Eastman Owners Club

[Zissou Intern]

Originally Posted by jdto

How do you quantify tone?

Me, personally? Or are you asking how does one quantify tone? Personally, I take a qualitative inventory of a guitar's tone. I also consider ergonomics, price, and aesthetics.

I am assuming you did some sort of aural assessment when you chose the guitars listed in your signature (Gibson J-45 True Vintage, Blueridge BR-160-12, Art & Lutherie Roadhouse, Gibson Les Paul Traditional, Fender FSR Deluxe Ash Telecaster).

[rokdog49]

I'm a firm believer in "aural assessments".
As an example, I can listen to my Eastman E 20 D and using the aural assessment method, I can tell you it is 92.3% the equivalent of a D28 tonewise.

[Zissou Intern]

Originally Posted by 00-28

With a Tone Quantifier.

.........Mike

The Tone Quantifier is fantastic, especially when you engage the Price to Tone ratio setting. I chose my last three guitar with mine! Amazon packages the Tone Quantifier with the new Tone Enhancer for $179.99. And don't forget free 2 day shipping if you are a Prime member.

[Larry Esposito]

New to the Eastman club.

010-00 M



Looks and sound beautiful.

My first all Mahogany acoustic

What strings would you guys recommend, I have these in my "stock"

John Pearse 700M PB
John Pearse 300M 80/20
Martin FX 80/20

[jdto]

Originally Posted by Zissou Intern

Me, personally? Or are you asking how does one quantify tone? Personally, I take a qualitative inventory of a guitar's tone. I also consider ergonomics, price, and aesthetics.

I am assuming you did some sort of aural assessment when you chose the guitars listed in your signature (Gibson J-45 True Vintage, Blueridge BR-160-12, Art & Lutherie Roadhouse, Gibson Les Paul Traditional, Fender FSR Deluxe Ash Telecaster).

I was being facetious. I see comments all the time about a guitar having "a lot of tone", which tells me exactly zero about how it sounds. I guess the translation is that the guitar sounds good to that person. As you mentioned, it really is a qualitative thing.

[rokdog49]

Originally Posted by Larry Esposito

New to the Eastman club.

010-00 M



Looks and sound beautiful.

My first all Mahogany acoustic

What strings would you guys recommend, I have these in my "stock"

John Pearse 700M PB
John Pearse 300M 80/20
Martin FX 80/20

Wow! Great looking guitar. Way to go.
Personally and for that guitar, Martin Retros or Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze.
Otherwise, I guess the PB's. Try the others down the road.


Wow

[earri]

Originally Posted by Larry Esposito

New to the Eastman club.

010-00 M



Looks and sound beautiful.

My first all Mahogany acoustic

What strings would you guys recommend, I have these in my "stock"

John Pearse 700M PB
John Pearse 300M 80/20
Martin FX 80/20

Martin Monels

[Pura Vida]

Great looking guitar! Second vote for the Ernie Ball AB strings. They work really well with my two all-mahogany guitars.

[Bronsky]

I have an E10OOm myself (and strangely enough, I have a sound hole pick up in mine too).

On mine I like 80/20 strings, they seem to bring just a little bit of harmonics on an otherwise very fundamental tone.

[Larry Esposito]

Thanks everyone! I'm keeping a list of brands and types I tried on various guitars, so that maybe I’ll settle on a favorite for each guitar and stop buying them randomly.

Will try the EBs next.

[TonewoodDan]

I love my new E8OM. Looks beautiful—great build and finish. Sounds wonderful—warm, full, loud, with excellent sustain. Great value—a hand made guitar for under $1K—amazing.

I really recommend looking at Eastman's Traditional Series guitars if you seek a Standard Series Martin-like guitar at a Martin X Series-like price.

While I don't think my new Eastman sounds like either of my older Martins, it has a beautiful, distinctive voice of its own… and who knows how it will sound in a few years.

Here are some pictures (Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to post the actual photos as opposed to the Flikr links).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/148234...posted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/148234...posted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/148234...posted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/148234...posted-public/

[rokdog49]

Pictures??

[Pura Vida]

Bump! New Eastman E40OM just arrived last week.

http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...d.php?t=468566

My E40OM and E40D:

[Dave Sharona]

Anybody here using an e15ss?

I'm still LOVING my e10om, just find myself staring longingly at that LG2 body shape...

[Fireside_Guitar]

^^^BUMP^^^

Some real beauties here. Any new Eastman's in the house?