What a great forum, and I don’t even own a Taylor yet! I’ve played guitar for 30 years in various bands and had all kinds of guitars, amps, effects, and PA’s. Now we travel a lot so I’m reduced to my old Strat, Martin HD28, TC Helicon Play Electric, and a PA. I play all styles, and mostly solo. A few weeks ago a saw a guy playing a T5 solo through a small Orange amp micd into a small PA. He didn’t use a lot of effects or pickup switching but had a great R&B tone! You can see where this is going... in my quest to even further simplify I thought “I should research this!” So here I am lurking and learning a lot from dcopper, gutch, coldshot, and your whole forum about T5’s! I’m heading to Phoenix this weekend to play as many as I can to decide on top woods and T5 or T5z. I love the wisdom here, and am already going into it with “leave your attitude of getting a Strat and HD28 tone out of one guitar and appreciate what the T5 can do”. I’m looking forward to the journey. Right now I’m switching between the 2 every set going right into the PE then into the PA. I’ve got a few presets for electric that I’ve tweaked and are happy with, and a few for my Martin with a K&K that I’ve tweaked using the sweepable mids/bodyrez that I’m happy with. I plan on running just the T5 through the same and creating a few new acoustic and electric presets for it. What I haven’t seen here are other T5 players using a similar approach going straight into a PA instead of 2 amps. Everything’s a trade off, but I’m pretty happy running the PE into the PA and expect that with enough experimenting with the T5 I can accomplish the same. I’m also looking to go to a LD Maui 28 array PA soon. Any T5 players going straight in a PA or using the Maui? Thank you again for such a wealth of wisdom here!
