Members Promethius Posted August 30, 2005 Members Share Posted August 30, 2005 I love clear acoustic sounds. I hate muddy guitars no matter how "rich" some people say they are. What wins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JasmineTea Posted August 30, 2005 Members Share Posted August 30, 2005 Lowden F model with cedar top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riffmeister Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea Lowden F model with cedar top. wow! we are on the same wavelength! I played a sitka/maple Lowden F recently. It was an ear opener! Best fingerstyle guitar I have laid my hands on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GN-Nick Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Collings OM-1ABreedlove NorthwestRichard Mermer Morning Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bjorn-fjord Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Definitely the Dan Armstrong. http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/1998/Dan-Armstrong-Guitars1-larg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.harmony-central.com/News/2004/Dan-Armstrong-Passes-Away.html&h=809&w=624&sz=75&tbnid=tjlQ3UbB8SAJ:&tbnh=142&tbnw=109&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddan%2Barmstrong%2Bguitar%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D Oh. You said clear sounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JasmineTea Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Originally posted by riffmeister wow! we are on the same wavelength!I played a sitka/maple Lowden F recently. It was an ear opener! Best fingerstyle guitar I have laid my hands on. A freind of mine has one like the one I posted, I play it about once a week. The response, clarity, is amazing. It's well balanced too. Does'nt have the bass of a dread, but it's not missing any bass either. Personaly, I like something a little darker, warmer, but that Lowden blows my mind every time I play it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knockwood Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 http://www.daisyrock.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JasmineTea Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Originally posted by knockwood http://www.daisyrock.com/ Oh man, I gotta have a DaisyRock Tom Boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greg Bogoshian Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Kathy Wingert's magnificent cocobolo concert... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rado298 Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Norman ST68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gerardo1000 Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 No offense, but if we talk about clarity... my answer is Rainsong. Gerardo1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RainsongDR1000 Posted August 31, 2005 Members Share Posted August 31, 2005 Originally posted by gerardo1000 No offense, but if we talk about clarity... my answer is Rainsong. Gerardo1000 DAMMIT! Beat me too it! Warm? Maybe not. Woody? nope. but clear? There is nothing more crystal clear sounding on the planet than graphite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members taylorguitarman Posted September 1, 2005 Members Share Posted September 1, 2005 Well, I think my Breedlove C25 Cal2 sounds pretty amazing, but against my dad's Olson SJ it still falls short.So my vote goes to Olson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urizen Posted September 1, 2005 Members Share Posted September 1, 2005 Honestly, the purest steel STRING tone I've heard is a that of a steel-bodied National-Resophonic tricone (played at the position where a neck pup would be, as on an archtop electric). I went shopping for several months for "the tone", willing to pay Goodall/Santa Cruz/Lowden/Collings territory (those being what was left after I had "done the tour" of acoustics). It was a fluke that I picked up the tricone and played it for jazz and chord melody/fingerstyle---when I hit the sweet spot, I couldn't get past it. Granted, it's NOT a "woody" tone (w/ all the variations based on combinations of tonewoods and/or construction technique/theory), but it IS a most remarkable full, rich, STRING(s) tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrlucky7 Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Hmmmm, those Daisy Rock Butterfly guitar look quite....hmmmm,"interesting" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jyd59 Posted September 3, 2005 Members Share Posted September 3, 2005 Martin HD-45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted September 4, 2005 Members Share Posted September 4, 2005 "clear"? WTF does that mean? If it means a strong fundamental lacking any overtones I would say you'd probably be talking a small mahogany topped guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ole Man Blues Posted September 4, 2005 Members Share Posted September 4, 2005 The new Taylor T5 Custom. Tremendous sounding Guitar. Acoustic/Electric thinline. Very comfortable. Very clean sounding..... OMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mac_C Posted September 5, 2005 Members Share Posted September 5, 2005 Larrivee, PERIOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rock4gzus Posted September 6, 2005 Members Share Posted September 6, 2005 1995 Taylor GA-BE (Grand Auditorium Brazilian S/B and Engleman top). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GN-Nick Posted September 6, 2005 Members Share Posted September 6, 2005 Clear, as I responded to it, was an ideal sound resembling your idea of pure tone. Some pleasing nebulous quality. Completely subjective and meaningless in other words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JasmineTea Posted September 6, 2005 Members Share Posted September 6, 2005 Originally posted by guitarcapo "clear"? WTF does that mean?If it means a strong fundamental lacking any overtones I would say you'd probably be talking a small mahogany topped guitar. "Clear" is a word that conjures up a different image in everyones mind. Kinda like all the other descriptive words we toss around here. That Lowden I posted was the first thing that came to mind. It's a fairly sizable guitar with a cedar top. I believe cedar is a bit stiffer than spruce. I hear more fudamental in it than in any other guitar I've played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thenakedarab Posted September 7, 2005 Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 Originally posted by Promethius I love clear acoustic sounds. I hate muddy guitars no matter how "rich" some people say they are. What wins? Bozo Bell Western 6 and 12 string model, his Archtops are just incredible too. No jazz box I've ever played put out as much acoustic volume as his do. The pics don't do justice to the arch he hand carves into those spruce tops either. I played the 40th anniversary archtop in the pics on the site, ohhh to have an extra $22,000 laying around. http://guitars.net/bozoarchtop.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members solitaire Posted September 8, 2005 Members Share Posted September 8, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea "Clear" is a word that conjures up a different image in everyones mind. Kinda like all the other descriptive words we toss around here.That Lowden I posted was the first thing that came to mind. It's a fairly sizable guitar with a cedar top. I believe cedar is a bit stiffer than spruce. I hear more fudamental in it than in any other guitar I've played. JT is right as always. Is clear=cold and muddy=warm? Is clear=quality and muddy=a lemon? Either way, a thin top and a hard species of tonewood for the body and you can't go wrong. Red spruce and maple would tear holes in my eardrums, but that's about as bright you can go without changing the bracing or what ever. Btw: Clearity has a great deal to do with choice of strings as well, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Promethius Posted September 9, 2005 Author Members Share Posted September 9, 2005 You guys over-analyze. Let me join the club and say that the great German philospher Hegel might say that there is an a priori, intuitive understanding of what "clear" means--both visually and orally. When you look out on the sea and can see boats in the distance one day but not the next day, wouldn't you understand this to mean it was "clearer" the day before? And wouldn't you not need a thesaurus to define what you meant by "clear"? Doesn't "clear" react on our eardrums in a similar way as it does our eyeballs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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