met diane when she came over to NZ for a martin showcase... amazing person and the knowledge of guitar in general is impeccable. If anyone gets a chance to see her in person you really should and not just via youtube.
Wow! I am really impressed with the Aura! I had no idea the new Martin preamps sounded so great! My old Martin doesn't have any kind of pickup/preamp. I NEED one of these! Thanks for the great video Anderton's!
Lee, can you please do more acoustic stuff? Maybe with Rob too? I get that you are both more electric players, plus there is more gear and gadgets for electric, but I'd love to see some more acoustic stuff. I love playing both and I'm sure there must be more people who feel the same. Anyway, great video as usual and I love Diane, she's always great to listen to. Keep up the great work :)
Diane, I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy?? The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
Keith Richards set of 10s on strat(25.5) is harder to bend than a set of 10s on les paul(24.75) maybe when you can afford to have 2 different scale length guitars, you'll understand.
Love all of your vids. and the ones with Diane are always magical! Thanks so much for your passion & love of all things guitar!!!! This pickup system certainly is intriguing!!!
Captain, I like what you were trying tell her about phase. Personally I would have shushed her snd said “ listen man, I’m trying to give you a gem!!!” Hats off, you’re a total gentleman and on another level. Thank you for all the vids.
Diane you're thick, I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy?? The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
That's my guitar! I love it so very much ❤ It really is a stunning instrument! I didn't even know it could do all those things with the electronics :O I need to rewatch this and study up!!
Man, I love guitarists. A while ago, modeling sucked. Fair enough. Now that we've figured it out so that it doesn't suck, no one can give up the stigma. So now we have "it's not modeling, it's imaging." "It's not modeling, it's profiling." Lol. I understand why brands avoid it like the plague, but I really wish they would just say "yeah. It's modeling. Except we actually know what we're doing now, and it doesn't suck anymore"
The simplest way to describe phase and phase reversal, using an acoustic electric guitar and amp analogy, is like this. A positive phase relationship between the guitar strings and the speaker is when at the same time a vibrating oscillating string swings away from the guitar and towards the listener's ears, thus pulling the soundboard out and towards the listener's ears, the amplified speaker cone is simultaneously pushed outward, towards the listener's ears, so the soundboard and speaker move in tandem, reinforcing each other. A negative phase relationship is the opposite, with the speaker cone being pulled into it's cabinet away from the listener when the guitar's strings and soundboard are moving towards the listener, thus partially cancelling each other out.
The best pick up system ever!!! I'm a Taylor guy...but god...do I hate the ES1 n ES2 system they use. Wish Taylor had something like this!!! But I love Martin too!!! :)
Martin GPC-Aura GT. Incredible instrument. This video pretty much sold me on it and I could not be more impressed. The Fishman F1 system is STUNNING live.
The phase feature isn't subjective at all. Phase inversion shouldn't sound different, were you running it through headphones. It's entirely for the purpose of managing feedback. If you flip the phase so the guitar isn't in phase with the playback of itself through the monitors, you fix a lot of feedback issues.
Joel, think of how air is moving when sound is happening. The guitar and the monitor speaker will work best together when both are moving the body of air between them in the same motion, rather than pushing against one another. It is very frequency dependent, but mostly affects the lower frequencies. This can make or break an acoustic guitar being picked up by a mic on stage, but also works for pickups. For the player, it can affect how the body of the guitar resonates at the low frequencies. A poor soundperson doesn't realize how much proper knowledge of this can improve the overall sound and experience for everyone involved. A kick drum is a perfect sound source to experiment with. The difference between putting a mic in front or behind and how this affects its sound when the snare mic is in the mix. The kick drum signal bleeding into the snare mic has its leading edge pulling away from the mic. If you mix this with the kick drum sound with mic in front of it (audience side), the two signals will be reversed in polarity, as the signal's leading edge will be pushing towards that mic. The end result is a very non-punchy kick drum in the mix. Merely reversing the polarity of the kick drum front mic will usually tighten the whole drum kit sound up. I will often insert an xlr cable with pins 2 and 3 reversed on one connector to do this for me on the kick drum mic, especially if the mixer doesn't have a polarity reverse button. Note that this is dealing with polarity, not phase. Phase is time related, so it does actually come into play when one looks at the electronics path and the distance from speaker to instrument and speaker to listener. Phase is most often very short in time and problems occur when the time delay causes a smearing of the higher frequencies.
