Martin SC-28E Acoustic Electric Guitar Aged Natural
Martin SC-28E Acoustic Electric Guitar Aged Natural – Modern playability and classic looks—the SC-28E pairs technology with timeless style and tone, combining SC innovation and Standard Series appointments. Its patented features include a Sure Align® neck system that helps you play all the way up the neck, while the low-profile velocity satin neck barrel fits comfortably in your hand, and an internal soundboard recurve for added bass response. This gloss guitar features a spruce top with resonant East Indian rosewood back and sides, giving you deep bass and rich overtones for that classic Martin sound. It also features an ebony fingerboard and bridge, antique white binding, nickel open gear tuners, Fishman Aura VT Blend or LR Baggs Anthem electronics, and is strung with LUXE BY MARTIN® Kovar™ strings. The SC-28E comes with a molded hardshell case.
Removes the limitations of the conventional cutaway acoustic
Playing the SC-28E is a unique yet comfortably familiar experience. Its offset S-shaped body fits you like a glove, providing balanced output and effective feedback rejection. Its sloped bridge stays out of your hand’s way, whether you’re strumming frenetically or fingerpicking delicately. Its low-profile velocity neck shape allows for helical hand rotation to ensure that every hand position feels relaxed and natural. Its 13-fret design blends the tone of a long-scale instrument with the playability of a short-scale, and its heel-less Sure Align neck system gives you unfettered access to the SC-28E’s entire fretboard. Its low action, while maintaining the feel of an acoustic guitar, is sure to make electric players feel right at home. No matter what you’re playing, cowboy chords, jazz shapes, or rapid-fire leads, the SC-28E makes it effortless.
An acoustic guitar through and through
There have been numerous attempts at creating a comfortable acoustic that would appeal to electric guitar players. Unfortunately, the results are often less than mind-blowing — typically a super-thin acoustic instrument with equally thin tone. The Martin SC-28E eschews this type of thinking. While its comfortable neck and low action ensure easy playability, the SC-28E is an acoustic guitar through and through, meticulously crafted by a company with a 180-year history of building legendary acoustic instruments. Its spruce top yields the direct, punchy sound and broad dynamic range that the tonewood is known for, while its fine-tuned body with tailored X-bracing produces near-cannon-like levels of volume and projection. The SC-28E’s natural tone is stellar, we thought nothing of miking it up in the studio.
Flawless amplified sound
The feedback-fighting, natural-sounding LR Baggs Anthem pickup with Tru Mic technology is the result of over 30 years of research and advancement. This hybrid pickup system reproduces the natural tone of the SC-28E into an amp or sound system cleanly, clearly, and with full dynamics. Volume, Mix, and Phase controls nestle inside the soundhole for easy fingertip access. Mix control allows you to blend the augmented mic and under-saddle pickup to further dial in your sound.
Martin SC-28E Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- Combines traditional 28 Series appointments with an ultra-ergonomic SC-style body
- Offset S-shaped body fits you like a glove while providing balanced output and effective feedback rejection
- Sloped bridge stays out of your hand’s way, whether you’re strumming or fingerpicking
- Low-profile velocity neck shape allows for helical hand rotation to ensure relaxed and natural feel
- 13-fret design blends the tone of a long-scale instrument with the playability of a short-scale
- Heel-less Sure Align neck system gives you unfettered access to the entire fretboard
- Low action maintains the feel of an acoustic guitar for effortless playability
- Spruce top yields the direct, punchy sound and broad dynamic range that the tonewood is known for
- Fine-tuned body with tailored X-bracing produces near-cannon-like levels of volume and projection
- Onboard LR Baggs Anthem electronics deliver stellar amplified acoustic tone
- Eye-grabbing Style 28 fingerboard inlays, antique white purfling, a multi-stripe rosette, and a tortoise pattern pickguard
Tech Specs
- String Type: Steel
- Number of Strings: 6
- Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
- Body Shape: SC-18E
- Back & Sides Wood: East Indian Rosewood
- Top Wood: Spruce
- Top Finish: Gloss
- Color: Aging Toner
- Body Bracing: Tone Tension X-Brace
- Binding: Antique White
- Neck Wood: Select Hardwood
- Neck Shape: Low Profile Velocity
- Radius: 16″
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlay: Style 28
- Number of Frets: 20
- Scale Length: 25.4″
- Nut/Saddle Material: Bone/Compensated Bone
- Bridge Material: Ebony
- Tuning Machines: Open-gear
- Electronics: LR Baggs Anthem
- Strings: Martin MK12 Luxe Kovar, .012-.054
- Case/Gig Bag: Hardshell Case
- Model #: 10SC28ELRB