Budget guitar, better than Martin sound...
mccreadyisgod
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I just realized I hadn't shared with anyone yet... I got a new member for my family!
http://www.artandlutherieguitars.com/amis.htm
Art & Lutherie Ami. It's a parlor-bodied acoustic, pretty small. Smaller than a Baby Taylor, but full-scale (well, 24.75"). All laminate cherry wood, with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Plays like a dream, the neck feels like a Les Paul, very smooth and quick. Perfect for fingerpicking. Mine is the almond finish, looks similar to the nylon guitar on their website, although mine is a steel-string. And unlike that picture, mine has good solid sealed tuners. Plus a compensated bridge and a pretty nice nut.
So, having the guitar, I felt compelled to put a pickup in her...
http://www.schattendesign.com/HFN-Artist.htm
The Schatten HFN-Artist, a proprietary piezo pickup with a generic Fishman-built preamp and an endpin jack. Had it installed, and it is GORGEOUS! This pickup is amazing, NO quack, and really balanced. I was worried that it would sound thin on such a small-bodied guitar (it uses the surface of the soundboard) but it sounds great! It's unobtrusive, requires no mods to the bridge or bridge saddle, and just a drilled hole for the endpin jack. I'm overjoyed with this pickup.
So, thanks to Canada for an awesome pair... BTW, my total cost: $333.50 US. And it sounds better than any Martin with a Fishman.
http://www.artandlutherieguitars.com/amis.htm
Art & Lutherie Ami. It's a parlor-bodied acoustic, pretty small. Smaller than a Baby Taylor, but full-scale (well, 24.75"). All laminate cherry wood, with a maple neck and rosewood fretboard. Plays like a dream, the neck feels like a Les Paul, very smooth and quick. Perfect for fingerpicking. Mine is the almond finish, looks similar to the nylon guitar on their website, although mine is a steel-string. And unlike that picture, mine has good solid sealed tuners. Plus a compensated bridge and a pretty nice nut.
So, having the guitar, I felt compelled to put a pickup in her...
http://www.schattendesign.com/HFN-Artist.htm
The Schatten HFN-Artist, a proprietary piezo pickup with a generic Fishman-built preamp and an endpin jack. Had it installed, and it is GORGEOUS! This pickup is amazing, NO quack, and really balanced. I was worried that it would sound thin on such a small-bodied guitar (it uses the surface of the soundboard) but it sounds great! It's unobtrusive, requires no mods to the bridge or bridge saddle, and just a drilled hole for the endpin jack. I'm overjoyed with this pickup.
So, thanks to Canada for an awesome pair... BTW, my total cost: $333.50 US. And it sounds better than any Martin with a Fishman.
...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
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If I need another acoustic, that's the one I'm going to get.
are they the same company as Simon & Patrick, Godin?
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MIG, I just was playing one yesterday in a music store. They have a classical nylon string parlor one, too. They are great!
The finish was nice! Usually the cheap guitars have so much clearcoat on them that it might as well be a plastic guitar. This was nice lacquer, cool neck.
Yup, new recommendation for starter guitars, and for a knock around guitar that sounds great.
It IS a Godin company. Their entry level guitar line.
The same company came up with a really cool case, too. It's plastic, and really light, not as bulky as a hardshell case, but better impact resistance than a gig bag.
I'll have to check out the mike system, too.
Thanks McCreadyisGod!
Don't be mankind. ~Captain Beefheart
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And it's a lot cheaper than it's eventual replacement: A Webber OM
http://www.webberguitars.com/