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I've had my Rainsong OM1000 for 15 years now; It has become a de facto baritone.
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I've got a Rainsong H-OM, courtesy of Ted, and I play it far more frequently than any other acoustic in the house, and I have one that cost me more than four times what the Emerald cost, and has me considering selling everything else. In fairness, I played an Emerald, but it's body and my body couldn't peacefully coexist; while I loved the arm bevel, the size of that guitar had the back top edge hitting my ribs in an uncomfortable manner. While the Rainsong does not have the arm bevel, it seems to be a better fit for me. If they offered a rib bevel on the Rainsong, I'd consider it, it played and sounded very nice. I will not ever sell the Rainsong, though. In addition to all the CF benefits, it simply sounds fantastic, especially plugged in.
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This happens to me occasionally when I am sitting with my X20 and leaning over to do something. Doesn't bother me enough to change guitars, but enough to notice. This rib cut is actually worse on other guitars with sharper edges for me though.
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I'm sure the WS-1000 would handle these baritone duties this nicely, but I use it far more often than I play baritone and don't want to "confine" it to this specialty use. |
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Just noticed this. Thanks, Jon!
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Not quite the story of this thread... I bought a H-DR1100N2 a few months ago and have been experimenting with strings. I decided to drop down to PB 11s to make it easier to play but was concerned about losing too much volume for an acoustic jam. I tried it out yesterday against my duo partner's HD-28V which is currently strung with Martin 80/20 12s. The RainSong had no problem keeping up volume wise and was a brighter overall tone (no surprise right?), but what did shock me was how much more I liked the RainSong's tone between the two. Maybe my ear is getting trained from playing the RainSong, but it is a great overall guitar even ignoring the practical aspects.
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I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I build my acoustic archtops with CF sound boards because of the tone I achieve, not because I'm building a guitar that can go from the Amazon to space without having to adjust the truss rod.
CF guitars and Spruce guitars don't sound the same, but I am not the least bit shocked you preferred the Rainsong. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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My wife says that the SCGC is OK, but she prefers the sound of the Rainsong. And we all know they hear better than we do.
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Your wife is in good company, jdinco. I can confirm that Rainsongs have been very well received in our store by some of the most discriminating guitar players in the LA/Hollywood area.
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Well, I haven't owned a Blackbird but have owned a Black Ice Rainsong and have been able to play another Rainsong of my buddies now for several years. I didn't like the sound of my Black Ice, it was kind of honky sounding. It played nice, but sound wise it wasn't up to par. I just bought an Emerald X20 Artisian and I really like the tone of the guitar. All the tones and overtones are there. It's plays well softly and finger picking, it's nice for leads, and really shines when you push it hard... I play a lot of acoustic stuff from The Who and some guitars just wash out when strummed that hard (my Martin 000-28EC for example). I like the Emerald so much I'm probably going to order another one for the house here in Ohio. I bought the Emerald to take to our place in Mexico which has massive humidity shifts. It screws with the neck of my Gibson EC-20 so much I have to adjust the truss rod weekly when I'm there playing it.
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I'll probably have a custom one made to my favorite neck size. But I'll check the ads first and see what's there. I wanted to make sure the guitars had the tone I was looking for first before I invest in a custom. Lot's of great guitars out there to be had. No worries.
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Ted;
Thank you for bringing my attention to the classifieds--as you note, there is a lot of activity with Emerald guitars. I was surprised at the number of FS and WTB notices, and equally surprised at the variety of instruments being moved around. The ads sort of mirror my own Emerald history. I can't afford to buy every Emerald guitar, not all at once. But I can't resist trying them one by one as they are developed. I've sequenced through 3 Emerald nylon string guitars and now thinking of selling my X10-OSN in order to move toward a CF electric guitar. I saw the same kind of shifting around when CA was moving through a number of innovative instruments. The Cargo led to the Ox, which led to.....and so forth. With Blackbird I moved from the Rider, to the Super OM, to the uke......And of course Rainsong's long history leaves its advocates with an incredible variety of instruments to chose from and no way of determine which is the best for a particular player until the ivarious nstruments have been played. The CF market creates a lot of gas. |