Such a great point about how solid wood guitars never really sound as good through a pickup. One of the reasons I love my Martin 000-X1. It plays great and sounds very similar to high end guitars when plugged in. It sounds really good unplugged as well!
I came to this channel cause I wanted to know how easily a crack in the neck joint of a Gibson SG could be fixed and I haven’t stopped watching your videos since!!!! So calming and informative!!!
@@mathiasjohannesson9833 Yes I do. When I purchased it, I was worried the sound wouldn’t be warm and rich. It was. You’ll love it! Plays easily, sounds great!
I’m listening on my iPhone, not the best listening platform, but the guitar sounds stunningly bright and clear. I think I could get used to playing that guitar! Nice video as always - great content and respect for your customers and their instruments. You, sir, are a gentleman and an inspiration to all who play and maintain our beloved instruments.
I arranged a meet-up with an X20 owner at a store that also sells Rainsongs. It's not even close. My X30 is dark up near the neck and brightens up when played back at the bridge.
I would LOVE to see some more examples of the guitars you have built. Really enjoyed the headless guitar you built.. just a suggestion. Keep up the great work!
I love the tone. I had a friend who played an Ovation Adamas 12-string that he kept at my place for a while, and I played it often. I loved that thing! The neck was pretty heavy but the tone and the sheer volume were amazing.
I own a couple of these....bullet proof and amplified...the voice of god. I would challenge anyone to compare your wood guitar sound with my X20 live on stage. Many musicians have told me how great it sounds.
Very interesting video featuring a pretty unique guitar. I’m sure that eventually someone will come up with a guitar built using composite materials that is both economically viable and sounds great to those of us who’ve always played and listened to wooden instruments. Manufacturers are already making guitars with HPL bodies and non-wooden fingerboards and Ovation have long been making instruments with “ Lyrachord” backs and in some instances carbon fibre tops. There will be lots of problems to overcome including the attitude of us guitar players who are very suspicious of any deviation from traditional materials and construction methods. They days of plentiful cheap wood are long gone and the musical instrument makers will have to look for alternative materials.
I have an x20 emerald and wow what an awesome sounding and looking guitar. For carbon fiber it has good bass tone something carbon fiber struggled with for years. I live in NE part of country so stays stable from freezing cold weather to hot summers and everything in between. Yes they are expensive due to how it has to be built but you have a great sounding guitar that can withstand the elements and once you get action were you want you are good to go. No moving wood here. I didnt know what to think when i purchased it was a bit of gamble after watching lots of videos but i am glad I did. The guitar showed up with neck relief spot on and intonation near perfect. I had a luthier lower the saddle for a bit lower action but other than that good to go. This guitar is and was a great investment. If you are on the fence don't be you wont be disappointed. PS plugged in it sounds just as good as it does unplugged.
I've played a couple of carbon fibre guitars and have come to a similar conclusion to you, they all seemed to lack something. For players with fretting issues I have recommended Newtone Heritage strings, they are lower tension and balanced, I've fitted them for years and for younger players and older players with less finger strength they've been a real bonus, they sound fantastic too. I haven't fitted anything else to my Mcilroy AS25 since I bought it 12 years ago.
What a gorgeous looking machine! Very cool how the sound hole is situated to provide some monitor as well. Would be a good choice for playing in a loud group or if one's hearing isn't great. I love that you're not put off by unconventional instruments.
Man I was expecting a massive price tag on these but it’s about what I paid for my Martin. Not gonna lie, with all the outside gigs I play in Alabama heat/humidity I wouldn’t mind one of these but that Aura preamp on my Martin is just stunning.
I have a Rain Song carbon fiber guitar that I keep in Las Vegas. It is not only immune to humidity, it is immune to extreme dryness. No way I'd leave one of my nice Martin's in our vacation home unattended. Agree, the sound isn't the same, but it is surprisingly good in its own way. I wish it had markers on the fretboard though!
An interesting approach to guitar building. Thanks much for showing it for those of us who don't get out much. As always, thanks for your tips and insights and thumbs up to crush a troll.
Well I sure never expected to see one of those on your bench! Fascinating! I’ve been contemplating getting one of the larger models so your take on that is extra helpful. Very much appreciated 👍
I bought an Emerald X30 last year. It is jumbo sized, but the body bevels and angled waist make it incredibly ergonomic. And, the sound is magical! My Martin, Taylor, and Gibson are a bit neglected, now. One tip for the best sound, try a thinner pick.
