I generally prefer adi. I feel like just more head room for players that play a little harder, like myself. Seems to just have a little more punch and clarity.
I’ll have to dig around here because a few months ago I made some recordings of two SCGC 00’s with the difference being adi vs sitka. Tried to be somewhat scientific about it, and felt like the adi just was hitting the mics a little harder. But it’s honestly pretty darn close.
That said, just last night I was playing a Ryan Nightingale with braz and sitka that was pretty darn great sounding, with very good volume.
Incidentally, or maybe I should say, anecdotally, I often prefer the funky looking, wide grained adi over the really expensive stuff. Maybe it has a better strength to weight ratio? Seems like the really perfect looking stuff is tighter sounding.
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