josephrhodes's Full Review: Taylor Big Baby Acoustic Guitar
I have so much to say about this guitar! First I would like to say that my vintage was damaged so I was looking for a cheap guitar to hold me over for a while until I spent some serious money (I'm broke at the moment haha) I went to the store with my mind set on a $200-250 range guitar, just something to play. I literally played every guitar in that range (about 20 guitars).
I found one that I kind of liked and then I went to compare it to the real deal guitars like Martins, Taylors, and Guilds... After playing some Guilds and other Taylors I randomly picked up another Taylor on the wall and started playing... My ears said WOW! This guitar had the most amazing sound, almost hard to explain but sounded in its own way better than the $1,800 Taylors there. Then I looked at the price tag and I was shocked, it was really cheap! and then I saw the name "Big Baby Taylor" I thought to myself... Ohh I’ve heard about this guitar!
This guitar puts to shame any other guitar in the $1,000 range and under, hands down. This guitar has very low action so its a dream to play, like playing a strat that’s an acoustic.
Its extremely accurate in the fret placement all the way up, its just perfect. Its very loud, its finished in a light varnish not a heavy lacquer, so the sound escapes the wood much more and sounds beautiful (has a natural wood feel, wonderful to run your hands on). When you pick up this guitar it feels very light, don’t be fooled its a strong guitar.
This guitar is slightly smaller than a full size, it can't be noticed to the eye really, its 15" at the bottom instead of the normal 16" or so... This slightly affects the bottom end, and at first I was worried about other reviews calling it "twangy, no low end, or bright" but it all depends on how you play/ what you play. There’s a lot of bottom end for me, in fact its the low end on this guitar that makes it sound great to me... again this is all subject to your ears, but there’s tons of low end for me and it's rich too.
The bottom end is very clear "Guild like", not muddy. I find that when recording with this guitar (stereo setup with 2 large condenser mics) you have all the bottom end you could need. There’s just a slight bit less than normal when playing it live, but after playing it for about 5 mins you start to notice that, yes there’s a lot more bass there.
The mid range is in my opinion perfect, exactly what im looking for, I wont go into detail about its sound only because everyone’s ear hears differently and I don't want to be describing it wrong.
There’s only ONE downside to this guitar and that’s the gig bag it comes with, the gig bag is very high quality made, and is beautiful. BUT its such a tight fit that it makes you feel like you are forcing it in until you stress the body. Invest in a hard case, even if you are satisfied with the gig bag, you NEED the protection of a case. It is hard to find a properly fitting case because of this guitars size, buy the Musician Friends brand tweed classical guitar case, the dimensions are right for this guitar. So yes I sold my old PA the next day for the extra $200 bux and got this guitar!
So in conclusion, if you are looking to spend $200-250 on a guitar… pick up a Big Baby Taylor and play for a few minutes, you’ll soon catch yourself trying to figure out what you can sell for the extra $200 bux! It’s worth the investment; in fact it’s a steal! It honestly plays and sounds better than most guitars 2-3 times as much, with no exaggeration on that fact. It’s great for people of all playing skills... I have friends who own $1,500 Taylor’s who’ve played mine, and they want to buy one after strumming a few chords! Great job Bob Taylor!
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