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I liked my little Taylor. I was very pleased with it and it made me happy. It was bright, but sounded good. Some crack head felt he needed it more than me, so it left my life without my permission.
Since then my taste has moved on to bigger fuller-sounding guitars, so it wasn't replaced by another Taylor. Hey Rad, we must be neighbors! I'm also within walking distance to Sylvan. Cheers, /jd |
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What impression does mahogany give you? |
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They demand your total submission and conformity... They whisper in your dreams: "1-3/4" nut...fat prewar neck...rosewood OM...mahogany dread...butterbean tuners...fingerstyle...DADGAD..." Night after night, you wake up sweating and screaming... You need an immediate exorcism... Buy yourself a Taylor...
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I love mahogany. I love it like I love Doc Watson. I wish he had been my dad.
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In one of NYC most revered guitar stores I was able to ask the long time manager to give me his personal opinion of Taylor vs most other major brands. He told me that with Taylors you get more “string sound” than with other well known brands. He pulled one off the wall and demonstrated the obvious difference in tone. Fast forward a couple of years and I was in NC at a well stocked Taylor dealer and I played three Taylors in a row that were supposedly the “re-imagined” (or some other term, I lose count on the trendy marketing terms) models. They were all very, very good and nothing like any Taylor I’d ever played in terms of their “Martin-like” bass and deep woody tones. I think they quickly stopped making these for some inexplicable reason, but they were the only Taylors that ever sounded like that, IMO.
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I played an 814CE at Gruhns a few years ago. It was the "reimagined" X bracing and I thought it was the BEST sounding Taylor I had ever played. I would have bought it on the spot but it had the Expression system in it...And I have owned a fair number of Taylors and own a Leo Kottke now.
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I play a TD35 or a TD50 as well on my Taylor to get a warmer/fuller sound. And yet there are lots of people who will say Blue Chips are too expensive, better get more guitars instead to get a different sound. My only concession to "Blue Chip is too expensive" is I don't carry one around in my wallet/pockets because it would be a lot easier to lose it that way compared to keeping it in my guitar case. The thing with that is I end up keeping a crappy cheap pick in my wallet that I don't care about. Then if I go in a guitar store everything sounds bad and it keeps me from wanting a new guitar even though I know it's not having my favorite pick and nothing to do with the guitar! This all gets back to the point though, the guitar is going to sound like you, there are more ways to get a different sound than buying a different guitar, and no one has to like any particular brand of guitar if it doesn't call out to them. If you don't like Taylor don't worry about it, play whatever you like and forget about hype, advertising, marketing, and forums trying to tell you that you need to like Taylor or any other brand. Guitar is not about like and acquiring guitars from the largest collection of brands. Just play whatever makes you happy and don't worry about anything else. I doubt many people here stay up at night wondering why they can't get into high gain heavy metal, that's no different from being bothered by not liking Taylor or not like Martin or whatever. |
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Of course we all hear and feel different when playing, but to me Taylors just don't seem to have the soul to them that I hear from Martins, good Gibsons and others. Just my take. Now I do have a Taylor N312, that I do like a lot. So what does that mean. LOL
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Not all Taylor guitars sound the same.
I have a Taylor 12-Fret (essentially a 12-Fret version of the 812CE) and it's got a lot of depth to the sound. - Glenn
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Why can't I like Taylor?
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So does that make my 1998 414 more desirable than the ones with the NT necks? Last edited by Kerbie; 05-08-2021 at 05:17 AM. Reason: Fixed quote. |
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No, sadly. The "NT neck makes the guitar shrill" goes along with the "Collings are built heavy" and "H&D's are inconsistent", etc...Just a bunch of internet foolishness, that sadly travels around the world, and becomes "fact". I would LOVE to see someone blind "taste" a pre-NT neck Taylor and an NT neck Taylor and pick the NT neck guitar out.
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I love everything about Taylor except the direction they took their bracing in. That’s where they lost me. Taylor as a company, awesome. Taylor design language, absolutely love it.
They obviously know something I don’t, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing.
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I agree. I have played several "V class" Taylors and did not like them. As I said earlier, I thought Taylor hit the nail on the head with the "reimagined" X bracing of a few years back.
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