I missed the comment about a "different winter saddle" when this video first came out. But it's actually a good idea in some cases I would think. For example my Martin D10e (Sapele back and sides, sitka top) drops about a whole mm in Winter dispite being in its case all the time except for about an hour or two every other day when I play it. I've tried humidifiers in the case but they almost always seem to work well for a couple weeks then I'll open the case one day to find signs of minor over humidification at which point I panic take off the strong tension and let it sit out for a few hours while sweating I'm done with humidifiers. I'm in Texas so weather can shift dramatically and humidity along with it within very short periods of time. So I think I'm just going to make another taller saddle for winters and in the meantime be vigilant about checking the guitar for to much drying. So I'll only be humidifying when the guitar needs it rather than everytime my hydrometer drops below about 30%. I figure you can do more damage with excess humidity in a shorter amount of time than you can with too little humidity. Wait....didnt Ted have a video about just that?
What an amazing guitar and a really interesting episode. By the way people from outside Ireland really struggle to pronounce County Donegal. It is pronounced "Dunny Gawl". Its a beautiful place, well worth a visit.
My brother and I went there in 2018 to visit Lettercran, the birthplace of our Great Grandfather. We had a place on the water within walking distance of Donegal Town. -Stunning place, beautiful people, great food!
As a bass player the Status graphite bass from Rob Green in England and the steinberger guitar from USA both big in the 80’s sounded great and looked amazing
i take an use a different saddle, have different sizes made and start with the smallest, and slowly shin up till i find the right height, then adjust the actual saddle.
Wow. Terrific work getting to 1.2/1.5mm and it still sounding like that. I also play super low action and appreciate when a luthier can really make this happen. I just ordered an X7 - very excited.
Sweet, repaired a 80s crafter the other month nice sound given it is 35 and moved from Spain to the Bahamas back to the UK back to Spain and now in New Brighton, the guitar had some delamination on the top but I stabilised it 👍
Very nice video, thanks. I've got an Emerald X-20, which has the same basic body contours as this but is sized and voiced somewhere between a 000 and a dreadnought. Tone is not wood, but it is good, very good--it sings, really. Lovely guitar and is great in high heat and humidity as well as in Midwestern US winters. I got it after my '78 Yairi popped its bridge in the tropics.
I have an X30 and a Virtuo and an Amicus on the way. I plan to travel a lot, and I want to take my guitars with me. Emerald PLEKs every guitar. Battery access is now outboard. They have Ghost piezo bridges now that allow individual intonation and saddle height adjustments. Stainless frets. Expensive? Yep. Worth it? Yep. My only issue (on the X30) is if I get lazy on A I tend to mute the high E. I measured this vs my S6+CW and the distance in on the high E is further vs the X30. I dunno, maybe I'll make a new nut with the high E in a bit more.
You need a little class in carbon fiber. first of all when filing it you don’t have to worry ,you can take it down without any issues. but if you wanna make sure that you’re getting the right height you go to your local hardware store get a laser level, and that will tell you how close you can get that perfect and how much to remove from your bridge using a feeler gauge when the light touches the top of the metal on the gauge you know what and where you are just a suggestion personally because the carbon fiber resonates longer the volume seems to be higher in most that I’ve played but there is a technique under the top of the guitar where are you going small patches of wood veneer on the underside and you can adjust that town level it’s a hit and miss game but I have a rain song that you can play along side The Martin and you cannot tell the difference in a blindfold test when recorded and check with very sensitive equipment they’re identical big plus to carbon fiber is that they do not expand and contract like wood so they are great for outside players these are just thoughts I’ve had to share with you on these instruments.
The Imperial system of measurement still has its place in trades like yours, but generally metric is a far simpler system. And I grew up with Imperial !
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 Yep, shame all those stoopid engineers switched to metric SI units for their high-falutin' satellites & spacecraft. What morons. If you can't reduce fractions across multiple scales you've no business doing science, I say.