Awesome features on that there G tar. Think it's ruined by the compression of youtube though. The different mic's all sound the same to me, and I have a relatively good sound set-up. But the guitar sound nice enough either way. And she sure can talk can't she.....lol.
Good technology and sounded good, but isn't Yamaha did the same at SRT over 10 yrs ago? Maybe you guys can make a head to head of Martin's Fishman Aura VS old Yamaha SRT system.
It sounds like a piezo with digital signal processing to me. It still sounds compressed and nasal. Useful at a gig, but maybe not so much in the studio.
I must take exception to the "no right or wrong" when they are discussing what they are calling "phase" but is really polarity. There definitely is a right and wrong to polarity, especially with its effect on the lower frequencies. Polarity has nothing to do with phase shifters, which were delaying the signal and mixing that back with the original to cause a phase shift at different frequencies. Reverse polarity cancels out an entire wave form within an electronic system, whereas it will usually only seem to audibly affect the lower frequencies when moving air. This is due to frequency dependent reflections in a room or near reflective surfaces, where the higher frequencies are not going to consistently arrive at one's ear(s) at the same time unless the wave form is longer (low frequencies). The flipping of the polarity can help immensely with low end feedback problems on stage, by adjusting the relative polarity to that of the stage monitor.
Love these 2 human beings! Great tones too! Hmm....I wonder if can buy the aura system separately and have it installed in another acoustic? Anyone have any experience with this?
This beauty needed a plastic surgery at the bridge ( wood removal) and the saddle (bone sanding) before it became playable with low enough action. The original action from Martin factory was so very very high and I just cannot tolerate. She was just talking about the audio technology. How about the strings and the action? After saddle resetting, I used DGCGCD tuning and play TheRainSong and sounds very good.
Mine was great for the first few months then the tuners stripped out and the electronics quit on me.. I called martim and they basically told me sorry about your luck. Live and learn.
I love Diane, but I wish she had a better position to respresent. The Aura and Retro systems are simply sample collections from a sample library: Martin could be more honest, and make massive amounts of money, selling the sample libraries for uploading into the guitars. Of course, they would have to admit that it is modeling (as opposed to torturing the English language).
IDK. This is good and all, but at this point I don't even think a Piezo is supposed to sound like an acoustic guitar. XD It's it's own thing. Check out Lyle Lovett's Piezo sound on the live version of "North Dakota" with Ricky Lee Jones to hear what I mean.
Diane you're thick. I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy?? The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
Keith Richards is this a joke :-)? For the same string gauge and tuning, shorter scale is easier to bend. The longer scale will have higher tension for the same tuning and is harder to bend. Try a baritone guitar tuned to e standard with 009s or 010s and you'll see...
Henrik Persson Are you a joke? How can a shorter scale be easier to bend? A longer scale is inherently more flexible because its longer (?). Try bending the strings at the nut. Nice n easy? Overall tension means nothing, that's just a fact you can't put into proper perspective. . No, the smaller the guitar gets does not mean the easier the strings are to bend, that would mean all the advantages are with the small type, )apart from volume) duh.
Keith Richards you're joking. As I said, try stringing a baritone scale guitar with 009s, tune it to e standard, then compare how it feels to bend those steings compared to a shorter scale guitar. Higher tension makes it harder to bend. Low tension gives sloppy strings that are easy to bend. Tune down = less tension = easier to bend, same thing. Open string tension are proportional to the scale lenght^2
Why not build a good sounding piezo pickup, just like taylor guitars did with the expression system 2, instead of some digital modelled image? The guitar sounds pretty good, but to my ear, the expression system 2 sounds more like the guitar you have in your hands.
I'm sorry to say, the Taylor expression system sounds like tinny crap. I'm a huge Taylor fan and have owned 3 of them. I think they took a huge step backwards with the ES2 system. I have the old Fishman pickup that came with my Taylor W10 I bought in 1998 and it kills the ES2 system hands down. It's to bad they went that way.
This system seems a little complicated. Options are great, but having a button do different tasks based on the mode you’re in is a recipe for disaster. In comparing this system with a Taylor ES2, I’d just prefer to have the 3 knobs that each have 1 job. Volume, Bass, Treble. If I want imaging, I would rather do that in a pedal. Guessing most people with this system dial in what they like and leave it.
Just a bit puzzled with this ? Does she have the guitar plugged into an amp or does the built in pick up system do some amplification its self Anyone!?
