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The Alvarez Masterworks line offers seasoned and discerning players boutique-grade quality at a can’t-miss price. The Masterworks seal means not only pro-grade tone and performance, but also refined detail-oriented beauty that looks good onstage. The MG66ce Masterworks Custom acoustic-electric guitar is the ideal do-it-all instrument. Elegant cuts of mahogany deliver timeless, full-bodied tone that’s rich, responsive, and warm. The MG66ce Masterworks Custom sounds great unplugged, but a contoured grand auditorium body, custom armrest, and premium LR Baggs HiFi electronics make it a force to be reckoned with onstage. Moreover, the MG66ce boasts many small but masterful highlights, including a highly playable mahogany neck and tone-enhancing hardware made from gorgeous bone, rosewood, and ebony. If you’re searching for a hardworking acoustic guitar built by discerning hands, then the Alvarez MG66ce Masterworks Custom from Sweetwater deserves a spot on your radar ASAP.





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Crafted from mighty mahogany





After experiencing the MG66ce Masterworks Custom, many guitarists at Sweetwater cite mahogany as the perfect tonewood choice for warm fingerpicking and soulful strums. The MG66ce’s mahogany top, back, and sides teem with inspiring warmth, while mahogany’s midrange presence lends notes and chords a visceral feel that makes it easy to get lost in the music. The MG66ce’s sound chamber features forward-shifted spruce bracing, a modern update to a classic style that helps the top vibrate more freely so it can produce more volume.





Outstanding grand auditorium performance





Performers love the Alvarez MG66ce’s grand auditorium body shape for three reasons! First, the MG66ce fits like a glove, especially onstage, where a thin waist and modern weight distribution let the player’s body and hands relax. Secondly, the grand auditorium’s size and shape make for a more versatile sound. You can leap from big, bold, and powerful strums like you’d expect from a dreadnought to intricate fingerpicking that rings with the clarity of a smaller folk-style guitar. This brings us to our third perk: articulation. A tapered waist, one of the grand auditorium body style’s defining traits, reigns in booming bass and gives the MG66ce more treble and midrange clarity along with a more focused sound ? all tremendous assets onstage or in the studio for any singer/songwriter, backing band, or all-purpose player. Plus, this custom version features a contoured armrest for improved accuracy, comfort, and a reduction in strain!





Comfortable design from the neck down





Top-shelf tonewoods mean little if they aren’t comfortable, and that’s why the MG66ce Masterworks Custom features a premium neck crafted from hardwood mahogany. Not only is mahogany a favored tonewood in the acoustic world, but this neck is also further enhanced with a hybrid soft “V” to “C” shape. Alvarez carefully developed this blended neck profile that gives you ideal anchor space in any position. Toward the headstock, the “V” shape yields a better grip for 6-string open and barre chords; further up, the “C” shape gives hands more room for expression and thinking outside the box.





Hardware details that make a difference





This guitar spares no detail, even when it comes to the small things. A plethora of premium onboard hardware ensures this guitar is both beautiful and rugged, so you can rely on it for years to come. A true bone nut and saddle maximize the vibrational transfer from strings to body and ensure you’re getting the purest tone possible out of the MG66ce’s body and top. The bridge and bridge pins are both made from rosewood, which also enhances vibrational transfer. The headstock features Masterworks tuning machines with an upgraded high-performance 20:1 gear ratio for precise results that hold tunings accurately and for longer.





LR Baggs’ HiFi amplification





The LR Baggs HiFi system is everything players want in an acoustic-electric pickup: balanced sound, non-invasive design, and an impressive resistance to feedback. The system is beyond reliable and offers 700 hours of use on just a single 9V battery. Consisting of a HiFi preamp, two bridge plate sensors, a discrete endpin jack, and volume and tone controls, the HiFi’s magic lies in how the system preserves acoustic integrity. Just look at the bridge plate sensors, which use materials and placement that listen to acoustic movement and tonewoods without dampening natural resonance. These sensors are guests of the sound chamber, not intruders, and what you hear is your guitar’s inherent sound and nothing more.





HiFi system bridge plate sensors.


Alvarez MG66ce Masterworks Custom Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Grand auditorium body shape ?onstage comfort meets a versatile, all-purpose sound!


Premium gloss-finished mahogany top delivers warm, mellow tone and exceptional beauty


Enhanced modern X-bracing yields a super-fast response and a more open projection


Mahogany back and sides focus your tone with richness and sustain


Smooth fingerboard with 21 frets made from East Indian rosewood


Upscale purfling and binding with materials, including ebony


Authentic bone nut and saddle with ebony bridge pins improve string vibrations (and bolster tone/sustain)


Hardwood bridge crafted from East Indian rosewood


Mahogany neck with hybrid soft “V” to “C” shape for maximum playability up and down the neck


Deluxe headstock with rosewood overlay and mother-of-pearl inlay


Vintage-style Alvarez tuners with precision 20:1 ratio ensure fast tuning and strong stability


Onboard LR Baggs HiFi system delivers reliable, natural-sounding amplification