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Lookin for a New guitar and need suggestions!

Unread post by dmbyouknowme » Fri May 21, 2004 3:25 pm

Wassup fans, Ive owned a Ibanez ael-20 for 2 years now and am looking for an acoustic-electric cutaway guitar with fuller sound in the $500-$750 range. Basically just want a better guitar that sounds great both acoustic and plugged in. You guys seem to know what you're talking about, so please give me your recomandations. Thanks in advance. PEACE
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Unread post by Pickles » Fri May 21, 2004 3:26 pm

$500-$750? why not save up more and get a Taylor 300+ series guitar? itll be more worth it.
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Unread post by 2StepGranny » Fri May 21, 2004 3:50 pm

Takamine's are excellent guitars in and around that price range. But like shane said, if you want something for the money, go with either, Taylor or Martin's. There are other people would recommend other guitars, but if you want to stay in that price range, look at some Tak's and see what they have to offer :-P
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Unread post by Pickles » Fri May 21, 2004 3:57 pm

yeah, generally you wont find a great pickup system in that pricerange unless you bought a guitar and then bought and installed a good one.
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Unread post by hcole » Fri May 21, 2004 9:11 pm

I recommend checking out Larrivee. To get a pick-up and cutaway you will probably be looking at a little more than your price range, but if you can do w/o the pick-up for now then you'll probably come in right around 750 for the 03 series.
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Unread post by dmb_tatertot » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:10 pm

hcole wrote:I recommend checking out Larrivee. To get a pick-up and cutaway you will probably be looking at a little more than your price range, but if you can do w/o the pick-up for now then you'll probably come in right around 750 for the 03 series.
i agree... for the price range i think you would get a better guitar with Larrivee then say a 300 series Taylor.... i never have been a big fan of the line... 400 and up.
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Unread post by charliemike » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:02 pm

My thought is to buy the absolutely best guitar you can for whatever your price range is and then buy a separate pickup later ... you'll get a better guitar and a better pickup.

I bought my LoPrinzi for $800 and had the pickup put in afterwards and I'm glad I did rather than going with a different guitar that probably would have been an inferior guitar or inferior pickups.

I recommend the Fishman Acoustic Matrix Natural II pickup.

Stay away from those shite-assed sound hole insert ones ... they = teh suck :)
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Unread post by Pickles » Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:06 pm

charliemike wrote:My thought is to buy the absolutely best guitar you can for whatever your price range is and then buy a separate pickup later ... you'll get a better guitar and a better pickup.

I bought my LoPrinzi for $800 and had the pickup put in afterwards and I'm glad I did rather than going with a different guitar that probably would have been an inferior guitar or inferior pickups.

I recommend the Fishman Acoustic Matrix Natural II pickup.

Stay away from those shite-assed sound hole insert ones ... they = teh suck :)
whoa you have a LoPrinzi? that guy is around here.. augustino anyway. ive never tried one of his guitars... how do you like it?
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