WOO HOO (new Larrivee content)!!

[Lawton]

Xmas money spent, dudes!!!

 

 

 

 

I really like the pickguard on it (visible guard rather than the clear guard that was on my other L03).

 

This has the B-band pickup built in, btw... New, $900...

 

Woo hoo!!!

[t60 fan]

Sweet!

[SilleeSpyder]

Awesome!!! I'm going to go order mine here in about an hour!

[kwakatak]

Awesome!

I like the L-03s but was surprised to hear that the price just went up. I like the new torise pickguard too, but I'd be satisified with the old style.

I'm hoping to score an OM-03R (WITH the toris PG) soon myself. The only thing holding me up is an outstanding debt to me by some deadbeat I did some work for. I hear through the grapevine that he's FINALLY in a generous mood which is good because I'm too lazy to take him to small claims court.

Once the money is in hand I have to move fast. My wife said she has no problem with making the purchase but I get the feeling that I have to move fast before she renegs on that little promise!

[onetubetone]

Good choice!

[Lawton]

Originally posted by onetubetone Good choice!

Thanks, tubetone (and everyone else). My only other acoustic at this point is a J-160E, and being a bit pricey (and not having what one would really call an acoustic amplification setup) I felt like I needed something else acoustic-wise that would broaden my palette and of which I won't be quite so protective. I've owned an L-03 and an L-05 previously (and was really happy with both of those guitars), so a Larrivee was really high on my list. I've not seen them with the B-band pickup/pre-amp setup before, though. Is this a fairly new development? Mine has the pre-amp w/volume & tone controls on the upper bout.

[Stophe88]

that's pretty sweet
how does is sound

[Lawton]

Originally posted by Stophe88 that's pretty sweet how does is sound

 

 

Hey. It has a very even, rich, resonant tone (note decay goes on and on and on...). One of the super things about Larrivees is that they're very balanced tonally. You don't get too much mid punch, nor is the guitar overly bassy. It still has the Elixers (polywebs) on it, and I'll probably be pulling those off in favor of some Thomastik-Infeld Spectrum bronze-wounds. Elixers are super easy on the fingers, but seem (IMO) to take a shade or two off the tonal depth of an acoustic. For an A/E with an undersaddle the Elixers are super (assuming you play mostly plugged)!

[Cldplytkmn]

congrats very much lawton

[Magpel]

:)

There's a Larrivee virus going around here. My L-05 is yet another symptom.

Good choice, and good description of its tonal qualities too!

The main guy I'm playing with right now has a new Martin D-15, all Mahogany, and I really like its plain jane tone and strong bass content. It doesn't have nearly the fine, articulate, quizzical quality of the L-05-- more a simple fullness.

In any case, one clear point of difference between these two guitar is decay time, to borrow from the language of synths. This is such a marked characteristic of the Larrivee that I'm finding unexpected dissonances in some of the trickier bits that I play--dissonances born of long decays that I never had to worry about with my last guitar. Funny the way a good guitar can accentuate the sloppiness of your technique...

[Magpel]

BTW, one other thing I'm finding about the Larrivee is that it is an extremely dynamic guitar -- retains its substance and tone at very low attack/volume levels and produces amazingly smooth tonal gradations as you move up in volume/attack--poor description but I'm not sure how else to explain it.

Of course, take everything I say with the foreknowledge that I've been playing a dead, bad acoustic for 10 years. perhaps I'm just experiencing the baseline pleasures of a decent guitar.