With a Venetian cutaway, nickel tuners, chrome strap buttons, and the gorgeous combination (both aurally and aesthetically) of a rosewood body, Sitka spruce top, and mahogany neck, this is an excellent axe for any occasion. The guitar’s ES-2 pickup/preamp provides excellent sound options on the electric side, with control knobs that make it easy to find the perfect EQ settings, whether going into a PA head or direct into the mixing board (though using a good mic in the studio to capture the guitar’s sweet, natural sound is often desired by many). And that bracing definitely does its job, with lows and highs resonating beautifully through the rosewood body, resulting in great tone, perfect balance, and the notes decaying at just the right rate. It features Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing, which boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and enhances the guitar’s natural intonation by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. Taylor 414ce-R Acoustic-Electric Grand Auditorium (pictured above, right)įor more than four decades Taylor Guitars has built high-quality instruments, and that tradition continues with the 414ce-R Acoustic-Electric Grand Auditorium. The Michael Kelly Hybrid is a great-sounding and great-looking instrument from a company that is on the cutting edge sonically and aesthetically. The guitar’s chambered mahogany body has a gorgeous spalt maple top and mahogany neck, and the fingerboard’s abalone block inlays on the rosewood fretboard provide a nice contrast between the body top and the spalt maple headstock. Or you can create a combination of both, using knobs and the push-pull coil tap of the Rockfield Select Wound Custom (SWC) neck and bridge pickups, and the sonic options of the Fishman Powerchip and Fishman under-saddle pickup. You can use the Hybrid’s three-way pickup selector to select the sounds of a humbucker or an acoustic guitar.
The company’s most talked-about item may be its Hybrid guitar, which combines the best of both electric and acoustic sounds with the ability to use those sounds on their own, or blended in with each other.
Instruments from the Michael Kelly company are becoming more widely known, with a product line of dozens of guitars, basses and mandolins and an increasing in-store display presence. Michael Kelly Hybrid Electric-Acoustic (pictured above, left) Bradbury is a folk singer who sings “sad songs about funny people, or funny songs about sad people.” His last album came, Elmwood Park, came out in 2016. The Missouri native has also written numerous songs for artists such as Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack, Lady Gaga, and many others. Hemby is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter whose latest effort Puxico made our Best Albums Of 2017 list. It’s already November and that means Santa Claus and his retinue are working overtime in the North Pole. If you haven’t finalized your wish list yet, don’t fret - we have the low-down on some of the coolest guitars and gear out there for all your songwriting needs.įor this year’s holiday gear guide shoot, we traveled to Donelson Bowl, Nashville’s oldest bowling center and home to $1 games on Monday. Joining us for the shoot were songwriters Natalie Hemby and Darrin Bradbury.
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