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I got to try the new Taylor V-Class braced guitars (with video)
In Portland this week and braved the snow to get to the Taylor event at Portland Music Co last night. I know that the title of this thread alone will spawn fury in a lot of people here. So I will say this. The new guitars are nice. Better than X Braced Taylor's? Umm...they're different. I really like the new V-braced 914ce, it's a dream guitar. But I'll probably have to wait until the V bracing hits the lower series models to afford one, if one should float my boat. In the next year or two all USA Taylors will be V braced anyway so get used to it. My favorite guitar of the night? A standard 512ce that the store had in stock.
Here's a video of the Builder's edition and the new 914ce. Hard to hear them with all the background noise. Last edited by erivel; 02-21-2018 at 10:16 PM. |
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Nice video! Thanks!
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Thanks. Good test of the guitar.
Can you expand on how the tone of the V braced guitar differed? Someone mentioned it has a more Martin-like tone. Which I take to mean maybe a deeper bass and more "woody". A darker tone? Did you notice that, or does it still sound like a Taylor? |
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Also, an illusion of a stronger bass can sometimes occur when one guitar has a more muted high frequency response than the other. In other words, a bright sounding guitar could reproduce the low E as loudly as a warmer guitar but the warmer guitar may give the illusion of having a louder low E response. |
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Sounds nice!
Sounds like a Taylor! Thanks for sharing! |
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It seems to me that the higher neck notes have lost that different "voicing" or timbre I think we often speak about with playing same notes different places on the neck. That could be a good think or bad.
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Thanks for the acoustics lesson. And here I've been thinking all along that the low E on a Martin was 81.96 Hz.
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I have tried a couple of these new V-braced Taylors over the weekend and my initial impression was mixed. The jury is still out for me. I'll be back to try them out some more.
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I was able to play a V-braced K24 today, in a very quiet room with a nice acoustic, thanks to the kind offices of the good folks at Reidys of Blackburn, Lancashire (one of my favourite places on the planet).
The older X-braced K24 is one of the loveliest guitars I've ever played, and this V-braced version was up there along with that, with an extra bonus: the treble was exquisitely 'sweet' - like liquid gold. Super-tuneful. I don't know how else to describe it, but it was as if certain additional not-quite-so-pleasant overtones had been shaken out. I wasn't able to compare it directly with a 'traditional' K24, but I don't recall the traditional K24 having this particular character. This was an almost unplayed guitar, still a bit stiff, and I think that showed when I tried to play hard. I certainly want to spend more time with one of these, and I don't think the hype was actually hype.
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Nicely done!
Thank you |
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Sounds like a good guitar to me. I like the rounded binding. I don't hear anything really different from the old bracing.
Ignorance is bliss sometimes, lol.
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I'm not diggin it. Sounded even thinner than normal Taylors sound to me and that's not good. They have missed a huge opportunity to me personally. They had a chance to make a guitar sound better and even bigger and they blew it.
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I agree with a lot of you. I’ve heard some and they still sound like Taylor’s. Which to me is not a complement. I’ve worked in music stores for almost 20 years in some aspect and they’ve always carried Taylor’s . I’m just not a huge fan. It is a spectacular company but as for the actual instruments I just think they lack soul and vibe.
I’m sure this is a topic that has been beaten to death. And I’m sure I will get flamed like crazy for saying this. But just saying at this time in relation to the new design still sounds pretty much the same to me. Soulless |
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That being said they are one of the best companies in the entire guitar business and their customer service and their service with the dealers is exemplary. A lot of people love those guitars I’m just not one of them. They also sometimes have the best tuning machines in the business!
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