Fender Tempts Players With Acoustasonic Telecaster Guitars

Toward the beginning of 2019, Fender introduced a new take on the electro-acoustic guitar called the Acoustasonic Telecaster that was presented as an "acoustic, electric, and everything in between."

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Stratocaster and Jazzmaster flavors followed, and now the company has introduced a more refined, versatile, and accessible version, Paul Ridden reported for New Atlas.

The original Acoustasonic Telecaster was designed as a kind of tone chameleon, an acoustic/electric hybrid with 10 distinct sounds and the opportunity to explore in-between by merging tonal pairs.

The guitar has a body shaped like a large Tele, but is hollow with more contouring, and features a "waterfall" soundhole as well as an internal sensor, under-bridge piezo, and a noiseless magnetic pickup. And the neck plays like an electric and rocks a Tele headstock.

It has enough projection to be played unplugged as an acoustic, but it won't be anywhere near as loud as a dreadnought. The real magic happens when it's plugged in though, thanks to a collaboration with Fishman that offers a curated collection of acoustic and electric voices selected with a blade switch and blended using control knobs.

In 2020, Fender repeated the formula but this time cooked in some Strat tones for the Acoustasonic Stratocaster. And earlier this year we got to try out the latest flavor, the Acoustasonic Jazzmaster, which came with 10 new tones and, of course, numerous blend options.

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