The Dreadnought body design dates back to the early 1900s. This grandfather of modern guitar body shape is respectfully represented by the Walden Dreadnought. It delivers the powerful bass, round mids, and crisp trebles expected from this body shape. With any wood combination, the Dreadnought is a big guitar with a big voice.
Walden's proprietary Grand Auditorium body is an elegant, stylish guitar. With a slightly wider lower bout than our traditional Dreadnought and a narrower waist and upper bout, the Grand Auditorium speaks with ample bass balanced by clear and brilliant trebles. Inviting and wonderfully playable, the Grand Auditorium's rounded contours are visually pleasing and comfortable in your arms.
Walden's "O" body OM guitar is reminiscent of the pre-war guitar for which it is named. Smaller than our "G" body shape, the O body is popular among finger-stylists and female players. A shallower side depth makes it easier to play and contributes to its focused voice, great for a studio "tracking" instrument.
The "T" body shape is a 7/8 sized guitar with a 24.2" scale length. The short scale contributes to its easy playability. Similar to a parlor guitar with a slightly wider lower bout, the T is braced appropriately for its shape and produces surprising volume. It has a focused voice, making it particularly pleasing as a solo-lead instrument.
The traditional classical guitar body can trace its origins to the early 1800s. By the 1920s. Spanish-based designs emerged as the standard for the classical guitar. The Walden Classical remains true to is heritage and delivers a voice that has a mellow, singing quality with good bass presence.
North American Sitka Spruce produces a loud and balanced voice with a strong fundamental. Sitka top guitars are sought after by players with a strong attack.
North American Engelmann Spruce is a beautiful, rich, whitish soundboard wood. With the volume and crispness inherent to all spruces, Engelmann adds its brilliant complex overtone structure.
The voice of Western Red Cedar is characterized by dark, rich, smooth tonality. Solid Cedar top guitars are favored by fingerstylists and musicians with a lighter touch.
Sapele Mahogany has bright striped grain and is clear and responsive. Both beautiful and brilliant, Sapele is an excellent tonewood for back and sides.
One of the world's most prized guitar woods for back and sides, Indian Rosewood is visually gorgeous. Sonically, Indian Rosewood is complex, warm and deep.
Also known as Khaya Mahogany, its interlocking grain contributes to excellent strength and stability. African Mahogany is Walden's only choice for neck material.
Walden Standard and Natura steel-string lines incorporate scalloped spruce X bracing on their soundboards. The scalloped-X brace and scalloped tone bars provide instruments with good clarity and openness of voice, while stabilizing the soundboard against the pull of the strings.
On the SupraNatura line of steel-string instruments, Walden incorporates a scalloped-X braced design based on the great guitars of the pre-World War II era.
d'Antonio Torres and Hermann Hauser built some of the greatest guitars of all time. Two of their guitars provided the inspiration behind Walden's SupraNatura and Natura fan bracing: the 1888 Torres played by Francesco Tarrega and the 1937 Hauser played by Andrea Segovia. In the most active location of the soundboard where most of the classical guitar's voice originates, brace dimensions, measurements and angles have been carefully reproduced. In the area most likely to change from the rigors of climate change (under the fingerboard extension), transverse bracing is strengthened to increase stability.
Walden Standard line classical guitars incorporate a traditional fan bracing design with good balance between sonic content and stability.
All Walden guitars incorporate a 2-way adjustable truss rod that allows you to control the exact string height suited to your personal playing style. Walden's 2-way truss rod also allows for the precise tuning of your guitar's setup in response to seasonal changes.
All Walden SupraNatura guitars feature a modern thin neck which is reinforced with rails of Carbon Graphite.
Nitrocellulose lacquer is made from plant fiber. Because it can vibrate along with the moving soundboard, it has been the finish material of choice among the best luthiers since the late 1800s. A satin finish allows for the application of a thin coat, transferring more energy into creating beautiful music. A satin finish is also smoother than a glossy finish which can sometimes feel sticky. this allows the musician to play with greater ease and speed.
Some people like it glossy. High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finishes are only available on the world's most expensive instruments and rightly so, given the intensive work needed to produce a high-gloss finish. Walden's semi-gloss provides the musician with a gloss lacquer finish at an affordable price.
Our gracefully curving Venetian-style cutaway provides easy access above the 12th fret for a classical guitar and the 14th fret on a steel-string guitar.
The Classic 4 offers the quality sound and versatile tone shaping that you expect from Fishman. At the heart of the system is the classic equalizer which lets you zero in on the four key frequency bands for acoustic guitar. The Classic 4 system utilizes the Fishman Sonicore™ coaxial under-saddle pickup.
The Fishman Prefix Pro offers volume control as well as bass, treble and a wide-range semi-parametric EQ which allows you to isolate certain frequencies and boost or cut them as needed. Additional notch filter, brilliance slider and phase switch for performers who desire more control of their sound.
With its flexible gooseneck condenser microphone and volume, blend and phase controls, the Fishman Ellipse Blend makes it possible to have the best of both worlds when you play: the sparkling, transparent sound and control that the Acoustic Matrix pickup affords, complemented by the unique tonal attributes that a microphone provides.