Chords for Review Demo - Taylor 814ce

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_ [N] _ _ _ _ I'm John Bollinger with Premier Guitar.
Today we're doing a review demo of Taylor's
new _ _ _ 814CE.
_ Before I tell you more about this very cool guitar, I'll tell you about how
we're recording this video.
We're micing it with a Royer R121 mic, which is going to an
Apogee Quartet and into Pro Tools.
And [E] then to show the proprietary pickup system of the
814, we're running a direct line out straight into the Apogee Quartet and then that's running
into Pro Tools as well, so you can kind of get a feel for the two of them.
And that's it.
_ _ This
guitar was just sent here for a review, taken right out of the box, and I gotta tell you, man,
[D] it plays and sounds great. _
_ _ Taylor [E] is_
it's a quality product.
They start with great woods.
This is a solid Sitka _ spruce top.
It's beautiful.
The [Gb] back and sides [Gm] are Indian rosewood.
_ _ _ The
binding is maple.
This backstrip is maple.
_ _ Really [E] beautiful. _ _
Rosewood border right there.
Rosewood pick guard, which I like.
_ _ Ebony bridge, ebony _ fingerboard.
_ _ Really a quality, beautiful
guitar.
Now, Taylor's always been about that, _ _ using good woods, but they've made some real
improvements.
The greatest improvement, I think, is that they've _ _ managed to reduce _ the _ finish by
40%.
That's a huge difference.
So, like I said, this guitar just came out [G] of the box, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ but it's
very open sounding.
_ And I imagine with this thinner finish, it's going to open up even more
over the years.
A thicker finish, it's going to take longer to open.
Some guitars never really
do, but this is ringing _ _ [E] nice and true right out of the box, which is great.
In addition to that,
_ Taylor has _ _ revamped their bracing.
They've changed the bracing to fit the shape of the guitar. _
And
if you can see, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ the point is to maximize the sound quality of this particular shape with
the bracing.
They say it's going to make it more warm, punchy, defined, [A] and _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ I think it does.
It
really is a great sounding guitar.
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They also are using animal protein glue for the bracing, and I
think for the bridge as well.
Now, that's an interesting choice, because back in the day,
golden age guitars like Martin's from the 40s and Gibson's, they would use animal [A] based glue,
because that's all that's available.
But apparently there is some sort of property to
this animal base that sounds better.
So good for Taylor for _ utilizing that.
They also use a Tusk
nut, which I [E] like.
_ [A] It [E] sounds great.
The intonation is _ very true.
_ And the other changes they've made
is [Ab] they've _ revamped their pickup system a bit, modified it.
[N] In 2003, with Robert Neve, they
designed the expression system.
And a fine system, but they've made some changes.
It's now
quite a bit louder, which I like.
I think it's something like 25% louder.
_ _ And on top of that,
the pickup _ runs off a 9-volt battery, as it did in the past, but it runs for something like 40
to 50 hours, which is killer. _ _
But when the battery dies, it's an easy switch out.
_ Right back here, _
pop that out, _ _ _ _ _ _ pop the new one in, _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [E] _ and you're _ _ back strumming.
[N] Good to go. _ _
For experimenting,
_ _ let's go ahead and play a little bit with just the _ proprietary _ system and see how that sounds.
Right now I've got it completely flat.
[Em] The controls are right here.
My one little beef is that I can
never remember what the volume is or what the treble or bass.
I believe this is _ volume, that's
treble, that's bass.
But I've got them all flat anyway.
Anyway, _ _ _ _ I'd like some kind of marker, it's
not there, but no big deal.
_ Here's just the pickup. _ _
[Ab] I'll do like a Merle Travis thing so you can kind
of hear the bass and hear the treble [A] working together.
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_ Now _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ let's see what it sounds like with
_ the mic and the pickup together. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Em] _ That _ _ pickup really is very warm.
That's the toughest thing
about an acoustic guitar.
_ _ _ Until recently, I mean in the last, I don't know, 15 years or so, acoustic
guitars I think have all sounded kind of _ crap when plugged in, but this sounds really good.
And
there's some other companies as well that are making really [Ab] good pickups right [E] now, but _ _ _ there
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[E] This is a very convincing pickup.
Well, thanks so much for joining us today as we test drove Taylor's
new _ _ 814CE.
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