![]() You can get the Radium in a number of color options, including: Sweetening the deal is the fact that a gig bag comes included with the Radium. The tone knob doubles as a coil-split, allowing you to split the humbuckers into single coils for expanded tone. To make the most of these pickups, a 5-way switch, as well as a volume and tone knob, are provided. Tonally, the Radium takes its inspiration from the Godin Radiator, featuring an HSH pickup combination. The fretboard is crafted from Rosewood to have a 12” radius, with 22 frets outlined by Pearloid dot inlays. Mahogany is used for the neck, which has a D-shape contour and a scale length of 24.75”. Its shape is similar to the Godin Stadium, which is a sort of modified T-style guitar. ![]() The Radium has a body consisting of Canadian Laurentian Basswood. This guitar is essentially a hybrid of 2 of Godin’s most popular guitar models. Godin really knows how to make a good guitar.If you have a decent budget and are looking for a powerhouse guitar, the Godin Radium is for you. Above all, it’s the playability that punches way above its weight. ![]() If the original Radiator was more indie, this one is more alt-rock, armed with some pretty serious clout. It’s a thicker, tougher sound than you might expect, and you can’t help thinking that some coil-splits and/or a simple treble bleed circuit would add some versatility to what is a very good-playing guitar. On a cleaner Fender-y channel, it ain’t a Tele that’s for sure, although the mix does add a little more chime and some dirty funk, especially if you knock the neck volume back a little. The neck is no slouch with a tube-y voice that, in the environment, has just enough clarity for those vocal lead lines. There’s nothing wrong with that, nor the sounds we’re hearing with a nicely gained Marshall-y amp voice where the bridge has that sort of overwound grind about it that would grace most classic rock to early metal styles perfectly. In terms of profile it’s a pretty regular medium C style: 21.5mm at the 1st fret and 24mm at the 12th, almost Fender-y in lower positions with a little more bulk by the heel.Īdding a little budget Gibson-like style, the wrapover bridge has overall intonation adjustment with raised preset saddle ridges for each string. The fingerboard edges are lightly rolled, too, and the Graph Tech Tusq nut is perfectly cut. ![]() 2.36mm wide by 1.2-1.25mm high) is beautifully installed and highly polished. It features a Gibson-like scale length and similar 305mm (12-inch) radius and the medium gauge fretwire (approx. The neck really does feel like it should be on a much higher priced guitar. The craft is excellent, particularly for the price. Overall, intonation is via the two protruding steel bolts that connect directly to the steel posts adding to the rather Melody Maker-like vibe. It means, of course, that all the wiring and pickups can be mounted to the face-plate, although with 13 screws to attach it to the guitar (there’s a hidden screw under the bridge) you won’t want to be removing and replacing it too often.Īnd while the Summit Classic SG, which we looked at back in issue 440, sported a rather nice Graph Tech ResoMax Sonic 1 one-piece “wraparound” bridge, the wrapover here is more generic in style, a heavier cast bridge with raised ridges to act as intonated ‘saddles’. ![]() These are clearly covered and classic looking with individual volume and tones, a shoulder-placed toggle and output jack below the lowest controls. The heel is left square and Gibson-esque, and the neck appears to be a three-piece construction with its headstock spliced on and a heel stack. There’s a little rear edge chamfering on the back, but otherwise we just get an edge radius to the slab body. ![]()
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