Superb Semi-hollowbody Electric From Godin
The Godin Montreal Premiere semi-hollowbody electric guitar gives you the versatility you need for serious genre hopping. It sports an innovative "breathe-through" carved-spruce core nestled inside its Canadian wild cherry body, giving it a distinctively resonant, organic tone that gets pumped out to your amp by two Seymour Duncan custom humbuckers. But the major news here is that this axe is packing an integrated piezo pickup system that gives you access to a huge range of organic acoustic guitar tones. If you've been wanting a semi-hollowbody guitar with top-quality tonewoods, appointments, and craftsmanship, the Godin Montreal Premiere deserves your serious consideration.
Premium Seymour Duncan humbuckers
For the Montreal Premiere, Godin went to the guitar pickup gurus — Seymour Duncan. The Custom Custom SH-11p humbucker in the bridge position combines medium-hot output with the warmth of an Alnico 2 bar magnet, for beautifully fat, snarling tone with singing highs and creamy lows. The Custom Custom delivers the complex midrange harmonics of a hotter pickup for low-midrange crunch that brings your chords to life, while its fat treble response gives your solos a sweet, round, soaring quality. In the neck position, Godin chose a Seymour Duncan Jazz SH-2N; a bright, incredibly versatile, vintage-output humbucker that retains clarity even when your playing with extreme high gain. The SH-2N uses an Alnico 5 bar magnet and special coil winding that give it glassy treble response and a tight yet full bottom end, while scooped mids help maintain excellent note definition, even with heavily distorted high-speed picking.
Canadian wild cherry delivers a sweet sound like no other
When people see you holding your Godin Montreal Premiere semi-hollowbody electric guitar, chances are, they're going to assume it cost a fortune. That's because the unique grain and highly variegated figuring of its Canadian wild cherry top, back, and sides look like some exotic wood you only see in guitar collectors magazines (or on the pricier guitars here in Sweetwater's Guitar Gallery). And once you play it, it's hard to convince anyone how little you spent on this magnificent instrument. The fact is, the choice of this abundant, rapidly renewable, and gorgeous tonewood comes at absolutely no expense to the sound of the Godin Montreal Premiere; in fact, it's one of the things that makes it so special.
Montreal Premiere archtops combine vintage class with modern precision
Godin's entire archtop lineup has been popular from the first and steadily catching fire ever since. That's because Godin is making quality guitars from premium materials and sound construction techniques; and offering them at a more than reasonable price. This goes doubly for guitars such as the Godin Montreal Premiere, whose archtop nature relies on an impressive balance of tension and tonewood characteristics. The result is a guitar that looks like it wandered straight out of the mid twentieth century, but with the optimized sonics and playability of a state-of-the-art 21st-century instrument.
Godin Montreal Premiere Semi-hollowbody Electric Guitar Features:
- Canadian wild cherry top, back, and sides; gloss finish
- Breathe-through carved spruce core
- LR Baggs T-Bridge, Graphtech Resomax tailpiece
- Bridge pickup: Seymour Duncan Custom Custom SH-11p
- Neck pickup: Seymour Duncan Jazz SH-2N
- 3-way pickup selector
- Master Volume and Tone controls
- 3-way Piezo switch (on/mix/off)
- Piezo Volume control
- Silver Leaf Maple neck; gloss finish
- Richlite fingerboard, 12-inch radius, Dot inlays
- 24.75-inch scale length; 22 frets
- 1.72-inch Graphtech TUSQ nut
- Tuners: 18:1 Bass side, 26:1 Treble side
- Factory strings: D'Addario 10–46
- Dual-action truss rod
