snakeman1986":hy8ikof7 said:
glpg80":hy8ikof7 said:
ovations and martins
i have played larrivee's and although they sound great, they dont play that well to me, kind of like andersons. taylor's remind me of gibson - you had better play it before you buy it to make sure it is what you are looking for, as ive had great and terrible experiences with taylors in the tones of the guitars. some that are so dark sounding there is no way it would cut in a band setting and another that was so great sounding/great playing that it justified the price tag two fold.
martins QC is all over the place sadly, but i love the way they play, i think they play better than taylors and larrivee's (larrivee's QC is much better though) but all of them second to ovations.
alverez might be worth looking into
Interesting. I've only played like 5 or 6 different types of acoustic guitars over the 8 years I've been playing (Alvarez, yairi Alvarez, ibanez, epiphone, and fender) so I don't know a lot about them. Thanks for the suggestion on Alvarez but I have two yairis already (love 'em) and I'm not really looking for another guitar anyway. Just looking for opinions for my own knowledge
. Interesting to me that one person may love a certain guitar and a different person thinks it's trash. I guess that's true with electric too though.
FWIW i used to hate ovations with a passion, starting out i was a huge taylor lover and craved a dark sounding taylor guitar because the very first one i ever heard was just jaw dropping, but at 19 years old you just dont have $2,800 laying around for an acoustic.
after finding another one thinking it was going to be amazing, it was a huge let down - price tag was $3,200 at a vintage guitar show from taylor guitars themselves. fret buzzing all over the place, extremely hard to chorde, and i couldnt even hear it unplugged over normal conversations going on around the booth/other models playing.
the martins i have played sounded and played great right in the store and were extremely inspiring, if a standard sounding acoustic was in my head, it would be a martin. but i am friends with a very well known local guitar technician and he says their QC is just all over the place, they need serious work on some models to be considered playable. the one that i played in charlotte sam ash in a humidity controlled environment guitar center was just insane - jaw dropping and played like an electric.
larivee sounded great and no fret buzzing what-so-ever, their QC is awsome. but the damn thing was hard to play, hard to chord. and wasnt very inspiring, just seemed like an acoustic shaped guitar with a large price tag.
ovations electric or acoustic have always sounded great to me and their playability is up there. i wanted to like larrivvee's after hearing what others have said on this forum, but after having the chance to play them all i prefer a well made martin or a 12 string ovation.
with acoustic guitars this is all said with YMMV - but i too have been searching for a few nice acoustics over the years, and having had the chance to sample them all, martin and ovation come out on tone, playability, chording effort, wood quality, and projection.
