For those of you who have read a few posts around here, it's probably no shocker that I'm a fan of G&L guitars... over the past couple years I've had a handful of ASAT (Classic, Special, Deluxe) and Legacy (Standard, Deluxe) models, and I've still got my original ASAT Classic and Legacy Standard in the studio. Given my recent strange interest in country music, however, I found myself eyeing different ASAT models once again, and jumped at the opportunity for a good deal on a G&L ASAT semi-hollow.
The ASAT semi-hollow is actually more similar to the ASAT Special than ASAT Classic... it's got the larger MFD soapbar-like pickups and saddle-lock bridge; this particular one has a swamp ash body with f-hole (some semi-hollow G&L's have no f-hole, similar to the PRS Custom 22 semi-hollow), rosewood fretboard, tortoise-shell pickguard, and (what I'm guessing to be the) honey finish. As always, the look & feel are top notch...
The tone, much like the other ASAT Specials I've had, is best described as unique... the large MFD pickups don't sound like either traditional single coils or soapbars... they're somewhere in between. Fat, but sterile. Ok, maybe sterile's a strong word, so flat may be more appropriate... somehow they remind me of the EMG single-coil tone (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). The semi-hollow design gives the tone a bit more character than the solidbody ASAT Specials, though, so that's a bonus.
So now the number of guitars in the house considerably exceeds the number of spaces in the guitar racks, so I've gotta unload a few guitars. Of course, with the LIFO (last in, first out) mentality around here, this ASAT and the Legacy Deluxe will probably be the first guitars out the door, but hey... such is the nature of G.A.S.
--B
The ASAT semi-hollow is actually more similar to the ASAT Special than ASAT Classic... it's got the larger MFD soapbar-like pickups and saddle-lock bridge; this particular one has a swamp ash body with f-hole (some semi-hollow G&L's have no f-hole, similar to the PRS Custom 22 semi-hollow), rosewood fretboard, tortoise-shell pickguard, and (what I'm guessing to be the) honey finish. As always, the look & feel are top notch...
The tone, much like the other ASAT Specials I've had, is best described as unique... the large MFD pickups don't sound like either traditional single coils or soapbars... they're somewhere in between. Fat, but sterile. Ok, maybe sterile's a strong word, so flat may be more appropriate... somehow they remind me of the EMG single-coil tone (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). The semi-hollow design gives the tone a bit more character than the solidbody ASAT Specials, though, so that's a bonus.
So now the number of guitars in the house considerably exceeds the number of spaces in the guitar racks, so I've gotta unload a few guitars. Of course, with the LIFO (last in, first out) mentality around here, this ASAT and the Legacy Deluxe will probably be the first guitars out the door, but hey... such is the nature of G.A.S.
--B
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