GEAR REVIEW
HAVE QUALITY GUITAR WILL TRAVEL - JOURNEY FF412C | Bruce Adolph
of mobile church locations each Sunday too.
KEY FEATURES
What if you could have a quality instrument that
could truly be as “mobile” as you are?
• Neck Pops Off for Travel
• Solid Top and Back Tonewoods
• Forward Bracing and Deep Body
for Volume
• Packs into Rolling Travel Bag
for Overhead Bins
guitar, which includes their patented collapsible
disassembly in a matter of seconds).
While researching ways to capture a full-size
Travel guitars have been popular for years and
with a more mobile society the need for them
is growing. Everyone from students to business
people on the move are utilizing instruments
that are easy to travel with.
performance guitar in a travel package Journey
made all of the right moves. A hand-picked
solid Sitka Spruce top with a solid premium
Sapele Mahogany back and laminated Sapele
Mahogany sides – this ensures maximum
stability for climate variations while traveling,
Journey Instruments has been an innovator in
this field with their patented guitar necks that
pop off of the guitar body and then neatly folds
into a back pack styled travel bag (strings and
all). You throw in your laptop and iPad too,
some accessories you need to play, and off you
go.
yet retains all of the tone of an all-solid-woods
guitar.
For bracing they use a forward-shifted, tapered
and scalloped X-bracing that maximizes the
resonance and volume of the soundboard.
The wedge design gives a lower shoulder/bout
depth that’s deeper than a regular dreadnought,
What Journey’s customers asked
for next surprised them. They
loved the ability to travel well with
their guitar, but several professional
players asked if they can make a full-
sized acoustic guitar that once
they arrived at the gig…
would
have
the
quality
sound good enough to
play the gig with!
Now
you
players
here.
pay
You
giving this Grand Auditorium body size the
ability to deliver volume and bass surpassing
that of a standard Grand Auditorium guitar.
I played some chords at regular strumming
volume and it sounded good, and then I
jumped on it and strummed hard – the guitar
opened up and got loud! But it did not break-
up or lose any of its tone. That was remarkable.
I looked down and realized how deep this body
is. No wonder. Journey calls it a “ginormous”
worship
leaders/worship
guitar
attention
go
back
and forth from home to
rehearsals to the church
platform stage each week…
some of you load in and out
September 2018
FF412C First Class Grand Auditorium travel
neck system (which allows for assembly/
• Beveled Armrest, Premium
Appointments, and Pickup
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Enter the newest model from Journey – the
body. It has the voice of a cannon!
To keep the quality components coming,
Journey added a bone nut, carbon fiber neck
reinforcement, a compensated bone saddle,
and ebony bridge pins. All of these contribute
to produce the good tone of this FF412C.
For plugging into a PA this guitar comes with
a proprietary under-bridge transducer pickup
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