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Taylor 414ce
Lefebvre Nicolas Lefebvre Nicolas

«  Big disappointment »

Published on 09/26/12 at 13:00
I will not go into the features that have already been mentioned but dwell on the achievement.

The selected wood is of good quality and the precise mechanical and stable. Cepandant Specifications manufacturing seems strange to me. First observation: the guitar is heavy, which is for me an acoustic mass rédibitoire on quality. The wood is not dry enough, or the thickness of the wood into the box is small, or internal bracing is enormous. Obviously there is a bit of everything ...
Second observation: the finish is far from exemplary. While the varnish satin-the body is nice and well applied, but the rest is poor. Nets jointent body does not properly as well as all of the key, the hoop is very average and the frets are ... plastic! The handle is not set and the guitar very badly prepared (adjusting frets, fret finishing ...)

UTILIZATION

The handle is comfortable with a flat profile and a width at nut average. Cepandant I just wear long sleeves or profile c v at radius Martin gave way more enjoyable and less tiring. But this is very subjective (practiced styles, size of hands ...).
By-cutaway also very nice and gives the guitar-face access to high notes is very good.
The ergonomics is particularly related to the weight of the guitar is quite unpleasant.

SOUNDS

The guitar is archi-rigid timber body is very thick, the internal bracing is a real structure and it is likely that drying was not done correctly. Therefore the soundboard is a big board that offers no flexibility. The sound is balanced but aggressive unbearable. The varnish adds more the aftertaste clean plastic polyester. This is equivalent to the Takamine midrange.
The expression system is particularly ...! A huge imbalance between the strings threaded and which are not (irrecoverable equalize with) a stamp near a microphone rose to 30 euros. Takamine there is much better!

OVERALL OPINION

A guitar that really is not worth the price at all levels.
It is very far away, light years, the Taylor 80 and 90 years, this is the label that we pay here and not the product.
Taylor is destroying everything that made its prestige, the rolls of electro acoustics.
Martin, Adamas, Collings, Santz Cruz, Lakewood and our craftsmen are very much far better at this price.