Alvarez AD70WCE Artist Dreadnought Acoustic/Electric 2019 Natural/Gloss

The Alvarez Artist 70 series is an acoustic built to the highest quality and optimised for precise, powerful sound. Its quality materials and clever design result in a reliable, balanced guitar. The combination of solid Sitka Spruce top and Walnut body and neck produce a lively, punchy and warm tone. This acoustic electric model is fitted with the LR Baggs StagePro EQ and Element pick up to optimize live performance.

After 50 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes. Our tone woods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively sound box.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

We believe our multi award winning Artist Series is one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today and demonstrates our commitment to design.

The term “solid top” of course refers to the soundboard of an acoustic guitar being made of solid wood, rather than being laminated. However, just because the top is solid, it does not necessarily mean the sound automatically benefits from this feature. The tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out if its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FST2 bracing system, bi-level rosewood bridge, real bone nut and saddle, great quality tone woods and thin finish.

FST2 is a forward shifted X brace design, this means the axis of the X is closer to the sound hole and therefore creates a larger soundboard area allowing for more energy and vibration to be harnessed. Both the X braces and asymmetric tone bars are carefully scalloped. The scalloping design was the result of years of continual development in our Yairi workshops.

The Artist Series sound and personality is open and powerful. FST2 also creates very good balance so both the treble and bass registers are clearly present and balanced in relation to each other.

Series – Alvarez Artist
Top Wood – Solid A+ Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides Wood – Walnut
Shape – Dreadnought w/ Cutaway
Neck – Mahogany
Bracing System – FST2M - Forward Shifted, Scalloped X
Bridge – Bi-Level Rosewood / Pau Ferro
Inlays – Abalone & Mother of Pearl
Fingerboard – Rosewood, Rosewood / Pau Ferro
Nut & Saddle – Real Bone
Tuner – Premium Die Cast
Binding – Ivory ABS
Strings – D'Addario EXP16
Pickup / EQ – LR Baggs StagePro EQ and Element Pick Up