Danelectro 59X12 12-string Electric Guitar - Blood Red Reviews
The Danelectro 59X12 — 12-string version of the groundbreaking 59XT — serves up a fragrant 12-string bouquet and a hearty spoonful of that classic Dano Shorthorn style. The 59X12’s neck P-90 and coil-split lipstick humbucker are your ticket to a world of folksy cleans and jangly pop nostalgia, with a broad palette of blitzed-out rock and psychedelic textures just waiting to be discovered. The 59X12’s resonant hardwood body and snappy maple neck operate in perfect harmony, with a pau ferro fingerboard adding to the guitar’s overall richness and sustain. A hardtail bridge (adjustable) gives this affordable 12-string rock-solid intonation and sustain. Rounding out this stylish semi-hollow is a set of die-cast chrome knobs and complementary chrome hardware.
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Huge Surprise - The Good Kind!
So, I've had the Denelectro 59x12 12-String (red) for a few months now, and I've been blown away by the simplicity, the pickups, the build quality, and most of all the great sound. I'd owned a Rick 360-12 over a decade ago (stupidly sold it), and I thought I'd never find another 12-string that could come close to the playability and sound. Then I saw a pic on FB of a long-time friend and musician with a guitar I didn't recognize. I emailed him, and his opinion of the Danelectro 12-string was good enough for me. However, in the back of my mind I'd remembered the early Danelectro guitars, warped necks, callus splitting actions, awful electronics - in short, disasters. But that was then. With the recommendation of my friend (he played at our wedding), I went for it, and I was amazed, really amazed. It's great guitar. The action rivals my 360-12, the P-90 mid humbucker provides a huge range, and the lipstick bridge pickups give this guitar a great chime, combined, everything I'd longed for but never thought I'd experience again. And the price of the Danelectro 59x12 12-string: so worth it! If you want to add that great Byrds, Beatles, Tom Petty, etc. Ric sound to your collection at one-third the price of a 360-12, this guy is for you. BTW, thanks to Paul and the gang at Sweetwater for all that they do.
Awesome recording guitar after some quality control problems
This was my second try. I sent the first back with a bad pickup out of the box, sweetwater was great gave me a full refund, tried again during covid when they were not delivering and after a few months sweetwater deleted my order, had to call and put it back in. Eventually the guitar came in but one of the coils on the dual lipstick pickup went bad after I had had it for over a year. THe sweetwater guarantee was still in place, so they replaced the pup and actually sent my both, so I have an extra single coil for project use. So ultimately I was happy with it and Sweetwater was great about replacing it. How does it sound? It is super versatile, but I use it mostly for the jangle. Split the lead pup, put the neck on to (middle toggle, tone put pulled up), roll of the volume and treble a little, run through a fender twin for byrds to tom petty, run it through a vox for for merseybeat chime, mix the two together, or run through something clean (I like a little saturation so I avoid the JC120 sound) like s-gear's soldano-ish jackal amp running very clean, add a little chorus and you are in 80s new wave land from police to REM. Basical it covers all my bases for jangle and chime when paired with a cleanish amp setting. It is a very disticntive sound when cranked and the humbucker vs the single coil on the lipstick have their own flavors, and the neck single coil is really nice and moves things out of the usual danelectro lipstick realm, I am still playing with the distorted settings, but have not really used them much for recording anything yet, but I find myself writing cleanish 12 string parts for even some pretty heavy stuff or classics that were very much in six string land
Yes!
Exactly what I wanted. Had to wait for Danelectro to make more but worth he wait. Jangly as I want to be and then the P-90 can give me all the grit I want.
Very happy!
Danelectro 59x12
Very nice guitar. Great sound and nice versatility with both a Coil and Humbucker pickups. After a slight neck adjustment, I am also very pleased with the way this guitar plays. This Danelectro 59x12 is hard to beat for the price and quality build of the instrument and the great 60s vibe you get as a bonus.
Note: I added black/with Red Band tone/volume knobs-I think it looks even better than the stock units.
Sincerely,
David L. O'Conner
Piece of junk
Wasn't set up well. Intonation is whack. Cheap pingy tuners. Poor plastic nut. Poor plastic pull knob that feels like it's going to break for coil split.
