need a new acoustic....

[JackBootedThug]

need an acoustic electric. I like jumbos, big ,full, and loud. prefer solid woods. and as always, the cheaper the better....what say you rigtalk? it will be for church and fuckin off.....

 

[HilltopExplosion]

What price range? New, used, or don't matter?

 

[JackBootedThug]

sub 500, don't matter-you know I'm a cheap fuck brother...

 

[tonesfoyobones]

I've owned a lot of high end acoustics. McPherson, R.Taylor, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Collings, Lowden, Martin, Custom Shop Breedlove's, Goodall, Huss & Dalton, etc. You name and more than likely I've had it. Love great, great acoustics.

Bedell, Eastman and Recording king have some great inexpensive acoustics that sound and play great. Bedell would be my pick though. Solid woods and sound fantastic! A lot of guitar for the buck. I was very surprised.

 

[JackBootedThug]

thanks for the bedell heads up. never heard of them and they look interesting.

 

[paulyc]

I'm a Taylor man through and through, but I have a cheap 12 string Seagull that's a great guitar for the money and similar to Taylor in some respects.

 

[mystixboi]

I had a taylor 314ce but sold it and got an Alvarez. The Alvarez sounded fuller and had more body. It also cost 1/3rd the price of the taylor

 

[JackBootedThug]

i've been checking out the alvarez jumbo's..

 

[Dimebag11]

Martin DSR2 if yo can find one in your price range. By far the best guitar I've tried sub 1,000 new.

 

[rcm78]

Takamine!!! It's hard to beat them for live use...

 

[IndyWS6]

Epiphone Masterbilt. Don't laugh, they are solid instruments at a good price...

 

[Schaf]

Epiphone Masterbilt. Don't laugh, they are solid instruments at a good price...

I second this one for that price range. All solid wood. No laminate. Really good sounding guitars for the price.

 

[Revson]

The Seagull S6 seems pretty good for the price.

 

[OUTLAW1969]

No affiliation, but seems like a decent deal.

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/member- ... 214ce.html

 

[Schaf]

No affiliation, but seems like a decent deal.

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/member- ... 214ce.html

This is a great deal. I've had one for a few years now and it plays and sounds great plugged in or unplugged. It has the ES-T electronics which is a peizo. But, for a peizo, it sounds really good. I haven't played it much since I got my 414CE.

Thing is, you have to like the Taylor sound. You can't go into it thinking it's going to sound like a Martin or Gibson. It won't. They have their own sound.

 

[OUTLAW1969]

No affiliation, but seems like a decent deal.

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/member- ... 214ce.html

This is a great deal. I've had one for a few years now and it plays and sounds great plugged in or unplugged. It has the ES-T electronics which is a peizo. But, for a peizo, it sounds really good. I haven't played it much since I got my 414CE.

Thing is, you have to like the Taylor sound. You can't go into it thinking it's going to sound like a Martin or Gibson. It won't. They have their own sound.

Very true.

However, the first "nice" guitar that I ever bought that was not used, was a Taylor. When I picked it up at the store, I was not even looking for another acoustic, but put it on layaway before leaving the store. About 5 years later, I traded it for another more popular brand of acoustic.........and immediately regretted it due to missing the sound of the Taylor. So a difference in sound, can actually be a good thing

 

[CaseyCor]

A lot of good suggestions already, but my personal favorite has been left out..Breedlove! My Breedlove is my favorite instrument. Outplayed every Taylor at the shop I got it at, and I was only 20 miles from the Taylor factory! Well made, beautiful sounding instruments at a great price. The sub-$500 offerings are great.

Alvarez, Recording King, and Seagull are great too. I'd like to get a Recording King Resonator to mess around with.

 

[Chris6870]

A lot of good suggestions already, but my personal favorite has been left out..Breedlove! My Breedlove is my favorite instrument. Outplayed every Taylor at the shop I got it at, and I was only 20 miles from the Taylor factory! Well made, beautiful sounding instruments at a great price. The sub-$500 offerings are great.

Alvarez, Recording King, and Seagull are great too. I'd like to get a Recording King Resonator to mess around with.

+1
I just got a Breedlove Discovery. Awesome guitar @$ 399. I tried a bunch of guitars and loved the Breedlove. I played some 3K+ Taylors just to see what the difference in price range was and I really preferred the Breedlove.

 

[JackBootedThug]

still looking-kinda. found an epi ae jumbo on the classifieds i'm thinking pretty hard about. i've also seen that breedlove as well-it's all mahogany right? the prs angelus looks pretty sweet also...

 

[CaseyCor]

Necro BUMP. Did you ever get an acoustic JBT? Hope you found something you dig!