Vetteboy
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Hey guys -
My name is Chris, I've known HotSEXJ for a few years from some other forums we frequent, and he told me to come over here and post up about the newest guitar I got. Apparently there's been some interest in this thing so here's some firsthand impressions.
A few weeks ago I went with a friend from work up to a Guitar Center store because he wanted to check out some stuff. While he was browsing, I saw a Taylor solid-body electric, which was kinda strange because up til that point I'd thought they only made acoustics. I picked it up and immediately was hooked. At $1,400 on clearance sale I wasn't gonna plink the cash down right there, but I was definitely interested.
Long story short, I haven't bought a new guitar in over 10 years. The last one I bought was my Music Man Steve Morse sig. model, the blue one in this pic:
I paid $850 for it in 1997, it was produced August 10th, 1994.
It's been great and I've played the hell out of it, but it's pretty similar to the Taylor as far as pickups etc, so I figured I'd bring it up to Guitar Center and see what they could do for me.
They ended up giving me $800 for the Music Man
cool3 and knocked the price down to $1200 on the Taylor. So $400 later, I had this.
Nice slim profile.
Figured top.
Cool wood overlay on the headstock.
The stable...the other one is a Jackson USA Soloist SL1, neck-thru.
I'm loving the hell outta the Taylor. The pickups are unbelievably clear, and there are 5 positions on the pickup switch with a few different coil-tap options available. The body has some hollow chambers so it's extremely light and resonant.
The shape is like a really comfortable Les Paul, and the neck is a little on the thicker side, but that's really about it. There's a pretty large amount of hollow space in the body so it really rings and sustains - seems like they really put a lot of their acoustic guitar R & D into it. And an added result is that it's really light.
Unbelievable sustain from it, too...definitely more than the Music Man had. You can ring out a really complex chord and hear each string clearly, even without adjusting any of the settings on the amp from what I had it on before. There's no cheating with this guitar.
The fretwork is nothing short of amazing, and you can bend any string on any fret to the breaking point and not encounter any rough spots at all. Bend the hell out of it and it'll sustain just as long as an open string.
I think what caught my attention first was just the clarity and resonance of it. I liked it before I even plugged it in. Harmonics JUMP outta these pickups. You can nail artificial harmonics pretty much on demand from anywhere on the strings. The pickups definitely have a strong response in the mid-high range.
Part of it might be the strings they use as well...I haven't been able to find what they are.
So far it's been a great transition from the Music Man - not gonna lie, I'll definitely miss it, but I'd never use it for anything.
Any questions, post up - seems like a cool place here!
My name is Chris, I've known HotSEXJ for a few years from some other forums we frequent, and he told me to come over here and post up about the newest guitar I got. Apparently there's been some interest in this thing so here's some firsthand impressions.
A few weeks ago I went with a friend from work up to a Guitar Center store because he wanted to check out some stuff. While he was browsing, I saw a Taylor solid-body electric, which was kinda strange because up til that point I'd thought they only made acoustics. I picked it up and immediately was hooked. At $1,400 on clearance sale I wasn't gonna plink the cash down right there, but I was definitely interested.
Long story short, I haven't bought a new guitar in over 10 years. The last one I bought was my Music Man Steve Morse sig. model, the blue one in this pic:
I paid $850 for it in 1997, it was produced August 10th, 1994.
It's been great and I've played the hell out of it, but it's pretty similar to the Taylor as far as pickups etc, so I figured I'd bring it up to Guitar Center and see what they could do for me.
They ended up giving me $800 for the Music Man
cool3 and knocked the price down to $1200 on the Taylor. So $400 later, I had this.
Nice slim profile.
Figured top.
Cool wood overlay on the headstock.
The stable...the other one is a Jackson USA Soloist SL1, neck-thru.
I'm loving the hell outta the Taylor. The pickups are unbelievably clear, and there are 5 positions on the pickup switch with a few different coil-tap options available. The body has some hollow chambers so it's extremely light and resonant.
The shape is like a really comfortable Les Paul, and the neck is a little on the thicker side, but that's really about it. There's a pretty large amount of hollow space in the body so it really rings and sustains - seems like they really put a lot of their acoustic guitar R & D into it. And an added result is that it's really light.
Unbelievable sustain from it, too...definitely more than the Music Man had. You can ring out a really complex chord and hear each string clearly, even without adjusting any of the settings on the amp from what I had it on before. There's no cheating with this guitar.
The fretwork is nothing short of amazing, and you can bend any string on any fret to the breaking point and not encounter any rough spots at all. Bend the hell out of it and it'll sustain just as long as an open string.
I think what caught my attention first was just the clarity and resonance of it. I liked it before I even plugged it in. Harmonics JUMP outta these pickups. You can nail artificial harmonics pretty much on demand from anywhere on the strings. The pickups definitely have a strong response in the mid-high range.
Part of it might be the strings they use as well...I haven't been able to find what they are.
So far it's been a great transition from the Music Man - not gonna lie, I'll definitely miss it, but I'd never use it for anything.
Any questions, post up - seems like a cool place here!
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