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The Lindo Slim SE pushes the slim guitar concept even further through design and materials. Inspiration comes from Mother Nature and her inner beauty, highlighting the many faces she possesses.
£399.99
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The Lindo Slim SE pushes the slim guitar concept even further through design and materials. Inspiration comes from Mother Nature and her inner beauty, highlighting the many faces she possesses.
The “ultimate ergonomic guitar” with a modern cutaway body shape for ultra player comfort and style. The back and sides are zebrawood. This offers a full all-round sound but projects the mid-range most prominently.
Zebrawood, with its flat-sawn grain, gives a striking three-dimensional appearance. The top is also a flatsawn bookmatched figured ash and the figuring is incredibly unique. By taming the projection of the mids, it works to compliment the zebrawood. Also adding its own element of “air” to the sound. The neck is mahogany and has a solid walnut fretboard. This combination mellows the sound and adds warmth to the mid-range. A perfect coupling with the body.
As well being perfectly fitted to the player, the Lindo Slim SE body depth of just 75mm. Makes this the perfect guitar for gigging and touring.
The BS5M preamp with piezo/mic blend system gives you the option to blend the sound from the under-saddle pickup with the sound from the microphone in the body. This is perfect for a slim body guitar as the mic enhances all the low-end warmth, whilst you can retain the clarity of notes from the piezo.
The preamp also has a 5-band EQ which means you have control of the bass, low middle, high middle, treble, presence and master volume. The tuner is chromatic and is displayed on a backlit LCD with LED indicators, so as well as being able to easily shape your sound, you can check the guitars tuning wherever you are and in any lighting conditions.
The added notch filter control allows you to cut frequencies within a range of 100-500 Hz.
The ‘phase’ button is exceptionally handy, as it can help to reduce feedback by synchronising the guitar’s sound wave with the amplifier’s sound wave. Often, the natural sound wave produced by the acoustic guitar can be out of phase with that of the amplifier. You will hear the difference because an ‘out of phase’ tone will sound tinny and unbalanced, where as an ‘in phase’ tone will be fuller and warmer.
The Lindo Slim SE has a dual output using either a jack lead or balanced XLR for plugging into an amplifier, mixing desks or an audio interface. There is also the feature of the double output using either a jack lead or balanced XLR for plugging into mixing desks or audio interfaces.
| Colour | Natural |
| Preamp | BS-5M Piezo/Mic Blend with 5-band EQ, chromatic tuner, notch filter, phase button, master volume and low battery indicator |
| Pick-up | Piezoelectric |
| Machine Heads | 19:1 Wilkinson in Gold Finish |
| Truss Rod | Two way |
| Frets | 20 |
| Strings | Steel (light gauge) |
| Size | 41″ (full-size) |
| Body Depth | 75mm |
| Scale Length | 25.5″ |
| Nut | 43mm Bone |
| Top Material | Flatsawn figured burl ash (bookmatched) |
| Side Material | Flatsawn zebrano |
| Back Material | Flatsawn zebrano (bookmatched) |
| Fretboard and Bridge | Solid walnut |
| Neck | Mahogany |
| Inlay Material | ABS |
| Binding Material | ABS |
| Saddle | Bone (compensated) |
| Accessories | Padded gig bag, Allen key and 9v battery |
22 reviews for Lindo Slim SE Electro Acoustic Guitar with BS5M Blend Preamp and Padded Gigbag
Mick B –
Never posted an online review before but I do use them, so its time I contributed!
Amateur luthier’s view: The guitar is generally well made. There are no laqueur runs, no glue runs around the lining. Some internal roughness on the internal sides but not significant (or generally visible). Standard X-braced soundboard. Both body and neck have plastic binding, the neck with fret markers of course, and striking abalone purfling on the sound board (including around the hole). The ‘lightning’ inlay on the fingerboard is great, and the zigzag positions are meaningful as they are positioned at the standard frets that are usually marked with pearl dots (3,5,7,9).
There are two things of note for potential buyers.
1. The first is that the body is very shallow, rather like the f-hole electric guitars often favoured by jazz players. This inevitably results in a diminution of the richness of sound. The sound quality depends mainly on two critical factors, the quality of the sound board (usually spruce) and the size and construction of the body. Vibrations of the sound board create pressure waves in the ‘box’ which escape from the sound hole, and that is what you hear. I made a guitar some years ago (mahogany & spruce) based on plans of a Martin 000-16m which has a similar size body but which is about 3cm deeper. Compared with this guitar, the Lindo guitar has less richness of tone and less bass (which is not to say that it is poor, as it is not). This is not surprising, and you could say the same of the 000-16m when comparing it to a Martin D28. However I mainly wanted a guitar with a cutaway so I could get above the 14th fret and, more importantly, one which had a pickup; and I was seduced by the beauty of the guitar pictured on the amazon web site! In my opinion, if you want a guitar for unamplified performance then there are better options for £330. I personally don’t think that the portability would be much affected by increasing the depth. If however you want to perform amplified, then the pickup/pre-amp is good and it is not an issue.
2. The soundboard construction is very unusual in the particular case of the guitar delivered to me. Solid tops are constructed from two pieces of wood that have been created by cutting a single rectangle of wood into two ‘leaves’, rather like opening a book at the middle page, and hence known as ‘book-matched’. This results in a soundboard that has mirror-image grain patterns around the centre line (i.e. either side of the sound hole). The picture on the web site indicates that this is indeed the case, as expected. However, in my case this is not true. The soundboard has an appearance as if made from a single piece of wood as the book-matching seems non-existant (like two pieces of wood from different parts of the tree having been picked up in the workshop). This is not a problem for the back (quarter-sawn zebra is very attractive, as any lion would tell you), but the soundboard looks very strange (see photo) as there is a very pronounced asymmetry in the grain pattern. The right hand side looks like a normal spruce top and the left hand side looks like the rather more attractive ash top of the guitar in the Amazon photo, and so looks a little bizarre. It is not a disaster, but is nonetheless rather disappointing having made my personal purchase decision on the basis that aesthetics would compensate for the shallow body. I’ve always told people NEVER buy a guitar without playing (‘do as I say, not as I do’ apparently…!); caveat emptor, the downside of online purchases.
