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Post by jackorion on May 15, 2020 8:53:53 GMT
Phil Taylor - I'd be intrigued to know what your thoughts are from the playing position? It's something that always surprises me when I record Acoustic Review that, sometimes, a guitar I thought didn't have much bass from the players perspective will sound nice and bassy out front on the recording. My Collings is a bit like this and I never really realised it until I started using a mic live - the low end out front is much more prominent than from where you're playing, whereas my Martin seems to have the same bass response from the player's perspective and out front.
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Post by Phil Taylor on May 15, 2020 16:35:10 GMT
Phil Taylor - I'd be intrigued to know what your thoughts are from the playing position? It's something that always surprises me when I record Acoustic Review that, sometimes, a guitar I thought didn't have much bass from the players perspective will sound nice and bassy out front on the recording. My Collings is a bit like this and I never really realised it until I started using a mic live - the low end out front is much more prominent than from where you're playing, whereas my Martin seems to have the same bass response from the player's perspective and out front. My guitars definitely sound different to me from the playing position. To me the Lyn has less bass when recorded and the Torridge has more bass when recorded rather than what I'm hearing directly, the Lamorna seems not to differ greatly. The Lamorna is my current favourite sound from a playing position. It seems to be right in the middle of the glassy rosewood sound and the woody mahogany sound plus the size seems to be more comfortable. My ears aren't great though and tend to vary at different times of the day....... Just as an aside re Collings - 2 or 3 years ago I went to Sounds Great music shop, now closed, because they had a used OM1 Indian ss in for a really good price. It was a gorgeous guitar with not a mark on it and I went prepared to swap my Torridge AND my Martin 00018 for it, I was really gassing, it's terrible 😁. When I played it, to me it sounded very much like the Torridge so I managed to resist the gas. I love the look of Collings guitars and they sound great.......
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Post by vikingblues on May 15, 2020 18:51:38 GMT
I already commented on the other thread with the video of the three guitars. But this gave a good opportunity to try again and to be able to rapidly shift between the three recordings in three different tabs. I would still hold my opinion that the sound of the recordings to my ears are consistent to my general preference for smaller guitars. But the more I listened the more I found the Lyn was the one that won me over. It's a shame that the sound for the acoustic guitarist when playing is often very different to what the listener would hear or what a recording sounds like. The guitar that I've played and also recorded that came closest to matching the sound for the player to the recorded sound was Dave White's An Féa Caol. Mark
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Post by jackorion on May 17, 2020 11:21:53 GMT
Phil Taylor - I'd be intrigued to know what your thoughts are from the playing position? It's something that always surprises me when I record Acoustic Review that, sometimes, a guitar I thought didn't have much bass from the players perspective will sound nice and bassy out front on the recording. My Collings is a bit like this and I never really realised it until I started using a mic live - the low end out front is much more prominent than from where you're playing, whereas my Martin seems to have the same bass response from the player's perspective and out front. My guitars definitely sound different to me from the playing position. To me the Lyn has less bass when recorded and the Torridge has more bass when recorded rather than what I'm hearing directly, the Lamorna seems not to differ greatly. The Lamorna is my current favourite sound from a playing position. It seems to be right in the middle of the glassy rosewood sound and the woody mahogany sound plus the size seems to be more comfortable. My ears aren't great though and tend to vary at different times of the day....... Just as an aside re Collings - 2 or 3 years ago I went to Sounds Great music shop, now closed, because they had a used OM1 Indian ss in for a really good price. It was a gorgeous guitar with not a mark on it and I went prepared to swap my Torridge AND my Martin 00018 for it, I was really gassing, it's terrible 😁. When I played it, to me it sounded very much like the Torridge so I managed to resist the gas. I love the look of Collings guitars and they sound great....... Cheers for this - interesting that the walnut b/s seem to sit in the middle tonally...
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