Loudness or tone??

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What do you mean"or." If it does not have both, it is not an interesting guitar.

 

Best,

 

-Tom

For me tone is always desirable, but projection (loudness) has to be there too.

 

Balance has been mentioned - that's kind of where I'm at. Not just balance in tone, but balance in the guitar's ability to project good tone at lower and higher volumes.

 

 

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Synergy.

For me it's less about loudness than it is dynamic range. I much prefer a guitar that can get loud, but a guitar that sounds great played hard but dull and lifeless played gently isn't very interesting for me to play: I'm looking for volume when I dig in, sweetness and clarity when I play softly. If I had to choose I'd go with sweetness played gently over volume played hard - my L1 is very much in that category - so I guess I'd say tone over volume, but ideally I want both.

 

^^^ Agree completely from here. ^^^