THE AURA SYSTEM IS PURE BULLSHIT. IT'S MOSTLY GIMMIC SHIT THAT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME AND IS SO COMPLICATED TO USE IT'S BEYOND BELIEF. PRESS THIS - TURN THAT - UNPLUG IT WHILE HOLDING THIS - PRESS THE TWO BUTTONS TOGETHER - SCREW THIS - SCREW THAT. WTF. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT REALLY IS ............. A HIGH PRICED TUNER !
I'll give you that it's complicated, but it sounds better live than anything I've ever tried, and I've tried a lot. I've been using a GPCPA3 for over 4 years. Nothing I've ever heard in that time comes close to sounding like a real guitar when your sound is just from the built-in pickup(s). And, once you've got it set, you can really forget it. It's not BS. I suggest people just try one out through a PA and make their own decision.
Yep. Played this side by side with a Taylor 314ce today through guitar center's demo PA and the Aura system just walked all over the Taylor's preamp. The GPC Aura that I played was already bought by another customer that hadn't come to pick it up yet so I bought another one that should hopefully be here in a couple of days. To be fair to the Taylor, it did sound OUTSTANDING unplugged as did the Martin but I'm primarily going to be using this plugged into a PA so the choice was easy.
met diane when she came over to NZ for a martin showcase... amazing person and the knowledge of guitar in general is impeccable. If anyone gets a chance to see her in person you really should and not just via youtube.
She lives in New Zealand.
Diane is great, she never sounds patronising, especially when she explains basic stuff: but she explains it so well.
Pretty amazing sound even the sound coming from TH-cam... The very last sounds were something... Thank you Capn.
Another GREAT video from Andertons and my absolute favorite acoustic brand......... Martin Guitars
Wow! I am really impressed with the Aura! I had no idea the new Martin preamps sounded so great! My old Martin doesn't have any kind of pickup/preamp. I NEED one of these! Thanks for the great video Anderton's!
Lee, can you please do more acoustic stuff? Maybe with Rob too? I get that you are both more electric players, plus there is more gear and gadgets for electric, but I'd love to see some more acoustic stuff. I love playing both and I'm sure there must be more people who feel the same. Anyway, great video as usual and I love Diane, she's always great to listen to. Keep up the great work :)
I agree, and chappers is an excellent acoustic guitarist to
Diane, I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe
What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy??
The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
Keith Richards set of 10s on strat(25.5) is harder to bend than a set of 10s on les paul(24.75)
maybe when you can afford to have 2 different scale length guitars, you'll understand.
Keith, you're a disrespectful feck wad who needs to have his mouth washed out with soap, you puddle of piss.
Love all of your vids. and the ones with Diane are always magical! Thanks so much for your passion & love of all things guitar!!!! This pickup system certainly is intriguing!!!
She is by far one of the best salespeople I have ever witnessed.
Captain, I like what you were trying tell her about phase. Personally I would have shushed her snd said “ listen man, I’m trying to give you a gem!!!” Hats off, you’re a total gentleman and on another level. Thank you for all the vids.
never knew about the extra deep editing on the aura system. Wow! Thanks.
I could listen to Diane talk and play all day long. I love that lady, she's a rock star. Thanks Cappers
Diane you're thick, I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe
What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy??
The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
I would marry her
That's my guitar! I love it so very much ❤ It really is a stunning instrument! I didn't even know it could do all those things with the electronics :O I need to rewatch this and study up!!
Man, I love guitarists.
A while ago, modeling sucked. Fair enough.
Now that we've figured it out so that it doesn't suck, no one can give up the stigma.
So now we have "it's not modeling, it's imaging." "It's not modeling, it's profiling." Lol.
I understand why brands avoid it like the plague, but I really wish they would just say "yeah. It's modeling. Except we actually know what we're doing now, and it doesn't suck anymore"
Really enjoyed these Martin acoustic series. Great work, would love to see more.
This Aura System sounds fantastic
Now I have a better understanding on how the Aura system work. Diane explains it so everyone can understand it
Excellent system, I love it in my GPCPA1 Plus.
she's adorable I love her
The simplest way to describe phase and phase reversal, using an acoustic electric guitar and amp analogy, is like this. A positive phase relationship between the guitar strings and the speaker is when at the same time a vibrating oscillating string swings away from the guitar and towards the listener's ears, thus pulling the soundboard out and towards the listener's ears, the amplified speaker cone is simultaneously pushed outward, towards the listener's ears, so the soundboard and speaker move in tandem, reinforcing each other. A negative phase relationship is the opposite, with the speaker cone being pulled into it's cabinet away from the listener when the guitar's strings and soundboard are moving towards the listener, thus partially cancelling each other out.
