I, very briefly, played 4 Guild Westerly Collection Guitars. All had super old strings and sounded like crap.
Played a really nice sounding and playing Martin D18 asking price around $3,500. None of the others sounded as good, to my ears as my old G37.
I played a 2K Gibson that sounded terrible - tinny. and a 4K Taylor that sounded and played nice but not nearly 4K nice.
What I did like was the Taylor T4 (I think) hybrid. Asking price around $1,800something.. Also tried a couple Michael Kelly hybrids which did not play as well or have a clean enough acoustic tone for me. Wanted to try some Godin's but they had none in stock. Really looking to spend around $600 and have seen some on Reverb and CL but wanted to try them out first to see if viable.
I confess, after playing my first full gig with my acoustic project and switching between my 6 and 412 my left hand was killing me. Thinking about a hybrid for ease of playing and would still use the 412 for 3 or 4 songs per set. Plus some songs I could go more electric on with a hybrid and that would work with a lot of our material.
Played a really nice sounding and playing Martin D18 asking price around $3,500. None of the others sounded as good, to my ears as my old G37.
I played a 2K Gibson that sounded terrible - tinny. and a 4K Taylor that sounded and played nice but not nearly 4K nice.
What I did like was the Taylor T4 (I think) hybrid. Asking price around $1,800something.. Also tried a couple Michael Kelly hybrids which did not play as well or have a clean enough acoustic tone for me. Wanted to try some Godin's but they had none in stock. Really looking to spend around $600 and have seen some on Reverb and CL but wanted to try them out first to see if viable.
I confess, after playing my first full gig with my acoustic project and switching between my 6 and 412 my left hand was killing me. Thinking about a hybrid for ease of playing and would still use the 412 for 3 or 4 songs per set. Plus some songs I could go more electric on with a hybrid and that would work with a lot of our material.