Guitarist view: The guitar feels well balanced, and has a very nice ‘feel’. The finish is very high gloss more usual for an electric guitar than an acoustic, but in my view it works perfectly for this instrument. The upward sweep on the headstock shape visually reflects the cutout on the top bout which is a tasteful feature I think. It is set up correctly, has a lovely action (essential for finger pickers), and the intonation is spot on; the saddle has a compensated B-string slot which seems to have become the norm (though I don’t understand why it has not always been so). It is a joy to play. The pickup/pre-amp impresses me (but I don’t have much knowledge of this aspect of guitars). There’s an XLR3 socket (as well as a standard jack) for those who fiddle with recorders and the ‘presence’ control adds a wonderful ‘bite’ to the sound which works great for punchy stuff like ragtime and old world country blues. The soft case is the normal standard (i.e. OK for carrying but not for slapping) with a large zipped pocket above the bottom bout and a small zipped compartment over the headstock big enough for capo, strings, picks. A get-you-started thin jack-to-jack cable and a PP3 battery were included.
All in all, a very nice guitar but a deeper body (and perhaps a stricter soundboard QC?) would make it perfect.
P.S. Still a very strong smell of varnish after 2 days so some compulsory short-term solvent abuse when playing it; I keep wanting to play Grateful Dead songs even though I don’t know any…
Livi –
This guitar looks beautiful and plays beautifully! I ordered it and it turned up two days later which is good. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is because there are glue stains on the guitar. However, they are not too noticeable but for me, it’s just a little thing that could be improved. Other than that, it’s amazing!
Amazon Customer –
Fantastic item – lovely service. This has been dubbed our ‘gift of the year’ find. How could we not purchase one at such a fantastic price for such a quality item. It looks stunning! – which was all myself and my daughter (it’s a gift for her husband) could say about it initially. We have been beaten over the head with the ‘you cannot buy a guitar without playing it’ rule; and this almost made us pass this opportunity to purchase when it came up in the black Friday deals. After getting a friend round to ‘road test’ the quality of sound, we grew even bigger smiles. How lucky, to have found a guitar – after 4 yrs of searching – slim enough for my son-in-law to hold comfortably, but that looks and sounds as truly amazing as this does. I was going to wait to do the review until we were sure he was as happy with it as we felt he would be, but after hearing how it sounds, i feel no need to wait. i’m totally sure he will love it and my daughter is so proud that we found it, took the risk and it has more than paid off. What a totally beautifully stunning guitar in every way. Will be highly recommended by us, for sure – and i hope it brings you many more happy customers. Truly one of the best buys this year (and we’ve placed almost 100 orders on amazon alone). Well done Lindo, keep up the excellent work
Amazon Customer –
Just purchased this guitar, was a little bit skeptical about it sounding different because of the slim case, but to my surprise, it sounds absolutely amazing! The built in tuner is also quite useful and the abolone shell trimmings look really nice on the wood body. It’s light weight and slimmer size make it a great traveling guitar. Definitely my best purchase in 2015.
erim ahmet –
Well what can I say other than this has been one of my best buys in a while. I have had this one night and the quality is there for all to see as soon as you open the packaging and see how beautiful this guitar is you realise you are on to a winner. I haven’t mic’d the guitar up yet, but i Di’ed this into my UAD apollo 8p running through an spl channel one and recorded about 5 tracks of guitar added drums and bas and showed the singer and guitarist from WAKE UP LEO, who was really impressed. I have a recording studio and already my clients are excited to record with this guitar with one coming around tomorrow to give this a test on a couple of his tracks.
This is probably the second best acoustic I’ve played in my life, the best being a considerable amount more expensive.
my only gripe is that the battery although new died within a couple of uses :S.
But this guitar is fantastic and I think its a product both Lindo Guitars can be proud of and anyone who owns this guitar will be proud to own as I truly am.
Great work from what really looks like great company, Hope they begin making more hi end electric guitars as i might just have to purchase one 😀
WELL DONE
Shaun@DEF –
Had a few days now to get acquainted with my new Lindo LDG-SL-55D (Not exactly the ORG-SL but a Special Edition LDG, still with the lightning strike fret inlay)…Simply put this guitar is inspirational!..I’ve had a number of electric guitars over the years; Fender Strat, Gibson SG/Explorer, various Ibanez, Washburn etc…but this ACOUSTIC puts them all in the shade!…The tone, feel and look of this guitar is beyond my expectations…Add to this the exemplar service you get from the Lindo Bristol team – There is no music shop/showroom that I have ever come across that gives you the level of detailed support, guidance and courtesy that I experienced at Lindo…5/5…10/10…100%, whatever, make these guys next on your guitar shopping list!
sam smith –
What an absolutely stunning and beautiful Guitar. great action and excellent acoustic sound from such a slim body. The envy of all my friends. Can’t put it down.
Mr Paul A Maidment –
Bought for my sons 20th, a very stylish and well designed instrument, sound quality is excellent, comes with soft bag and cables.
Rowan Duffy –
This guitar is beautiful, I bought it as a birthday present and it is safe to say it has made my man very very happy, it sounds wonderful and is so easy to tune. I absolutely love the patterns in the wood and the mother of pearl style outlining. Thank you so much Lindo Guitars!
neil macdiarmid –
Excellent guitar very pleased.