![]() ![]() ![]() Price wise, bearing in mind where they’re made, there’s not a huge disparity. So, in contrast to the Acoustasonic, we have a fully functioning dual-humbucking electric ‘semi’ that you can switch to acoustic-only or blend that sound with either or both magnetic pickups. This new Piezo version is identical to the earlier SE Hollowbody II save for some subtly upgraded cosmetics – figured maple binding instead of cream plastic and posher multi-coloured shell bird inlays as opposed to just pearloid – and, of course, the piezo addition. (Image credit: Future / Neil Godwin)īut as you’ll know, the SE range is about affordability and the SE Hollowbody models, made in the same Chinese factory PRS uses for its start-up acoustic range, combine an old-school laminate construction that’s mainly hollow with a block under the bridge connecting top to back. The acoustic-style pin bridge of Fender’s Acoustasonic Strat houses one of three onboard pickups. Other more solidbody piezo-equipped PRSes have been and gone over the years and today there’s just the solidbody Custom 22 and 24 Piezo models augmenting the single piezo-loaded Hollowbody II in the line-up. PRS’s USA-made Hollowbody models date back to the late 90s and were the first platform for the co-designed piezo system. Along with their shapes, they’re a little different in terms of the sounds they offer.īut both Acoustasonics shoot for a much more acoustic-like experience from a solidbody-sized platform, and instead of offering one acoustic sound – like the PRS – we have a host of digitally achieved acoustic sounds accessed from the five-way lever Voice Selector switch and the rotary Mod knob, which allows you to morph the sound pairs or add a little grit to the lone magnetic pickup in front of the bridge. Fender’s Acoustasonic platform launched in 2019 with the Telecaster version of this 2020 Stratocaster model. ![]() Instead, it’s the acoustic sound and how it’s implemented with the magnetic electric voices that we want to focus on here. It’s not our intention to re-review either guitar. (Image credit: Future / Neil Godwin) Setting The Scene So, two very different ways of taking on the electric/acoustic challenge and a battle of styles, too, in terms of the ways they are achieved by the two leading lights in acoustic guitar transducer and amplification technology: Fishman and LR Baggs.Įach position of the Acoustasonic’s five-way Voice Selector offers two sounds that can be selected individually or morphed together by the lower Mod knob. Where both models score is in their ability to blend between electric and acoustic in a single instrument It’s effectively a slightly souped-up version with a piezo system that’s designed in conjunction with LR Baggs, like PRS’s long running piezo option for its USA Hollowbody. The Chinese-made SE Hollowbody II and lower-priced Standard appeared at the end of 2019 (we looked at both back in issue 456) but this new Piezo version launched mid-year. That’s in sharp contrast to the brand-new PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo. Now, we looked at the Fender USA’s Acoustasonic Stratocaster back in issue 458: a solidbody-sized acoustic with complex electronics (again created by Larry Fishman’s team) with a couple of magnetic electric sounds. On review here we have two radically different yet very mainstream hybrids, both released this year. The beauty of the PRS SE is the easy drive, with volume and tone for the magnetic side and just volume for the piezo. ![]()
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