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About Adrian Smith
Before Adrian Smith joined Iron Maiden in 1980 , replacing local guitarist Dennis Stratton, he played in the band Urchin . During this time he wrote the basics to one of his best-known songs, 22 Acacia Avenue .
When the position of second guitarist in Iron Maiden became vacant in late 1980, Adrian's friend Dave Murray suggested him to Steve Harris as the new guitarist . While Adrian appeared rather reserved on Iron Maiden's second album Killers , his song 22 Acacia Avenue on the number one album The Number Of The Beast became a classic of the heavy metal genre. Iron Maiden is one of the most successful and influential metal bands of all time and Adrian Smith's guitar work has long been a driving force behind their distinctive and dynamic sound. With their timeless songwriting and thrilling live performances, Maiden continue to record, tour internationally and rock stadiums everywhere with electrifying prowess and unwavering heavy metal passion .
Built for rough everyday touring
The USA Signature Adrian Smith San Dimas SDM is built to withstand Adrian's relentless touring regiment . It features a lightweight alder body and a bolt-on maple neck with a matte urethane finish on the back that ensures smooth playability , as well as a pair of graphite reinforcement rods that hold the neck in position and protect it from warping, throughout no matter what stress he is exposed to. With 22 jumbo frets and black dot inlays, the 12"-16" radius maple fretboard is the ideal platform for powerful chord work and fast, fast-paced solos, while a neck mounted truss rod adjustment wheel allows for quick and easy neck curvature adjustment enabled.
pickup and features
A DiMarzio Super Distortion DP100 humbucker in the bridge position provides the perfect mix of power and good sound, with rich, boosted mids, powerful bass and fat highs, while the Samarium Cobalt Noiseless Single-Coil Strat middle and neck pickups create an authentic, noise-free Stratocaster - Deliver sound with incredible dynamics and magnetic response. A five-way switches and volume and tone controls open up endless tonal possibilities, while the Floyd Rose Original double-locking tremolo system keeps the guitar in tuning , set after set, even under the toughest use.
Tuned for peak performance, this signature guitar features a sophisticated Snow White finish with a black pickguard, black hardware and licensed Fender Strat headstock .
Features
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Technology: Solid Body
Clear, focused, powerful sound with higher sustain -
Neck construction: Bolt on neck
A little less sustain, but very percussive. -
Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
Classic scale length of ST-style guitars -
Pickup Configuration: H-S-S (1x Humbucker, 2x Single Coil)
Versatile sound with powerful mids and highs and a fuller sound. -
Fretboard: Maple
Bright and clear sound reproduction, good articulation and presence, balanced sound. -
Body Material: Alder
Bright and balanced sound with good sustain. -
Fretboard radius: 12" - 16" Compound
Better bending options, higher and more comfortable fret purity.
- Strings: 6 string
- Country of origin: USA
- Strings thickness ex factory: .009 - .042
- Factory stringing: Fender Nickel Plated Steel
- Special Features: Adrian Smith Signature
- Technology: Solid Body
- Body shape: Modern Strat
- Body Material: Alder
- Neck: 1-pc. Maple, Quartersawn
- Neck Profile: San Dimas Neck Shape
- Fretboard: Maple
- Fretboard radius: 12" - 16" Compound
- Fretboard Inlays: Black Dots
- Frets: 22
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Pickup Configuration: H-S-S (1x Humbucker, 2x Single Coil)
- Neck Pickup: Samarium Cobalt Noiseless
- Middle Pickup: Samarium Cobalt Noiseless
- Bridge Pickup: DiMarzio® Super Distortion® DP100FW+BK
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Hardware: Black
- Bridge / Tremolo: Floyd Rose Original Double Locking tremolo
- Color/ Finish: Snow White
- Includes: Hardcase
Jackson Guitars was created when Grover Jackson took over the well-known company Charvel's Guitar Repair in 1978. The collaboration with the then Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads in 1980 resulted in the Rhoads body shape, which is still available today, and also marked the start of Jackson Guitars. The timing was just right because heavy metal was experiencing a heyday in the 1980s and the trend (started by Eddie Van Halen) was so-called super or power strats. These are guitars that are visually more or less based on the classic ST form , but are equipped with more modern and stylistically more suitable components such as humbuckers or Floyd Rose tremolos. Jackson soon earned a reputation as a forger of premium, American-built, high-end custom instruments that could be seen in the hands of many well-known guitarists of the time. With the musical changes of the 1990s, Jackson Guitars began opening factories in the Far East in order to be able to offer their instruments in cheaper areas. Since 2002, both Jackson and Charvel have been part of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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