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Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Topic started by: cpugsie on May 08, 2012, 10:31:08 PM
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Just arrived today! Enjoy the pics. Sorry they're so large. I'll know better next time. It sounds wonderful and smells great. I'm going to lower the action to my liking.
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Awesome guitar, great pix! No worries here about large pictures, you'd be more likely to hear complaints about small blurry pictures.
Glad I'm not the only one that thinks the smell of a guitar is a nice feature!
Enjoy it!
:)
-K
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Wow! The grain is gorgeous! How do you like the sound?
Congrats on the new Taylor!!! ;D
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The guitar looks very happy lying in the grass. I am sure you were probably happier lying next to it!
It looks awesome. Congratulations!
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Outstanding. Congrats.
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Looks outstanding, Congrats! And i bet it sounds amazing as well!
Really good pictures.
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Wow. Gorgeous, just gorgeous. I've always loved the 8xx series and the LTDs are always so nice. How do you like the sound? I've never had the pleasure of playing cocobolo.
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Wow. Gorgeous, just gorgeous. I've always loved the 8xx series and the LTDs are always so nice. How do you like the sound? I've never had the pleasure of playing cocobolo.
Ditto & congrats ... let us know about the sound ... it sure is a nice looker ...
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Beautiful ;)
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That surely is a great looking 814. I hope you have many years of enjoyment with it.
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absolutely gorgeous! congrats and enjoy :D
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Sweet looking guitar. I am sure there will be a lot of enjoyment from owning and playing this one :)
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Thanks for all the positive replies. As for sound. I'm probably not the best to describe this but I'll try. First of all, I was used to playing an Ovation Elite shallow bowl acoustic for the past 22 years so my baseline is much different than this guitar has to offer. I absolutely love the neck, especially at the nut. The Ovation was way too narrow. The sound is much bigger too. Duh! I only played it for a short period of time but It has a nice overall tone. From what I read about Cocobolo I was expecting a much brighter/harsher high end. Not bright or harsh at all to my ears. It has a certain shimmer that other guitars I've played didn't have. The bass is nice but not overpowering at all. A really nice balance across the spectrum. I'm going to change the strings and have it set up a bit more to my liking. I got factory specs from Taylor today so tonight I'm going to check the height of the stings at the 12th fret and see if it's still within factory specs. The guitar went from California to New York and then here to Arizona. I'm going to give it a few days to acclimate also. I'm sure some of the slightly harder playing is my lack of practice on an acoustic. I really didn't play the Ovation much but it did play very easy so I'm comparing the playability between the two. Did I mention that is smells wonderful!!!!!!!!!
Thanks,
Carl
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What a beauty! I have a 1991 814-CE. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures of this Brazilian beauty. It's has a three piece back and is my pride and joy. Right up there with my '67 Gibson SG STD.
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What a beauty! I have a 1991 814-CE. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures of this Brazilian beauty. It's has a three piece back and is my pride and joy. Right up there with my '67 Gibson SG STD.
Posting Pictures from a Photo Hosting Site
1. Open an account with a Photo Hosting Site (such as PhotoBucket, Webshots, etc)
2. Upload your pictures to an album
3. Select the picture you wish to post -
around 200KB size or close to it, is ideal,
as the entire picture should display without having to scroll
4. Right-Click on the picture
Select & Click on 'Copy image URL' from the pop-up window
On the Forum Post page
5. Click on the 'Insert Image' button
located on the 2nd row, far left (below the bold 'B' button)
6. Move the cursor between the 'img' brackets
Right Click, select 'Paste' & Click
7. Repeat Steps 3. thru 6. for each picture
8. Click on 'Preview' on the lower fight hand corner of the screen
to verify that the picture(s) & text are being displayed as desired
9. Click 'Post'
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Have had my Spring 2012 814ce Coco LTD for about a month or so now. It is truly excellent. Having been a big 814 ce fan, with respect to the tone, cocobolo is IMHO usually a bit more articulate in response. The highs are clearer, the mids are more present and the bottom end is more pronounced than most 814ce rosewoods I have had/played. There was a Presentation Series 816ce in the shop where I buy and the coco on the 814ce to me was more appealing. While the Presentation Series are absolute pieces of art, I think they tend to be more highly polished. Anyway, I am very satisfied with my coco. Congrats to you on your purchase.
davidc
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From what I read about Cocobolo I was expecting a much brighter/harsher high end. Not bright or harsh at all to my ears.
It's all relative - if you're used to the Ovation sound, you aren't going to find much of anything comparatively bright or harsh, relative to that. Granted, the elite is a nicer guitar than the celebrity I use as my beach / party guitar, but it is still an Ovation, with the characteristic emphasis on the mids and highs and Ovation jangle when you strum it hard.
With the Taylor, you've still got bright, but balanced.
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Jealous!! ;D
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Ovations have gotten a bad rap. I have never played a guitar that had a better range of tones from low-mids-highs, than my Tenth Anniversary Ovation. It's simple physics. You have a perfect parabolic bowl that projects the sound. In this case, it was from a AAA Spruce sound board. I had to bite the bullet and trade this beauty in when I wanted to get a Mando. I understand, craftsmanship is the issue here and no one really loved the "fiberglass" guitar. Somehow, they've always been viewed as unnatural.
SB