender Highway Series body shapes. And where conventional bar-shaped pickups capture the strings' movements in a straight, uniform line across all six strings. The curvature of the Fluence Acoustic system ensures that the string vibrations are captured individually for each string, and you get a soundhole pickup that is more discreet than the usual square soundhole pickup. The 100% analog pickup is controlled with top-mounted controls so you can quickly adjust the sound on stage.

The Fluence Acoustic system's contour knob gives you access to make thorough EQ adjustments. You get two basic settings that can be nuanced with the tone control. Voice 1 offers a "natural" acoustic guitar sound with full bass that is an ideal setting for singers/songwriters. While Voice 2 has a more restrained bass with more clarity in the highs and a more powerful midrange. This tighter voice works well with a band and is also fantastic for soloing or getting the best sound out of pedals.

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