What Is The Best Tone You’ve Heard?
What is the best sounding guitar you’ve ever heard? Was it a guitar you’ve owned? One you’ve just played? Or maybe one from a recorded album?
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…I don’t know if it’s the best tone I ever heard but it’s the one guitar I was so impressed by that I still think about it almost twenty years later….it was a custom Santa Cruz guitar….a 12 fret slot head OM in premium Brazilian Rosewood and German Spruce….not a 000…an OM…...it startled me it sounded so good….and was actually available for purchase at around three and a half thousand dollars…I have never seen another like it….if I had a time machine it would be one of the first places I would return to…cash in hand….
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Borges OM “Golden Grain” mahogany w stellar Euro spruce top.
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You mean other than Tony Rice playing Clarence White's old guitar?
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My Martin OM-28V still does it for me, every single time I play it. :)
Tommy Emmanuel live had a really great sound as well, augmented going through that PA of course, but definitely the best amplified acoustic guitar I have ever heard. |
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The worst example is some old Chet Atkins recordings. Awesome playing (as far as I can tell) but my goodness that quacky piezo sounds ugly. |
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I agree, but when I saw TE live there was none of that ugly piezo quacky tone. Just warm, detailed and full sound. And loud! I suspect there was A LOT of internal mic in that mix. |
I’ve only heard him on YouTube videos and who knows what all has happened to that sound between his guitar and my ears!
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I recently played a Santa Cruz 1934 OM…just spectacular.
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Maton seems to do a very good job on their piezo pickups. I'm not a person who likes piezo quack but the Maton pickups (one per string on Tommy's guitar) sound very good. I was astonished at how good the sound was. - Glenn |
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Cool, I didn’t know. Agreed that Maton must do a stellar job, I am usually very allergic to that typical piezo sound but thought that TE sounded just great. |
James Taylor's live guitar sound is hard to beat.
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Most recently, what made me think "that's a good tone" was Glennwillow playing his Sheppard.
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Lot of different ones I like the sound of (even some of mine). However one that right up there (does include a pickup) is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1x1txmfuV8 |
my fav "sound" song would be James Taylor- Fire and Rain Live.
Fav acoustic sound Artist- Gordon Lightfoot-whether its on a 12 string or cigar box. Fav Electric sound song- Funk 49 The James Gang- love the sound Joe creates on that one-perfect matching of drums and guitar for me. Fav Electric guitarist "sound- Ry Cooder on bottleneck slide Fav AGF performer- Glenn Willow playing ANYTHING!!! he has the softest touch yet creates the most beautiful sound. |
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