Another great video, Ted! File to it not buzz, great. I like the history, background and philosophy behind the instruments on your bench. Yor playing in the end is also satisfactory. You do your stuff well. It's springtime in northern Norway. :-)
Regarding 64th of an inch; the thing that people who didn’t grow up using an imperial unit ruler is that it’s very easy to visualize fractional divisions of an inch. What’s half of 3/8s? 3/16s. Half of that is 3/32... half of that is 3/64s. And the metric people want to convert inches and get .7mm? Lol I use both imperial and metric for different things. But metric tends to be too fine, or too coarse. It’s easier for me to see a 25.5”’ scale... not 647.7 mm. There’s that .7mm coming up again. Lol
I would think you could make a set of trial saddles to set action height on acoustics. Barely longer than the string spacing, thin enough to fit in most bridge slots, with a range of heights varying by a millimeter or so.
Doesn't sound too bad ! As to the Piezo pickup not transmitting all of woodiness, i've had very good results mixing bridge Piezo and magnetic sound hole pickups with NO active circuit inside the guitar. Master vol,Master tone affecting both pickups. Sound hole pickup always full on, separate volume for the Piezo to blend in..
You never disappoint. When you say you haven't heard a carbon fiber guitar that sounds as good as the better wood guitars, it seems possible that we need more time to learn how to use this material properly. Wood, as wonderful as it is, doesn't seem ideal for some applications, and I wonder if the complexities of guitar building might be an example. Thanks for your reliably intelligent videos.
Very interesting guitar. It looks to be very well crafted and the top is beautiful. Nice work. I never cared for the sound of the Ovation guitars. It seemed to me that they had no resonance - sound was bounced right out them.
funny hearing action referred to using inches (I know manufacturers always use it). Millimetres, is what I'm used to for Action :) fyi - 5/64 = 1.98438mm 4/64 = 1.5875mm
Two degrees in beebop A PhD in swing He the master of rythm He's the rock and roll king The rock and roll doctor has his very own thing ruclips.net/video/z3LNhZ7msI4/видео.html
Neat guitar! Way more visually appealing than my old RainSong jumbo. Sounds very much the same as the RainSong though. Not necessarily bad, just not warm like wood.
My favorite luthier uses an "Insize" taper gauge from a/the machinist's arsenal to accurate measure both Imperial and metric units of measurement. That guitar seems rather expensive... No way I'd buy one as opposed to say a Martin D28 or a commissioned wood guitar from a luthier like Twoody. 🤘
Ha Ha! 'As low as it'll go without buzzing' - How do you know? Jerry Rosa made the expact same point on his site. It must be really irritating, and has a long life in guitar legend. I remember a friend asking for this in the 70s, with the same response. The other issue is - without buzzing when? When I'm strumming, when I'm fingerpicking, when it's dry (as you say). Has a really attractive tone, by the way.
late to the party here, enjoyed your video a lot. I just bought one of these and really like it, do you think it is a good idea to have it set up ? and also which gauge strings would you recommend ?
One of the things i love about being Irish is the the way our place names catches out people from other countries sorry but its pronounced dun-ee-gall :-)
Haha - Ted said it like it was a province of Mars or Jupiter. Still I do like his ongoing 'solder/sodder' riff. I've got an Emerald, and bought it direct from Emerald. It's a fantastic guitar. They don't sell to shops. If I lived in Ireland I'd be down their factory like a shot to hear some in life. Cheaper than a D28!
Interesting guitar and looks good, but I'm not crazy about the sound. Doesn't seem to have much character. Just checked out a demo of a Rainsong acoustic and I thought that sounded a lot nicer. BUT here's the confession, you can write me and my opinion off because ... I'm the only person in the world who just loves the sound of Ovation guitars. There, I said it.
I have long been a fan of Modulus Graphite bass guitars. I currently have a 1992 quantum 6 with a non truss rod neck. This was my primary gigging bass for several years of heavy gigging. It is impervious to climate, and changing string gauge made no difference, it always played perfectly. It does have a distinct treble characteristic that I happen enjoy in a bass. Geoff Gould was associated with prominent players like Phil Lesh and Bob Weir while developing the instrument necks. I believe the technology was adapted from aerospace usage.
Great to see a guitar with in-built storage for a packed lunch.
I was thinking beer holder, but then i spoze that's lunch, MMm molt sandwiches. lmao
That is the best looking carbon fiber guitar I’ve seen.
“Till the fear sets in”.
Spot on.
Your work is incredible. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Such a great point about how solid wood guitars never really sound as good through a pickup. One of the reasons I love my Martin 000-X1. It plays great and sounds very similar to high end guitars when plugged in. It sounds really good unplugged as well!
I came to this channel cause I wanted to know how easily a crack in the neck joint of a Gibson SG could be fixed and I haven’t stopped watching your videos since!!!! So calming and informative!!!
