Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
00:00 Intro
03:03 Overview of Features
06:24 Pickups
07:52 Tone and Sounds demonstration
14:25 Overdriven sounds
21:49 Special features
24:23 Final thoughts
Andy Powers, Taylor Guitars' master luthier and CEO, recently launched a new project – an innovative retro-vibed electric guitar called the A-Type. Craft-built in a small workshop, the guitar is the first design to come out of his all-new guitar-making venture Powers Electric. As you'd expect from this forward-thinking luthier, the A-Type has many distinctive features that depart from the norm – from a sealed, semi-hollow construction to a custom-designed 'CamTail' vibrato, plastic parts crafted from colourful surfboard resin, unique pickups and more. Join demonstrators Richard Barrett and Jamie Dickson in Guitarist magazine's Tone Lounge to hear them put this labour-of-love instrument through its paces.
00:00 Intro
03:03 Overview of Features
06:24 Pickups
07:52 Tone and Sounds demonstration
14:25 Overdriven sounds
21:49 Special features
24:23 Final thoughts
Andy Powers, Taylor Guitars' master luthier and CEO, recently launched a new project – an innovative retro-vibed electric guitar called the A-Type. Craft-built in a small workshop, the guitar is the first design to come out of his all-new guitar-making venture Powers Electric. As you'd expect from this forward-thinking luthier, the A-Type has many distinctive features that depart from the norm – from a sealed, semi-hollow construction to a custom-designed 'CamTail' vibrato, plastic parts crafted from colourful surfboard resin, unique pickups and more. Join demonstrators Richard Barrett and Jamie Dickson in Guitarist magazine's Tone Lounge to hear them put this labour-of-love instrument through its paces.
