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@@dvanolya Thanks for your response. My Breedlove 12 is one of six guitars. It gives me a beautifully warm sound. I'd most definitely buy it again. All my very best to you and yours. Hope we speak again.
Breedlove is my favorite acoustic. I sadly gave away one a few years back because I was moving. I’ve regretted it. But happily I bought a new one. I’m as happy as a clam. My new one has solid myrtlewood back and sides and solid Oregon spruce top. No side soundhole. But they’re always pushing the bar. I love their playability and tone. The concert size is more favorable for shorter folks like me. I can’t put mine down since I got my new Breedlove a few months ago.
Always have had great experiences with BREEDLOVE Guitars. Incredible sound and tone! Customer service is second to none. Can’t wait to add this 12 string model to the arsenal! Thank you JOHN!🙏🎸⭐️
John !!!! ...this was my fave demo of any acoustic this year!!! ....just amazing and I OWN a 12er and might have to buy this one asap !!! ....thanks for kicking ass 24/7 !!!
I’ve owned a couple of BreedLoves all of them excellent guitars! I especially like the one with the cedar top! Never tried one of their twelve strings. It might be time. Thanks John nice over view!
Such a great 12 string...personally I'd yank the Fishman and install a Tonewood and just keep mic'ing it. Bet it would RIP with a Baggs soundhole pickup in it. 🙂they need to come preinstalled with it or at least offer the option of one or the other.
Your "Over The Hills" rendition shows why we compress the hell out of our 12-strings for single notes. The strings simply lose too much kinetic energy during a pull-off. (:
That Sound ........The shit I could do with that ! Have a huge Twelve Seagull , at a gig pulled my electric cord was rapped around the Seagull on stand broke the Neck Clean OFF
John ... stop, STOP. Between the great sound this guitar is putting out & your playing/description/selling of it, would love to try this guitar. Not to mention the apparent small size. Have never really wanted or lusted after any 12 string - Ever. But this one... Wow I would continue using that little Mic you are using
Nothing new about the Breedlove truss system or scalloped bracing but still a guitar I'll be keeping an eye on, providing they don't ALL have mismatched tops -- wow, this isn't something Breedlove should be bragging about.
I have a couple of Breedloves ... like them a lot. I'm a little disappointed with the tone of your video ... very dark. BTW the bridge truss is not new to Breedlove at all. One of mine is a cedar top concert ... big fan of that tone.
There’s nothing not to like about this guitar…save one thing. I’m having a problem with paying $1,199 (the street retail price given on the Breedlove website) for a guitar built in China. It’s not a political or ethical issue for me. It’s one of economy. The price point puts the guitar in the lower end of the range of North American built acoustic guitars but from a manufacturing point of origin that’s typically offering similar instruments at half the price point. I can’t help but state that I’ve played and owned amazing Chinese manufactured 12 string acoustic guitars that I purchased new, in recent years, for $500-$600. I always try before I buy acoustic instruments. The only way I could justify the purchase of this guitar at $1,200 is if I were to go into a guitar shop and play this model and have it elicit the same kind of ecstatic emotional response that I experienced the first time I made love to a woman (save the involvement of any bodily fluid…yeah, I know…TMI). Unrealistic? No. As a real world example, I played and bought a mid ‘50s Gibson ES140T at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville about 20-25 years ago and had this kind of experience. That guitar cost me about $1,250, for the record. It was worth every penny to me. Breedlove needs to rethink what’s an acceptable profit margin for this model. I realize they’re not a charity and are a business. I also realize that someone in charge of marketing and sales made a bad call in making the decision to set the price point where it is when realistically they’d sell a lot more of this product by offering it at $999. Frankly it’s not worth $1,199. Now, I could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time) and discover my error after I play one; yet in the 41 years as a guitarist and after the hundred+ guitars of all types I’ve bought and either kept or sold, the aforementioned Gibson and and another guitar, with a story for another time, are the only ones that were music gear crack for me. Odds are this one will not be my number three.
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I ordered this guitar yesterday,
I'll be here Friday 10-6-23.
Can't Wait 😊
I'm taking a serous look at this 12 string. So how did it work out for you...meet your expectations? Anything you wish was different? Thanks, Greg.
@@dvanolya Thanks for your response. My Breedlove 12
is one of six guitars. It gives me a beautifully warm sound.
I'd most definitely buy it again.
All my very best to you and yours. Hope we speak again.
Breedlove is my favorite acoustic. I sadly gave away one a few years back because I was moving. I’ve regretted it. But happily I bought a new one. I’m as happy as a clam. My new one has solid myrtlewood back and sides and solid Oregon spruce top. No side soundhole. But they’re always pushing the bar. I love their playability and tone. The concert size is more favorable for shorter folks like me. I can’t put mine down since I got my new Breedlove a few months ago.
