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Go Acoustic Authentic Amplified Tone, No Longer Lost in Translation

Go Acoustic is the story of two individuals from very different corners of the music world who found themselves grappling with the same fundamental problem.

Separate journeys converged into an eventual collaboration, driven by a shared determination to solve the ageold problem of authentic acoustic amplification from the ground up.
The acoustic guitar, for all its beauty, has always presented a fundamental problem: how to make it louder without losing what makes it special. Paul McGill, a luthier with a half-century of experience building guitars for artists like Chet Atkins and Earl Klugh, had hit that wall. Ben Shaw, an audio engineer mentored by a legend in studio design, saw a field that had gotten stuck. They met through a twist of Nashville fate, recognized in each other the missing piece of a puzzle they had been independently trying to solve, and got to work.
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