Taylor Guitars' 362ce Review | 12 strings, 12 frets and V-class Bracing
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2019
- Taylor Guitars' designed Andy Powers has brought the new V-class bracing pattern to their line of 12 strings guitars and with it a host of new design ideas. Prior to the v-class bracing Taylor's recent line of small bodies 12-fret, 12-strings guitars were something of an oddity in the acoustic guitar market. Most 12-string guitars are made as large bodied jumbo models. Taylor bucked this tradition a few years ago with smaller Grand Concert sized guitars that also featured 12-fret necks. This 12-fret design, despite being non-traditional, actually makes a lot of sense. Rarely does one play very high up on the neck of a 12-string guitar so the shorter neck did not pose issues there. The movement of the bridge to accommodate the 12-fret neck means that the bridge is now in the middle of the top affecting the tone with a more open sound. The result is a mellowed 12-string that is extremely comfortable to play. The new V-class bracing brings a host of changes to the tone of the guitar. Expect enhanced sustain, increased volume and the most accurate intonation on a 12-string I have played. To accomodate the V bracing with the lower placement of the 12 -fret bridge, the 12 strings are anchored to the bridge with only 6 bridge pins. This new design has the added benefit of the ensuring the same break angle of each string at the saddle.
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That's one of the best sounding 12 strings I've ever heard!!
Taylor did it again! Awesome. I’ll be picking one up as soon as my dealer gets one.
Sounds awesome! So full.
i just played one the other day its typical Taylor great quality and tone...what a beauty
Wonderful sound. And I love your interpretation of Amazing Grace.
I really like the design and tone on this 362 and might order one as a gift for my better half. She's playing a 712 series and just loves it.
I personally think that Taylor Guitars makes the best 12 String Guitars on the market, and I enjoy tuning up my 2005 655E . Love the sound of a 12 String, really like this 362ce.
I personally completely disagree with you. They sound cheap and tinny to me.
😀😀😀😀😀
@@kingrobert1st I was surprised at how cheap and tinny they sounded until I picked up a beat to hell 15 year old 3 series with a cracked top. Night and day difference from the newer ones I've tries. Amazing tone
@@brandoncostner7437 Thats good luck for you!
@@kingrobert1st not really. I still couldn't afford it even deeply discounted to $1200 it's still at the music store, bro
Omgoodness....lololol. thats exactly what I'm doing, what videos and looking at specs online. It's so much fun, and your videos are the best.
Had a chance to handle and strum on one of these recently. If I had that kind of discretionary income, this guitar WOULD have come home with me!
Love the tone of this 12-string . . . I think the mahogany top gets rid of the "jangliness" of most 12-strings.
Well the 150e is more in my budget but the 362ce is lovely it’s a mild mannered 12 string it’s not to gangly not overly bright it’s nearly as flexible as a 6 string I love it but the 150e is in my budget .
Wow! How did you know I stay up until midnight lusting over guitars on RUclips? I love those african blackwood Taylors but if I bring any more guitars into the house some others are going to have to go. Unless I can use "it followed me home, can I keep it?"
I keep all my guitars cased..simple reason is, when I go to buy a new one..I take one of my cases, empty..tell the wife I am having it "adjusted" then unbox it at the store..or buy off the rack..put it in my old case..older the better..and hide my older one in my secret closet! Takes her up to a year or more to notice..sometimes longer! When she accuses me of buying a new one, I dig out the receipt and say "see! It's over a year old!! Your loosing it honey." Problem solved! 😀 I learned it with gun cases first..so if your a gun collector TOO, then by at a new gun safe three times bigger than you feel you will EVER need. You WILL fill it up...get one big enough, you can keep your new un-wifed guitars in it until it ages too! 😀
After 40 years plus my wife knows exactly what I'm doing..but she never mentioned it..she gets a kick out of me hiding it. Laugh! She has never cared what I bought..but she DOES like the GAME of it.😀 She IS the best!
@@garyheaton4791 That's pretty funny!
