The Sound of this Mid-Priced Acoustic Guitar Surprised Me 

I’ve owned a Epi Masterbilt, which sounded amazing. I’d really like an IBG. I’ve read great things about out them.

They really do make good guitars.

I did a separate review on that RD-T16. Great guitar. I ended up selling it but should have kept it.

@@JayceAllanGuitar I just found your channel and was watching your videos. I watched the one on that Recording King and it did sound pretty good. I've owned nothing but "affordable" laminated back and sides, guitars until the last few years and after playing all solid wood guitars, it's hard for me to go back. I'll never get rid of my RD-328. And now I'm looking at getting a Martin HD-28V here very soon and will be comparing that to my Recording King, on my channel. Anyways, love the videos and look forward to the next one.

@@JayceAllanGuitar oh, and I did subscribe too

I appreciate that. I subbed back.

I get what you’re saying but think there’s a little more to it than that. With electric guitars I think pickups and amp have way more to do with the tone. Wood, hardware, all that stuff has little impact. Acoustic guitars I think there’s differences (although slight) in top wood. An all mahogany guitar sounds a bit different than the spruce top. A laminate top sounds a bit different than a solid top etc. Strings can also impact the tone slightly. But obviously this is all the stuff that makes a guitar sound like a guitar. The player is what makes it sound like David Gilmour or Eddie VanHalen or Prince. In fact. I don’t consider myself a phenomenal guitar player. But when I recorded my first album I realized that I had my own sound. And when I played on a friends song, I sounded like me, despite the song not being mine. David Gilmour once said something to the effect that he could sit down to any guitar, regardless of setup and sound like himself on it. There’s also a video out there of Joe Satriani playing Satch Boogie at some young dudes house on some cheap Squier or something and he sounded great. He did say it was painful (physically) to play on that guitar. But I agree with you. Cost of a guitar doesn’t have much to do with tone.

Thanks I appreciate that.

No problem. Thanks for watching.

No, not this one. Maybe the inspired by Gibson version. But this one is 25.5.

The AJ has the longer Scale...the J the shorter

I’ve had good luck with China guitars in recent years. But my guess is all the factories (and I use that term loosely because they’re just small shops) use CNC machines for everything. Pretty hard to screw up a guitar that’s almost entirely made by machine.

I've done that before, sounds really good. Then just throw a capo on for normal tuning. Best recorded acoustic guitar tone I ever heard on an album was a Gibson SJ-200 tuned down 1/2 step...talk about rich.

Yeah. I’m going to change the title of this video. Cheap to me is $250 or less. These new are almost $400.

You're talking about the "Inspired By Gibson", the one in the video is not the inspired by Gibson and was under $400 new and I got it used for less. The video explains all this if you actually watch it.

@@JayceAllanGuitar Ah-ha. I see. $369 @ GC. Still not quite what I would consider "cheap." That word implies low quality. Might be better next time to say something like "not overly expensive."

I’m just playing the RU-vid word game. If you don’t have a title with a hook, your video dies. Cheap to me nowadays just means inexpensive. It used to be a $100 guitar (electric) was junk but because of CNC technology, guitars in the $100 to $200 price range are actually quite good. I’ll consider changing the title of this video.

@@JayceAllanGuitar Yeah - you're right about inexpensive guitars these days being actually quite good. And I understand about YT's games. But the reason I didn't even watch the whole video was because of the title. When I saw it was an Epiphone you were reviewing, I knew it most likely was not "cheap." So I didn't watch the rest. It got a click from me, but that's often all you get from a click-bait title.

@@anthonypanneton923 fair enough.