Seeking advice! Next guitar after GS8.

[e8n]

Maple or Coco would brighten things up and not lose anything with hard strumming.  I tend to play hard and hogs just muddle up for me.  Maple or Coco don't seem to have that issue.

-Dave

[Herb Hunter]

Hey all - just migrated over here from the AGF and looking to hear some suggestions from fellow Taylor aficionados.

I've current got a 2010 GS8.  Great guitar.  However, I'm finding the rosewood a little muddy for my combo of energetic strumming mixed with some single note lead work.  The strumming sounds good, but the single notes tend to get lost in that wave of overtones.  And the scooped mids of the rosewood I bet also have something to do with that.  Plenty of bass, plenty of treble zing, but lacking in mid clarity (to me.)

So looking for something to remedy that.  I've considered doing a custom GS in sitka and mahogany, which would take care of the scooped mids but I worry would take out substantial bass and be too mid and treble heavy.

Any suggestions for my needs?  A good strummer with full sound but good clarity when mixing in leads. 

Thanks.

Adam

If you haven't tried a sitka/mahogany grand symphony guitar, you should try couple before writing that model off as bass shy. Unless you are a very heavy strummer, you might also try a cedar/mahogany GS.