Yamaha FG330S, sounding kind of "metalic" is it the factory strings?

[T0MCAT]

Damn it! did it again to the title, I meant FG 730 S.

 

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[JasmineTea]

What's the price tag say? You might do better with a Larrivee 03 or 16 series Martin.

 

Some guitars, even nicer ones, can be incredibly unballanced. I played a Martin SWOMGT that had all low E and just about nothing els. As soon as you moved up to G it got quiet.

 

Strings will only do so much for a guitar's tone, OTOH, they can completely ruin it. It's good to learn to hear the difference between the strings and the guitar they're on.

[EvilTwin]

Could be the strings. Could be the guitar's very construction.

 

Where rosewood guitars can be thought of as having a "metallic" sound, mahogany and koa guitars are better described as sounding "woody."

http://www.pantheonguitars.com/tonewoods.htm

 

Almost everyone I know loves rosewood, but I'll always prefer mahogany. IMO, Bourgeois nails it in that sentence -- I just can't get into that "metallic" sound. Thus, I've never really preferred rosewood.

[T0MCAT]

I've never found rosewood to have a metalic sound, I've always found them warmer and definately bassier than mahagony. I find a lot of mahagonys too bright, which is more a kin to being metalic.