I found his channel looking for the best way to drop my action. A few videos later I decided I liked it around here and stayed.
What an amazing sound! I did not expect that level of quality in carbon fiber
You need to actually hear and play one in real life to realize they are just as, if not more incredible than a wooden one.
What a lovely instrument! The sound is definitely unique- pretty, in a 'crystalline' way.
Li Li check out their jumbo, the X30. It’s sound is warm and bright.
@@garywhitt98 Do you have one?
@@mathiasjohannesson9833 Yes I do. When I purchased it, I was worried the sound wouldn’t be warm and rich. It was. You’ll love it! Plays easily, sounds great!
Those tuners really complete the look. Nice guitar 👍
I’m listening on my iPhone, not the best listening platform, but the guitar sounds stunningly bright and clear. I think I could get used to playing that guitar! Nice video as always - great content and respect for your customers and their instruments. You, sir, are a gentleman and an inspiration to all who play and maintain our beloved instruments.
I arranged a meet-up with an X20 owner at a store that also sells Rainsongs. It's not even close. My X30 is dark up near the neck and brightens up when played back at the bridge.
That sounds a lot better than I thought it would. I rather like the tone of this guitar.
I would LOVE to see some more examples of the guitars you have built. Really enjoyed the headless guitar you built.. just a suggestion. Keep up the great work!
Wow, that sounded great!
I love the tone. I had a friend who played an Ovation Adamas 12-string that he kept at my place for a while, and I played it often. I loved that thing! The neck was pretty heavy but the tone and the sheer volume were amazing.
Beautiful instrument!
I own a couple of these....bullet proof and amplified...the voice of god. I would challenge anyone to compare your wood guitar sound with my X20 live on stage. Many musicians have told me how great it sounds.
Ive never seen one of these guitars in person. Thanks so much for posting the video :-)
All in all that’s a beautiful guitar, and as you have said a very practical option for a working musician
Love the sound of it albeit through my phone speakers. Interesting guitar
Try it through ear buds. Majestic.
Their x30 is a boomer. When I first played mine I couldn't believe the sound coming out of it. The bass is stunning.
@@garywhitt98 I am about to order a X30, can we make contact and discuss that guitar?
@@mathiasjohannesson9833 what would you like to know?
Beautiful instrument! I thought the tone was wonderful
THESE CARBON FIBER GUITARS ARE GREAT WHEN YU GO SCUBA DIVEING . 😳
For carbon fiber it has a really great sound.
I have three Rainsongs. Love them. Ovation only has one model with a carbon top, and even that is a wood composite. The bodies are moulded plastic.
Exactly. They arlso sound rather poor IMO.
Very interesting video featuring a pretty unique guitar. I’m sure that eventually someone will come up with a guitar built using composite materials that is both economically viable and sounds great to those of us who’ve always played and listened to wooden instruments. Manufacturers are already making guitars with HPL bodies and non-wooden fingerboards and Ovation have long been making instruments with “ Lyrachord” backs and in some instances carbon fibre tops. There will be lots of problems to overcome including the attitude of us guitar players who are very suspicious of any deviation from traditional materials and construction methods. They days of plentiful cheap wood are long gone and the musical instrument makers will have to look for alternative materials.
I play that exact guitar to me it was one of the best sounding guitar I ever played
I have an x20 emerald and wow what an awesome sounding and looking guitar. For carbon fiber it has good bass tone something carbon fiber struggled with for years. I live in NE part of country so stays stable from freezing cold weather to hot summers and everything in between. Yes they are expensive due to how it has to be built but you have a great sounding guitar that can withstand the elements and once you get action were you want you are good to go. No moving wood here. I didnt know what to think when i purchased it was a bit of gamble after watching lots of videos but i am glad I did. The guitar showed up with neck relief spot on and intonation near perfect. I had a luthier lower the saddle for a bit lower action but other than that good to go. This guitar is and was a great investment. If you are on the fence don't be you wont be disappointed. PS plugged in it sounds just as good as it does unplugged.
I am about to order a X30, can we make contact and discuss this type of guitar?
@@mathiasjohannesson9833 sure how would you like to do this?
I've played a couple of carbon fibre guitars and have come to a similar conclusion to you, they all seemed to lack something. For players with fretting issues I have recommended Newtone Heritage strings, they are lower tension and balanced, I've fitted them for years and for younger players and older players with less finger strength they've been a real bonus, they sound fantastic too. I haven't fitted anything else to my Mcilroy AS25 since I bought it 12 years ago.
