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There's some assumption that bracing or build relate to use. If it's "lightly braced", or for "finger style"; it's not as loud or (back to the original idea) "can't handle" something. The opposite could be argued - that a "heavy handed" strummer "can't handle" a well built guitar. You don't need heavy braces, strings and technique (or even body size) to get "loud". One of the loudest guitars I owned was a Froggy H12. Short scale, light strings (.12's at heaviest). A heavy hand would overdrive it and create a jangling mess of sound - but you didn't have to play it that hard to get unbelievable volume out of it. Analogies always fall apart at some point, but I'll try anyway. I grew up with muscle cars. Big block V8's with underrated numbers from the factory. Heavy steel frames and bodies. You could stomp the gas pedal and dump the clutch and do burnouts or donuts to your heart's delight with relative ease. Try that with a new "performance" car and (absent computers) you will end up in the ditch pretty quickly. They have just as much (or more) power, but are much more responsive and dynamic. Power delivery is more immediate. The engine has lighter parts and spins up faster. Old dreads are powerful. You can "stomp the gas pedal" / strum heavily. Light, responsive guitars are powerful too, but if you "stomp" them, you end up in the ditch. It's not the tool, it's the driver/player. |
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Plug it in to an amp and increase volume as needed.
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Maybe there’s a reason he smashes them after he plays them.
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When a guitar reaches it's natural limit for dynamic range, it naturally compresses the tone. You want more, it doesn't have more. You pick harder and you get no more loudness, just harshness like others have said. Size is just one of the limiting factors.
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Yes, I have to write about my segmented saddle with spruce between bone posts under the strings.
One thing I got from it in comparison with a solid bone saddle was headroom. I can strum hard without reaching a limit, the guitar keeps responding and sounding pretty good even when strummed hard. Naturally, I never do this, but I know that the guitar will respond if I do. The solid bone saddle acts more like a compressor and a limiter, making the sound mushy all the time and the volume limited and sounding bad when strumming hard. |
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As much as I love my Martin D-35, when I play it in a Bluegrass jam, it gets lost in the crowd.
I drive it harder and it sounds awful. When I asked some of the other guitar players about it I was told that my D-35 has lighter bracing than say a Martin HD-28. They called it headroom. My D-35 isn't made to be played as loud/hard as an HD-28 is. I almost sold the D-35 when I found out about this but after playing a few HD-28 Martins, I realized how much I love the tone of my D-35 and kept it. If I use it in a Bluegrass setting now days, I just play it at the level it sounds good in and don't push it.
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My D41 is loud, but it doesn’t cut through a mix like I figured it would. My Bourgeois AT Vintage D banjo killer has no problem being heard! It is LOUD and powerful!!
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It goes with me when I need more than my D-35 can give.
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