Godin LGXT Solid Body 3-Voice Electric Guitar (Cognac Burst AAA) Review
Godin LGXT Solid Body 3-Voice Electric Guitar (Cognac Burst AAA) Feature
- Honduras mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and offset dot inlays
- Seymour Duncan SH II Jazz / Custom III humbuckers with five-way toggle, volume, tone
- On-board custom RMC preamp for acoustic sounds and 13-pin synth tracking for guitar synth use
- Godin front-loaded locking tuners and tremolo bridge
- Silver leaf maple with flamed figured maple top
Godin's LGXT delivers a combination of electric guitar sounds, acoustic guitar sounds, and fast guitar synth tracking. It's a well-equipped electric to begin with, boasting Seymour Duncan humbuckers and a tremolo bridge. Godin takes it further with an on-board acoustic preamp and 13-pin synth output, effectively making the arsenal of sounds at your disposal unlimited.
Maple/Poplar Construction
As on most Godin models, a blend of tone-woods is used to construct the LGXT. The body is made of a silver leaf maple center with poplar wings and a figured maple carved top.
Neck Fit/Pitch
The angle of the neck attachment--called pitch--has a huge impact on sound. A slight tilt forward will cause the guitar to sound boomy, and a slight tilt backwards can make the guitar sound tinny. Equally important is the fit of the neck into the body. Godin guitars are renowned for tight-fitting neck attachments that support excellent neck/body energy transfer and precise neck pitch.
Mahogany Neck
Honduras Mahogany has a long history as the tone-wood of choice for acoustic guitar necks. The same properties that give mahogany its appeal for acoustic guitars--namely a warm, harmonically rich sound--have a similar effect in a solid body electric. The LGXT neck features Godin's Ergocut shaping technique, which bevels the edges of the fingerboard and frets back in towards the center of the fingerboard, providing an extremely comfortable "worn-in" feel.
The ebony fingerboard on the LGXT not only contributes to a more focused sound, but also helps to optimize the guitar's synth tracking capabilities.
Electric Voices
The LGXT delivers electric sounds via two Seymour Duncan humbucker pick-ups (SH II jazz in the neck and a Custom III in the bridge). Thanks to a special 5-way switch set-up, extra meaty humbucker tones co-exist with glassy single-coil sounds in the second and forth position.
Acoustic and Synth Voices
Turn down the electric volume and raise the volume on the transducer saddles and the LGXT becomes an incredibly authentic-sounding "acoustic" guitar. The acoustic voice of the LGXT is enhanced by an onboard preamp with a three-way graphic EQ. The two outputs are set up so that the electric and acoustic voices can be blended in the guitar using a single patch cord, or at the amp/mixer using both outputs.
The third voice on the LGXT comes in the form of its synth tracking, for which Godin is renowned. As with all of Godin synth-ready instruments, a built-in 13-pin connector provides direct access to all Roland GR-Series synths, as well as most other 13-pin devices.
LGXT Specs
- Body: Silver Leaf Maple
- Top: Figured Maple
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Fingerboard Radius: 16"
- Frets: Medium Nickel
- Scale: 25 1/2"
- Nut: Tusq by Graphtech
- Nut Width: 1 11/16"
- Pickups: Seymour Duncan SH II Jazz / Custom III
- Electric Controls: Five-Way Switch, Volume, Tone
- Synth Controls: Three-Way Switch, Assignable Momentary Switch
- Acoustic Preamp: Custom RMC With Three-Band EQ
- Outputs: Magnetic, 13-pin Synth, X-Bridge/Mix
- Tuners: Front-Loaded Locking Tuners
- Bridge: Hexophonic Transducers with Custom Godin Preamp
- Finish: Cognac Burst
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