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Old 08-03-2010, 07:10 PM
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Default Show us what your 'ideal' guitar sounds like.

I always find it interesting what people think of when they think of the 'perfect' guitar sound. How id the perception formed? Is it a song you heard growing up? Is it an average of all the guitar songs you ever heard? What is it? Let's hear what you think is THE sound.

If there is more than one sound, then show us each. But link to either a youtube video, or mp3 or something that has a guitar sound either alone or in a song that is what you think of as the 'ideal' sound. Could even be a recording of your own guitar. Let's hear it!
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Old 08-03-2010, 07:49 PM
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This pre-war 1934 D-28 in this guy's hands, for me the combination is the epitome of acoustic tone, the "perfect guitar sound:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFgC3Ub10E

Recognized it when I first heard it, it was a sound embedded in me at some molecular level. A love at first note sort of thing.

I love lots of other guitar sounds as well, but this was my first and deepest, and the sound is most definitely the combination of wood and player, no substitutes of either can reproduce it.
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Old 08-03-2010, 08:01 PM
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For me, the ideal sound varies with the song. I think the Collings OM1A that Pete Hutlinger plays on his album "Santa Anita Connection" is one ideal in my head. Fortunately, I own one of those and appreciate it very much.

I also recently learned Al Petteway's song "Smoky Mountain Morning" and "Spindrift" and the Ryan guitar he is playing on that video is absolutely gorgeous sounding.

Paul Simon playing "Old Friends" on that Martin OM-42 on the Simon & Garfunkel recent video taken at Madison Square Garden in NYC sounds awfully good to me.

The Olsons that James Taylor plays for his recent songs sounds awfully good, too.

Just a few examples...

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Old 08-03-2010, 08:58 PM
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I always find it interesting what people think of when they think of the 'perfect' guitar sound. How id the perception formed? Is it a song you heard growing up? Is it an average of all the guitar songs you ever heard? What is it? Let's hear what you think is THE sound.

If there is more than one sound, then show us each. But link to either a youtube video, or mp3 or something that has a guitar sound either alone or in a song that is what you think of as the 'ideal' sound. Could even be a recording of your own guitar. Let's hear it!
That was, uh, awesome.
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Old 08-03-2010, 09:01 PM
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I really like the sound of this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DZYP...eature=related
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Demonstrating by playing recordings is really about what ideal guitar recording sound one likes rather than about a specific guitar's real sound as the same guitar even with the same guitarist sounds a myriad of ways in a recording depending on the recording setup used and environment it took place in. That's fine. Just don't make guitar purchasing decisions largely based on recordings.
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I really like this one myself. This guy plating is good at this, Maple Leaf Rag, one of my all time favs.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FrostyMo...41/Om1DmnJN8gQ
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Old 08-03-2010, 09:46 PM
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This is one of my favorites:

Tony Rice and Norman Blake "Ridin' that New River Train"

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Old 08-03-2010, 09:48 PM
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easy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RA4MykPm4s&feature=fvsr

and this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR04kmcSXU
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4HI...next=1&index=3

This is the one that does it for me
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Old 08-03-2010, 10:52 PM
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Slack key makes flat-tops sound great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5d5v...eature=related
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Old 08-03-2010, 10:57 PM
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This is why I first picked up an acoustic guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YANM9lz4c

Nothing like an old Gibson in the hands of a man who knows how to use it. (And the solo is the main reason I have a few Teles hanging on the wall.)
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This one blows my mind, and yes, its amazingly for sale ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_UPp...eature=related
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Old 08-04-2010, 08:52 AM
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I'll see your J200 (very nice) and raise you a Goodall baritone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjyjgiaNNCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7JQInHsww

That deep, deep bass is seductive.

PS: that was a lovely guitar Tommy Emmanuel was playing in the second clip posted by sutherland.
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