Dude I watched your guitar videos 2-3 years back and I chose my first guitar bc of you, feels good to see you still playing and reviewing! Hope everything has been going okay for you during the outbreak.
Glad you are still watching. Most of the village, my wife and I included have had it with the classic symptoms but not bad enough to call the doctor. I just had a sniffle although my wife's sense of smell has still to recover!
@@JohnCouplandguitar please advise what is better to choose with a narrow neck on nylon? Fender ESC105 Educational 4/4 SN, CORT CEC1 (OP), Harley Benton HBO-850, La Mancha Granito 32-N-LA or can you suggest your own version of the guitar? Thank You!
@@arty5887 Of the 3 the only one I have played is the Fender which I reviewed a few years ago. th-cam.com/video/aqzLRURoai8/w-d-xo.html I did have a steel string HB bowl back and while it was nice enough it had a pungent plastic odour which I assumed would fade away but it never did so it went to a charity shop. Go Fender!
I saw this one at a long and McQuade and played it. I looked at this video here, and bought it for my birthday. Never been more happy with buying the more affordable side of guitars! I love this one as much as I love my Taylor. I’m gonna switch out the fishman electronics, but thank you for this video
Always a pleasure watching your reviews John. I have the 000ME+ with the spruce top, love it. The mahogany sounds much warmer, which is lovely. Been looking for a cutaway model. This might fit the bill. Thank you.
John have said it b4 but you are splendid when it comes to assessing guitars it would be a joy to be in a pub with ya..not my choice of song though haha!
@@PeteAxeShields Correct Peter. I only tried one of the originals back in the 70's and I was not impressed. An extremely tinny sound although it did look the part.
Hey John. I distinctly remember your review of the Sigma 000m. Your final words were "I don't often rave about guitars, but consider this one raved about". Do you share the same sentiment with this model? Other than the electrics and cutaway, I imagine they are identical in all other ways physically speaking.
A few weeks ago I found a website with a bunch of your songs with lyrics and links to the audio tracks to go along. Unfortunately I can no longer find it. Can you please direct me to it if possible?
Great demo! Is the neck comfortable and are the string action decent? I'm really interested in this guitar but also the Cort Core-OC Electro Acoustic, All Blackwood. Need to choose one among those before end of month. Thank you.
Yes the action is quite low and the neck profile comfortable. No one in my area stocks Cort acoustics so i cannot comment on that. My son does have one of their electrics and is a good guitar.
Hello John, I always enjoy your reviews which have an undeniable charm and I also enjoyed this one, although I cannot in all honesty say I am a fan of your 'silly song'. That aside, your reviews are usually devoid of the very strongly enthusiastic opinions that can often be voiced elsewhere! So, I was surprised that you voiced a very strongly expressed opinion about the lifespan of guitars as 'twelve years at best'..... now I should stress at this point, that I am not your enemy and nor is this a troll post, but it is the second time I have heard you say this. The first time, I was watching one of your other reviews with a friend a few years back and at the time, we just looked at each other and rolled our eyeballs and had a bit of a chuckle about it. The point is, there is no rational basis for your claim. It really is just an opinion based on no particularly relevant facts or borne out by any kind of experimental verification. If you lived more local to me (south wales), I would happily lend you a few guitars to test, that would all be beyond your 12 year reference frame and I am quite certain that you would not find them tonally lacking in the slightest. Even in a living tree, wood is an essentially inert structural component. If you strip the bark from the trunk around its circumference, it will surely die, even though the wood of the trunk persists. When a tree is harvested, the wood is allowed to dry as much as possible before it is put to use. More expensive guitars frequently make a virtue of the fact that the top is 'aged' and other expensive guitars even have components made of kiln-dried wood. These measures are adopted to ensure that the moisture content of the wood is as low as possible whilst maintaining structural integrity. Of course wood can deteriorate when there are frequent extremes of temperature and there is high atmospheric humidity and then there are the wee creatures that like to feed on it, but all of this can be avoided, provided the instrument is stored or kept properly. There is nothing magical about 12 years, 20 years, 30 years or longer for that matter. I am surprised that you contribute to these 'snake oil' myths. So much nonsense is already talked about in relation to the tonal effects of wood in guitars already. 'Laminate' is always considered a dirty word when describing the technical aspects of an acoustic guitar, yet so many guitar manufacturers put its structural stability to good use when designing instruments. The arch back would be a good example of this and of course everybody glosses over what is used to make arch top guitars. They might say its spruce or mahogany, but they won't bother to say laminate. In fact in most real life performance scenarios, what a guitar is made of almost doesn't matter at all. Many gigging musicians will plug the sound hole of an electro acoustic to stop it feeding back. Under this scenario, what the guitar 'box' is made of has hardly any effect on the tone of the instrument, because the wood cannot resonate with the strings. If this were not the case, 'silent' Yamaha guitars would have been a total failure and of course your typical electric guitar is just a stiff block of totally non-resonant wood, which has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the tonality. How else would an acrylic body electric not sound any different to a wood one. If wood has a finite lifespan in musical instruments, perhaps you would like to explain how it is that professional violinists spend tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds on stringed wooden instruments that are over three hundred years old?
