Martin DE Retro Plus Mahogany Road Series Acoustic-electric Guitar – Natural Aging Toner

Road Series Reliability Meets Premium Torrefied Timbers

The Martin DE Retro Plus Mahogany brings premium-level features and tonewoods typically reserved for the brand’s most prestigious instruments to the stage-ready Road series. Most impressively, this acoustic-electric boasts a thermally aged torrefied spruce top, capturing the worn-in and responsive vibe of a vintage Martin from your very first strum. Complete with scalloped spruce X-bracing and solid mahogany back and sides, the DE Retro Plus delivers the mammoth projection, crisp clarity, and booming bottom end that have made Martin’s mahogany-bodied dreadnoughts a staple among country strummers, bluegrass guitarists, and rockers for generations. When it comes to playability, this guitar’s select hardwood Performing Artist neck, elegant ebony fingerboard, and old-school nickel open-gear tuners ensure effortless speed and rock-solid tuning stability. Adorned with charming Style 18 appointments and the stage-bound Martin E1 electronics system, the Martin DE Retro Plus represents the ideal marriage of top-of-the-line Martin spec, retro flair, and Road series workhorse attitude.

Thermally aged for a broken-in voice

Clearly inspired by Martin’s iconic D-18, the Martin DE Retro ups the ante with a torrefied solid spruce top. Torrefaction is the process of thermally aging a piece of wood to emulate the sound and response of the well-seasoned timbers on a vintage instrument. Supported by scalloped spruce X-bracing and solid mahogany back and sides, the Martin DE Retro delivers a deep and roaring projection that does Martin’s historic dreadnought designs proud. It’s a wonderfully warm sound that’s equally at home laying down the framework of a rock track, supporting a country crooner, or dishing out light-speed flatpicking runs in an acoustic ensemble.

Setting the standard for steel strings everywhere

If there were such a thing as a “standard” acoustic guitar shape, it would undoubtedly be the dreadnought. It’s Martin’s most iconic model and a key component to the canon-like projection and booming bass response that’s defined the Nazareth sound since the D-18 and D-28 appeared in the early 1930s — and even earlier if you count Martin’s “Ditson” models! Whether you’re a flatpicking bluegrass phenom or a singer/songwriter strummer, a Martin dreadnought will provide you with a lifetime’s worth of superior steel-string tone.

Plug in courtesy of E1 electronics

Onboard Martin E1 electronics let you quickly connect to your favorite acoustic amp, recording interface, or even house PA systems at venues. Musicians at City Music are impressed with the E1 system’s tone, volume, and phase-reverse controls, which let you faithfully amplify your DE Retro Plus Mahogany’s richness and warmth while shaping sound quality to taste. The E1’s phase-reverse button is especially convenient for eliminating prickly feedback in tight spaces when standing near your amp is unavoidable. What’s more, the E1 system features a built-in tuner. You can tune up without any cable connections, so tuning breaks onstage and on the couch are equally painless. With onboard electronics this good, you’ll feel confident the DE Retro Plus Mahogany is equipped for anything.

Martin DE Retro Plus Mahogany Road Features:

• An ultra-premium spin on Martin’s workhorse line of Road series instruments
• Torrefied solid spruce top and scalloped X-bracing grant you the sound of a well-aged vintage Martin
• Solid mahogany back and sides dish out a warm, midrange-rich, and projecting character
• Big-bodied Martin dreadnought design ensures ample, chest-thumping bass response
• Easy-playing select hardwood neck, capped with a slick satin finish and carved into Martin’s Performing Artist profile
• Elegant ebony fingerboard in a traditional Martin 16-in. radius
• Charming Style 18 appointments, including dot fingerboard inlays, black binding, and a faux tortoiseshell pickguard
• Ebony bridge with a compensated TUSQ saddle; TUSQ nut with a fingerstyle-friendly 1.75-in. width
• Stage-ready Martin E1 electronics system