Renaissance RS12 Custom Maple 12 String by Rick Turner Serial #5531

The Renaissance RS12 with Highly Figured Maple  over Mahogany  is a stunning example of work by master luthier, Rick Turner. The Renaissance series truly represents the best way to achieve acoustic tone while plugged in. It is constructed like a true acoustic instrument, with bent sides and a braced tone wood top and back. If you like the RS6 you will love the RS12. It plays easy and seamlessly.  This is NOT your typical "difficult to play" 12 string.

The construction feature that sets the instruments apart is the Western Red Cedar block running through the center of the body. This prevents feedback and provides an acoustically live foundation for the D-TAR Wavelength preamp and Turner Timberline pickup system.

Electronics - Utilizing a D-TAR Timberline pickup system that features a coaxial piezo polymer pickup element mounted in a curve bottomed slot in the bridge with a bone or carbon fiber saddle transferring the string pressure variations from vibrations into the pickup which transduces those vibrations into an electrical signal. Because the pickup senses 360 degrees around it’s core, you get both direct string sound as well as the warmth of the wood of the body. Pickup installation is all about location, location, location, as well as the exact geometry of the saddle/pickup/bridge interfaces, and they have taken great care to optimize installation including tilting the saddle back at an angle of 7 degrees to better split the “break angle” of the string as it goes over the saddle and down into the body.

That pickup signal is matched to an 18 volt preamp which provides a bit of a signal boost as well as conditioning the pickup impedance to run down long cables and match the input characteristics of typical amplifiers. Earlier instruments used two 9 Volt batteries; newer ones use two “AA” cells with a 6X voltage multiplier circuit to achieve the same headroom as with the two 9 volt batteries.

We are proud to be your number one Rick Turner dealer and favorite Las Vegas Guitar store. Call us today to hear more about the Renaissance RS12 Figured Maple over Mahogany.