@@garyheaton4791 I've done it with empty gun cases. "I'm going to the range", which, technically is not a lie. Honestly she wouldn't mind, she gets a kick out of it like your wife does. I even showed her the Taylor 322e, which is the one I currently lust for, and she agreed it is a beautiful guitar. Every time I pull out my Taylor GS-Mini Koa she says it is beautiful and asks me if it's new and I look up the receipt from when I bought it. I keep talking myself out of the 322e though because it kind of fills the same niche as my Martin 000-15SM. I don't want the Martin to go away.
I have a 352ce with the old bracing. The guitar is a joy to play and sounds very nice. The 12 fret neck makes it so much easier o play. I’m sure this new one is also very nice!
Can you do a review of the Sitka spruce top version?
Love the guitar but I would like to have seen something about the “2 strings per peg”
Great review as always! Just got a question. By smaller body do you mean like a gs mini? Or bigger than gs mini?
bigger .. smaller than a grand auditorium ...
Do you have this guitar in stock? After researching for days, I have FINALLY found the guitar that I want and cannot find it available anywhere!
I want one!!
Just checked the Taylor website … it says it’s tropical mahogany back and sides?… how do I get the Tassie Blackwood back and sides?
Well placed mic!
Just placed an order.
I read that they come from factory with the larger string on top?
How does it compare to the Taylor 562ce? Thanks!
The 562 is just a bit more of a high end version. This means improved tone, volume and sustainability. However, some people may not even notice so I would suggest you listen to them both first (:
In Andy Powers opinion. Has anyone carried out repeatable and conclusive comparisons against non V- braced acoustics?
What does the 562ce give you over this for $1,000.00 more ?
I wouldn’t be in a hurry to grab one of these. My main concern is the dual string attachment. That’s a lot of string tension pulling against the bridge plate in the same spot. A single string can eventually destroy a bridge plate so what about two in the same slot? I’d want to know a lot more about the long term viability of this stringing method before buying into it. Does sound great though.
You obviously have never heard of Andy Powers. Do you actually think Taylor would build and send out a doozie 12 string or anything? Silly comment Sir.
Fairly obvious that you're not an engineering or a physics major
HA! it's 11:50pm !
Taylor do not build and send out crap!!!! Silly comment at top. Nice review Mr. Alamo
Not knocking Andy Powers, but in all fairness the 2 strings-per-pin idea has been around for a while. One example would be a Yairi DY-72. Credit Andy for appropriating a good idea when it's applicable.
Now that I have that off my chest - I absolutely love that guitar. I need to see if there's a how-to-string video for the "2per" bridge, LOL!!
Hi- I was curious about your comment and did a quick search for that Yairi model and none of them seem to have the 2 strings per pin thing. Perhaps it is another model you are thinking of?
@@patrickmacleod2415 You're right I had the model number wrong. It was a DY-80. Photo here: images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--JhmUkILg--/f_auto,t_supersize/v1562090732/l12lkml5tpcxn8iyips0.jpg
@@patrickmacleod2415 look at breedlove pursuit 12 strings. I believe they fit 2 strings under 1 bridge pin. I love Andy, but I honestly don't know who's came first
This is what Andy says about it in Wood and Steel magazine of Summer 2019 at page 20 (you can download it online from the Taylor website):
It’s not an original design - other instruments featuring a double-course string arrangement have incorporated this approach - and Andy himself used it years ago on some traditional Hawaiian-style ukuleles he built. “Typically, because a uke body is so small, when you build a 6- or 8-string taro patch uke, you just automatically double up the anchor point and put two strings in one hole,” he says.
@@justinmurphymusic4205 Don't those Breedlove's have string-through bridges and no pins?
Taylor is the best guitars made in the world.
it is weird to drool over a guitar?
When it’s this awesome it would be weird if you don’t!! 😂😂
I seen one it was 2400 bucks
Imagine coming home with a few beers and puttin ur foot through it. 300 . Enough to spend .
Bought one taylor and it wasent what is was said to be. Ok starter guitar gave it to a young man as a gradutation present .. never taylor again . WW2 X BRACING ww2 was 1942 got a few yrs left to be 100 yrs
I will only buy Taylor guitars and I've had a lot of different guitars.
Over priced piece of wood 👎
Not if you are a music/guitar lover.