Well we must disagree. I should point out that a guitar can last 50 years but the treble does diminish from roughly the 12th year. As for Stradi varied dusts, ever heard of the Emperor's new clothes?
@@JohnCouplandguitar Complete nonsense. How can you affirm like if it was true. A good acoustic guitar can last decades if well maintained, and it will mature. An acoustic looses Treble after the 12 th year and has to be replaced .. What a laugh. Go ask any good luthier, that builds good guitars, if his builds loose Treble at the 12th year.. Common'
The Martin's timber is matured over several years before being made into a guitar and the cost of storing the wood is a large part of the cost of a Martin. With a Sigma it is best to check that there are no squirrels still living inside it!
Nice video ! I just bought this sigma today! So lovely and comfortable to play!!! I true love it!!!
Glad you enjoy it!
Dude I watched your guitar videos 2-3 years back and I chose my first guitar bc of you, feels good to see you still playing and reviewing! Hope everything has been going okay for you during the outbreak.
Glad you are still watching. Most of the village, my wife and I included have had it with the classic symptoms but not bad enough to call the doctor. I just had a sniffle although my wife's sense of smell has still to recover!
@@JohnCouplandguitar please advise what is better to choose with a narrow neck on nylon? Fender ESC105 Educational 4/4 SN, CORT CEC1 (OP), Harley Benton HBO-850, La Mancha Granito 32-N-LA or can you suggest your own version of the guitar? Thank You!
@@arty5887 Of the 3 the only one I have played is the Fender which I reviewed a few years ago. th-cam.com/video/aqzLRURoai8/w-d-xo.html
I did have a steel string HB bowl back and while it was nice enough it had a pungent plastic odour which I assumed would fade away but it never did so it went to a charity shop. Go Fender!
Refreshing to see just an honest commentary by someone who knows what they are talking about. There are too many snake oil salesmen around these days.
Thanks Rich, much appreciated.
Just pulled a trigger on this one from Andertons. Cannot wait. Great review!
Hope you enjoy it!
Finally. Telling the truth about the life of an acoustic guitar. Agree with you all the way John. Cheers John in Brisbane Australia.
complete bollocks
I saw this one at a long and McQuade and played it.
I looked at this video here, and bought it for my birthday.
Never been more happy with buying the more affordable side of guitars!
I love this one as much as I love my Taylor.
I’m gonna switch out the fishman electronics, but thank you for this video
Great stuff Fred.
Another superb demonstration 👍🏻
Thank you! Cheers Ralph.
thanks for another great review John! Always a pleasure to hear your insights on the instruments :)
Thanks David, much appreciated.
This is my acoustic and its an incredible guitar for the money, have it set up with 11s and it sounds great
Love your song. Thanks for the review.
Thanks again Pat.
Hello,
and great review !!!
I'm thinking of buying this guitar
Go for it!
Thanks John, great review as always 👌
No problem 👍
Always a pleasure watching your reviews John. I have the 000ME+ with the spruce top, love it. The mahogany sounds much warmer, which is lovely. Been looking for a cutaway model. This might fit the bill. Thank you.
John have said it b4 but you are splendid when it comes to assessing guitars it would be a joy to be in a pub with ya..not my choice of song though haha!
Careful, I might start praying for you!!!
Good job.
Many many thanks
MC Mahogany Cutaway ? ... just a guess John :-) Sounds lovely and it's visually very pleasing to me x
Or possibly, 'Made in China?'
@@JohnCouplandguitar I believe Sigma were once part of The Martin Company John ?
@@PeteAxeShields Correct Peter. I only tried one of the originals back in the 70's and I was not impressed. An extremely tinny sound although it did look the part.
The older the better. I keep chasing the older sound
Hey John. I distinctly remember your review of the Sigma 000m. Your final words were "I don't often rave about guitars, but consider this one raved about". Do you share the same sentiment with this model? Other than the electrics and cutaway, I imagine they are identical in all other ways physically speaking.
They are pretty similar but perhaps my enthusiasm has been tempered by the guitar's bulging belly!
