Advantages: Preamp with intergrated tuner, well constructed, rich, warm tone Disadvantages: Quite heavy to carry on stage
My friend bought me this guitar last year as a birthday gift and that's probably the best gift I've ever had. This Takamine guitar has a Rosewood fretboard and a cutaway shape, which allows playing at the higher frets with ease.
The first time I played it, the guitar produced a clear and warm tone that just took me right away. It even sound better when plugged into the amp. The pre-amp of this guitar has a built-in tunner, which is great for beginners who dont know how to tune the strings. Even for me, when playing gigs, this tuner is really helpful if I want to change the tuning. I cam play all styles of music with this guitar, but I love to play Jack Johnson's with it. \the strumming sounds great with warm and full tone. Just really love it.
And the best thing about this guitar, is the price! Whe my friend gave it to me, I ...
Advantages: This is a well-built guitar that has plenty of appeal and sounds like the most expensive guitars on the market. Disadvantages: This guitar has BRIDGE PINS! GOD, I HATE BRIDGE PINS!
If you've ever read my profile page with a serious interest (i.e. not just skimming over it in order to find out if I'm the nymphomaniac most of you suspect me to be), you'll probably notice a very small blurb that indicates I am a guitarist. Yes, I play the acoustic guitar - a Takamine G-Series, to be more precise.
I've been playing on and off since I was about eight years old (more "off" than "on" trust me). When I first started, I could pick up even the most beautiful, perfectly built guitar and my solos would sound like...Tomcats fighting over the lady feline. Howling, off-key, grinding crap that annoyed my mother and drove half of my four siblings delightfully mad! Oh yes, Sarah did suck royally!!!
Well, eventually I outgrew the student guitar that I had been attempting to play for several years. Sometime during my ...
Advantages: A nice, affordable guitar - and available left handed! Disadvantages: The Graphic eq is not that effective.
I bought my Takamine G series (EG54 left handed) about 2 years ago, and simply love playing it.
I admit I'm not a huge fan of acoustic music, but this guitar certainly helped. Its a pleasure to play, with an amp or without - the neck is nice and fast for an acoustic and just feels good to play. The guitar has some weight to it as well, which i like, as it feels like your are actually playing a crafted instrument rather than some plastic cheap toy. Add to this that it looks awesome, and you have a really pleasing instrument.
The simple to use controls like gain, eq bypass and the 3 band Eq make dialling in a fairly great tone easy, and although i don't really need the tuner, its handy as a quick reference to make sure your really in tune. However, I've found that the 3 band tuner mentioned above doesn't really have a huge effect to ...
The G Series offers more sizes, colours, woods than in any other family of models that Takamine offer. Made to their strict specifications, G Series instruments represent exceptionally good value. Over a dozen distinct dreadnought models are included in the G Series, many with solid spruce tops. There are cutaway and non-cutaway models, 12-strings, straight acoustics and acoustic/electrics, plus a wide choice of colours. There are also a selection of models with Takamines smaller NEX and FXC body shapes, ideal instruments for vocal accompaniment. The G Series also includes several classic guitars that offer impressive performance at a very affordable price. Takamine EG562C features include Body Shape: Thin-line Classic Rosette: Classic Marquettery Top: Spruce Inlays: None Back: Nato Sides: Nato Fingerboard: Rosewood Electronics: TV3 Tuners: Chrome
