Premier Guitar features affiliate links to help support our content. We may earn a commission on any affiliated purchases.

Introducing Colletti Guitars

Introducing Colletti Guitars

Tommy Colletti, Music Zoo founder & owner, starts a new journey with his own USA-built custom guitars.


Flame Top Mandolin Burst

The Speed of Sound is a bolt-on construction instrument featuring the Patent-Pending "ResoLink" - a brass plate which links the body and neck to aid in resonance, sustain and articulation. The 'Reso-Link' is tuned specifically to sonically connect the neck and body to aid in the sympathetic resonance of each note. There's a defined note separation and sparkle added to the tones of the guitar that make it reminiscent of the touch-sensitive response of vintage guitars that have had decades to acclimate as a musical instrument and vibrate as one whole piece.

The tone woods of the guitars (fretboards to necks and tops to bodies) are joined together using hot hide glue. The use of hide glue is a process adapted from vintage guitar construction, violin makers, and stringed instruments from decades and centuries past. Hot hide glue adds sustain and brilliance and brings out the natural tonal properties of the wood. The pickups are designed in collaboration with Mark Stow of OX4, a well-respected pickup winder known for his incredibly accurate PAF replicas.

The pickups are a blend of some of Tommy and Mark’s favorite original PAF pickups from the late 1950s. The introductory sets also include a reverse magnet neck pickup to replicate the Peter Green & Gary Moore-owned Burst pickup that has become popular over the last few years. It delivers out-of-phase single coil sounds as well as blistering humbucking tones. The bridge pickup not only takes the best attributes from those early PAFs pickups, but combined with a slightly degaussed Alnico 5 magnet and 42 enamel wire, delivers a sound unmatched in current handmade pickups today.

The hardware and electronics of the guitar are also built of the highest quality materials. The Speed of Sound features a brass tremolo design made popular in the late '70s through early '80s. They are constructed from 360 brass, and the bridges are available in hard-tail and tremolo models. They provide a unique tone and sustain tuning stability due to the unique shape of the bridge saddle. Of course, models are available with Floyd Rose tremolos upon request. The Speed of Sound is wired with vintage-accurate cloth-covered 22-gauge wire with authentic paper-in-oil capacitors and vintage-taper potentiometers designed to get great tones delivered from zero to ten.

Roasted Birdseye Top Merlot Finish

Features

  • Solidbody Electric Guitar
  • Maple Top (Options for Roasted, Quilt & Flame Maple)
  • More Top Wood Options include Ash & Mahogany
  • Colletti Carve Neck with Heavily Rolled Shoulders
  • 5 Degree Headstock Angle • Brass Side Dots
  • 25.5" or 24-3/4" Scale Length Options
  • 1.65” Width Brass Nut • Jumbo Nickel Frets
  • Specially-Voiced OX4 Pickups with Reverse Magnet Neck Pickup
  • Emerson Paper in Oil .022 capacitor
  • Mojotone Vintage taper volume and tone potentiometers with Cloth Wiring
  • Brass Ground and Jack Plates, , Legacy Control Cavity
  • Patent-Pending Reso-Link

Introducing the Colletti Guitars 'Speed of Sound': Vintage-Inspired & American-Made!

Currently, the Colletti Guitars Speed of Sound is available exclusively at The Music Zoo. You can shop at The Music Zoo's website, or make an appointment to the showroom in Farmingdale, New York.

Day 6 of Stompboxtober is here! Today’s prize? A pedal from Revv Amplification! Enter now and check back tomorrow for the next one!

Read MoreShow less

Beauty and sweet sonority elevate a simple-to-use, streamlined acoustic and vocal amplifier.

An EQ curve that trades accuracy for warmth. Easy-to-learn, simple-to-use controls. It’s pretty!

Still exhibits some classic acoustic-amplification problems, like brash, unforgiving midrange if you’re not careful.

$1,199

Taylor Circa 74
taylorguitars.com

4.5
4.5
4.5
4

Save for a few notable (usually expensive) exceptions, acoustic amplifiers are rarely beautiful in a way that matches the intrinsic loveliness of an acoustic flattop. I’ve certainly seen companies try—usually by using brown-colored vinyl to convey … earthiness? Don’t get me wrong, a lot of these amps sound great and even look okay. But the bar for aesthetics, in my admittedly snotty opinion, remains rather low. So, my hat’s off to Taylor for clearing that bar so decisively and with such style. The Circa 74 is, indeed, a pretty piece of work that’s forgiving to work with, ease to use, streamlined, and sharp.

Read MoreShow less

The evolution of Electro-Harmonix’s very first effect yields a powerful boost and equalization machine at a rock-bottom price.

A handy and versatile preamp/booster that goes well beyond the average basic booster’s range. Powerful EQ section.

Can sound a little harsh at more extreme EQ ranges.

$129

Electro-Harmonix LPB-3
ehx.com

4
4
4
4.5

Descended from the first Electro-Harmonix pedal ever released, the LPB-1 Linear Power Booster, the new LPB-3 has come a long way from the simple, one-knob unit in a folded-metal enclosure that plugged straight into your amplifier. Now living in Electro-Harmonix’s compact Nano chassis, the LPB-3 Linear Power Booster and EQ boasts six control knobs, two switches, and more gain than ever before.

Read MoreShow less
Photo by Artem Podrez: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-person-holding-an-electric-guitar-6270138/

Intermediate

Intermediate

• Learn classic turnarounds.

• Add depth and interest to common progressions.

• Stretch out harmonically with hip substitutions.

{'media': '[rebelmouse-file-pdf 67832 original_filename="Turnarounds-Oct24.pdf" site_id=20368559 expand=1]', 'media_html': 'Turnarounds-Oct24.pdf', 'id': 67832, 'type': 'pdf', 'file_original_url': 'https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/files/67832/Turnarounds-Oct24.pdf'}

Get back to center in musical and ear-catching ways.

Read MoreShow less