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Anderson S Series Drop Top and T Icon Demo Review

Vintage Craftsmanship
The new Anderson T Icon and S Series Drop Top Guitars are two iconic builds from the renowned guitar maker Tom Anderson. These guitars have been highly regarded by guitarists for their superb playability, tonal versatility, and exceptional craftsmanship. Now they've been brought around for another spin with the new release! So, take a break from your day and go on a demo journey with us at Cosmo Music. You won't be disappointed.
One of the standout features of these guitars are the tonal versatility. Both the Anderson T-Icon and S-Series Drop Top guitars are capable of producing a wide range of tones, from warm, vintage-style tones to bright, modern sounds. The pickups are carefully selected and matched to provide a balanced, full-bodied tone that can be easily customized to suit any playing style. Tom Anderson guitars are known for their exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail, and both of these models are no exception. The guitars are built with a high level of precision, ensuring that each guitar is unique in its own way.
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The VF1s have more of a vintage output, so moderate output, it's not a super hot pickup. The H3 is more of a hotter pickup. Another nice feature is the VA splitter and boost. You can split the humbucker or you can give it a 4dB boost.Rob Vendrasco, Cosmo Music Guitar Specialist

Key Specs
- Unique design that features a maple top that is dropped to create a comfortable forearm contour
- Body top thickness of 3/16 of an inch enhances and enriches the sonic character of the instrument
- Mahogany back provides warmth and midrange
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The neck is bolted on with just two bolts here and you can see it's this V shape here where they attach the neck to the body, so it gets this amazing energy transfer from the neck to the body, it sounds really musical, really awesome.Rob Vendrasco, Cosmo Music Guitar Specialist

Key Specs
- Bridge is a classic T-style design with three individual saddles that can be adjusted for perfect intonation across all strings
- Brass saddles and a nickel-plated, steel baseplate surrounding the angled single coil-sized bridge pickup is made from high-quality materials that contribute to the guitar's tone and sustain
- Traditional 25 1/2-inch scale length offers a familiar feel and playability
Video Transcript
Hey it's Rob from Cosmo Music and I'm here to reintroduce the Anderson guitars that we have here at Cosmo Music. I have the new T Icon you can see why they call it a T, beautiful guitar caramelized Maple neck V7 pickups up TV7 pickups with their new V quiet system that eliminates hum they do it passively so no batteries it's super super light a really cool feature or some of the cool features on Anderson's is their wedgie neck joint the neck is bolted on with just two bolts here and you can see it's this sort of V a v-shape here where where they attach the neck to the body so it gets this amazing energy transfer from the neck to the body and it's really really musical sounds awesome let's hear this thing. Super quiet you know single coil pickup super quiet it's awesome this V quiet system really works well as you can see or as you can hear.
So you can see that be quiet system really really works when you're when you're playing this thing in High Gain so no no 60 cycle hum it's awesome let's try the other one that we've got here so here I've got an Anderson drop top what they're referring to is this top Contour again this has that really cool sort of wedgy neck joint I forgot to mention with the the T the T icon this features the Buzz Feitan tuning system what's the Buzz Feitan system? Well what it does is it just makes the intonation a lot more accurate you know it is licensed it is a licensed feature and what they do is they put the Buzz Feitan logo on the back of the headstock there. I don't know if you can see that, yeah this this one features the H3 pickup and the vf1s a couple of vf1s so the vf1s have a bit of a more of a vintage output so moderate output they're not a super hot pickup the H3 is a little bit of a hotter pickup another nice feature is this VA uh VA splitter and boost you you can split this humbucker and or you can give it a 4 DB boost so be going like you know speaking in this voice to this voice here so that's about a 4 DB boost and there's there's uh yeah you know speaking in this voice to this voice here all right let's go through some of the sounds we'll start with this uh this H3 Bridge pickup.
I'd love to show a feature of the Drop Top. You wonder why do they put two strap buttons on the bottom here it gets kind of funny that that they do that but this is why they do it you should really turn the volume down when we do this see ah Isn't that cool it sits flat it's it's flat come check these out at CosmoMusic.ca. Like and subscribe, great job. Alrighty, awesome thank you.
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