Question:
I almost bought one of the with Synth Access. They have excellent piezo type pickups to round out the tone of the guitar plus regular pu's. They are a very good guitar and a good value, generally speaking. But I don't really think of these as jazz guitars. It's very versatile, but if you are looking for something that will produce tone that has Jazz stamped into it, I don't think the Godin is one.Any comment?
Answer:
I'm not sure what model you're talking about. (Jazz guitar to me always implies an archtop, and I'm not aware of any in Godin's line.) But Robert Godin makes some incredible instruments. I heard him talk last fall at my local dealer - Northridge Music in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento, CA. Very impressive speaker, BTW. He's a tinkerer, and he's come up with some interesting and innovative methods of mass producing some very well-built, great sounding guitars. The overall company is called LaSiDo and they make several different lines. I'm not sure I've got all this right, but here are most of them, with over-generalized (and possibly incorrect) descriptions: Seagull - lower priced steel string guitars Simon & Patrick - higher priced steel string guitars Art of Lutherie - nylon string guitars Godin - electrics, (some with nylon strings!) including some very innovative semi-acoustic instruments and guitars designed specifically for guitar-synth and MIDI applications. I think there are also some guitars bearing the parent company's label LaSiDo, but I don't remember what category they fall into. I've played an awful lot of their guitars, and been very consistently impressed by their quality and their sound. I own a Simon & Patrick Quilted Maple Pro as my only steel-string, and the next axe I buy might very well be a Godin LGX-SA. Several of the Godin models are synth-ready, meaning that they have a special pickup that is compatible with the 13-pin Roland GK-2A pickups. (The LGX-SA is one of these - SA stands for synth access.) These have a reputation for being the cleanest, best-tracking, glitch-free synth-compatible guitars you can buy. (Although they don't seem to be compatible with the Axon processor for some reason - or at least they weren't the last I heard.) BTW, I don't have any connection with the company besides having bought one of their guitars and having met the owner. :
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