0:17 Captain thinking back on those childhood memories ha
I watch a lot of Anderton's videos just for the music. ;)
wow that's the best system i've ever heard. i'm very impressed :) great mic images
What model Martin Guitar is this and is it (still)available?
The dog's noises are cracking me up!! Put her in more videos!
‘If we all played guitar’ 👏👏👏👏 You’ve got a very good point Captain Lee 👍
I missed it or don't understand it ... @ 3:06 What's the purpose of the "bound fingerboard"?
Charge more money to retards
great video!
The best pick up system ever!!! I'm a Taylor guy...but god...do I hate the ES1 n ES2 system they use. Wish Taylor had something like this!!! But I love Martin too!!! :)
what guitar is the first one that Diane plays? Martin what model?
Martin GPC-Aura GT. Incredible instrument. This video pretty much sold me on it and I could not be more impressed. The Fishman F1 system is STUNNING live.
Sounds amazing
Think I would remain in easy mode...
Very clever and some very nice sounds.
I love the simpler system in my OMC28E, it just sounds great :-)
Woah, modelling is pretty impressive.
diane is my favorite guitar person.
what model is this guitar?
Wally Hall I believe the guitar that Diane is playing is a Martin GPCPA4-rosewood. It’s a nice guitar!
The phase feature isn't subjective at all. Phase inversion shouldn't sound different, were you running it through headphones. It's entirely for the purpose of managing feedback. If you flip the phase so the guitar isn't in phase with the playback of itself through the monitors, you fix a lot of feedback issues.
Joel, think of how air is moving when sound is happening. The guitar and the monitor speaker will work best together when both are moving the body of air between them in the same motion, rather than pushing against one another. It is very frequency dependent, but mostly affects the lower frequencies. This can make or break an acoustic guitar being picked up by a mic on stage, but also works for pickups. For the player, it can affect how the body of the guitar resonates at the low frequencies. A poor soundperson doesn't realize how much proper knowledge of this can improve the overall sound and experience for everyone involved.
A kick drum is a perfect sound source to experiment with. The difference between putting a mic in front or behind and how this affects its sound when the snare mic is in the mix. The kick drum signal bleeding into the snare mic has its leading edge pulling away from the mic. If you mix this with the kick drum sound with mic in front of it (audience side), the two signals will be reversed in polarity, as the signal's leading edge will be pushing towards that mic. The end result is a very non-punchy kick drum in the mix. Merely reversing the polarity of the kick drum front mic will usually tighten the whole drum kit sound up. I will often insert an xlr cable with pins 2 and 3 reversed on one connector to do this for me on the kick drum mic, especially if the mixer doesn't have a polarity reverse button.
Note that this is dealing with polarity, not phase. Phase is time related, so it does actually come into play when one looks at the electronics path and the distance from speaker to instrument and speaker to listener. Phase is most often very short in time and problems occur when the time delay causes a smearing of the higher frequencies.
Oh Cap10. What have you done. Want one!
Nice one captain!
Awesome features on that there G tar. Think it's ruined by the compression of youtube though. The different mic's all sound the same to me, and I have a relatively good sound set-up. But the guitar sound nice enough either way. And she sure can talk can't she.....lol.
Wow! Has come a long way from the original fishman, I had in my old cutaway.
Good technology and sounded good, but isn't Yamaha did the same at SRT over 10 yrs ago? Maybe you guys can make a head to head of Martin's Fishman Aura VS old Yamaha SRT system.
So basically Aura system is like Kemper meaning "snapshot" of sounds were taken to emulate the sound?
Is getting the battery out a little tricky?
I don't know why but i have not figured it out, maybe a little sticky door??
I literally bought one of these because of this video
Which model is this cutaway??? I don't believe it was even mentioned. Thanks!
This guitar is as wonderful as $2299 in the states...worth it.
Thought that was Ed China on the thumbnail.
+Lexdb His head would probably have been out of shot.
HaHaHa, if he played he'd have it painted satin black.
Woow fabulous
It sounds like a piezo with digital signal processing to me. It still sounds compressed and nasal. Useful at a gig, but maybe not so much in the studio.
What guitar model is it?