A few weeks ago I found a website with a bunch of your songs with lyrics and links to the audio tracks to go along. Unfortunately I can no longer find it. Can you please direct me to it if possible?
Hi Chris, that would be godlychristianmusic.com
Great demo! Is the neck comfortable and are the string action decent? I'm really interested in this guitar but also the Cort Core-OC Electro Acoustic, All Blackwood. Need to choose one among those before end of month. Thank you.
Yes the action is quite low and the neck profile comfortable. No one in my area stocks Cort acoustics so i cannot comment on that. My son does have one of their electrics and is a good guitar.
Hello John,
I always enjoy your reviews which have an undeniable charm and I also enjoyed this one, although I cannot in all honesty say I am a fan of your 'silly song'. That aside, your reviews are usually devoid of the very strongly enthusiastic opinions that can often be voiced elsewhere! So, I was surprised that you voiced a very strongly expressed opinion about the lifespan of guitars as 'twelve years at best'..... now I should stress at this point, that I am not your enemy and nor is this a troll post, but it is the second time I have heard you say this. The first time, I was watching one of your other reviews with a friend a few years back and at the time, we just looked at each other and rolled our eyeballs and had a bit of a chuckle about it. The point is, there is no rational basis for your claim. It really is just an opinion based on no particularly relevant facts or borne out by any kind of experimental verification. If you lived more local to me (south wales), I would happily lend you a few guitars to test, that would all be beyond your 12 year reference frame and I am quite certain that you would not find them tonally lacking in the slightest.
Even in a living tree, wood is an essentially inert structural component. If you strip the bark from the trunk around its circumference, it will surely die, even though the wood of the trunk persists. When a tree is harvested, the wood is allowed to dry as much as possible before it is put to use. More expensive guitars frequently make a virtue of the fact that the top is 'aged' and other expensive guitars even have components made of kiln-dried wood. These measures are adopted to ensure that the moisture content of the wood is as low as possible whilst maintaining structural integrity. Of course wood can deteriorate when there are frequent extremes of temperature and there is high atmospheric humidity and then there are the wee creatures that like to feed on it, but all of this can be avoided, provided the instrument is stored or kept properly. There is nothing magical about 12 years, 20 years, 30 years or longer for that matter. I am surprised that you contribute to these 'snake oil' myths. So much nonsense is already talked about in relation to the tonal effects of wood in guitars already. 'Laminate' is always considered a dirty word when describing the technical aspects of an acoustic guitar, yet so many guitar manufacturers put its structural stability to good use when designing instruments. The arch back would be a good example of this and of course everybody glosses over what is used to make arch top guitars. They might say its spruce or mahogany, but they won't bother to say laminate. In fact in most real life performance scenarios, what a guitar is made of almost doesn't matter at all. Many gigging musicians will plug the sound hole of an electro acoustic to stop it feeding back. Under this scenario, what the guitar 'box' is made of has hardly any effect on the tone of the instrument, because the wood cannot resonate with the strings. If this were not the case, 'silent' Yamaha guitars would have been a total failure and of course your typical electric guitar is just a stiff block of totally non-resonant wood, which has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the tonality. How else would an acrylic body electric not sound any different to a wood one.
If wood has a finite lifespan in musical instruments, perhaps you would like to explain how it is that professional violinists spend tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds on stringed wooden instruments that are over three hundred years old?
Well we must disagree. I should point out that a guitar can last 50 years but the treble does diminish from roughly the 12th year. As for Stradi varied dusts, ever heard of the Emperor's new clothes?
@@JohnCouplandguitar
Complete nonsense. How can you affirm like if it was true. A good acoustic guitar can last decades if well maintained, and it will mature.
An acoustic looses Treble after the 12 th year and has to be replaced .. What a laugh. Go ask any good luthier, that builds good guitars, if his builds loose Treble at the 12th year.. Common'
Так какое мнение у него о этой гитаре?
Any idea how this compares to a Martin 00010E Sapele?
The Martin's timber is matured over several years before being made into a guitar and the cost of storing the wood is a large part of the cost of a Martin. With a Sigma it is best to check that there are no squirrels still living inside it!
But does it djent
For that you might want to look at the Sigma 000-00-0000-000-0-0-000MC 15E
Big mistake filing down the bridge 3mm eventually the bridge will split between the pins
How does this compare this to SIGMA 000MC-04E
Sorry Brandon, I have never tried that model. The spruce top should give it a brighter sound than the mahogany tops.
@@JohnCouplandguitar Thank you for the kind reply... 😁👍🏼
So basically this is a cheaper version of a Martin.
Yes, Asian labour rates rather than American but still a well made guitar.