All user reviews for the Godin LGX

Country of manufacture: Canada.

Classic bridge, 21 frets, mahogany neck, mahogany body.

Volume, tone bass treble switch for his electro acoustic / electric, sensor piezo with volume, bass, mid and treble.

All details on the website of Godin ...

UTILIZATION

Handle very pleasant to my taste, relatively flat.

However, the guitar is very heavy! It takes getting used to. Access to treble is excellent.

For sound we easily obtained excellent clear sound (serious micro Seymour is excellent) but it is a little harder for distos that are a little loud with the standard settings.

SOUNDS

Be quite my style of music (melodic Rock). I get mostly good clean sounds, some distos but not fatter. Frankly I looove this guitar sounds clear and electro-acoustic sound with just a tube preamp emulation is superb. I play on a LINE6 PODxt Live with Amp dedicated to it, the Power Engine 60.

OVERALL OPINION

I played with one LGX-SA for 10 years ... 10 years ago and I have to reinvest in the LGX because I missed her (I could sell the old fault round in my youth ...). Meanwhile I played on Jackson (not like trash too), an Epiphone Custom LG (not like it either), a Cort (to my debut).

What I like most: the sound, and the ability to play electro acoustic guitar with the same. The LGX-Sat also allowed for MIDI, nice place layers of synth sound (today-but it would be more useful to me). on the other hand had live scores Cubase with this model, I really miss it!

Level value, nine AC is very expensive, time (I paid 500 euros) it buries all the other guitars in this budget. I would say my purchase excellent value for money.

see above
LGX second generation with Seymour duncan

UTILIZATION

luterie and exceptional playing comfort,
good access to acute
very good performance agreement

rather heavy, especially after a few hours of snooze ...
sensitive electronic (selector 5 positions) and the attachment of the strap preamp side, the retaining screw is shorter here.

SOUNDS

There is the eternal debate and the LGX is no exception
It's like the Rafale, he does everything in a very honorable but ...
Bah the LGX is the same!
She knows (almost) everything done thanks to the combination of humbuckers spitables + 5 position selector, the piezos + 3 band EQ and mix knob
And she does it well, very well even!
from blues to metal through reggae or funk, no problem!
it will pass with flying colors and times of your sets composed in concert

on the other hand, the studio is "how to ...", ie that the personality of a Les Paul or a Strat comes at the expense of the versatility of the LGX

OVERALL OPINION

I have used it extensively in rehearsals, concerts for several years in the first guitar
I have since succumbed to the charms of the telecaster that suits me perfectly but I am always happy to get out from its luxurious pouch (supplied), anyway it is never far away ...

This is a great guitar, very good production, rather reliable and versatile worth the € 1500 without any problems

I purchases this guitar new at "The Music Factory" a small shop in the town I live that sells lesser known, quality guitars. I paid roughly 1,400 including case and a set of elixers as well as an increadible set up. For those of you not familar with godin, it's a canadian manufacturer, who assembles it's guitars in New Hampshire.

First of all, it's AAA quilted maple top whith trans red finish is breathtaking. Nearly everyone who sees it up close and personal (or for that matter from the audience) comments on it's good looks. It is a two voice model that does the strat thing almost as well as my strat, the Les Paul thing perfectly, and The acoustic sound is comprible to most any strictly piezo equipped electracoustic. It also plays super smooth and comfortably. it has awsome tone, sustains forever, and holds a tune superbly.

The only thing I don't like is that it is somewhat tricky to get the strings through the back of the guitar when changing. No biggie. Also, I was somewhat dissapointed to discover you cannot get graphtech string saver saddles for it. Otherwise it is perfect.

It is pretty much a combination of the best parts of a strat and the best parts of a paul but together. It has a mahagony body with a maple top which gives it tones of sustain and a beautiful sound (which even is evident unplugged) It is string through body to add more sustain and a recessed bridge to be more comfy as well as easier on strings. It has a rosewood fingerboard, real bone nut, and excellent tuners as well as a bolt on neck that was painstackingly placed to transfer more vibration then any other method except "through body" (yes that means even set neck, all you paul junkies) the pickups (duncan jazz for neck and a custom custom humbucker for the bridge that was made especaily for the LGX) were both selected by Symour himself. The quality is better then any guitar I have yet seen. That includes Les Pauls, PRS, and custom shop strats.

This is easily the best electric guitar on the market for under 4,000 (keep in mind it costs only 1,200- 1,400 depending on finish and top) it can do any sound you want nearly as well or better then any electric guitar as well as doing the acoustic thing. I am a self admitted gear whore, and out of the many many guitars I have tried out or had a more extended expierience with. This is the best. It does not get much better, and it definitly doesnt get any better for the price.

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I purchased this versitile electric guitar at the "Music Store" in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I bought it for about $1,200. The reason that I chose this guitar is that it has stereo jacks and a third jack which combines the sounds of the other two. It has an "electric" channel whcih has a five way position switch like a Fender Stratocaster, but also has a passive EQ which gives this guitar either a single coil pickup sound or a humbucking sound. With the flip of a small toggle switch, you can chose the pickups located under the bridge for an awsome acoustic sound. This channel has a three band active EQ. It is easy to blend both electric and acoustic sound to get an extreemly wide variety of combinations that I have not found on other guitars.