Martin GPC Aura GT!
She is so cool. 👍😎😊👌🙏👍
I must take exception to the "no right or wrong" when they are discussing what they are calling "phase" but is really polarity. There definitely is a right and wrong to polarity, especially with its effect on the lower frequencies. Polarity has nothing to do with phase shifters, which were delaying the signal and mixing that back with the original to cause a phase shift at different frequencies. Reverse polarity cancels out an entire wave form within an electronic system, whereas it will usually only seem to audibly affect the lower frequencies when moving air. This is due to frequency dependent reflections in a room or near reflective surfaces, where the higher frequencies are not going to consistently arrive at one's ear(s) at the same time unless the wave form is longer (low frequencies).
The flipping of the polarity can help immensely with low end feedback problems on stage, by adjusting the relative polarity to that of the stage monitor.
Finally...
is that a grand auditoridium martin or an OM with a cut-away?
Love these 2 human beings! Great tones too! Hmm....I wonder if can buy the aura system separately and have it installed in another acoustic? Anyone have any experience with this?
Just buy a Zager with the Fishman Aura system on it.
Guitar sounds sweet. I'm still more a fan of the Taylor 814 tone, playability, resonance & "woodiness".
Does edit button have stops, like volume button, or does it move freely over and over?
So A take on the line 6 interesting
Wonder what the Taylor ES2 system would sound like compared to this guitars aura system.
This beauty needed a plastic surgery at the bridge ( wood removal) and the saddle (bone sanding) before it became playable with low enough action. The original action from Martin factory was so very very high and I just cannot tolerate. She was just talking about the audio technology. How about the strings and the action? After saddle resetting, I used DGCGCD tuning and play TheRainSong and sounds very good.
The simple dove tail joint same as Mortise Tenon?
I agree...let's all just play guitar!
Rob sure looked different back then wow
Which Martin model is in this video?
Martin GPC Aura GT
9/11 , A patsey in Bin laden , 12 untried in Gauntanamo , 364 firemen dead, 2000 patrons in towers, and no one convicted. Nice guitar.
Building 7 who did it?
Mine was great for the first few months then the tuners stripped out and the electronics quit on me.. I called martim and they basically told me sorry about your luck. Live and learn.
what is the guitar model and how it is??
GPC Aura GT
I love Diane, but I wish she had a better position to respresent. The Aura and Retro systems are simply sample collections from a sample library: Martin could be more honest, and make massive amounts of money, selling the sample libraries for uploading into the guitars. Of course, they would have to admit that it is modeling (as opposed to torturing the English language).
Samplier you are quite right.
Well I thought it's more of an IR, a fancy EQ
And where in China is the Performing Artist Series made?
Sorry for my ignorance folks but who is this lady?
IDK. This is good and all, but at this point I don't even think a Piezo is supposed to sound like an acoustic guitar. XD It's it's own thing. Check out Lyle Lovett's Piezo sound on the live version of "North Dakota" with Ricky Lee Jones to hear what I mean.
Superlative.
Diane you're thick.
I've always believed a short scale guitar was played by Blues players because of the smaller fret-board - easier to get up and down - no brainer, it's observable. You however, propagate this bullshit that scale length makes the strings easier to bend (???) and that's why it's preferable for a certain style of playing. Hahe
What a pile of horse shit! Antithetical to the truth, short scale length is harder to play, longer length is easier because there's more flex and give with a string stretched over a longer distance. You had me questioning myself I'll admit , thinking why isn't this easy??
The shorter guitar scale is harder to bend the strings. If you want to bend the strings, get a Dreadnought. So in summary, what the feck are you going on about? If I might?
Keith Richards is this a joke :-)? For the same string gauge and tuning, shorter scale is easier to bend. The longer scale will have higher tension for the same tuning and is harder to bend. Try a baritone guitar tuned to e standard with 009s or 010s and you'll see...
Henrik Persson Are you a joke? How can a shorter scale be easier to bend? A longer scale is inherently more flexible because its longer (?). Try bending the strings at the nut. Nice n easy? Overall tension means nothing, that's just a fact you can't put into proper perspective. . No, the smaller the guitar gets does not mean the easier the strings are to bend, that would mean all the advantages are with the small type, )apart from volume) duh.
