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Solid Tonewoods Form This Premium, Well-priced Road Warrior





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Martin’s timeless tone and history of acoustic innovation come to a great-playing, competitively priced road warrior in the value-packed Martin GPC-11E Road Series. This acoustic-electric prominently features Martin’s comfortable Grand Performance body style, built from solid spruce and sapele for premium Martin projection and resonance, along with a great-playing Performing Artist cutaway neck that boasts unfettered fret access and stunning playability. Gorgeous mother-of-pearl forms the soundhole rosette and graces the fingerboard top to bottom. Onboard Fishman MX-T electronics with an auto-mute soundhole tuner, which cuts the output when engaged for discreet stage tuning, ready this guitar for prime time. Discover a new side to the Martin legacy with the GPC-11E Road Series acoustic-electric from Sweetwater.





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Comfortable Grand Performance body style





The forward, balanced tone of the GPC-11E comes from its Grand Performance body style. This body style provides excellent projection and focus with a warmth that doesn’t boom in the low end or harsh out in the higher range. This sound is popular for both fingerstyle nuance and full-chord strumming. The Grand Performance size gives you more lows than 000 models but is still supremely comfortable during marathon gigs.





Quality solid tonewoods deliver timeless tone





As a top tonewood, spruce offers a combination of strength and elasticity that delivers a broad dynamic range with crisp articulation ? one that’s ideal for a wide range of playing styles, from delicate fingerpicking to aggressive flatpicked strumming. Sapele, used for the back and sides of the GPC-11E, is tonally similar to mahogany, but its higher density tends to produce a slightly brighter sound with more high-end shimmer. The characteristic sapele sound is consistently balanced across the tonal spectrum, which makes it, again, suitable to a broad range of playing styles.





Smooth-playing Performing Artist neck





Whether you’re recording for hours or playing out late into the night, you’ll be glad you got a Martin Road Series GPC-11E. The GPC-11E features one of Martin’s outstanding Performing Artist series necks, whose slimmer profile is easy on the hand, allowing you to play those extended sessions in comfort.





Fishman MX-T electronics with auto-mute tuner





An onboard Fishman MX-T pickup system gives the GPC-11E plug-and-play gigging convenience. Unique to this system is its auto-mute soundhole tuner, which spares your audience the between-song tuning rigmarole without the need to alert your soundperson.





Martin GPC-11E Road Series Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Martin tone and innovation come to a competitively priced road warrior


Built from solid tonewoods for premium projection and resonance


Comfortable Grand Performance body style with neck cutaway


Crisp, dynamic spruce meets a bed of warm, mahogany-like sapele


Great-playing Performing Artist neck profile


Gorgeous mother-of-pearl rosette and fingerboard accents


Fishman MX-T electronics offer plug-and-play gigging convenience


Auto-mute soundhole tuner permits discreet stage tuning