Bought me a new Acoustic!!!

[Mr_kro]

Damn, I\'m so excited about my new acoustic. I wasn\'t even planning on buying one today until i started to play a Takamine G Series and i fell in love with it. The Sound was just warm right up with a Taylor in my opinion.

This i thought was a great buy. It was $188 before tax and About $201 after tax. The guy at Guitar Center told me it had a factory lifetime warranty on it. The reason it was so cheap was it has this what i would call a minor ship in the body, i actually didnt notice it until he pointed it out. you can see it in this picture, its right up against the neck where it meets the body.


I asked the guy how that happened, like use and abused or factory mishap or what. He said it could have been a factory mishap of they might have ran out of humidifier in the acoustic room.

Long story short its got me kinda worried about it worsening over time. It also has a small little crack here too.



Over all i think it was a great buy, sounded great, action was ace perfect, and the price was just to good to pass up.

Which leads me to a question. Should i worry about buying a humidifier to help keep the guitar in good shape? I had an old cheapo acoustic that was bought at best buy and i didnt even think to do anything like this to that one. but it was cheap though so it want like the perfect guitar.

If so what should i look into buying for my Takamine?

I did look at some humidifiers that you put inside the body of the guitar and i thought that was a bit too excessive, since its going to be sitting on a stand when not in use until i buy a case for it. Im not planning on any gigs so its mainly going to stay in my room.

any advice would be great.

thanks!

[koop]

As far as the neck goes if it doesn\'t affect the sound atm then i think it will be okay if you treat her gently since it was classified as \'minor\'. I think you\'ll be fine w/o the dehumidifier unless you live in an area with really brutal weather that changes super fast and what not.  But what do I know, there\'s probably someone on here that know better than I do. It is a nice lookn guitar though.

[Mr_kro]

Thanks for the advice. The chip wasnt really all that bad in my opinion. Maybe they were just trying to get more money out of me by buying the $50 2 year warranty, when already it has a manufacture warranty. haha

[polishbucket]

A bot of mine has a Takamine G series and it sings oh so pretty. Congrats on the new member of your musical family.  

[Mr_kro]

Thanks!!!

Its gotten me back into the guitar game. It sounds much better so im always playing it came up with something last night. Now i just have to build on the idea and hopefully it goes somewhere.

[Duckhead]

I got me a new gee-tar a couple months back - cool story... I had this old Fender Gemini acoustic that I hated, also has a Washburn acoustic that a friend gave me for $100, and a beat up \'92 Fender precision bass that I bought at a yard sale for $8 (it was marked $10 but I haggled anyway) it had no strings and I never played it. Took them all to the local music shop and traded them for this beauty:


a brand spankin\' new Martin DX1R, I love this guitar!!!

I\'ll be sure to post a song or two. I need a little advice first - I want to record me playing but audio only not a video. Then I want to upload the music to my computer and make a video with pictures I have. I have the video making software but what is the best way to digitally record my music and save it on my p/c? Can I just buy a webcam with a microphone and record sound without video? or should I get a usb microphone? Keep in mind I don\'t have alot of money to spend. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated - Thanks!

[Chris DiCicco]

Duckhead, as promised from someplace else.

I have a Zoom MRS 802b this is what I have been making my magic on for the past six or seven years (gwad?! wow that long already)It cost me a pretty penny but uhm its a whole hekk of lot better then my first set up was a chair an amp and a piss poor computer microphone and whole world of room and apartment noise in a monophonic blast which would probably be categorized lo-fi.

here is the link to Zoom (Travis is this ok?)

http://www.samsontech.com/products/brandpage.cfm?brandID=4

also use Audio Technica Pro31 Microphone and some cheap Radio Shack Microphones.

I also am in a custodial ownership of my Dad\'s Acoustic 12 String Martin, now I cannot play anything else because the Martin ruined me the locals have some sweet Yamaha\'s but, nothing compares to that Martin.

Chris DiCicco

[ella_mental]

This is my guitar.

It isn\'t new.  I\'ve had it for about 12 years or so.  I haven\'t played it in probably about 11 and totally forget just about everything except how to plunk a few strings.  Sometimes I feel guilty that I even have it.  It was custom made by this guy
http://www.bluettbros-violins.com/index.shtml
and given to me as a gift by a friend who was about 90 at the time.  The guitar literally walked out of my head and into the world.  I still really like the sound of it.

You may notice that it\'s a left handed guitar.  I\'m pretty ambidextrous.  Some things feel more natural to me left handed and guitar playing is one of them, although it\'s all air guitar nowadays.  

[Mr_kro]

now damn that is a nice looking guitar!!!

[ella_mental]

I brought that guitar into my meditation room to take it\'s picture and it likes it in there, so it\'s gonna hang out in there.  That\'s the least I can do for it.  I\'m just not a musician.

I also have a left handed electric guitar.  I think the body might be a Fender Stratocaster.  It\'s purple and white.  But the top part where the strings screw in is different.  I think I remember the guy who sold it to me saying something about that, but technical jargon goes right over my head.

I think I\'ll put both of them in my meditation room.  It was really fun digging into my guitar stuff.  So, thanks.

[koop]

ella, I would learn guitar all over agin, left handed, just to be able to play that guitar