Keith Richards you're joking. As I said, try stringing a baritone scale guitar with 009s, tune it to e standard, then compare how it feels to bend those steings compared to a shorter scale guitar. Higher tension makes it harder to bend. Low tension gives sloppy strings that are easy to bend. Tune down = less tension = easier to bend, same thing. Open string tension are proportional to the scale lenght^2
beautifull and also very expensive guitars but when the bridge comes off on my D41 ;;; MARTIN sugest me to find a good luthier.. good brand )))
+TheGp57 The VERY best brand in the world. There would obviously be a valid reason you were advised to visit a luthier.
Anyone know what the first martin she played was with those odd lookin diamond inlays?
GPC Aura GT
0:23 'that is fff....abulous' - another substitute for the F word discovered.
What a cool lady !
Why not build a good sounding piezo pickup, just like taylor guitars did with the expression system 2, instead of some digital modelled image? The guitar sounds pretty good, but to my ear, the expression system 2 sounds more like the guitar you have in your hands.
I'm sorry to say, the Taylor expression system sounds like tinny crap. I'm a huge Taylor fan and have owned 3 of them. I think they took a huge step backwards with the ES2 system. I have the old Fishman pickup that came with my Taylor W10 I bought in 1998 and it kills the ES2 system hands down. It's to bad they went that way.
I had the ES1 and didn't care for it, but the ES2 is terrific. Most realistic sounding pickup system I've ever heard.
This technology is crazy!!!!!!!
Haha lee's turned into a complete hippie :)
This system seems a little complicated. Options are great, but having a button do different tasks based on the mode you’re in is a recipe for disaster. In comparing this system with a Taylor ES2, I’d just prefer to have the 3 knobs that each have 1 job. Volume, Bass, Treble. If I want imaging, I would rather do that in a pedal. Guessing most people with this system dial in what they like and leave it.
Andertons sells acoustics?! O___o
Dude they have an acoustic room and they actually cant fit all their acoustics in there!
+Cameron Forster seriously though, you do get that Progmanmiie is kidding right?
+HenkBenk88 yeah, the wall of accoustics and multiple other videos about acoustics, i do ;) i was just agreeing
I heard she's no longer with us. Hope this isn't true, if it is RIP Diane.
rmzzz76 she has actually retired !
d35 is awesome
martins tho
I can't find the model of the guitar she's playing here. Someone know?
It's the Martin GPC Aura GT, I've got one and I love love love love love it... Seriously the best guitar I've ever played
she can honestly sell me anything lol
What happened to Diane? - I thought she was a great spokesperson for Martin...
After many years of representing Martin she has went on to focus on her own artistic career (singer & guitar player).
I'm ok using a mic thanks
anyone fancy a pint?
Maybe someone maybe someone should inform her that she cant play and talk at the same time, we only hear the guitar recording
Just a bit puzzled with this ? Does she have the guitar plugged into an amp or does the built in pick up system do some amplification its self Anyone!?
gtibruce Aura does not have amp; still need that or go into P.A. board
They didn't match the top wood very well.
B7
that is one beautiful lady in every way.
i love this woman hahaha
I didn't hear a difference in any of them
If all the world played music. There would be no war
THE AURA SYSTEM IS PURE BULLSHIT. IT'S MOSTLY GIMMIC SHIT THAT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME AND IS SO COMPLICATED TO USE IT'S BEYOND BELIEF. PRESS THIS - TURN THAT - UNPLUG IT WHILE HOLDING THIS - PRESS THE TWO BUTTONS TOGETHER - SCREW THIS - SCREW THAT. WTF. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IT REALLY IS ............. A HIGH PRICED TUNER !
I'll give you that it's complicated, but it sounds better live than anything I've ever tried, and I've tried a lot. I've been using a GPCPA3 for over 4 years. Nothing I've ever heard in that time comes close to sounding like a real guitar when your sound is just from the built-in pickup(s). And, once you've got it set, you can really forget it. It's not BS. I suggest people just try one out through a PA and make their own decision.
Yep. Played this side by side with a Taylor 314ce today through guitar center's demo PA and the Aura system just walked all over the Taylor's preamp.
The GPC Aura that I played was already bought by another customer that hadn't come to pick it up yet so I bought another one that should hopefully be here in a couple of days.
To be fair to the Taylor, it did sound OUTSTANDING unplugged as did the Martin but I'm primarily going to be using this plugged into a PA so the choice was easy.
Ffs Lee, it’s a piezo - pee-et-zo - NOT pee-at-zo.
I didn't know Judge Judy played guitar!!!
I unliked this video so that I could like it again.