Martin CEO-7
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Today we are playing a beautiful Martin CEO-7 acoustic guitar. With an Adirondack spruce top and mahogany back and sides, this guitar excels at finger-style and warmer bluesy strumming. Let us know what you think of the sound in the comments!
As always, the aim of the recording setup has been to capture the natural sound of the instrument; the sound from good quality speakers or headphones should be an accurate representation of the acoustic sound in the room. No processing is added to the recording.
Guitar Recording Chain: United Studio Technologies UT FET47 & AKG C414 / Neve 1073 DPX / RME Fireface UCX II / Logic Pro X
Vocal Recording Chain: Coles 4038 (muted during playing)
Links:
Martin Guitars - www.martinguitar.com/
Coda Music - www.coda-music.com/
AKG - www.akg.com/Microphones
United Studio Technologies - unitedstudiotech.com/
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Folk Singer/Songwriter Strumming
0:37 - Introducing the CEO-7
1:53 - Playing With a Capo
2:45 - Bluesy Finger-Style
3:46 - Finding theIllusive CEO-7
4:07 - Ed’s Songwriting On The Spot
5:16 - Open Strumming
6:02 - Melodic Picking
6:35 - Ed's Thought for the Day
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your playing captured the beautiful qualities of this guitar.
Thanks Ron. Really glad you enjoyed it. - Ed
I bought a CEO-7 last year after a right rotator cuff repair. My HD-28 was impossible to play 6 months post-op, causing me to look at smaller body guitars. My search covered the Gibson L-00, LG-2, the Martin 000’s and 00’s. The CEO-7 was the clear winner for me. I’m now 14 months post-op and can now play my dread for short periods but the CEO-7 gets the vast majority of my attention. Great guitar. I can see that the dread will be used for jamming with bluegrass people and my CEO-7 for everything else.
Hi Robert, I had a similar time choosing mine, played a 000-18, a couple of OM-21s and an Atkin essential OM. I didn't really consider the gibson options even though I've got a few gibsons and love them, I think it had to be a Martin for me. I understand what you mean about using the dread for Bluegrass jams, volume / projection is maybe not the strongest in a guitar this size. I'm glad you're enjoying it and hope your shoulder is healed now. - Ed
A few years ago my local guitar shop had two Martin CEO 7s in stock, one was used, the other new. I was very surprised to hear that they sounded profoundly different from each other. The new one had an incredible lower midrange 'bloom' when you strummed an open or barre chord, with very long sustain; overall it was lovely, and unexpected from most 00s you hear. The very slightly used one (it looked brand new) didn't have this bloom, and overall had a very consistent and pleasant tone, but nothing to write home about. If the used one, which was approximately 900 dollars less than the new one, had possessed that bloom, I would have bought it right away, but unfortunately it was the new one, which was just out of my price range at the time.
Anyway, I still think of that lovely CEO-7 that 'got away', and hope that someday I might just find the right deal on one that has that elusive 'blooming' tone, which makes it sound so much more complex and bigger than a 00.
That's interesting. I played this one against a new one at the time as well as some other new Martins, an Om21 and a 000-18 and this one came out on top regardless of price (which was lucky as it was 2/3rds of the cost of the others).
I've seen a few of the Waterloo Guitars and really like the look of them but for the amount I play acoustic, even one nice acoustic is an extravagance I find hard to justify so I'll probably never have one. Thanks for watching.
Ed.
This is why I probably wouldn’t order a $3k guitar off the internet. 😂. I want to go around and play a few different ones. I’ve played one particular CEO 7 quite a few times and it was amazing. Had the bloom. Had the bottom end with being woofy. So articulate. Played like the easiest thing I’ve ever picked up. I don’t do credit cards so I’ll just have to wait. ❤
That is a great sounding guitar. You did a good job recording it.
Thanks! It certainly is a good sounding guitar. Ed
It looks and sounds beautiful and really suits you.
In summary, I'm a massive fan of this video. Great work, keep them coming 😁
Thanks mate 👍 more in the works.
Thank you for this very instructive and enlightening video. You are enormously talented and really bring out the best in this gorgeous Martin CEO-7. Please create more videos featuring your exemplary playing, and Martin Guitars. Keep up the stellar work, and cheers from New York!
Harold that's really kind, thank you. Well absolutely do our best, I hope you've watched our OM-21 video. Other than that, without going broke to buy another, I think we may have exhausted all the Martins we have access to at the minute but you never know what's in the future. Thanks again, really glad you enjoyed it - Ed
Great video and playing. I also have a the CEO7 and it's one of my favorite acoustics.
Thanks Kurt. Glad you like yours, this is my first and only really nice acoustic, I can't see me ever letting it go. - Ed
Beautiful guitar, great job micing it up, comes across lovely 👌
Thanks mate, we really appreciate that, glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this Video,i get my CEO Last Week….
Best wishes
Thanks Michael I hope you're enjoying it as much as I'm still enjoying mine.
the replaced machine heads look even better than the original ones!