No dislikes is a rare thing on RUclips. You have earned it! I love your videos 👍
That sound is sweet, the neck has a classical guitar vibe, would love to do some fingerstyle on it
What a gorgeous looking machine!
Very cool how the sound hole is situated to provide some monitor as well. Would be a good choice for playing in a loud group or if one's hearing isn't great.
I love that you're not put off by unconventional instruments.
The quality of the sound from that is pretty sweet...
Man I was expecting a massive price tag on these but it’s about what I paid for my Martin. Not gonna lie, with all the outside gigs I play in Alabama heat/humidity I wouldn’t mind one of these but that Aura preamp on my Martin is just stunning.
You may want to check out their x10 three-way electronics set up.
I have a Rain Song carbon fiber guitar that I keep in Las Vegas. It is not only immune to humidity, it is immune to extreme dryness. No way I'd leave one of my nice Martin's in our vacation home unattended. Agree, the sound isn't the same, but it is surprisingly good in its own way. I wish it had markers on the fretboard though!
An interesting approach to guitar building. Thanks much for showing it for those of us who don't get out much. As always, thanks for your tips and insights and thumbs up to crush a troll.
I like the built in cup holder.
Well I sure never expected to see one of those on your bench! Fascinating! I’ve been contemplating getting one of the larger models so your take on that is extra helpful. Very much appreciated 👍
I bought an Emerald X30 last year. It is jumbo sized, but the body bevels and angled waist make it incredibly ergonomic. And, the sound is magical! My Martin, Taylor, and Gibson are a bit neglected, now. One tip for the best sound, try a thinner pick.
@@worldsigh1788 I am about to order a X30, can we make contact and discuss that guitar?
cool, I have just finished watching all your old videos and POW something new to watch. Cheers.
I go back and watch a certain few as ASMR to lull me to sleep.
He has the perfct tone for that
I missed the comment about a "different winter saddle" when this video first came out. But it's actually a good idea in some cases I would think. For example my Martin D10e (Sapele back and sides, sitka top) drops about a whole mm in Winter dispite being in its case all the time except for about an hour or two every other day when I play it. I've tried humidifiers in the case but they almost always seem to work well for a couple weeks then I'll open the case one day to find signs of minor over humidification at which point I panic take off the strong tension and let it sit out for a few hours while sweating I'm done with humidifiers. I'm in Texas so weather can shift dramatically and humidity along with it within very short periods of time. So I think I'm just going to make another taller saddle for winters and in the meantime be vigilant about checking the guitar for to much drying. So I'll only be humidifying when the guitar needs it rather than everytime my hydrometer drops below about 30%. I figure you can do more damage with excess humidity in a shorter amount of time than you can with too little humidity. Wait....didnt Ted have a video about just that?
What an amazing guitar and a really interesting episode.
By the way people from outside Ireland really struggle to pronounce County Donegal. It is pronounced "Dunny Gawl". Its a beautiful place, well worth a visit.
My brother and I went there in 2018 to visit Lettercran, the birthplace of our Great Grandfather. We had a place on the water within walking distance of Donegal Town. -Stunning place, beautiful people, great food!
"As low as it can go without buzzing" is why I only work on electric guitars :)
Guitar sounds great
We are spoiled with great content like yours. Thanks!
As a bass player the Status graphite bass from Rob Green in England and the steinberger guitar from USA both big in the 80’s sounded great and looked amazing
i take an use a different saddle, have different sizes made and start with the smallest, and slowly shin up till i find the right height, then adjust the actual saddle.
Steve Miller is my cousin. He had a Tele with a Modulus graphite neck. A dream to play. I think he sold it to Scott Grove.
Wow. Terrific work getting to 1.2/1.5mm and it still sounding like that. I also play super low action and appreciate when a luthier can really make this happen. I just ordered an X7 - very excited.
Ovations, excepting the Adamas are wood topped / necked guitars.
Sweet, repaired a 80s crafter the other month nice sound given it is 35 and moved from Spain to the Bahamas back to the UK back to Spain and now in New Brighton, the guitar had some delamination on the top but I stabilised it 👍
Why don't you have many more subscribers, great videos. Please keep them coming.
