gotomsdos Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 An old for sale J-45 introduction says it has excpetionally fine powerful tone. To my knowledge, usually J-45 is considered to have warm, full, or dark sound (Martin D-28 or Gibson J-200, AJ have powerful sound). So feel a bit unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 I guess that's a strange term, but my old '57 had strong characteristic J45 tone. The describer may have just been low on words. I would save 'powerful' for electric guitar stuff, although I've seen John Hammond in a small venue a couple of times and he made powerful noise come out of a flattop. We've had these terminology discussions here before. When I was trying to figure out whether the one I bought from 'Greg's Guitars' had a 'classic' tone, and greedily fondling the $2600 I was about to mail out, he gave me the name of a vintage guitar mag editor/critic who he said had played it and wrote it up w/pic in the magazine. He wrote '...this J45 has THE tone'. That was all I needed, and he was right. It certainly wasn't loud, just perfectly balanced for flatpicking and crazy easy on the hands to play. I swapped it out for an old D18. I try to think, but nothin happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotomsdos Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 I guess that's a strange term, but my old '57 had strong characteristic J45 tone. The describer may have just been low on words. I would save 'powerful' for electric guitar stuff, although I've seen John Hammond in a small venue a couple of times and he made powerful noise come out of a flattop. We've had these terminology discussions here before. When I was trying to figure out whether the one I bought from 'Greg's Guitars' had a 'classic' tone, and greedily fondling the $2600 I was about to mail out, he gave me the name of a vintage guitar mag editor/critic who he said had played it and wrote it up w/pic in the magazine. He wrote '...this J45 has THE tone'. That was all I needed, and he was right. It certainly wasn't loud, just perfectly balanced for flatpicking and crazy easy on the hands to play. I swapped it out for an old D18. I try to think, but nothin happens. Yes, I feel the same as you, so I wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbiii Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I would say that no J-45s -- even banners -- are powerful guitars. In recent years there has been a lot of hyperbole about early J-45s that tended to obscure this obvious "elephant in the room" fact. Before the recent "discovery" of these guitars by non-power genres, the properties of these guitars was well known to players and to the market. Now don't get me wrong - power is certainly not everything and we (my wife and I) love these guitars. We play bluegrass maybe 60%-70% of the time, and for that they don't work. But for the other stuff we love them. Here is picture of our 40s stuffs. We do actually have and use power Gibsons in bluegrass -- we are a bit unique in that regard. These are all mid 30s -- none of these lacks power and a couple of them have the tonal properties to be among the best bluegrass guitars ever. Best, -Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotomsdos Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 I would say that no J-45s -- even banners -- are powerful guitars. In recent years there has been a lot of hyperbole about early J-45s that tended to obscure this obvious "elephant in the room" fact. Before the recent "discovery" of these guitars by non-power genres, the properties of these guitars was well known to players and to the market. Now don't get me wrong - power is certainly not everything and we (my wife and I) love these guitars. We play bluegrass maybe 60%-70% of the time, and for that they don't work. But for the other stuff we love them. Here is picture of our 40s stuffs. We do actually have and use power Gibsons in bluegrass -- we are a bit unique in that regard. These are all mid 30s -- none of these lacks power and a couple of them have the tonal properties to be among the best bluegrass guitars ever. Best, -Tom Tom, I'm unable to see pics you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbiii Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Tom, I'm unable to see pics you posted. http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~barnwell/40Gibs.jpg http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~barnwell/Jumbo5s.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotomsdos Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 Your previous post works ! What a spectacular army of vintages ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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