What I like is that this guitar is hand made in the United States using a solid mahogany back and neck with a AAA grade flame top maple top. My particular model has an ebony fingerboard. Total bueaty of workmanship at a truely affordable price.

The neck has the best playability of any guitar I know. I have owned Fenders and Gibsons and have played many brands, But the Godan LGX is my favorite.

This is the most versatile guitar I know. I have used it in the studio with great success.

When I play live, I use a vintage tube amp for the electric channel with sme slight tube overdrive distortion. I run the acoustic channel through a Fender AcousticSonic Junior amp. The sound is totaly incredible. I have had nothing but favorable comments, even from other professional guitarist!

The only thing I can say I wish were better is on the electric channel, the EQ could be brighter. When you blend the acoustic channel in, it dramaticly adds sufficiant treble to the mix. Basically if your playing the electric channel only, you must add more than normal treble through your amplifier.

The quality of workmanship reminds me of a fine violin. Much detail is giving to the selection and manthcing of the woods. The neck is a bolt on. Also the mahogany neck is one piece at the headstock unlike many cheaper brands who glue the head stock on the neck. The ebenoy fingerboard is precision make and is the most comfortable and "fast" neck I have ever found.

Another nice feature is the cutaway body. First of all it doesn't look like a million other copy-cat guitars, but is unique, like an original fine work of art. Even the headstock is unique. This rig is very comfortable to play. It is a real conversation piece that sounds as good as it looks. The price is extreamly affordable for all of the quality high tech features. I reccomend the Godin LGX highly!

Dollar for dollar there isn't a better all around guitar made! I do not need another electric guitar when I own this one!

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A beautiful guitar factory in the United States by an industry ... Finally, Canadian luthier, neck 22 frets, body mahogany table stocky, Bolt on Saddle bne key, 2 double coils by Godin Tetrad, slecteur 5 + positions on the push-pull type fixed bridge Tone Tune -O-Matic Piezo sensors + 3-band EQ for its electro.

UTILIZATION

Channel trs comfortable ... not a highway type Ibanez ... trs grip, but simple. Accs fastoche the 22me fret, pickups and bridge profondment implants in the body ... the strings almost frlent the body ... So playing comfort privilgiant touch.

SOUNDS

Trs versatile guitar. Sound (the?) Are electrical part. Neither Gibsonian (too crystalline and felt both) Ni Fender (no vritable simple, mahogany body). Jou lights on an amp, it's a rgal ... is a nuanced personality ... prs little glue and all styles: pop, rock, jazz, Fonk ... etc., provided you have fingers and rglages amp to go with. Ct's Electroacoustic, it goes without saying that it's more electro and acoustic ... still use these sounds in a sytme adapted with good compression legalization on the PA and all ... may be a delusion. As against the push-pull of the knob Tone does not satisfy me ... become strangely shrill sound ... So since then I disassemble the push-pull ....

OVERALL OPINION

I use it since 1997 and my faith is a daily redcouverte. I changed the micro Acute twice to give it more characters (and yes, versatility has a counterpart ...). It vraisemblblement a choice I do it again ... The Aesthetics is fabulous, trs classy and not tape the eye ... and violin, empty (not branch) is quality ...

Beautiful guitar! Canadian manufacture. Mine is a 1996 and does occunes traces of wear as the quality of the varnish (and thickness) is important. Really beautiful violin. Mine has a flamed maple veneer on mahogany neck and body. Even before the play there is already fun to hit it ...! The handle is easy to polish glides beautifully and the strings are very close but never curly! What's the secret? His versatility is an asset. Two pick-up splitable 5 more positions and a piezo in the bridge for an electro-acoustic sound superb. The pick-up backgrounds are average, not bad, but means. I have therefore changed to two Seymour Duncan Pearly Gate. My guitar is now a no-fault.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is super comfortable for both the sleeve, the weight and shape that perfectly fits the body. The shape vaguely remember a TV but with the muzzle of a stratum.

SOUNDS

Excellent for Jazz. There is a knob that mix piezo and electric. It therefore provides a unique sound. With two humbuckers rock can have all you want! Intermediate positions and gives us a sound close to a stratum. Its sounds and this guitar is versatile.

OVERALL OPINION

Superb instrument!. Canadians are quality is clear. Violin with exquisite finish very well above the fender on the market (I know I have one!) Everything inspires comfiance in manufacturing. To make it the ideal instrument may need to replace the micro-bridge for a better, but that's all.

Canadian manufacturing.
I own the first version of this guitar.
Piezo pickup selector, push-pull for a boost of sound.
2 input jacks humbucker / piezo + 1 input to mix the two ...


UTILIZATION

Channel end, nice, very close to the string handle.
Lutherie quality.
Without access to acute ok +
The piezo is divine, the rest is not bad but not fantastic ...


SOUNDS

Well for the Jazz, a little funk, pop rock ... AC passes
I play on top or through a POD MesaBoogie
My favorite sound is that of the piezo.


OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 15years.
With experience, I could not repeat that choice knowing that the first set no longer exists and they are now targeting the South.
Good guitar overall, good quality, great playing comfort