Wow, I really loved the sound of that guitar
Very nice video, thanks. I've got an Emerald X-20, which has the same basic body contours as this but is sized and voiced somewhere between a 000 and a dreadnought. Tone is not wood, but it is good, very good--it sings, really. Lovely guitar and is great in high heat and humidity as well as in Midwestern US winters. I got it after my '78 Yairi popped its bridge in the tropics.
I have an X30 and a Virtuo and an Amicus on the way.
I plan to travel a lot, and I want to take my guitars with me.
Emerald PLEKs every guitar.
Battery access is now outboard.
They have Ghost piezo bridges now that allow individual intonation and saddle height adjustments.
Stainless frets.
Expensive? Yep.
Worth it? Yep.
My only issue (on the X30) is if I get lazy on A I tend to mute the high E. I measured this vs my S6+CW and the distance in on the high E is further vs the X30. I dunno, maybe I'll make a new nut with the high E in a bit more.
You need a little class in carbon fiber. first of all when filing it you don’t have to worry ,you can take it down without any issues. but if you wanna make sure that you’re getting the right height you go to your local hardware store get a laser level, and that will tell you how close you can get that perfect and how much to remove from your bridge using a feeler gauge when the light touches the top of the metal on the gauge you know what and where you are just a suggestion personally because the carbon fiber resonates longer the volume seems to be higher in most that I’ve played but there is a technique under the top of the guitar where are you going small patches of wood veneer on the underside and you can adjust that town level it’s a hit and miss game but I have a rain song that you can play along side The Martin and you cannot tell the difference in a blindfold test when recorded and check with very sensitive equipment they’re identical big plus to carbon fiber is that they do not expand and contract like wood so they are great for outside players these are just thoughts I’ve had to share with you on these instruments.
Very bright sound!
Has kind of brassy sound to me, but, boy does it have sustain. Love watching you work!!! Great video as expected!!!!lol
Wonder how flatwounds would sound on it.
Excellent!!!
Actually this Carbon Fiber Guitar has a really lively sound, sounds like the real thing but a bit louder.
The Imperial system of measurement still has its place in trades like yours, but generally metric is a far simpler system.
And I grew up with Imperial !
Yes metric is simple, made for those with poor math skills.
@@zdcyclops1lickley190 Yep, shame all those stoopid engineers switched to metric SI units for their high-falutin' satellites & spacecraft. What morons. If you can't reduce fractions across multiple scales you've no business doing science, I say.
Another great video, Ted! File to it not buzz, great. I like the history,
background and philosophy behind the instruments on your bench.
Yor playing in the end is also satisfactory. You do your stuff well.
It's springtime in northern Norway. :-)
Thanks. Very good.
That was a beautiful instrument.
Regarding 64th of an inch; the thing that people who didn’t grow up using an imperial unit ruler is that it’s very easy to visualize fractional divisions of an inch. What’s half of 3/8s? 3/16s. Half of that is 3/32... half of that is 3/64s. And the metric people want to convert inches and get .7mm? Lol
I use both imperial and metric for different things. But metric tends to be too fine, or too coarse. It’s easier for me to see a 25.5”’ scale... not 647.7 mm. There’s that .7mm coming up again. Lol
Emerald guitars are based in Donegal, Ireland, which is pronounced dunny-gall.
I was not expecting it to sound that good. A bit harsher than a wood top, but not overly so.
I would think you could make a set of trial saddles to set action height on acoustics. Barely longer than the string spacing, thin enough to fit in most bridge slots, with a range of heights varying by a millimeter or so.
Sounds really good. Really, really different to a wood guitar, but good.
I’ve never seen a guitar with a sound hole/cup holder lol beautiful guitar by the way
It sounds wonderful.
Looks good and seems to sound pretty good too
Beautiful guitar
Outstanding stuff
Doesn't sound too bad !
As to the Piezo pickup not transmitting all of woodiness,
i've had very good results mixing bridge Piezo and magnetic sound hole pickups with NO active circuit inside the guitar.
Master vol,Master tone affecting both pickups.
Sound hole pickup always full on,
separate volume for the Piezo to blend in..
You never disappoint. When you say you haven't heard a carbon fiber guitar that sounds as good as the better wood guitars, it seems possible that we need more time to learn how to use this material properly. Wood, as wonderful as it is, doesn't seem ideal for some applications, and I wonder if the complexities of guitar building might be an example. Thanks for your reliably intelligent videos.
