JAZZ MUSIC

Cheap Archtop Guitar with a Great Pickup?

I’m a fingerstyle jazz, blues, and rock guitarist – and I am starting to get into archtop guitars, but wondered – I don’t want to spend $2,000 just to see if this is the style of guitar I want to play. I loved playing an Eastman I saw recently but it was a LOT of money – however, a bunch of different folks in the store immediately asked where I would be gigging – it seemed the right sound.

Wondered – if I get a cheap Harmony archtop and add something like a high-end Benedetto pickup – would it sound great or would it be too much of a compromise? What are your thoughts on the pickup vs the guitar materials in an archtop. Thanks for any thoughts.

When I look for a guitar, I play it without being plugged in, to hear the natural tone coming from the guitar. Compare the cheap ones to the expensive ones. See what type of woods are in both. If they use similar types of wood, then go ahead and buy the cheaper one, (assuming it was comfortable to play and you did enough research on the guitar company or guitar model to see what people say about it)… then just change the pickups to something you prefer. Most stock pickups on cheaper guitars are going to be generic in tone, even if they have a big name attached to them, like Seymour Duncan… doesn’t mean they are good pickups, in fact, they are probably generic to appeal more to a wider range of musicians…. so when you buy the expensive guitars, they have better pickups that are tailored to a specific style or genre.

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