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ALVAREZ ARTIST AD30CE ARTIST 30 SERIES DREADNOUGHT ELECTRIC, NATURAL SATIN FINISH

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The AD30 is our entry-level solid top but it’s anything but entry-level in terms of quality, tone and finish. Incredible sound and value. This acoustic electric model is fitted with our B-BAND SYS250 EQ with built in backlit tuner.


After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

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The AD30 is our entry-level solid top but it’s anything but entry-level in terms of quality, tone and finish. Incredible sound and value. This acoustic electric model is fitted with our B-BAND SYS250 EQ with built in backlit tuner.

After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

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The AD30 is our entry-level solid top but it’s anything but entry-level in terms of quality, tone and finish. Incredible sound and value. This acoustic electric model is fitted with our B-BAND SYS250 EQ with built in backlit tuner.

After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

We believe our multi award winning Artist Series is one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today and demonstrates our commitment to design.

The term “solid top” of course refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FST2 bracing system, bi-level rosewood bridge, real bone nut and saddle, great quality tone woods and thin finish.

FST2 is a forward shifted X brace design, this means the axis of the X is closer to the sound hole and therefore creates a larger soundboard area allowing for more energy and vibration to be harnessed. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are carefully scalloped. The scalloping design was the result of years of continual development in our Yairi workshops.

The Artist Series sound and personality is open and powerful. FST2 also creates very good balance so both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other.

Artist Series feel right and are exciting to play; no matter if you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For power, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a Cedar top.

All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. Top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models but all are stiff and finely grained.

Along with a more angled headstock, our bi-level bridge increases string tension by making the break angel of the strings from the saddle to the top more acute. Improved string tension adds to our sound, feel and response, which are also heightened by the use of real bone nuts and saddles.

Artist Series also demonstrates our great finishing capabilities; the gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible, again to help optimize tone.

Thank you for choosing Alvarez.


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AD30CE

ARTIST 30 SERIES DREADNOUGHT ELECTRIC, NATURAL SATIN FINISH

KEY FEATURES

Series
Alvarez Artist
 
Top Wood
Solid A Sitka Spruce
 
Back & Sides Wood
Mahogany
 
Shape
Dreadnought w/ Cutaway
 
Neck
Mahogany, 50/50 Semi gloss finish
 
Bracing System
FST2
 
Bridge
Techwood
 
Fingerboard
Techwood
 
Nut & Saddle
Real Bone
 
Tuner
Chrome, Die Cast
 
Binding
Black ABS
 
Strings
D'Addario EXP16
 
Pickup / EQ
SYS250

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