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LR Baggs' Grand Entrance into the World of Guitar Building
BeThe Baggs AEG-1 Acoustic Electric Guitar is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to high-performance acoustic amplification, all rooted in the craftsmanship of a luthier. Our founder and master luthier, Lloyd Baggs, began his journey as a guitar maker, creating instruments for artists like Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and Janis Ian. His deep respect for the guitar evolved into a quest to faithfully amplify his own instruments for live performance.
After years of studying the physics of acoustic instruments and pioneering advancements in pickups and electronics, the AEG-1 is the realization of everything we’ve learned about acoustic sound and amplification. Lloyd’s dual expertise as a luthier and a pickup designer allowed us to craft a guitar and its electronics in harmony, finely tuning the system for this instrument. With its remarkable acoustic properties, we were able to successfully amplify the AEG-1 with our most accurate system yet — the revolutionary HiFi Duet. Equipped with our award-winning HiFi Bridge Plate Pickups and our studio-quality Silo Microphone, the AEG-1 is versatile for any stage, big or small.
Cutting-edge inset top and back
LR Baggs’ AEG-1 boasts a cutting-edge foundation that merges solid tonewoods and composite materials. To start, the AEG-1 features a solid Sitka spruce top supported with scalloped X-bracing, offering all the touch-sensitive feel and dynamics you’d expect from a typical acoustic guitar. The top is then paired with a solid rosewood back for enhanced low-end depth and treble chime. However, these traditional tonewoods are installed in a thoroughly non-traditional manner, with both the top and back inset into the poplar composite sides. This forward-thinking design is finished off with a custom integrated neck support structure, all coming together to supply you with an awe-inspiring acoustic response from this thin, compact instrument.
HiFi bridge plate pickups
The AEG-1’s HiFi Duet electronics system is built around a set of HiFi bridge plate acoustic guitar pickups. This set of pickups captures every bit of your AEG-1’s natural unplugged detail, all without compromising its resonance and vibration. The result is an exceptional acoustic-electric tone with superb tone, balance, definition, and dynamics.
Top-shelf Silo mic
Next, the AEG-1 comes equipped with a Silo mic to bolster your plugged-in tone with studio-quality sound. The Silo leverages the company's Tru-Mic technology, employing a newly designed microphone capsule and tuned suspension for enhanced ambience and dimension. You also get outstanding isolation and feedback resistance, ensuring an ear-grabbing experience wherever you plug in.
Studio-grade preamp
To tie the AEG-1’s HiFi Duet electronics system together, LR Baggs included an all-discrete, studio-grade preamp with a multi-pole crossover system. This setup blends the HiFi pickups and Silo Mic together flawlessly, certifying an inspiring result in any mix position. Beyond that, this preamp includes Volume, Mix, Battery Check, and Mic Level controls. Whether you're aiming for a punchy, direct sound or an airy, studio-miked sound, the HiFi Duet is willing — and able — to oblige.
LR Baggs AEG-1 Features:
The patent-pending neck support system of the AEG-1 is the foundation of its exceptional acoustic performance. Traditionally, the top and back of thin-bodied acoustic guitars are overbuilt to support the neck, which compromises the acoustic response. Our innovative approach liberates the top and back to be voiced independently without having to support the neck, resulting in greater sensitivity and an ideal acoustic response, all within a sleek and comfortable design.
Another benefit of the rock-solid neck support is that more string energy is transferred to the top, expanding dynamic range, enriching tonal depth, and enhancing low-frequency response. This contributes to the depth, warmth, and rich acoustic sound that was previously unattainable from an Acoustic-Electric guitar.
As a design enthusiast, Ive been in love with the iconic mid-century plywood furniture of Charles and Ray Eames, and that of Eero Saarinen for as long as I can remember. Recognizing the strength, stability, freedom of design, and the beauty offered by what was then thought of as a lowly material, these designers elevated ply to luxury status. The ply of the AEG-1 is custom made in the U.S.A. of highly sustainable Poplar and offers the same qualities that inspired the Eames and Saarinen to embrace this material. It is strong, lightweight, and extremely stable, making it the perfect platform to support the resonant top and back of our guitar. Lloyd Baggs
At the heart of the HiFi Duet are two bridge plate sensors that deliver outstanding string balance, tone, clarity, and dynamics, faithfully capturing the guitars authentic voice. The design, materials, and precise size and shape of the pickups achieve a perfect balance between string vibration, body resonance, and feedback resistance, offering a truly unparalleled plug-and-play experience.
Machined from solid aluminum and crafted with precision, the Silo Mic brings studio-micd performance to your fingertips. Engineered with a controlled admittance pattern, the mic performs as if it were outside of the guitar, providing the openness and ambience of a studio mic with great isolation and feedback resistance. Its exceptional sound quality invites a comparison with your favorite studio microphones.
The electronics feature an all-discrete studio grade preamp with a multi-pole crossover system that seamlessly blends the HiFi Pickups and Silo Mic for an inspiring feel and sound in any position. The highly versatile system ranges between direct and natural to open and airy and everywhere in between. As with all LR Baggs electronics, you can expect the same warmth, purity, low noise, and long battery life our circuitry is known for. The side-mounted controls offer quick access to master volume, pickup/mic blend, tone shaping, phase inversion, and a battery life indicator.