I agree! They were done before I got the guitar and I'm glad they did it. I've now got matching bridge pins in as well as they'd been changed but weren't a matching set.
You will love that guitar!
Thanks Clyde, I've had it a while now and it's still just as exciting - Ed
Lovely playing. I'm looking at one of these, not least cos i can't get on with MLO necks on most modern Martins
Thanks. I hope you like the neck, it's really quite different from the MLO and feels even more so due to the string spacing being wider. Let us know. How you get on. - Ed
Wow look at the string spacing
Yep, I didn't mention it but really should have done. These have the wider nut and wider spacing at the bridge which is great if you have podgy fingers like me 😂
Oh man..I saw this for sale at Coda. Its a killer guitar.
Yeh it is, I played a bunch of guitars there and this was my favourite. It's the only time I've been there and I really liked the shop. Are you local to there? Its 90 minutes either way for me. - Ed
@@signal_to_noise No Im not local at all. But I have been many times.Especially when I was working in London.Great place!Enjoy that great guitar.
I bought a CEO-7 used, my wife negotiated the price with his wife. It's a forever guitar and will be passed to the children or grandchildren. Thanks
I'm glad you love it. Those are some lucky kids 😂
@Signal To Noise I'm not dead yet! I play for folks who can't get out (assisted living, memory care) about 16 hours a week, not including practice.
Yeh my comment came out wrong, sorry about that 😬
@@signal_to_noise no worries. Yes, they will be lucky. My wife kind of got me thinking about it when her Mom died and she was promised something that was taken by a cousin. There was only one, no issue if there was 2. My plan is to have a nice guitar for each who plays.
That's a good plan. And a great way to use your playing entertaining those people in assisted living. This guitar will probably only ever be played at home or on video (my record of 2 gigs in the last 7 years means my guitars don't get out much)
Shes beautiful and sounds sweet and warm , well wear.
Thanks James. Hope you enjoyed the video.
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Vielen Dank!
Lovely playing. Thanks. (I pick mine up next week). What strings are you using?
Thanks Bryan, I honestly don't know I'm afraid, I bought it pre owned and didn't ask what was on it and haven't changed them since. I remember he said Elixir 12s but I'm not sure which ones. I hope you like yours as much as I do 👍
@@signal_to_noise I also own a 000-28 on which I use 12-53 Elixir Nanowebs and have for over 10 years, they are expensive but superb. I'm trading in a D-28 which (at 72) is getting uncomfortable to play around the right shoulder. Seeing videos like yours does give me reassurance as I never thought I'd ever part with my (2008) Dreadnought. Thanks for replying.
That was one of my concerns about a dreadnought as I'm not very big and my arms are short 😂 hope you love the CEO, let us know how you get on - Ed
@@signal_to_noise Yep, fair to say I love the 7, considering I have the same strings on my 000-28, the same scale length, they are really different.
The sound when you 'dig' in is surprising, so much sound from such a small body, yet it sounds sublime when played quietly (which I mainly do).
Your video really does show this instrument beautifully, but be assured they are nearly as mellow out of the box when brand new too.
Hi Brian, that's great news. I think mine has had a fair bit of play judging by the marks on it so it's nice to hear they sound great brand new as well. Congrats on the new guitar.
Lovely video and sound. What strings do you have on the CEO?
Thanks. I use the Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze 12 - 53.
@@signal_to_noise Great - thanks for taking the time to answer. Thaey do sound great!
My brother cannot afford martin CEO -7 that's why he made one, it's sounds and appearances is desame ..😊😊😊
Sounds like a very cool brother to have.
I'm curious - have the pegs and tuners been replaced on this guitar? My CEO-7 has cream button tuners and white with black dot pegs. Have they done a run on both?
Hi Eddie. I should've mentioned those, sorry we're not quite that professional yet 😂 yeh, the pegs have been replaced, they were ebony and mismatched at this point, I've since put some matching ebony ones in, and the tuners would originally have been those golden age plastic button ones. I'm not sure when they were replaced but before I got it. - Ed
@@signal_to_noise Much thanks! You're as professional as you need to be!!!
Is that the guitar the guy played in "Yesterday"?
Hi Ed, I haven't seen the film but just had a search and yes, I think it was one of these. This one just has different bridge pins and tuners, we forgot to mention they were swapped before I got it.
Check out the movie, if only to see and hear the guitar. Otherwise, if you're a Beatle fan, and I'd be surprised if you weren't, it's a fun movie.
Very trebly; sounds like it's designed for playing in a band rather than solo.
One more time CFM IV takes credit for a guitar in which he had zero participation,
Another glaring example would be the CEO 5.
He is on par as a plagiarist than Bob Dylan.
Where do you get your information? Fox Entertainment?
Do you normally think and talk like this?
I met him and asked him about his inspiration for the CEO-07. He had to reference his guitar tech. Really didn’t know anything about it. I was kind of surprised but not really. Just a marketing ploy. In saying that… who cares? 😂 It is such a great guitar.