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“The most convincing acoustic tone from an electric acoustic that we’ve yet heard”: LR Baggs AEG-1 review
Apr 7, 2025

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Lloyd Baggs is best known for designing industry standard acoustic guitar pickups such as the Anthem, Session VTC, HiFi and HiFi Duet. But, in fact, Baggs comes from the world of high-end lutherie, creating instruments for Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, Janis Ian, Graham Nash and other great artists.
And it was watching Cooder struggling to amplify his Martin that set Lloyd on his new career path. “I saw Ry’s pain in trying to amplify his acoustic,” Baggs reveals. “It was pretty brutal, so it has become our quest to make amplifying an acoustic as easy, pleasurable and simple as it is with an electric guitar.”
Thinline electro-acoustics have been around for years, notables being Gibson’s Chet Atkins SST, the Godin Multiac (which Baggs had a hand in creating), Fender with its Highway and Acoustasonic series, and many others.
But after years of creating some of the world’s favourite acoustic pickups, Lloyd has returned to guitar building, combining his luthier’s knowledge with innovations in acoustic amplification that have since occurred, many of them his own.
The result is the new AEG-1. There are three different top options available: Natural Engelmann Spruce, Torrefied Sitka Spruce (as here) and Sunburst Sitka Spruce.
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