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Product: Takamine GS-330S
Price Paid: USD 200
Submitted
12/20/2006 at
09:47pm by
beb0p
Features 
: 8
Cedar-Top (more on this later). No pickguard. Decent tuners.
Sound : 10
One word - Wow. A friend wanted to learn guitar and I was helping him pick one out in Guitar Center. I was showing him the difference in sound between a $149 beginner guitar versus the more expensive ones. I played the Martin, Gibson, the higher end Takamine, and middle of the road Ibanzez, etc. Then I picked up the Takamine GS330S, listed at $220 used. I said to him, "You probably won't hear much of a difference between this one and the cheap beginner..." Then I strummed a few chords... and stopped. I checked the price tag again. Puzzled, I continued playing while my friend said, "It DOESN'T sound bad at all!" Not bad? It sounds better than the $500+ and $800+ Ibanez, Epiphone, Takamine, etc guitars that I tried. Is it better than the $2000 Martin? No. But it's close. And for a $200 guitar, That's damn amazing. The cedar-top gives it a strong and loud sound like all cedar-top does. But what makes it so good is the clarity. Cedar-top is strong but it's not clear, that's the rule. Even the most expensive cedar-top does not have the same clarity as an equally expensive spruce top. But the trick is, cedar can get away with the clarity issue by being fierce and loud... provided the clarity does not entirely get lost in the resonance. Which is exactly what the GS330S can do. It creates a wall of sound with enough clarity to sent chills down your spine or wraps the sound around you like a blanket. Wow. Needless to say, I bought the GS330S.
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