Alvarez AD30CE Artist Dreadnought - Natural

The 30 Series guitars may be the entry point to Alvarez's solid top Artist Series but there is little entry level about them when it comes to how these guitars play and sound. Their light semi-gloss finishes allows them to sing, and like all Artist Series guitars their tone and construction are continually designed and refined to offer a player experience rarely achieved at such accessible price points. This acoustic-electric model is fitted with the Alvarez SYS250 EQ with built in backlit tuner.

About Artist Series

The multi-award winning Artist Series represents our commitment to quality and design, making it one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today.

Artist Series guitars feel right and are exciting to play; whether you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. 

All of Alvarez's tops are selected by the team and graded independently of their suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, they won’t use it. While top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models, all are stiff and finely grained.

After 55 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes.

Their tonewoods are carefully cured; components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques used are continually researched and developed, and tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively soundbox.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

The term “solid top” refers to the guitar’s soundboard being made of solid wood rather than laminates. However, even when the guitar top is made of solid wood, the tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. The Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out of its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include the FS6 bracing design, which allows the soundbox to sing and brings uniformity across Dreadnought, Grand Auditorium, OM and Parlor body sizes. This means the voicing has a similar character, but the individual tone is more purely influenced by the size and shape of the guitar.

The bi-level bridge is designed to heighten string tension and improve sustain and response. Real bone nut and saddle, premium tonewoods, and crafted attenuated finish all further the quality of construction and positively impact the performance of the instrument. Artist Series gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible to optimize tone. The personality and voicing of Artist Series guitars is open, dynamic and instantly responsive.

• Dreadnought
• Solid Spruce Top
• Mahogany Back/Sides
• Alvarez SYS250 EQ