Game Of Tones

The rundown of the Player’s sounds

Each position here has A and B voicings you can mix with the Blend Knob. 3A and 3B are a small body mahogany short scale and a boomier rosewood dreadnought. We’d absolutely concur with those descriptions and it covers the main types of tone most acoustic players will want. From there the lines begin to blur and dirt is added to the undersaddle pickup for 2A and 2B’s Lo-fi Clean and Lo-fi Crunch voices. They’re more eclectic and acoustic, respectively, and actually sound like a mix of the two pickup sources even though they’re technically not. We found a blend of the two receptive to light Klon-style drive that is useful in a band mix. Voices 1A and 1B are all on the Tim Shaw-designed Noiseless single-coil pickup. A clean and a dirtier ‘Fat’ tone. This is a warmer, earthier single-coil tone than you might expect but we really like it and actually spent a lot of time blending for blues and Americana there – it also never feels abrupt to switch from the other voices to it.