Parker Nitefly Hangtag

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KEN PARKER
PARKER NITEFLY
PA R K E R N I T E F LY ®
444 EAST COURTLAND STREET MUNDELEIN, IL 60060 • 847-949-0444
PA R K E R F LY ®
I love music, and I love guitars. The guitar has been the most important musical instrument of my
generation, and I believe it will continue to be for a long time to come. My fascination with the guitar
and all the wonderful musicians who have embraced it has inspired and shaped my working life. More
than 30 years ago, I started to build and repair guitars. Since that time, I've worked with thousands of
guitarists, asking them to define their instruments' best features and worst failings. Their input helped
inspire the design of the Parker Fly, the models that have followed, and all those yet to come. In each,
we combine organic and synthetic materials to create truly virtuosic guitars that perform as no others
can. Our designs and processes are so revolutionary and advanced, many of them are protected by
patents. Because you can't make exceptional guitars without exceptional guitar makers, we employ
only the most skilled artisans to design and build our guitars. Craftsmen whose high proportion of hand
work makes each Parker guitar a work of art. The care and precision that go into our instruments require
a lot of extra work, but we do it because we know you can feel and hear the difference.
The first thing you notice is how they look. A little weird. Strangely geometric. With parallel horns that
you effortless access to every note. And when we say "every note," we mean every note—from
T H E P A R K E R N I T E F L Y One of the baddest guitars ever made, the featherweight Parker NiteFly features a different
solid tone wood body in every model, allowing you to achieve the exact nuance your music demands. The spookily perfect neck
proportions, glassy-smooth fretboard, and low action make even the most complex chording smooth and effortless. Its sure responsiveness
begs you to take your music where it's never gone before. With its Fishman®/ DiMarzio ® custom piezo/magnetic pickup system, you can
switch instantly from a thrashing metal sound to soaring acoustic tones or mix them on-board as you play. Bottom line, it is a dream
machine that packs more sounds per dollar than any electric guitar known to man.
visceral, in-your-face electric tones to the warm, juicy harmonies of acoustic. They're all here, in one
NITEFLY-SA ®
NITEFLY-M ®
The ultra-light swamp ash body of the NiteFly-SA has a lively,
fast response that's ideal for clean pickin' and cut-it-with-a-knife
rhythms. Swamp ash is lighter in weight and more porous,
producing a resonance that is fuller and less severe than what
can be achieved with regular ash or other heavier woods.
Its sound is gutteral and clean, yet swampy and spicy, thanks to
that swamp ash mojo. Combined with its solid mahogany neck,
the NiteFly-SA produces a ballsy, low end and wonderful,
glimmering highs.
Solid mahogany from tuners to bridge, the NiteFly-M embodies
all the qualities that have made mahogany the king of tone
woods since the beginning of time. This guitar makes music soar
with a sweet, full midrange and singing upper register that's
both beefy enough for jazz and raw enough for crushing chords
or rock and blues solos. The chunky neck and jumbo frets will
make your hands feel right at home. Finished with nothing more
than a satiny oil and wax finish, or with high gloss polyurethane,
it just begs to be played.
reach up like arms that want to play you right back. And they do. Because the moment you pick up
a Parker guitar, you'll feel its sculpted recesses embrace your torso while its featherweight body gives
guitar. The entire spectrum of jaw-dropping, impassioned sounds, just waiting to be transformed into
music. Your music. One moment you're playing blistering electric grind. The next—thick, meaty,
strum-heavy acoustic. And the next, the two voices are wailing simultaneously, crunching notes that
were in your head before you even knew how to spell the word riff. What is this beast? It doesn't look
like any other guitar ever made. It doesn't feel like any other guitar ever made. And there's no other
guitar—period—that can turn sound into seduction like a Parker guitar.
TWO CHOICES, MORE VOICES
EFFORTLESS PLAYABILITY
PRECISE TONES
EVEN RESPONSE
NO-FUSS ADJUSTMENTS
LOCKED-DOWN TUNING
The Parker NiteFly is made
lightweight tone wood
reinforced with space-age
composite. Responsive,
practically weightless,
and perfectly balanced,
it has no dead spots
or unevenness
in tone.
