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NGD UPDATE: RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Black Ice Dreadnought
I just got this new 2021 RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Black Ice Dreadnought yesterday and I've been loving it since. The top is quite flat and even slightly convex behind the bridge and flat in front of the bridge to the neck joint, and that for me is a BIG PLUS and a clincher for buying this instrument--it's not unlike my Martin D18! The acoustic tone is very deep in the bass resonance, as it should be for a large-size dreadnought, and overall the guitar can get LOUD!
The acoustic-electric amplified tone sounds pretty much like the acoustic tone with the LR Baggs Stage Pro Element capturing the nuances and dynamics of the acoustic tone. Is it a perfect analog of the guitar's acoustic tone? No, but what system really is? Then again, it's a really decent-sounding system to use as a plug-and-play alternative to the endless fiddling that some aftermarket systems can induce in a player. I thought about photographing my new RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Black Ice Dreadnought in the sunny outside, so its Black Ice top would really pop, and standing in a snowbank, in the current 15 ℉ temperature but thought it might give the all-solid-wood-only guitar folks a bit of a startle! Anyway, after being RainSong-less for about seven years, this is a wonderful reintroduction to RainSong Guitars. I can now once again wear my RainSong T-shirts in good stead and have a use for my RainSong Gigbag! Thanks For Looking In!
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 Last edited by SpruceTop; 09-09-2022 at 04:10 PM. |
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Congrats, looks great. Now you have Methos all jealous.
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Congrats! It's freakin' cool! I mean we've been talking about Black Ice here for days. Did you have it overnighted? See how we are?
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My favorite local dealer got it in just before Christmas and I'd been wondering about it since then. I thought I'd moved on after owning a dozen RainSongs and not digging their sunken-top qualities. Finally, on Thursday, I succumbed to my curiosity and went in to see and play it. I was pleasantly surprised that this RainSong dreadnought has a Martin-like top geometry and it looked and sounded wonderful. Voila, I bought it! Maybe RainSong finally listened to me and others about their concave top geometry? Who Knows ...
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 |
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Thank You!
As a longtime and many-guitar RainSong owner, I hope Methos will ask me what I think about various RainSong models.
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 |
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Congrats ! That is really cool, and the sharks top it off perfectly !
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Methos is NOT jealous at all! Because - drum roll please - Methos pulled the trigger on his short scale Black Ice dread yesterday and will be getting it sometime mid-week next week!!
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Is it weird that SpruceTop and I are in Rochester, NY and Rochester, NH, respectively? Great minds think - and geographically - think alike!! |
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I knew it
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You goaded me into it. You practically DARED me. My wife would like a word with you...
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Oops. Does your wife have an expensive hobby? If not, may I suggest quilting?
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Martin 0-16NY Emerald Amicus Emerald X20 Cordoba Stage Some of my tunes: https://youtube.com/user/eatswodo |
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Congrats Sprucetop! Looks amazing. Enjoy in good health.
Did I send you the Rainsong t shirt?
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My wife's only hobby is spending as little money as possible. It's a great feature in a wife but it also has obvious drawbacks when the other half is the exact opposite. She was glaring pretty hard. I had to throw you under the bus to save myself...
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Yes, Joe, Thanks, I Got The Cool RainSong T-shirt! I wore it to Stutzman's Guitar Center on Friday when I bought my new RainSong BI-DR1000N2.
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 |
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The RainSong Gig Bag was designed for the WS models but I've used it with the RainSong dreadnoughts. It's a bit of a snug fit but the bag works well for the dreads too. Yes, the two Rochesters Rock! When I was a kid we spent many summer vacations at York Beach, Maine, so I'm familiar with the Rochester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, area. Also, Dave Guard of the original Kingston Trio spent the last several years of his life working on a horse farm near Rollinsford, New Hampshire, before succumbing to cancer in 1991. He was good friends with The Shaw Brothers, a name you're probably familiar with? Anyway, I have a Kingston Trio fan website that has a lot of information and history on the group: The Kingston Trio Place Play On! Ken
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 |
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I've got to say that now that I've had a chance to play this guitar's N2 neck for a while I actually like its feel. Thumb-fretting of the E-6th-string is pretty easy on this guitar and that is always a consideration for me when deciding to buy a guitar. Frankly, I find the neck on my Emerald X20 a bear to play on when doing thumb-fretting as the neck-width and thickness flare too quickly as I go up the neck. I love everything else about my Emerald X20.
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Martin HD-28 Sunburst/Trance M-VT Phantom Martin D-18/UltraTonic Adamas I 2087GT-8 Ovation Custom Legend LX Guild F-212XL STD Huss & Dalton TD-R Taylor 717e Taylor 618e Taylor 614ce Larrivee D-50M/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Blue Grass Special/HiFi Larrivee D-40R Sunburst Larrivee C-03R TE/Trance M-VT Phantom RainSong BI-DR1000N2 Emerald X20 Yamaha FGX5 Republic Duolian/Schatten NR-2 |