Godin Freeway EMG Review

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Overall Rating 4.5/5

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Features 4.5/5

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Quality 4.25/5

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Reliability / Value 5/5

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  • Body Shape: Soloist  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 25-1/2"  
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  • Body Wood: Maple  
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  • Body Wood: Poplar  
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  • Neck Shape: Standard  
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  • Neck Joint: Set neck  
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  • Neck Wood: Maple (Rock)  
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  • Fingerboard Radius: 12.00"  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood (Indian)  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: Offset Dots  
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  • Number of Frets: 22  
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  • Nut Width: 1.6875" (1-11/16")  
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  • Bridge: Fixed  
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  • Hardware: Black Chrome  
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  • Fret Size: Medium Jumbo  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-Position Blade  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Active Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Active Humbucker  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • Active EMG 81 humbuckers.

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Few guitars can match what Godin's Freeway EMG offers in its price range. That's why many musicians decided to go for Freeway EMG, and if you decide to do so as well, you surely won't be sorry. With almost nothing to add to this beautiful instrument, rest assured it will serve you well.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes Godin's Freeway EMG an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for Freeway EMG's features!

Tone delivered by Godin's Freeway EMG makes it a serious sounding instrument that gives Godin a lot of reasons to be proud of it. Somewhat limited when playing certain music styles doesn't mean that Freeway EMG will make your tone to sound poor, quite the opposite, because Freeway EMG provides rich and versatile tone that you'll be happy with.

Ready to play out of the box, Godin's Freeway EMG is easy to set it up even more precise than usual, thanks to great hardware pieces it has built in. Handling and playing this kind of guitar is a pure joy as it stays in tune 90% of the time, regardless of the level of usage. It feels reliable and it really is, as Godin put great deal of time and effort to produce such a good-looking guitar that is behaving well, as Freeway EMG does.

Freeway EMG is a reliable guitar that will go to hell and back with you, and would want to do it again. It's a magnificent instrument that is reliable on stage as it is in studio. It will stand the beating and still would not lose its charm and ability to perform. Godin did make the instrument that should be considered the most reliable in its class!