Takamine P3NC NEX Cutaway Acoustic Electric Guitar With Case, Natural Satin

Takamine’s top-line Pro Series P3NC acoustic delivers the finest in Takamine acoustic sound, style and performance from a classic Takamine NEX/grand auditorium-style body with a comfortable Venetian cutaway, elegant appointments, smooth playability and state-of-the-art onboard electronics. The solid cedar top features X bracing and ivory binding, with dark purfling and a gorgeous concentric-ring rosette with wood marquetry. An elegant Venetian cutaway offers optimum access to the upper registers. The unique Takamine split-saddle bone bridge provides faultless intonation and excellent acoustic coupling to the top.

Other premium features include a solid sapele back, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard with wood “dot-in-dot” inlays, gold tuners with amber buttons, natural satin finish and the highly acclaimed CT4B II preamp system with three-band EQ, volume control and built-in tuner.

Features

• NEX cutaway; scalloped X-braced solid cedar top, solid sapele back, sapele laminate sides
• African Mahogany Neck with bound rosewood fingerboard, 20 nickel-silver frets, wood dot-in-dot inlays
• Ivory binding, dark (wood trim) purfling, concentric rings with wood marquetry rosette
• Rosewood pinless bridge, split bone saddle, bone nut
• Ivory back binding, mahogany peghead with gold logo
• Takamine CT4B II electronics onboard
• Satin top, neck, back, and sides
• Machine Heads: gold with amber buttons

The Palathetic pickup
Using six individually shielded piezo-electric elements, one for each string, the Palathetic pickup is not a just a UST (under saddle pickup). In fact the Takamine design employs twelve times the element mass of the typical under saddle pickup. The six elements penetrate the bridge plate, soundboard and bridge to make direct contact with the saddle creating a sonic linkage with the string. The pickup casing is mechanically attached to the guitars top and bridge creating a sonic linkage with the soundboard. The result of this design is a signal that possesses the articulation of an isolated string signal and the rich harmonic content delivered by the resonating soundboard for a full, complete and accurate acoustic guitar tone at high sound pressure levels.

CT4B II Preamp Features
The CT4B II preamp is designed for ease of use and purity of tone. The CT4B II consists of 3 bands of graphic EQ tone control, a volume control slider and a built-in chromatic tuner.

The 3 band EQ provides control over the bass (LOW), midrange (MID) and treble (HIGH) frequency response. With the sliders set at the midpoint (0) the electric signal from the guitar is evenly balanced across the frequency range. The desired tone is then dialed in by using the sliders to add or subtract frequency response as desired. Each frequency control slider will raise or lower the band response by +/-5db.

Specifications:

- Body Style: NEX CUTAWAY
- Top: SOLID CEDAR
- Back: SOLID SAPELE
- Sides: SAPELE
- Neck: MAHOGANY
- Scale: 644
- Finger Board: ROSEWOOD
- Nut Width: 42.5mm
- Electronics: CT-4BII
- Finish: SATIN NATURAL
- Case: SH500A