Alvarez MG66CE shadowburst Masterworks Grand Auditorium
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MSRP $ 1,639.00
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sku# MG66ce_Shadowburst
The MG66ce is beautiful and powerful yet understated, with clean lines and minimal decoration. This design language allows the beautiful solid African mahogany top to take center stage, shimmering under a flawless gloss finish.
Sonically, this guitar is everything you would expect from an all-solid Grand Auditorium mahogany body. It has been designed to deliver a strong and articulate voicing, instant response and more open projection than is normally associated with hardwood tops. Bass frequencies are clear and robust, and the mahogany delivers strong, woody tones with lots of middle frequency, sparkling trebles and boundless energy, making this guitar a joy to play.
This cutaway model allows for easy access up the neck and is fitted with the LR Baggs HiFi system.
About the Alvarez Masterworks Series
Making a guitar from all-solid wood delivers strong tonal benefits, and they approach the design of Masterworks to embrace all of them. Top thickness, brace weight and tapering, back design and wood choice all count, and when each is considered as a part of the sum total of the instrument’s voice, great articulation and quality of tone is achieved.
Their FS6 bracing system is a forward-shifted, scalloped X allowing for a slightly larger soundboard area around the bridge. This helps generate more vibration, which is heightened by AAA soundboards and premium components throughout, culminating in powerful voicing, inspiring articulation and instant response.
Masterworks acoustic-electric models are fitted with the LR Baggs HiFi system. HiFi is a premium, non-invasive design that pairs dual bridge plate sensors with high-fidelity electronics, providing exceptional balance, definition and dynamics. Due to the closed sensor design, HiFi also has excellent feedback resistance and its built-in, studio-quality preamp is voiced to compliment the pickups for an optimal plug-and-play experience.
All Masterworks ship with our durable AFC30 Flexicase.
The Alvarez Approach to the Build
All of their solid tops are selected by the Alvarez team and graded independently of their suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, it isn’t used. Their laminated backs and sides are uniquely constructed with Mahogany as the middle layer, and their inner and outer layers are always matched.
Artist Elite guitars strike the right balance between strength and vibration, crafting a voice to both inspire and give players “tools in the tone.” Alongside this approach to development lies their respect for sourcing, preparation and nurturing the wood they use to make the guitars. No matter how considered design may be, it can only be as good as the wood they use to realize them.
Their all-solid wood tops, backs and sides, as well as the mahogany used for their necks, go through a curing process developed over years to create stability, strength and tonal benefits. Depending on the wood and its use, this process takes many months or even years for some of our models.
After months-long seasoning, they perform an extra drying stage in thermo-kilns to further enhance wood stability and improve resonance. They call this process ATR—Advanced Tonal Response. ATR™ is a form of torrefaction—oxygen controlled, vacuum curing at special temperatures to remove more moisture and volatiles such as saps and sugars from the wood.
This does two things:
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ATR™ makes the wood more stable when exposed to adverse dry or humid climates. While they can’t stop the effects of dryness or moisture saturation that can damage guitars, ATR™ goes a long way in helping their guitars become more resilient. Guitars will move or change according to the environment they are in and are more likely to move within the first two years from their production. A guitar usually becomes drier as it ages; this is one of the reasons why players often like the sound of an older guitar. ATR™ advances the natural, post-build drying process so the wood behaves as if it were more mature, stable, and resonant from the first day it is used.
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The effects of ATR™ are also audible in the instrument. The biggest difference is the clarity and separation between notes and the overall response of the guitar. As the top is drier, it’s also quicker, more resonant, more open, even louder. New guitars can sometimes take time to reach this state as the wood dries over the years. ATR accelerates this effect to deliver a more sophisticated and complex voicing from day one.
The Alvarez caring approach to development comes from one unwavering goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point—instruments of a truly remarkable value that offer an unparalleled player experience.
Key Features
- Top Wood Solid African Mahogany
- Back and Sides Wood Solid African Mahogany
- Top Color Shadowburst/Gloss
- Back & Sides Color Natural/Gloss
- Headstock Facia East Indian Rosewood
- Bridge Pins Ebony
- Shape Grand Auditorium
- Neck African Mahogany
- Case or Bag AFC30
- Bracing FS6
- Bridge Bi-Level Indian Rosewood
- Inlays Premium MOP
- Fingerboard East Indian Rosewood
- Nut and Saddle Bone
- Tuner Premium Open Gear
- Bridge Pins Ebony
- Strings D'Addario XTAPB1274
- Neck Meets Body 14th Fret
- Number of Frets 21
- Pickup / EQ LR Baggs HiFi
DIMENSIONS
- Overall Length (mm)1035
- Body Width (mm)404
- Body Depth at Heel (mm)96
- Body Depth at Base (mm)120
- Scale (mm)648
- Scale (inches)25 1/2
- Nut Width (mm)44,45
- Nut Width (inches)1 3/4