I have MORE than a feeling about this guitar!
Always have had great experiences with BREEDLOVE Guitars. Incredible sound and tone! Customer service is second to none. Can’t wait to add this 12 string model to the arsenal! Thank you JOHN!🙏🎸⭐️
Sounds magnificent!!
Breedlove is my first guitar. Atlas model. I'll keep her my entire life.
Am impressed with the body of tones from this small sized 12string 😎👍
John !!!! ...this was my fave demo of any acoustic this year!!! ....just amazing and I OWN a 12er and might have to buy this one asap !!! ....thanks for kicking ass 24/7 !!!
I just bought a 2006 Breedlove Atlas Fretless Acoustic Bass. Such an amazing sounding instrument and brand. Makes me feel like a better player.
I’ve owned a couple of BreedLoves all of them excellent guitars! I especially like the one with the cedar top! Never tried one of their twelve strings. It might be time. Thanks John nice over view!
Thanks John, great review as always.
Player and guitar 🎸 both sound AMAZING
Such a great 12 string...personally I'd yank the Fishman and install a Tonewood and just keep mic'ing it.
Bet it would RIP with a Baggs soundhole pickup in it. 🙂they need to come preinstalled with it or at least offer the option of one or the other.
I just installed an M80 in my Atlas jumbo 12. Yeah, it does.
The problem with that side hole I could really hear how bad I am.😂😂😂
😎👍
Yeah...but ya gotta admit, that hole sure makes it easier to get out the pick ya dropped in the sound hole 😉
Wishing these had a pickguard after watching this. I hit the top a lot too!
Your "Over The Hills" rendition shows why we compress the hell out of our 12-strings for single notes. The strings simply lose too much kinetic energy during a pull-off.
(:
That Sound ........The shit I could do with that ! Have a huge Twelve Seagull , at a gig pulled my electric cord was rapped around the Seagull on stand broke the Neck Clean OFF
John ... stop, STOP. Between the great sound this guitar is putting out & your playing/description/selling of it, would love to try this guitar. Not to mention the apparent small size. Have never really wanted or lusted after any 12 string - Ever. But this one... Wow
I would continue using that little Mic you are using
Sorry - don't use Telegram or any of the other ones
I wonder if the ported waist makes the box behave like an open-back speaker cab?
What happened to the Breedlove bridge?
Prob dumb question but I'm old & senile>>>what were those songs he was playing at the start?
What happened to myrtlewood???
Mic’d it was good the onboard pickup sounded thin.
It sounds phenomenal when not using the electronics. Then it got really glassy and wiry.
American made?
Nothing new about the Breedlove truss system or scalloped bracing but still a guitar I'll be keeping an eye on, providing they don't ALL have mismatched tops -- wow, this isn't something Breedlove should be bragging about.
I have a couple of Breedloves ... like them a lot. I'm a little disappointed with the tone of your video ... very dark. BTW the bridge truss is not new to Breedlove at all. One of mine is a cedar top concert ... big fan of that tone.
There’s nothing not to like about this guitar…save one thing. I’m having a problem with paying $1,199 (the street retail price given on the Breedlove website) for a guitar built in China. It’s not a political or ethical issue for me. It’s one of economy.
The price point puts the guitar in the lower end of the range of North American built acoustic guitars but from a manufacturing point of origin that’s typically offering similar instruments at half the price point. I can’t help but state that I’ve played and owned amazing Chinese manufactured 12 string acoustic guitars that I purchased new, in recent years, for $500-$600.
I always try before I buy acoustic instruments. The only way I could justify the purchase of this guitar at $1,200 is if I were to go into a guitar shop and play this model and have it elicit the same kind of ecstatic emotional response that I experienced the first time I made love to a woman (save the involvement of any bodily fluid…yeah, I know…TMI).
Unrealistic?
No. As a real world example, I played and bought a mid ‘50s Gibson ES140T at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville about 20-25 years ago and had this kind of experience. That guitar cost me about $1,250, for the record. It was worth every penny to me.
Breedlove needs to rethink what’s an acceptable profit margin for this model. I realize they’re not a charity and are a business. I also realize that someone in charge of marketing and sales made a bad call in making the decision to set the price point where it is when realistically they’d sell a lot more of this product by offering it at $999. Frankly it’s not worth $1,199.
Now, I could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time) and discover my error after I play one; yet in the 41 years as a guitarist and after the hundred+ guitars of all types I’ve bought and either kept or sold, the aforementioned Gibson and and another guitar, with a story for another time, are the only ones that were music gear crack for me. Odds are this one will not be my number three.
Organic? As opposed to what? Metallic guitars? Good god...
Sounds awesome but the pick sounds very ice picky and brittle.