Hi All,
I recently played on a Taylor 214 and a Guild AD5.
Both in the same price range and both have laminated rosewood( back & sides) and sitka spruce(top), the neck is mahogany on the Guild and sapele on the Taylor which should be similar-sounding.
Overall the taylor was very light and comfortable but it had a much brighter sound and the overall sound of chords(especially strummed chords) was not too "together" and was a lil' "all over the place".
The Guild on the other hand had a warm, fat, rich sound with a very lucid and clear sound of the strummed chords with every note/string having a distinct "place of it's own" in the mix of notes/strings(which is the opposite of "all over the place" in my lexicon ).
These two guitars seems pretty close on paper, so I wonder what makes them sound so different?
Link to Guild Specs: http://www.guildguit...impleContained4
Link To Taylor Specs: http://www.taylorgui...rs/acoustic/214
I also tried a few other models by Guild and Taylor and it most cases that bright&scattered vs. warm&stable distinctions seemed to stick.
I know that there aren't two guitars who are a like and obviously the fact that three of the main wood parts are the same kind doesn't mean it's exactly the same kind or the same woods, and obviously these are two different manufactures, but still I would like to know what your opinion is on what are the causes for the differences.
Thanks in advance for the info, ZBBZ.
P.S. - I hope my words choices was reasonable, as we all know sound is hard to describe verbally and the of course some of these attributes are related to personal taste.
Edited by ZooBooBooZoo, 05 September 2013 - 12:17 AM.