NAMM 2024: “Designed to have a broader tonal range”: Magneto Guitars launches the Velvet Deluxe, a lightweight Les Paul-flavored electric guitar that aims to elevate single-cut tone

NAMM 2024: “Designed to have a broader tonal range”: Magneto Guitars launches the Velvet Deluxe, a lightweight Les Paul-flavored electric guitar that aims to elevate single-cut tone

Magneto Guitars will be showcasing its newest construct, the exquisite-sounding Velvet Deluxe at NAMM 2024A redesign of the Velvet Custom, it has actually been developed to use a light-weight 24 3/4″-scale set-neck guitar with pickups customized for tidy and overdriven tones in equivalent procedure.

African Mahogany comprises its body, which likewise includes a chambered top, and neck, whilst a rosewood fretboard boasting Magneto’s signature rhombus inlays. A neck-to-body shift was thoroughly shaped to increase access to the greater stresses.

A bone nut remains in location to provide a higher tonal action, with fat and focused mids when driven well balanced with adequate treble to serve timeless tone chasers the goal of the video game here. Aiding with that are its own-brand Metro Pole MAC-5 humbuckerswhich are wound around Alnico 5 magnets for additional abundant harmonics and water-tight bass action.

Its 14 ° angle headstock sports Grover tuners with 3 control knobs for tone, volume and a three-way pickup switch position on the body. It appears to buy in May and can be found in Magneto’s just recently included silk surfaces, that include metal green, sweet apple red, metal orange and sundown gold.

French shop guitar home builders Magneto Guitars have a flair for making stunning guitars, with its Starlux design producing among NAMM 2023’s coolest-looking hollowbody guitars. The Velvet Deluxe continues that custom.

Far, Magneto has actually developed signature guitars for Eric Gales and the sought-after nation guitar player Andy G Jones (Van Morrison, Cliff Richard, James Ingram). Flexible string bender Perry Stenbäck is likewise among its lineup of artists.

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The company was established in 2009 when guitar designer and maker Christian Hatstatt partnered with Japan-based luthiers to construct a brand-new series of premium six-strings that do not spend a lot. Its other luxurious designs come in around the $1,000 rate mark, so we anticipate the Velvet Deluxe to cost.

You can discover its extremely first Velvet Deluxe designs showed NAMM 2024, with Magneto situated at the Lyon and Healy Corporation cubicle Nr. 5314.

Head to Magneto Guitars to learn more, and maintain to date with the most recent instrument, amp and pedal releases in the accumulation to NAMM 2024 through our guide to the most recent NAMM 2024 news

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