redman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:19 pm
Mossman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:52 pm
Looks great! Do you typically prefer mahogany acoustics?
@Mossman I do have a thing for Mahogany in Dreadnaughts and Jumbos however Rosewood is nice too but I just like the tone of Mahogany in my bigger guitars. I do have a Gibson-G-45 that I just tried to list on Reverb and the site went down it's probably back up by now. Anyway it sounds good plays very well has the J-45 sloped shoulder dreadnaught but I also have a Yamaha A5M ARE I bought in the last few weeks that's simply an awesome guitar and blows the Gibson out of the water.
Yamaha A5M
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G-45
I've always owned acoustics that have Rosewood backs and sides, but the Guild D-240E I bought a couple of years ago is my first one made of Mahogany, and it took me a while to get used to it (yes, I broke my own cardinal rule to never buy an acoustic without without playing it first, but it was a really good deal!). To be honest, I didn't like it at first, and I thought about sending it back, because it's more mids-focused than I was expecting, and it doesn't have the shimmer of my last acoustic. That guitar was more scooped, with boomy (yet well-defined) lows and bright highs. The Guild is less boomy and has less sparkle in the strummed chords, and that was a little off-putting to me at first, but I came to appreciate how balanced and sweet it sounds... It's a richer, warmer tone... Almost vocal in quality. But the words that I think of most when trying to describe the sound are: "focused" and "balanced". That's what really sold me on the guitar. I do a lot of flat-picking, and arpeggio-driven type stuff, and this guitar is perfect for that. It's more articulate than I expected it to be, and there are no tonal or volume inconsistencies. No string or note overpowers, or outshines any other. My old acoustic was kind of awash in harmonic frequencies, which can be great for rhythm playing, but your intricate picking patterns can get kind of lost in all the harmonic overtones.
Also, my last guitar was a frickin'
cannon (it was so loud that when I played in an all-acoustic Celtic band, I wasn't allowed to use a pick at rehearsals!), but this guitar
projects... It's not as loud, but it has more punch. Though I think that's owing more to its arched back than the fact that it's Mahogany... Have you found that Mahogany acoustics project better than Rosewood?
