Godin Session T-Professional – Ozark Cream | Evaluation

MSRP: (UK) £1599  / (US) $1799

Billed as combining the flexibility of the Session HT with added boutique-quality options to raise it to the following degree, the Godin Session T-Professional serves up tonal prospects for any model of music. That includes an H-S-S pickup configuration made up of Seymour Duncan SSL-2 single-coils on the neck and center positions, plus a Seymour Duncan Saturday Night time Particular Humbucker on the bridge, the Session T-Professional includes a Arduous Rock Maple neck and is offered with Rosewood or Maple fretboards. A customized high-gloss end permits the wooden to breathe, enhancing the guitar’s pure acoustics. Nick Jennison tells us extra.



Godin guitars are maybe one of the vital “slept-on” producers on the market with regards to solid-body electrical guitars. Whereas most affiliate the Canadian model with their best-in-class Multiac line of stage acoustic guitars or their trailblazing multi-voice devices just like the Flat 5 X, Godin additionally gives a variety of chic, versatile, and supremely well-built “standard” electrics.

The Godin Session T-Professional is a novel tackle the basic “S-type” design. It’s a mode of guitar that has been carried out to demise, however someway Godin has managed to give you a model that’s each distinctive and really trendy with out essentially breaking the mildew. It’s a bit of smaller than your typical “S,” with a tortoise-effect pickguard that’s reduce off earlier than it will get to the rear-mounted pots and 5-way change.

The “Session” title is fairly acceptable, given how sonically versatile this guitar is. It’s an HSS configuration, with a Seymour Duncan “Saturday Night time Particular” humbucker within the bridge place and a pair of SSL-2 single coils within the center and neck positions. The humbucker splits on a push-pull pot, for a complete of seven pickup alternatives, together with the 5 basic “S” tones and beefy rock humbucker tones within the bridge place.

Now, HSS pickup configurations are famously troublesome to steadiness, provided that humbuckers and single coils usually need completely different pot values, however Godin has carried out a fantastic job with this. The bridge pickup is on the “classic” aspect of “classic scorching,” however has greater than sufficient punch for high-gain stuff, together with metallic tones, and splits for a convincing nation twang. The only coils are full and chimey, with a smoother than standard excessive finish that’s nice for lead tones, in addition to tight funk and wiry blues tones.

The neck is a really good “Goldilocks” form that’s neither too thick nor too skinny, with a mushy fashionable C carve and a 12” radius. You may have the choice of each maple and rosewood fretboards, and each look nice towards the Ozark Cream end on the assessment mannequin we checked out. It’s actually only a query of which wooden you like—there will likely be a small sonic distinction, with rosewood being a bit of softer and extra rounded and maple being extra “ahead” within the highs and higher mids.

The tremolo bridge is Godin’s Tru-Loc system. It’s a really well-thought-out tackle the basic two-point trem, with totally adjustable pressure on the bar itself. It may be set to remain put or flop out of the best way whenever you’re not utilizing it (my private choice). The motion is easy with loads of vary, and the return to pitch is superb, thanks in no small half to the locking tuners and straight string pull.

The Godin Session T-Professional is an ideal “do all of it on one instrument” guitar. It has an enormous vary of tones acceptable for any musical setting and a neck that may work with you whether or not you’re laying down uneven rhythms or slicing it up with chops-y lead work. It appears to be like completely lovely too, within the typical understated, stylish Godin vogue.

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