Epiphone Masterbilt DR500MCE Acoustic Electric Guitar combines traditional construction methods and historic features with premium all solid tone woods to bring you a new ‘vintage’ instrument with deep rich lows, shimmering highs and a balanced mid-range. Featuring a solid Sitka Spruce top, hand-scalloped Sitka Spruce braces, and mahogany kerfing along with a rosewood bridge and bone saddle, the DR500MCE's historic dreadnought shape with a spectacular cutaway also contributes to its great tone. The Masterbilt DR500MCE also has a solid mahogany back and sides, which adds to the guitar's legendary tone as well as a hand-shaped solid mahogany neck. The 25.5 inch scale mahogany neck joins the body at the 14th fret and is adorned with split-diamond pearl fretboard inlays. The ‘off-set’ headstock has a ‘stickpin’ headstock inlay along with a 1.68 inch bone nut. The Epiphone Masterbilt DR500MCE Acoustic Electric Guitar comes alive when plugged-in, thanks to the eSonic2 preamp system. The Sonic2 preamp features a built-in, easy-to-use tuner. Other controls on this state-of-the-art preamp include Master Volume, NanoFlex Tone, NanoMag Tone, stereo blend, low battery indicator and a phase switch to help eliminate unwanted feedback. Epiphone Masterbilt DR500MCE Acoustic Electric Guitar Features Quality vintage-style Grover Sta-Tite 18:1 ratio machine heads Imitation tortoise pickguard, nickel hardware Bound body, neck and headstock NanoFlex uses unique flexible sensing material featuring integrated active electronics NanoMag pickup mounted at the end of the fingerboard NanoMag has 3 Samarian-Cobalt magnets and integrated active circuit to capture a range of harmonics Sitka Spruce top is that it gets better with age Superbly shaped cutaway allowing for easy reach of all the frets When engaged, output is automatically muted with no popping noise Push in the tuner button and unplug the guitar without a loud pop