kdawg2a wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:03 am
That's a really nice looking piece. Congratulations!
Thanks mate
I knew it’d be a nice looker and ticks a lot of vintage aesthetic boxes for me , but I’m just relived it plays and sounds so good. Always a risk buying an acoustic sight unseen. However I was given a safety net by a guild collector friend of mine who said he’d happily buy it no questions if I decided not to keep it.
As it happens his most recent similar purchase was made in the UK and he payed the same number in British pounds then had the head stock seperate from the body in flight storage and on top of that it needed a neck reset ….
You certainly had a better experience than him! It's always a bit nerve wracking buying old guitars, even if you get to try them first.
I'm a big fan of over the top vintage bling and this bad boy ticks all those boxes!
1935 Martin D-45, 1942 Gibson Southern Jumbo,1950 Fender Broadcaster, 1954 Fender Strat, 1958 Gibson Moderne prototype, 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.
1958 Fender twin, 1965 Vox AC30, 1966 Marshall JTM 45, 1977 Dumble OD Special.
Big black garbage bag full of original Klon Centaurs and TS808s.
Huge congratulations Ant. Looks fantastic and from how you describe the sound you got a good one.
I think you nailed it in terms of the ‘headroom’ description above. These guitars have that in spades. They are favoured by some recording studios—(along with the smaller Guild 12 string) for their smooth, compressed tone.
olegmcnoleg wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:07 am
Huge congratulations Ant. Looks fantastic and from how you describe the sound you got a good one.
I think you nailed it in terms of the ‘headroom’ description above. These guitars have that in spades. They are favoured by some recording studios—(along with the smaller Guild 12 string) for their smooth, compressed tone.
It also looks fantastic.
Thanks Oleg. Yep was a bit of a gamble but it payed off I think.
Really interesting experience having all three in the room together. Our recording setup seemed to emphasise some quite harsh frequencies that were not noticeable in the room. The Guild is jangly and scooped but by no means harsh. The Taylor is my baby and I don't think there are many guitars that sound as sweet when played gently. It craps out when hit hard, and the recordings demonstrated this pretty accurately. The Martin actually recorded very well, and I wondered if it was because of the older strings making in naturally more rolled-off and avoiding the harshness that came with the recording setup.
Overall I think Ants and I were both happy with our respective acoustics.
Jops wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am
Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.
robthemac wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:37 am
Really interesting experience having all three in the room together. Our recording setup seemed to emphasise some quite harsh frequencies that were not noticeable in the room. The Guild is jangly and scooped but by no means harsh. The Taylor is my baby and I don't think there are many guitars that sound as sweet when played gently. It craps out when hit hard, and the recordings demonstrated this pretty accurately. The Martin actually recorded very well, and I wondered if it was because of the older strings making in naturally more rolled-off and avoiding the harshness that came with the recording setup.
Overall I think Ants and I were both happy with our respective acoustics.
Yes yes yes... very good... very interesting. Now... when are you going to give us the answer?!
Most prominent comment I got was how loud and rich it was.
Could never really tell sitting behind it.
Played so well.
Dude I sold it to had the blonde model as well.
Lovely guitars.
On a visit to my chiropractor, he asked me if I'd got a new guitar.
I asked how could he tell.
He said their was a stressor in my right shoulder and to play it standing up!!
vintage52 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:40 am
I had a 77-78.
Most prominent comment I got was how loud and rich it was.
Could never really tell sitting behind it.
Played so well.
Dude I sold it to had the blonde model as well.
Lovely guitars.
On a visit to my chiropractor, he asked me if I'd got a new guitar.
I asked how could he tell.
He said their was a stressor in my right shoulder and to play it standing up!!
Certainly miss it!!
Loud and rich is certainly a good description
Haha that’s pretty funny
StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:36 am
Here are the test instruments with the gretsch officiating
Robbies guitar room has shades of guitar practice space/ heroin den/halfway house / turkish sauna. Glad he'd tidied up a bit.
In my defence the Guitar Sauna has been more of a wife's spare bedroom recently. Two sick kids under three make the chance to fuck off out of earshot for a night an absolute blessing. And my wife is not the tidiest person on earth...
Jops wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am
Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.
StrummersOfThunder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:36 am
Here are the test instruments with the gretsch officiating
Robbies guitar room has shades of guitar practice space/ heroin den/halfway house / turkish sauna. Glad he'd tidied up a bit.
In my defence the Guitar Sauna has been more of a wife's spare bedroom recently. Two sick kids under three make the chance to fuck off out of earshot for a night an absolute blessing. And my wife is not the tidiest person on earth...
That tooootally explains the drug paraphernalia and oiled Turkish sailors
robthemac wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:44 am
Alphabetical order: Guild, Martin, Taylor.
Awesome, thanks for that! They're all very nice. Whose is the Martin?
See, the ridiculous amount of money you and I have spent on acoustics paid off.
Be quiet Oleg..........
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
