Key Features
- Bright and punchy delivered from walnut build
- Well-balanced sound produced by Sitka spruce construction
- Perform in comfort thanks to elegant contours and songwriter shape
- Luxurious playability resulting from smooth ebony fingerboard
Gibson Dave Mustaine Songwriter, Ebony Overview
The Gibson Dave Mustaine Songwriter Acoustic is a collaboration between Megadeth's lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist and the iconic production company, Gibson. With a walnut and Sitka spruce construction, this model delivers a bright, yet well-rounded tone. Additionally, its all solid-wood construction provides you with a full sound that accommodates a wide variety of styles and genres. Alongside its beautiful tone, this model offers comfort thanks to its elegant contours and cutaway profile, providing you with a performance ready guitar. The Songwriter comes equipped with an LR Baggs VTC pickup and preamp, ensuring your luscious tones can resonate through venues of all sizes. Perfect for live shows, rehearsals, or studio performances. The ideal sound no matter where you are.
Product Ref: 235130
Full Description
View Full DescriptionBeautiful tonewoods
The Songwriter has been crafted from a combination of walnut and Sitka spruce, which offers a bright and well-rounded tone with excellent sustain. Thanks to its nature, this model allows for it to respond superbly to numerous playing styles and techniques with ease, perfect for getting creative and unleashing true potential. The Songwriter’s neck has been topped with an ebony fingerboard, which adds ringing sustain, plenty of bite, and a bright sizzle to the guitar’s overall tone. Furthermore, on top of the fingerboard sit twenty-four frets, making it the first ever twenty-four fret Gibson acoustic, and providing you with two octaves to perform with.
Ready for stage and studio
This model comes equipped with LR Baggs VTC electronics, making it an idyllic instrument for the performing musician. The addition of a LR Baggs pickup, alongside its matching preamp, ensures the Songwriter’s stunning nuances are faithfully picked-up with optional tone shaping. With all this, the player is able to perform live within multiple venues and studio environments, as well as being able to tune the guitar on-the-go, whether plugged-in or acoustically.
Megadeth's Mustaine
A metal icon. Known primarily as the frontman and founding member for the pioneering metal band Megadeth, Mustaine has hard metal in his veins. Featuring guitar driven, energetic melodies, and thrilling solos, Megadeth’s music has been distilled down into one frighteningly powerful guitar. And after selling millions of albums worldwide and winning a Grammy award, you can trust Dave to know a thing or two about high-performance guitars.
Specifications
- Product Code: AMSSDMEB
Body and Bridge
- Style: Square Shoulder
- Shape: Songwriter
- Body Material: Walnut
- Top Material: Sitka Spruce
- Back/Side Material: Walnut
- Bracing: Traditional Hand Scalloped Advanced X-Bracing
- Binding: Single-Ply
- Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose
- Bridge: Traditional Belly Up, Ebony
Neck and Fingerboard
- Neck Profile: Advanced Response
- Neck Joint: Compound Dovetail Neck to Body, Hot Hide Glue
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Fingerboard Radius: 16”
- Frets: 24 Standard
- Inlays: Mother of Pearl Teeth
- Scale Length: 24.75”
- Nut: TUSQ
- Nut Width: 43.82mm
- Truss Rod: Adjustable
- Truss Rod Cover: 2-Ply Black/White w/ Dave Mustaine Signature
Hardware and Electronics
- Pickup: LR Baggs VTC
- Preamp: LR Baggs VTC
- Controls: Volume and Tone
- Output Jack: ¼” Endpin Jack
- Pickguard: Black Modified Songwriter w/ Vic Rattlehead Artwork
- Bridge Pins: TUSQ
- Saddle Material: TUSQ
- Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatic
- String Gauges: 0.12, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053
- Case: Custom Hardshell Case
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