Aristides Instruments is premiering a new music video featuring Delain guitarist, Timo Somers.  Previously considered one of the best kept secrets in guitar innovation over the past five years, the company has recently been catapulted into the limelight by media and artists.  Likewise, Timo’s notability continues to grow as he travels the world performing lead guitar duties in symphony metal’s Delain.  

Coinciding with recent launch of the new 060 guitar, Aristides and Timo collaborated on a new music video to demonstrate the versatility of the new model’s design and electronic configuration.  Performing his instrumental song, “Anthem”, Timo uses the songs driving rhythms as a canvas to paint a variety of tones that often would take multiple guitars to achieve. Along with demonstrating how well the guitar sounds, Timo also executes a variety of playing techniques to illustrate the innovative design aspects from the company.

Timo adds this: “From my early years on, I had a love for super strats. I played a lot of them before I found out I wasn't really satisfied with their tone and moved on to other kinds of guitars. I started playing Aristides a few years ago and found 'my guitars'. I love my Aristides 070 deeply, I tour the world with it and have recorded a fair amount of albums with it. When I heard Aristides was going to make a 6 string version of that with the vibe of a super strat, I was very excited and decided to give it a chance. I was blown away. This is officially the first super strat that actually out plays any other one when it comes to playability but more importantly sounds so rich, fat and dynamic. The Aristides 060 is the first super strat where you don't have to sacrifice playability for tone. It sounds huge and plays equally well. As any other Aristides guitar: it kicks wood in the nuts.”

The 060 is a one piece constructed, 25.5” scale electric guitar available with passive or active electronics.  The passive models come equipped with either Seymour Duncan or Bare Knuckle pickups. A five-way switch combined with a single volume control and single tone provide for a wide variety of pickup configurations. The active models are available with Seymour Duncan Blackouts, EMG81/60 combo and EMG 57/66 combo, a three way toggle super switch, a single volume and a single tone control. All components, for both passive and active models, are MEC Electronics. The C shaped neck is 1.65” wide at the nut and topped off with a compound (12”-16”) radius ebony fretboard fitted with 24 medium jumbo frets.

Hardware is available in chrome, black or gold finishes and includes a Hipshot Hardtail with Atristides custom made stainless steel Tone Block or Floyd Rose Original tremolo, Hipshot Griplock tuners and Schaller straplocks. Each guitar is set up with either a Graphtech Black Tusq nut or Floyd Rose locking nut, D’Addario Nickel Wound XL 10-56 strings and outfitted with an anti-theft security microchip. Available in matte black, white high gloss or Deep Sky Blue Matte Metallic finishes the guitar ships with a Gator XL hard case.