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The Custom Catch #20 represents the peak of Taylor's custom building experience, topped with the prestigious utilization of hand-selected Claro walnut tonewoods and Taylor's Grand Auditorium body shape for favorable, balanced acoustic tone. Premium hardware appointments, including durable antique chrome hardware, high-performance tuning machines, a micarta saddle, and a black TUSQ nut, are fitted for optimal sound distribution and playability, ensuring Custom Catch #20 performs and sounds as it should in any studio or stage performance situation. Between walnut's unique visual appearance, smooth satin neck navigation, lifelike electronic projection, any discerning guitarist will be more than proud with this custom catch in their acoustic arsenal. Don't delay ? this NAMM 2024-revealed model is only available for a limited time at Sweetwater.





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Wondrous walnut





Walnut has been revered within Taylor's tonewoods arsenal since day one ? and the Custom Catch #20 bears its prized appearance at every turn. The guitar's Claro walnut top, back, and sides supply a present midrange with bright treble projection that progressively gets richer the more it's played. Its tone is further expanded by Taylor's signature Grand Auditorium body shape, emphasizing a full low-end, superbly sustained highs, and a balanced frequency response with more than enough power to fill any room with rich acoustics. Topped off with Taylor's proprietary ES2 electronics, Sweetwater guitarists have already found more than enough strength within the Custom Catch #20 to add a bounty of bright potential to their studio and stage performances.





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Seamless navigation, spectacular playability





Bound with a satin-finished neo-tropical mahogany neck and a standard carve neck profile, the Custom Catch #20 is no stranger to quick movements between notes. Likewise, a responsibly sourced Crelicam ebony fingerboard with 5-curve shell inlays and silver dot side markers supply easy visual navigation for optimal playing accuracy. All the while, the Custom Catch #20's complimentary antique chrome hardware, high-performance tuning machines, and a TUSQ black nut facilitate premium vibration authenticity and intonation support. Combining all these features amounts to a truly professional playing experience, rounded with all the tools required to scope out a perfect playing setup, every time.





Even more extras: Taylor ES2 electronics and the TaylorSense system





From the first pluck to the final touch of sustain, the Custom Catch #20 is dressed to the nines with unique walnut tone. As a result, Taylor equipped it with its proprietary Expression System 2 (ES2) for maximum instrumental authenticity. At the core of the ES2 is a precisely calibrated pickup resting behind the saddle for responsive, accurate capture and an enhanced dynamic range. On the body, three soft-touch control knobs ensure simple management over volume, treble, and bass output for essential fine-tuning, and a built-in phase switch on the preamp supplies an easy fix to live frequency feedback. It's all topped off with the company's renowned TaylorSense system, providing the status of your instrument's humidity, battery life, temperature, and impact for immediate maintenance and performance feedback.





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Taylor Custom Catch #20 Grand Auditorium Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Illustrious walnut Custom Catch from Taylor's NAMM 2024 show arsenal


Grand Auditorium body style provides rich sonic projection with comfortable contours


Distinct walnut top, back, and sides offer an extremely balanced midrange with dignified low end punch and top-end clarity


V-Class bracing enhances volume and sustain for clearer acoustic sonics


Smooth satin walnut neck with standard carve profile facilitates seamless notational movement


Responsibly-sourced Crelicam ebony fingerboard with 5-curve shell inlays and silver dot side markers


Single-ring faceted rosette


Taylor tuning machines, micarta bridge saddle, and black TUSQ nut for superior intonation support


Complimentary Gotoh 510 antique chrome hardware