Lag Guitars Tramontane 118 Auditorium Slim Cutaway Electro

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Lag Guitars Tramontane 118 Auditorium Slim Cutaway Electro - Black

A slim-bodied acoustic can be an absolute revelation if you've ever found yourself wrestling with the depth of a traditional dreadnought. The Lâg Guitars Tramontane 118 Auditorium Slim Cutaway Electro – Black (T118ASCE-BLK) takes the warm, responsive character of the Tramontane 118 series and packages it in a sleek, stage-friendly body that's remarkably comfortable to hold. Add that deep high-gloss Black finish and matching black hardware, and you've got one seriously sharp-looking electro-acoustic.

The big attraction here is the Auditorium Slim body. You still get the balanced response and musical versatility associated with an Auditorium guitar, but the reduced body depth brings the instrument closer to you. For players who find larger acoustics cumbersome—particularly during long gigs or seated sessions—that seemingly simple change can make a massive difference. It also makes the T118ASCE-BLK a particularly appealing performance guitar, where comfort and control are every bit as important as acoustic volume.

Lâg hasn't skimped on the soundboard either. The guitar features a solid Red Cedar top, a timber loved for its warm, mature voice and wonderfully responsive nature. Cedar doesn't demand a heavy right hand before it starts giving something back, so gentle fingerstyle passages and softer accompaniment can sound rich and expressive. Khaya back and sides complement the cedar with a smooth, balanced character that works beautifully across everything from singer-songwriter material to folk, pop and contemporary acoustic styles.

The neck follows the comfortable modern recipe we've come to expect from Lâg. A Khaya neck meets a Brown BrankoWood fingerboard, with a familiar 650mm scale length, 43mm nut width and 350mm radius. There are 20 medium silver-nickel frets, while the cutaway makes those upper registers considerably easier to reach when the arrangement calls for something more adventurous than open chords.

For live work, Lâg equips the guitar with its impressively comprehensive Astro-Lâg preamp system. Alongside Volume and three-band EQ, you get a dedicated Brilliance control for shaping upper-frequency detail, plus Notch and Phase controls to help deal with feedback and difficult stage environments. There's also a built-in tuner, meaning the essentials for a plugged-in performance are already sitting right there on the guitar.

The finishing details tie everything together beautifully. Brown BrankoWood is used for the bridge and headstock facing as well as the fingerboard, while black die-cast machine heads with a precise 1:18 ratio complement the gloss Black body. Quarter-round body binding also helps soften the contact points between guitar and player—a particularly nice touch on an instrument designed around playing comfort.

At Musicmaker, we reckon the Lâg Tramontane 118 Auditorium Slim Cutaway Electro in Black makes an especially strong case for players who spend plenty of time plugged in. You get the warmth of a solid cedar top, the comfort of that slim Auditorium body and an unusually capable onboard preamp, all wrapped up in a finish that looks fantastic under stage lights. Less bulk, plenty of guitar.