Acoustic Paradiso - Gibson J15, J29 & J35 Comparison 

So true,these two were unique and made me happy

Do you still like it? I played one in the store this weekend because an employee recommended i try it. He said it was his favourite in the store at that time. It played better than thr j45 that was there and i think it sounded better than the d28 i was playing there as well

Agree love Greg too

So how much are you loving your drunken self these days?

@@pgcracka probably more than before since he has his J15 lol

it was good, wasn't it

epic...

You still should play these in person, i can hear compression from youtube or who knows where.

Totally agree!

The J15 is an everything beast. Happy owner and player

Thanks for your comment. Well, justifying buying a guitar is difficult, but when you pick it up and it "speaks" to you it is different! Take just last week for instance, I walked in to Andertons and there was a purple Telecaster there, £1800, second hand, I picked it up and it was just amazing (for that is), so I really wanted to get it. Now I thought it being a heavy relic purple sparkle Tele it was gonna hang around for a while and I had time to sort it later in the day, well how wrong was I... I was so excited I posted a photo on Instagram saying it was one of the best Teles I've ever played (might have been a mistake) course next thing I know it had been sold ;(... And I regret not getting it.... So, I think it's not about how many gig or justifying it, when the guitar finds you, just get it...... Best. P

Sheridan Henson same with me LOL. Just got the J15. GIbson will soon eventually realise it's too good value and put the price up. I used to have a Martin d28 but I honestly prefer this J15. Beautiful instrument.

The J35's full C neck profile is, by far, the best neck profile of all three.

Bought a j29 second hand and it is absolutely my fav guitar (acoustic or electric) that I’ve ever owned and fav acoustic I’ve ever played. Will not sell it for anything.

Me two! can't believe the volume and bass!

Same. Fav guitar (acoustic or electric) I’ve ever owned.

Haha. I am very human and I just want to learn Micks licks. And I WILL get it ;-).

+Peter Honoré Haha, no doubt you have it already. I didn't mean any lack of respect, it's just you're a great player and normally faultless and it's a bit refreshing for me as a fairly new player to be reminded that even great players still need to practice before getting something and it's not just me and my hopeless fingers haha. Cheers Pete.

Pete can I ask a question, I can't seem to get this answered anywhere else. I just bought a j15 and it has the LR baggs vtc, I thought it should only be the volume control? It's a 2018 model. Any idea? Cheers

Yes please

I very much like your performance while testing the guitars. I'm alsof a proud and glad owner of my 2018 J15. Tnx for confirming my choice. Blind testing?; I would think you would immediate recognize the models by seeing the different wood of the guitars of does that make me nerdish? 😂

Ditto. J-15 forever!

+1

i just bought a used j15, not sure what year it is. i took a chance off of ebay. i paid 950.00 for it. i like the 45 size. it is a little bit brighter than my 45 but it has a nice tone and it rings out. someone on another site said it seemed like a mix between a martin and a taylor. i think he is right. so far so good especially for the money. i like it. i have two martins, two gibsons, one taylor, one tak, one guren honer. i may sell the tak. they all have very good sound and playability

also, its nice that there is not too much bling on this guitar...just a nice piece of wood. so far, very happy!

I'm not sure if you've played a J-15, but my experience is that they are less bass heavy than J-45s. I sat in the store for a couple of hours going around and around between a J-15 and 3 different J-45s. I ended up buying the J-15 specifically because it had a lot more going on in the mids/highs but still has the woody Gibson tone in the bass. In any case, these are all slope-shouldered dreads, so I'm not sure I agree that the differences in the bass are as dramatic as you imply. In the case of the J-15 specifically, it's constructed exactly like a J-45 but with walnut/maple in lieu of mahogany (in fact, the cutaway J-15 is called the J-45 Walnut Avant Garde). As far as my understanding goes, Mahogany is actually a warmer tone wood than walnut, and my personal experience would seem to confirm that is the case, as the Mahogany J-45s did sound warmer (heavier in the lows) than the J-15. Anyway, at the end of the day, any slight differences from the tone woods aren't going to be enough to create massive EQ problems one way or the other. Having said all that, every guitar sounds a little different, and something as simple as changing the strings can have pretty big impacts on the tone profile, so...find the guitar that inspires, and go play! I think we worry too much about things that aren't that important, haha.

@@pgcracka I totally agree with you! This guy has it wrong, the j15 has no where near the same bass as a J45. And also saying the J45 has more middle is wrong also, the J45 is scooped around mids, the j15 has a punchy middle sound. Basically these guitars are polar opposite of what this guy said! Lol

I tried a J45 and J15 in my local store. That J45 sound more full and deep while the J15 sounded brighter. Both were good but for those two I played I would consider the J45 "better". I got the J15 in the end because the J45 was way over priced in my country. But for US list price I would definitely go for the J45.

I found pretty much the same thing: that J45s are warmer, where the J-15 is brighter, the funny thing is that I interpreted that exactly opposite to you. I felt like the J-15 had something cool going on in the mids that the J-45s lacked. I concluded that the J-15 tone was "better", (or at least a better fit for me) so that's what I bought.

My J-45 sounds better after a fresh day of humidification, when I re wet the sponge. I really like the sound of the J29 here

You can also put thicker gauge strings to raise the tension so they don't buzz too much, i always use thicker strings on short scale guitars.

Especially now since it has been discontinued? Go figure.

Have a look at fylde guitars as well. They do some phenomenally beautiful looking and sounding guitars. www.fyldeguitars.com/