Acoustic Guitars, Wood or Laminate? – Sound Comparison!
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Timestamps
» 0:00 The Tonewood Debate?
» 0:29 Let’s Compare!
» 1:00 What is Laminate?
» 1:22 Why Laminate?
» 2:58 Laminate Guitars
» 5:35 Solid Top Guitars
» 7:56 All Solid Wood Guitars
» 10:53 Price
» 11:06 Weight
» 12:12 Laminate Sound Discussion
» 15:02 Solid Top vs Laminate
» 15:34 Solid Top Sound Discussion
» 18:46 All Solid vs Others
» 19:11 All Solid Sound Discussion
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Originally posted by UCSNxIry_FPFcQDFRbi3VOAw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKzhs1DEUps
There is no real tonewood debate on acoustic guitars. There is a debate about tonewood on solid body electric guitars. Everyone knows solid wood is more resonate than plywood and that different species of solid wood, in an acoustic guitar, affects the tone.
Pressed into a shape err.. is plywood..
For a beginner, good is good enough. Until you hone your skills the sound quality will not come into play as much as you’d think.
i think nelson's (classical?) guitar is older than his eldest son…
Up side of laminate is it's less reactive to temperature and humidity buy a guitar with your ears then your eyes
I gad a taylor and the frets wore down within six months. Needless to say I returned it.
HPL sounds more focused, more bright, more awesome. Solid sounds like I’m about to join hands with some annoying people to sing around a fire during the middle of summer.
I bought an Ibanez in 1985 and nobody including me liked the way it sounded it has a 3ply sounding board 40 years later it really does sound better my epiphone and alverez that have solid sounding boards sound better
I can’t believe that Alvarez is $750. Unreal how far CNC has taken the value way up.
Martin did not invent the laminate guitar. They may have had the idea to reuse their waste and make money off of it because they are greedy slobs, but they invented nothing but their own bracing system. Not bracing in general, just their superior system.
Definitely such a huge difference in tonality
Tonewood importance in acoustic instruments has never been seriously denied.
Completely different topic from electric guitars.
cheaper guitars need setup and they don't have great intonation so sound awful as one plays higher on the fretboard. The braces and top wood is not as premium as more expensive axes. And cheaper guitars are not "made well" they are poorly made also.
come on Pete , wood is sustainable, always will be. It grows like grass man! Sure really great quality is rarer and always will be but it will be available.
I've had a solid top laminate back and side guitar for over 40 years…nobody can tell the difference between it and an all solid. You can get good laminate guitars and if that's all you can afford go for it. After all, if Clapton picks up a laminate guitar he's gonna sound good….so in reality, it's the player, not the guitar.
After getting a Taylor 314ce I can hardly stand playing laminate guitars.
Godin(seagull, Simon and patrick) uses wild cherry laminate that is 3 equal layers of solid wood pressed together. Nice quality timber for back and sides that pairs well with their cedar tops. They just so happen to own the forests where they harvest their wild cherry, which keeps costs down.
I love Andertons and I don't want to be a troll, but this video is full of misinformation and pure nonsense. There are many different methods of making laminate wood. Most of the higher end laminates use thin layers of wood fused together and not reconstituted saw dust. Laminate wood guitars will not achieve the same level of tonal complexity or sustain as solid wood instruments, but they can still produce good sound quality, especially when quality construction techniques are used. You could have done a real service to people by explaining what laminate guitars do well. I own both high end acoustics and laminate acoustics, and I always will.
Maghony solid top of ibanez 230eu verry good sound
Great video, Guys! But, I am confused. I thought the MD70 Alvarez has the Rosewood back and sides, and that the MD60 has the Mahogany back and sides.
Nice
The all solid seems ROSEWOOD in fact it sounds pretty different from the other Alvarez..! Not so fair :-))
For me….any guitar you pick up , laminate or not has its own sound and personality….the East Coast guitar sounds good…..there's nothing wrong with it for any player….
Do a blind test using a Taylor 214ce dblx ziricote and any other guitar.
I need to find out more about this diminishing law of returns that Pete speaks of.
Played a Taylor 210 recently. Around 1000 USD. Its where i got to the point that i felt spending angmore didnt matter.
I own a Yamaha FG9-R, a Martin D-18, and a Martin OM28. All solid wood guitars. And trust me, they play better, sound better, have better sustain and intonation than any non-solid wood guitars I’ve ever played.
I'm going to watch this video, but first, allow me to declare that it was Pete's hair+facial expression in the thumbnail/title frame, NOT the actual subject matter that hooked me… that is all.
Laminate sounds way more transparent, we as players just love energy of low resonances on solids, which will be removed by sound engineer in any sane mix.
@Pete, good shout about sustainability. Another thing is, you don't feel guilty about playing the laminate guitars around camp fire. My BC Rich acoustic gets a lot of love playing outside at night, sounding good, looking good, and making people happy.
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