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This is very well done. The guitar captivated me right off the bat before raising the bar for the next 4 minutes. Much kudos!!!

This is very nice, Lars! I am digging what you've done.

Interesting - thanks for the description. My other 2 acoustics have had their strings for few months now. It's my normal time of year for the 2nd 6-month change cycle, but each one is sounding like a million bucks - and for many of the reasons you describe. The strings I mentioned earlier seemingly jumped straight into this state within just a few days.

I never knew about the old strings thing. Is it just the reduced brightness or a mellowed tone you guys dig when using old strings? I tried a set of the D'Add Nickel Bronze in the brown package that I've been digging in my SJ for about a month now. It was almost bright for about 2 days. Still bright with the right plectrum, but does whatever I want it to do with whatever pick I'm using. Easy to steer, tonally speaking. I've been curious how they might do in the 'bird, so will try these next time.

Thank you, gents! Hopefully not another year before I figure out the needed elements. 🙂

Very nice posts, drathbun and Jinder. That type of info is tough to come across sometimes when learning this material. My 2018 is good on that topic, too, fwiw. I had a Taylor 314 that was not good like that and it didn't stay here long. It helped fund my 'Bird. I wish I knew what to look for when I originally got it years ago, but it worked out in the end. My 614 exhibited a similar trait after becoming too humid with lat year's humid rainy year. I caught it beforeit got too bad and was able to manage the two nice Gibsons accordingly and all has been well since.

Yah, but it's a very short manual. barely time for anyone to notice. 🙂 Sounds like hard times must have indeed been hit for it to be sold.

Sorry, BK - I meant an external mic and the signal from the guitar. The Anthem User guide in PDF for I downloaded can be found on their support page. Click on the + next to Anthem and it's the 3rd option. Anthem on the Baggs site The plastic-stick hole will take a very small, flat head screw-driver. It has a total of 3/4 of a full turn, and is by no means tight or requires any real force. I just slid the screw driver into the 1/2 of the groove inside of the hole. It looks quite similar to a phillips' head in there if you can get the light angled well. I did eventually find my plastic-stick. 🙂

What goes? That would be a difficult decision, I imagine. I get too attached to things. Nothing has gone out since unloading a Taylor 314 a couple years back. I would not want to imagine removing one of the 3 nice acoustics I have. I got a Squire Tele that can go, though. 😁 The Anthem sounded nice in your other sample. Have you tried blending external and Anthem yet? I had issues keeping phase correct with mine on the SJ. My studio room has improved acoustically since that time, though, so will try again.

Way to go, BK. digging your interpretation (FP style and faster pace) for this song. I like doing this song with nobody at home so I can accompany it with my best(worst) Mick Jagger. Kind of like a shower moment. Dogs look at me funny, though.

Thanks for listening and commenting again, Kelly (and everyone). Lars, I agree. I'm of good fortune that this can fester without ever mattering to anyone. No deadlines can be a wonderful thing. Maybe? It'd be easiest to lop off the front, but I remain convinced(stubborn) that I can come up with something that is not now a cliche to help that first minute. One thought I had, but failed on, was to do a second drum kit thing ala some Pink Floyd live efforts. That thought worked best later in the song, though I ended up integrating it into the one kit. BBG - Nice timing. I just heard him in the credits of the Natural Born Killers a few nights ago. I made a mental note to explore and forgot. "Dirgy" is a nice word for what I was hoping to achieve. DD, that's gotta be some huge sub-conscience thing. I hear it now.

11 months later....... This one has kicked my butt. I still think it's too long. About the only thing I knew was that I wanted a slide tons of dirt in the slide, not an acoustic. I can't carry the mood for this song verbally, meaning the general pace and woe of the old Bluesman, Blind Willie Johnson. I also decided on a sort of rolling bass-like pad in the style of that "Don't Let the Old Man In" song by Toby Keith. That led me to the thought to do a slow half-time thing with the drum software. It might need a bit more space/air around it. I did continue with the Neil Young dble drop-D thought from the original version last year, though everything was re-played a few weeks' back. If I had an arrangement done prior to this version, I would have done an acoustic slide (resonator) version first. Alas, I do things backwards sometimes. Without further ramblings and renamed to Hurricane Blues .

Sounds nice, BK. Glad to hear it got put to a very good use so soon. 🙂

Congrats, BK!!! Looks like you got yerself a player.

Very nice!

It's amazing how small a town it seemed when we rode through it back in '07 compared to what I thought of it when I was a lad. I think I saw a new brewery, and my grand-father's gas station was no longer. That was about it.

And I thought I was mad at my contractor. Sheeesh!!! Best luck getting this one sorted. To answer one of your earlier questions, there used to be small claims court in Keene - might have been a Cheshire County thing - back when I lived up there, but it's been a long, long time. I left there in 82. I do hope something can be done to get it back into primo shape for you, though.

SJ-200! Mine has been here 'xactly 1 year today. Or was that yesterday. Whichever way, it's a very fun gee-tar. Besides, as far as new goes, the only Dove is that very pretty, but high dollar "Doves in Flight" model.

Very nice, indeed! And two of them are baked? Extra sweet!

Congrats on your bird! Looks like a keeper. Have fun and play often!

The haunting of a non-purchase is the first place I went when pondering the question of this thread. For me, it was a '68 'bird for $5k in the local guitar shop that I was too chicken to snag. It was 4 years ago now and I can still feel it. I do still have the guitar I ended up purchasing that day. $2k less, too. It's not perfect, though, but it's mine and it gets it's turn in the rotation starting Monday afternoon. ( 3 guitars rotate a week at a time out of their cases onto the stand beside my sofa for daily play that week. )

I've not played a dove yet, but the HD28 and D28 both took me in unsurprising directions. I'm hoping to be able to play a Dove before the time comes. I think. Seeing threads like this one makes think more that not.

I've had several problems with Gibson's now previous iterations of strings this past year. Perhaps I bought old stock or something. I've had 3 sets with a bad string. Two came with new guitars and one set purchased this past Summer. I welcome a change. I tried a set of the Martin Lifespans on my SJ and could not get them off the guitar fast enough. I landed on a set of D'Adds in the brown pack that I really like on the SJ. Nickel Bronze, IIRC. It's only been a few weeks, though. TBD I used to use them on my electrics for years and never had an issue. I had one bad there, too.

Congrats, Jinder! A Dove has a special sound to it. I've heard some nice ones online that makes me knees quibble a bit. It's the only guitar that might bump me out of my next planned purchase (HD35 or HD28)

Nice!!! Digging.