Review Demo McInturff Guitars Spitfire

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Read the review: http://bit.ly/McInturffSpitfireREV • Though it shares visual design cues with a lot of iconic axes, Terry McInturff’s new Spitfire is a kind of a “Super-Duper Strat”— a single-coil-driven beast that uses onboard electronics to generate the myriad tone options hot rodders love. • The Spitfire’s secret weapon, as powerful as the Royal Air Force stalwart from which it takes its name, is McInturff’s Mini-Q passive tone filter, which mimics the characteristics of the Pultec EQ found on so many great studio desks of the classic rock era. • Putting the sonic punch of a Pultec EQ in a guitar is ambitious. Doing it without throwing a battery in the mix is an even bigger deal. Whether it achieves the same results you’d get from a Pultec is hard to say. Nevertheless, the end result is impressive. I plugged the Spitfire into a variety of luxe-to-funky amps during its two-week visit, and emerged convinced that I could play this guitar for months on end and still find sounds to explore. • The beautiful wood that goes into the Spitfire almost certainly plays a role in creating such a delicious tone palette. McInturff starts with a reddish pumpkin (swamp) ash body, that feels especially resonant and lively. The recommended, but optional, solid rosewood neck (the alternative is a less expensive Honduras mahogany) is mounted via a dovetail joint. • The neck itself is scaled back a click from classic Stratocaster proportions to 25.125. To me, it just feels like a really comfortable Stratocaster neck, so I’ll have to take his word for it. The neck also has a natural-looking tung oil finish rather than lacquer, for smooth travel up and down the length of the neck. • To finish reading the review, visit: http://bit.ly/McInturffSpitfireREV

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