Godin Guitars Review

Thursday, 23 June 2011 08:31

Godin Guitars Review

Written by Simply Music

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Godin Guitars Review:

Godin guitar manufacturer has been making guitars since the early 70’s. Godin is a Canadian guitar company located in Quebec. They have about six factory’s located in Richmond, Montreal, Quebec and Berlin, New Hampshire, and La Patrie. Godin is famous for their own guitars as well as the other lines of guitars that they own: Seagull, Simon & Patrick, La Patrie, Norman, and Art & Luthrie. Godin makes low end (less quality, but also less dollars) and high end (professional quality and not necessarily expensive). Robert Godin, the founder and owner of Godin, still has a major role within the company. He created most of the guitar designs.

Guitarists Who Play Godin Guitars:

Godin artist and legendary Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens
Godin Redline 3 player Artagoth from the Progressive Metal band Unexpect
Godin Guitarist Corey Rozzoni from the Nashville modern alternative rock band
Hungarian Godin endorsee Béla Rák plays the Multiac Grand Concert SA & 5th Avenue Kingpin P90
Corey Diabo from Montreal band Jonas & the Massive Attraction's plays Godin Icon Type 2 Convertible
Godin artist Steve Ouimette
Jeff Wang from his band Quartered, currently plays the Godin Redline 2.
Godin Multiac Nylon artist Francesco Buzzurro started to play guitar at the age of 6
Schrecker from “The Gods of Now” plays the Godin LGX-SA
David Maldonado plays the Godin Grand Concert Duet Ambiance
Award winning blues rock guitarist Natalie Wells plays the “Freeway Classic” & “Summit CT”
John Garrison plays Bass for James Blunt with his “Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin P90”

There are many, many more musicians who use the Godin gutars, for a complete list please see Godin Guitarists

Godin has the following lines of electric guitars:

Performance series
Redline series
Signature series
Icon series
Passion series
Multiac series
5^th Avenue
A-series

The Performance line of guitars are Godin’s high end guitars. These guitars are made of solid silver leaf maple excluding the Exit-22 while the basses are made of solid Canadian Laurentian Basswood. The Performance line includes the following models:

Godin Session
Godin Radiator
Godin SD22
Godin Exit 22
Godin Freeway Classic
Godin Freeway SA
Godin LG-P90
Godin LG HMB
Godin Velocity
Godin Progression
Godin Progression USB
Godin XtSA
Godin Shifter 4 Basses
Godin Freeway 4 + 5 Basses
Godin - The Redline Series

The Redline series are Godins guitars for more aggressive playing and each model has 2 humbuckers. The Redline series include the following models:

The Signature series line are great combination of the finest of all the woods, hardware and electronics! This line includes the following models:

Summit CT
LGX-SA
LG-XT
Montreal
Multiac Jazz

The Icon series are Godins first guitars with set-necks. (This means that the guitar neck is joined to the body with an adhesive rather than bolts). The Icon series include the following models:

Icon2 Classic
Icon2 Convertible
Godin Icon2 Fat Black
Icon3

The Passion series are said to be the guitars that reveal Robert Godins true passion, maybe the single coil pick-ups is what he loves? The passion series have one model:

Passion RG-3

The Multiac line up includes nylon string acoustics, and steel string acoustics. Very specific electronics for the modern age of recording and performing, as well they have an Oud in this line, the MultiOud. The Multiac Nylon models are: