Dru, it was interesting when Fred and I were sitting around my living room and swapping off on my Gibson Advanced Jumbo and Klepper KJ and his J-35.
All were quite a bit different from each other, but each of them inhabited that same round-shouldered dreadnought tonal universe, if that makes any sense. What I mean by that is that all of them had good tonal balance, all of them had even loudness to each note in each chord in every position up and down the neck, which is not something you run across much with square-shouldered dreadnoughts.
I really liked Fred's J-35 a lot. Now Fred benefits from having a good relationship with the store that sold him that guitar, and so when they got a really good one in they put it aside for him and gave him a call.
It's probably not realistic to assume that all J-35's will as good as the one Fred has. But the very fact that they CAN be that good is very encouraging.
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