Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Joe Trohman Washburn Idol

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars

The Joe Trohman Washburn Idol
Washburn have just announced the release of the Joe Trohman Idol series guitar, Fall Out Boy’s lead guitarist worked closely with Washburn to create a killer guitar that utilizes dual humbuckers and Voice Contour Control to allow for a massive array of sounds. In his own words:

”I’m a guitar player, and I’m obsessed with every inch, every nook, every aspect of guitars in general. I put my stamp whole heartily on this guitar, knowing that it fully kicks ass and surpasses my standards.”

The Voice Contour Control is a unique coil splitting system that allows players to incrementally blend humbucking and single-coil pickup sounds without the hum normally associated with single-coils, sounds interesting I’d like to have a play with that to see what tonal variations you can create. The Joe Trohman Washburn Idol retails for $419.90 and is available for pre-order online at www.empireoftherepublic.com.

It is interesting that rather than create one off signature guitars Washburn like to make an artist series like the previously mentioned Paul Stanley Preacher Series, this is a really nice idea as some people can’t afford to shell out the $2700 on an N6 for instance but can get a simplified version in the N1 for $350 which looks similar with obviously cheaper woods, electronics etc.

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Sammy on 11/28 at 08:10 AM

Um, Fall Out Boy has a LEAD guitarist?

Electric guitars on 11/29 at 01:52 AM

I remember I had a crush on Washburn at some time. Actually, depending on my musical evolution and artist that I was listening to at that moment, I liked many guitars

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