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Location: south east Michigan | Hey Moody... I gots your clip pal.... right HERE!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's better if you watch it with the sound off. |
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Location: Scotland | Wow! The only thing that surpasses his stunning guitar playing is his incredible microphone technique, amazing sound engineering skills and his incredibly subtle and tasteful use of delay.
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Location: south east Michigan | And this just reminds me that I'm trying to make a recording myself and the only thing that mitagates the use of cheap microphones and even cheaper recording equipment is the total lack knowledge and experience in what I'm doing.
And to top it all off, people who know what they are doing are going to listen to it.
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Which one sounds best to you?
I gotta admit... the D-28 sound pretty good. |
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Location: Bay Area, N, California | The D-28 sounds much better at least in the way you are playing them both. A better test would be to play something a little softer in a finger picking style.
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Location: Location Location Location | Hmmm...not better, different. I thought your attack was a little more aggressive on the Marquis. It's kind of apples & oranges anyway. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Brooklyn:
...I thought your attack.... Whoa, whoa... hold the phone.
That's not me. I just found the clip on YouTube. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | beat me to it Brad....to each their own in the taste department...I liked the Adamas...blown out of the water?! I think not. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Actually, a pretty fair comparision: I'd give the edge to the Martin.
I like to have seen the comparison between the D-28 and an Adamas I or a #47 RI...
"Whatever floats your boat" I say... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Sorry, but I think my ears deserve better than a compressed youtube clip played over the speakers on my laptop. Both guitars sounded like shit. Dave |
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Location: Chicago | Well I just played an emergency gig last month on a vintage Martin D 28. I will testify UNDER OATH that you can't do justice to DiMeola's "Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars" or Gismonti's "Frevo Rasgado" on a Martin.
Strumming a few chords in first position is as much a test as watching a parked car. |
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Location: Jet City | Dobro, I'm afraid I couldn't do justice to either one of those on any guitar.
I personally think his shoulder shaking was more enthusiastic with the Martin which probably lead to his perception the Martin was sounding better.
If he would keep his damned ears still, he'd realize he's full of shite. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Sorry Brad. Kinda new around here and don't know all the players. Just making a comparison, as I heard it. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They are different tools and need to be used for their different jobs. One is a wrench and the other a screw driver, different tools and different applications.
Of course you can always use a hammer for everything except an electrical problem............. |
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Location: NJ | ". . except an electrical problem . . "
and for THAT, you'd have to "throw" it . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Ah, I see you've had an electrical problem........... |
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Location: closely held secret | That was an Adamas? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by cliff:
". . except an electrical problem . . "
and for THAT, you'd have to "throw" it . . . That's why they make the hammers with rubber handles. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My Morgan Monroe has that deep booming bass, very much like a Martin. It's great when I'm playing bluegrass with my friends. It's loud enough to compete with the banjo and mandolin and fiddle.
But when I want to play some jazz, NOTHING can beat my Ovation. It sounds pretty good for classical too. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | I preferred the Adamas. I thought the Martin had a bit too much information in the midrange...
... but then again I'm listening through these crummy computer speakers. You can't really tell unless you're there in the same room with 'em.
I thought the Adamas had better note definition though. The Martin was kinda muddy/murky IMO. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | I think both sounded pretty well. Two different guitars - each having its own unique sound. |
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Location: NW NJ | Crap, my '05 Collectors has a whole different sound than my 2080. Both are amazing... and his point is?? :confused: |
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Location: North Carolina | If that's all that guy's gonna do with them, what the hell difference does it make what guitar he plays? |
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Location: Australia | .... he's an idiot.
I can't quite work it out.
Is he trying to make believe that he's talking to an audience?
Who would care anyway |
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| I guess if you like muddy & indistinct mids, then yeah. He probably can't hear the mids & highs from having damaged his hearing by playing his iPod too loudly. And +1 on First Alternate's observation. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | The Martin is 4 grand street price. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by PEZ:
The Martin is 4 grand street price. ... and it sounds like it. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Originally posted by PEZ:
The Martin is 4 grand street price.
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... and it sounds like it. For a new one maybe: better pony up the big bucks for a vintage one: my '48 is 15 large; mid 50's are 10 to 13.
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Yes Dave; it does! |
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Location: ms | I really wish people would stop comparing Martin and Ovations. If you want the D28 sound a D28 is what you should buy. If you want the Ovation sound buy an Ovation its that simple. , well unless you want the best sound then you should buy my Taylor. |
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Location: SoCal | What model Taylor do you have, and why do you think so highly of it? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | A wood box will sound different in a small area, always.
I have two and they sound different, but Not-at-All better that any of my O's.
As I posted on YouTube, dollar for dollar Ovation, even Adamas, Wins!
I was just thinking that that Martin cost more than three or four (maybe more) of my most expensive guitars put together.
PLUS! I still like my bowls better... I get wood-boxes, play with em for awhile then sell em.
(Anyone wanna by a factory 2nd MIT Takamine G330? $200 with case) |
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Location: ms | If i told you it was a piece of crap would you want to buy it? Just kidding, I just resold the 710L9 that Tupp seemed to like and it was the best sounding Taylor I`d ever owned. The 415CE plays much better than the 710 but its a different sound, good but different. I also like the body size of the 415 ,its a good fit for me. So why am I getting rid of it, ask Trader Jim he has the same sickness. |
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| With his guitar playing skills that was the most pointless thing I've ever heard. |
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D-28 vs Adamas video clip