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Post by drumsound on Dec 17, 2023 11:24:03 GMT -6
ALL acoustic guitars sound bad live through PAs. Yeah, Lindsey has made it work. He had that odd shaped custom guitar that had a really detialed direct sound, which I think worked because of the finger style detail he wanted to portray. That's what I was gonna say, too. Somehow most Taylors sound like a piezo DI even when they'er not plugged in. Not ALL. I bought a Cole Clark - designed for the sole purpose of being plugged in via a DI. It has a mic built in as well as a piezo and a little on board mixer - through my Yamaha PA is sounds absolutely fantastic! I cannot recommend Cole Clark highly enough - not cheap - but definitely worth it for live performances. In the studio I use a mic and pre-amp with a Martin D18 as I’m not keen on DI’ed guitar for recordings - so I’m using the Cole Clark on live use. Oh and the Cole Clark guitars are very pretty being Australian native woods - mine is silky oak. I should have said all solely piezo pickup acoustics sound terrible live. I've got a live record by Francis Dunnery that I can't even listen to because it's him and another guy with piezos and it's just painful to listen to. |
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Post by ml on Dec 17, 2023 11:27:48 GMT -6
My best friend has an older Taylor (I think early 90s at the latest, possibly older) that he somehow scored for a few hundred bucks somewhere. It's one of the best guitars I've ever played/heard. But yeah, apart from that one, I'm also kinda biased against Taylors. I don't think it's necessarily because they're bright (I like bright), but more because they often sound ice picky and too in-your-face. I once recorded another friend's Taylor mini and it was HORRIFIC. Give me a cheap Alvarez over that thing any day. The super high end ones are a different story, though. Some of those are really great. I do not have an anti-Taylor bias, but I do not have good experience either. Actually I started out pro-Taylor because a guitar player of mine many years ago had one that just sounded great. But I've never found one in a shop that I jelled with, and I have tried. Although I will say, I picked up a Taylor GS Mini a couple summers ago on vacation and it blew away every single other baby size guitar I tried. Not sure what kind of voodoo they have going on with that thing but it sounds a lot bigger and deeper than it is. I wouldn’t mind owning a GS mini, fun little guitar with a big sound. Although they seem way more expensive than I remember. |
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Post by EmRR on Dec 17, 2023 12:35:03 GMT -6
Referring generally back to page 1 here, you really can’t underestimate the aging rolloff effect of tape. You can get sharper highs if you track and mix immediately, transfer to digital right away, but spend a long time tracking, with a ton of playbacks, let a couple months go by before you mix, it’s gonna smooth out. Used to bum us out how the transients went away! Bouncing across tape for ‘tape sound’ (record and take the PB head output back to digital in the same pass for sync purposes) hardly does the thing, there’s no settling and magnetic reorientation time at play.
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Dec 17, 2023 14:49:53 GMT -6
I do not have an anti-Taylor bias, but I do not have good experience either. Actually I started out pro-Taylor because a guitar player of mine many years ago had one that just sounded great. But I've never found one in a shop that I jelled with, and I have tried. Although I will say, I picked up a Taylor GS Mini a couple summers ago on vacation and it blew away every single other baby size guitar I tried. Not sure what kind of voodoo they have going on with that thing but it sounds a lot bigger and deeper than it is. I wouldn’t mind owning a GS mini, fun little guitar with a big sound. Although they seem way more expensive than I remember. Yeah I was looking at that. I can't remember what I paid for mine but it was definitely not $800. I have the Mahogany e-mini. Maybe I paid $499? At the most. |
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Post by chessparov on Dec 17, 2023 17:26:01 GMT -6
IIRC John Mayer at his concerts, is a sometimes Baby Taylor player. Is this his usual formula though?  Chris P.S. Now I'm wondering... Would a book called "1001 Uses For A DEAD Taylor", be a good pick? |
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