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A Guitar Player Magazine Editors Pick, the Godin Montreal Premiere is packed with highly quality features:

While cherry may not qualify as a "classic" tonewood to traditionalists, it turns out to have some very attractive qualities. Cherry is acoustically loud, clean and produces a very clear midrange with nice upper end detail. Sonically it is crisp like maple but with a little stronger bottom end. The grain is pretty nice too, and the fact that it is domestically available in Canada helps to keep the cost down.

The nickel plated Godin humbucking pickups are moderate in output, and are the same ones used in their previous Montreal model, and the 5th Avenue Uptown. These pickups complement the cherry construction, and are naturally clean, with good note separation, a smooth top end, and a slightly soft attack that makes them easy to control. They Montreal is devoid of the sometimes heavy, muddy midrange that afflicts many humbucker guitars and works very well for clean rhythm playing and snappy lead work. Rolling off the tone control provides a smoother jazzier side, but the Montreal never gets particularly woody or wooly sounding. The boosted and distortion tones are lean with a lot of top end sparkle and harmonics, and are well suited to crunchy blues and fusion more so than the chugging low end needed for harder styles of music. The spruce center core effectively manages any feedback issues, so you can crank this guitar without fear of it howling.

As with all Godin guitars, the neck profile is comfortably slim without being wimpy, and the fretwork consists of nicely finished medium frets and a factory setup that affords low action that is virtually buzz-free even when played aggressively. Godin guitars are very consistent out of the box (or gig bag), and require very little -- if any -- adjustment to get them dialed in.