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4 Guitar Comparison- Can you tell them apart?
UPDATE: Results in post #23 on page 2
2 Eastmans, a Larrivee and a Lowden walk into a bar...can you tell them apart? I have my good friend's Lowden O35 (cedar/Rosewood) at my house for a few days and I figured I'd take the opportunity to do a quick ABCD with this phenomenal instrument and my personal 3: Eastman E8OM-TC Torrified Sitka and East Indian rosewood Eastman E2D-CD Cedar and Sapele Dreadnought Larrivee OM-03 sitka and mahogany I played the same piece on all 4 guitars. It's long, but it was fun to do! Honestly, I was surprised by how well my stable held up to "the big boy!" I'm grateful to be able to have tools such as these to use. I recorded them with a par of Presonus PM2 mic running through my Focusrite Scarlett. No EQ, no reverb, just straight up. I ran through this one after another, so there was as little change as possible. Can you pick them out?
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I think the first is the Larrivee and the last the Lowden. Can’t tell the others.
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Matt...my take away was how well they all sounded. Not sure I could distinquish one from the other but if I had to guess I say the Eastman's were 3 & 4? Probably dead wrong!
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As recorded the second one sounds like the Lowden
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Thanks for listening along y’all. I’ll post the order tomorrow.
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Cedar & sitka in the mix make it harder. I'd pick 2 and 4 as rosewood, 2 as the lowden, leaving a harder choice between the mahogany & sapele, I'll go with 3 as sapele and 1 mahogany.
Your mics are good enough that differences between all 4 are clear, I feel an sm81 might make these easier to distinguish. Agreed, you sound fine on all 4 takes. |
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Nice playing as always Treenewt!
I hear a richness in #3 and I think that’s the Lowden. Here’s my guess on the order: 1. Larrivee OM 2. Eastman E8OM 3. Lowden 4. Eastman dread
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nice demo!
1 E8 OM 2 Lowden 3 E2D CD 4 OM 03 I think I have 4 right ... I've had my share of Larrivees.....and maybe 1 not sure about 2 and 3..... |
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#3 Lowden, #4 Larrivee, the 1st and 2nd are Eastmans.
Like I really know,
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Great demo that sound comes from the hands of the player
My guess : #1 Larrivée #2 Eastman Dread #3 Lowden #4 Eastman OM
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My guess is 1. Lowden, 2. Eastman E2D-CD, 3. Larrivée, 4. Eastman E8OM-TC.
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I'm guessing...
1. Eastman E80M 2. Eastman E2D 3. Lowden 4. Larrivee duff Be A Player...Not A Polisher |
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My ears are with Barry on this one. Have no clue if it’s right but always fun to take a stab at it. Best, Jayne |
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I don't know which is which, but I like 3, followed by 4. Both seemed to have slightly better sustain, less of a muddly lower end, and crisper mids - BUT...this could just be how they were played. I would be pleasantly surprised if those were the Eastmans.
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What is interesting—and great—about the demo is that, while the guitars definitely sound different from each other (although 3 and 4 are closest to each other to my ears), without seeing the guitars to potentially bias one’s assessment, it isn’t so easy to identify which guitar is which.
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