The NiteFly features a true
bolt-on neck for a more
traditional "Strat" sound with
optimum resonance resulting
from the finest tone woods
and expert engineering.
Our NiteFly's patented neck
construction consists of solid
mahogany reinforced with a
micro-thin veil of carbon/glass
composite. Responsive, stable,
and lightweight, it produces
even tonal response.
The truss rod adjusts easily to
accommodate different string
gauges and changes in humidity.
Made of high strength light
weight steel, it's another reason
why Parkers are so light and
perfectly balanced.
The highest quality pegs
available, lightweight Sperzel®
locking pegs help keep the
NiteFly in tune even with the
most aggressive, merciless
flogging, and make string
changes fast and painless.
QUICK-CHANGE ARTISTRY
MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
PERFECT PITCH
The smart jack senses stereo or
mono cable, splits electric and
acoustic sounds to separate
amps or combines them
through one, and lets you mix
electric and acoustic tones
while playing.
Parker's combination of
DiMarzio ® magnetic pickups
and Fishman ® piezo pickups
make it possible to produce
powerful electric guitar tones
and intricate, full-bodied
acoustic guitar tones from a
single guitar.
Our vibrato system adjusts
quickly to behave like a fixed
bridge, bend down only, or
floating bridge (bending both
up and down). Change bridge
positions instantly without
throwing your pitch.
SILKY-SMOOTH
FRETTING
1 MAG/PIEZO
SELECTOR
SWITCH
2 MAG SELECTOR
SWITCH
1>
3 PIEZO VOLUME
MAG VOLUME
4 MAGNETIC TONE
5>
2>
3>
4>
Our frets are made of hardened
stainless steel (not soft nickel
like ordinary guitars) in the
correct "half-round" shape. Our
patented glass/carbon-fiber
fingerboard gets slicker with
sweat, not tackier.
5 MAGNETIC VOLUME
THE ANATOMY OF A PARKER NITEFLY
It's a revolution in sound—a guitar
capable of producing electric tones,
acoustic tones, or a combination of the
two. Our DiMarzio ® magnetic pickups
produce powerful electric tones while
the Fishman® piezo pickups drive each
string individually for the lush, complex
sound of acoustic. We suggest you use
the stereo cable that comes with the
guitar. Plug the red jack into an acoustic
amp and the grey jack into an electric
guitar amp. (Using a mono cable, the
magnetic and acoustic signals are
blended on the guitar.) To the right are
settings for some of our favorite tones,
but they're just the beginning—the only
limit now is your creativity. So go ahead!
Take this Parker out for a spin.
JAZZ/BLUES
For a classic, warm jazz tone, choose
the neck position pickup and roll down
the tone. For an even better sound,
blend in the piezo. This will increase the
definition and clarity of your tone and
bring the sound to life.
For a traditional blues tone, pull the
tone knob out. This will give you that
classic single-coil tone favored by so
many blues legends.
CLEAN
For a shimmering clean tone, put the
magnetic selector switch in the middle
position and pull the tone knob
to activate the two inside coils of the
humbuckers. This setting is terrific
for the clean rhythm and lead tones
found in rock, funk, reggae, etc.
For the best clean tone available,
add the piezo, and listen to your
tone sparkle.
ROCK
ACOUSTIC
Use the bridge-position humbucker
for over-the-top rock tones. For either
clean or high gain settings, this setting
is perfect for classic and/or modern
rock tones.
For straight acoustic tone, use the
piezo system only. In this position, the
magnetic pickups are inactive. Try
fingerpicking a classic strumming
rhythm, fingerstyle blues, and lead.
For lead parts, don't forget to try the
neck humbucker, especially for ballads,
sweep picking, tapping, and arpeggios.
Whether you need some acoustic tone
for an intro or the whole song, this is
the setting for you. Have you ever used
vibrato on an acoustic guitar? Try it.
COUNTRY TWANG
Choose the bridge position humbucker
and pull the tone knob out. This will give
you the vintage single-coil tone closely
associated with country twang. Play
some fast chicken' pickin' to feel how
smooth the neck plays.
Try some banjo rolls and throw in
some double-stops. Whether you favor
modern country, traditional, or
rockabilly style, you'll have a hard time
stopping once you get going.
E X P E R I E N C E T H E D I F F E R E N C E F I R ST- H A N D