Steve Grooms you may want to look at Emerald Guitar’s X30, their jumbo. This is more of their version of a camping guitar.
Very interesting guitar. It looks to be very well crafted and the top is beautiful. Nice work.
I never cared for the sound of the Ovation guitars. It seemed to me that they had no resonance - sound was bounced right out them.
funny hearing action referred to using inches (I know manufacturers always use it).
Millimetres, is what I'm used to for Action :)
fyi -
5/64 = 1.98438mm
4/64 = 1.5875mm
Beautiful object
Thank you mr. Woodford...or should I call you doctor? Because your kind of work is indeed healing of guitars, in all levels.
Two degrees in beebop
A PhD in swing
He the master of rythm
He's the rock and roll king
The rock and roll doctor has his very own thing
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Neat guitar! Way more visually appealing than my old RainSong jumbo. Sounds very much the same as the RainSong though. Not necessarily bad, just not warm like wood.
Even through youtube that doesn't sound bad at all
GORGEOUS guitar
My favorite luthier uses an "Insize" taper gauge from a/the machinist's arsenal to accurate measure both Imperial and metric units of measurement. That guitar seems rather expensive... No way I'd buy one as opposed to say a Martin D28 or a commissioned wood guitar from a luthier like Twoody. 🤘
That one was a "brain surgery" setup!! Well done and a sensible commentary on "unit measure"... I'm a 64ths guy, thank you!!!
Once our brains have imprinted with one, no matter what scale we're working with our minds are always converting to what we know
Bright sounding; perhaps a bit brittle to some ears, but overall pleasant.
Ha Ha! 'As low as it'll go without buzzing' - How do you know? Jerry Rosa made the expact same point on his site. It must be really irritating, and has a long life in guitar legend. I remember a friend asking for this in the 70s, with the same response. The other issue is - without buzzing when? When I'm strumming, when I'm fingerpicking, when it's dry (as you say). Has a really attractive tone, by the way.
Long-time watcher from Ireland here! As much as I love you, I have to say, you fairly butchered the name Donegal. haha, Duh-Knee-Gawl !
that sounds good bases arem't as woody but the trebles are lovely and bright
Sounds great
The same reason why most (oldschool) machinists will say "tenths" or "tens" and mean .0001" not .1"
Also: Your playing is excellent!
It is not a bad sound..but it is not wood. Thank you for sharing
I knew it would sound like that ! Kinda boxy and tight .
Watch daddystovepipe play his and change your mind.
@@pogo1957 Correct. They sound great live and unamplified.
late to the party here, enjoyed your video a lot. I just bought one of these and really like it, do you think it is a good idea to have it set up ? and also which gauge strings would you recommend ?
It almost has nylon classical kind of sound quality. Interesting. Almost half way between that and steel string
very nice! thank you!
I believe Emerald make basses for Billy Sheehan. If thats not an endorsement to how good this company are, i don't know what is!
One of the things i love about being Irish is the the way our place names catches out people from other countries
sorry but its pronounced dun-ee-gall :-)
Can you please do a video about in the absence of a tuner, what is the best way to tune a guitar to itself. Cheers.
This is a really interesting looking guitar, and it’s cool to see a guitar from my home country. Although, the County is pronounced “dunny-gawl” Lol
Haha - Ted said it like it was a province of Mars or Jupiter. Still I do like his ongoing 'solder/sodder' riff. I've got an Emerald, and bought it direct from Emerald. It's a fantastic guitar. They don't sell to shops. If I lived in Ireland I'd be down their factory like a shot to hear some in life. Cheaper than a D28!
Truly, Amazballz.
Interesting guitar and looks good, but I'm not crazy about the sound. Doesn't seem to have much character. Just checked out a demo of a Rainsong acoustic and I thought that sounded a lot nicer. BUT here's the confession, you can write me and my opinion off because ... I'm the only person in the world who just loves the sound of Ovation guitars. There, I said it.
I have long been a fan of Modulus Graphite bass guitars. I currently have a 1992 quantum 6 with a non truss rod neck. This was my primary gigging bass for several years of heavy gigging. It is impervious to climate, and changing string gauge made no difference, it always played perfectly. It does have a distinct treble characteristic that I happen enjoy in a bass. Geoff Gould was associated with prominent players like Phil Lesh and Bob Weir while developing the instrument necks. I believe the technology was adapted from aerospace usage.
Agreed. The Modulus necks are great.
Dig your videos. Keep it up.