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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 MG60ce Masterworks acoustic-electric guitar is the ideal do-it-all instrument. Elegant solid cuts of spruce and mahogany deliver timeless, full-bodied tone that’s bright and responsive. The MG60ce sounds great unplugged, but a contoured grand auditorium body and premium LR Baggs HiFi electronics make it a force to be reckoned with onstage. Moreover, the MG60ce 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 MG60ce Masterworks from Sweetwater deserves a spot on your radar ASAP.





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Immaculate cuts of mahogany and spruce





Brandishing a gorgeous AAA Sitka spruce top with a premium gloss finish, the MG60ce Masterworks sounds powerful and traditional with a dash of modern flavor. This top is lightweight, engineered for high-velocity projection, and reinforced with mahogany back and sides for a rich tonal body with excellent sustain. Inside, the sound chamber of the MG60ce Masterworks acoustic-electric guitar is augmented with modern X-bracing made from spruce for consistent, balanced tone no matter how hard or what style you play. With tonewoods like these, you’ll be ready to practice, perform, and play with confidence that your instrument is cheering you on, never holding you back.





Outstanding grand auditorium performance





Performers love the Alvarez MG60ce’s grand auditorium body shape for three reasons! First, the MG60ce 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 MG60ce Grand Auditorium 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.





Comfortable design from the neck down





Top-shelf tonewoods mean little if they aren’t comfortable, and that’s why the MG60ce Masterworks 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.





HiFi system bridge plate sensors


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.





Alvarez MG60ce Masterworks Grand Auditorium Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


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


Premium gloss-finished AAA Sitka spruce top delivers vibrant tone and exceptional beauty


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


Solid mahogany sides with a gloss finish 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