it's always a really good day when we get to introduce a new guitar to the world and it's an
even better day when that particular guitar is a Taylor so as you can imagine we're having a pretty
good day today in this video we're going to be talking about the brand new Taylor ad27e flame top
Hello I am Vini from guitar guitar and today we are going to be talking about the a27e flametop
but before we go too much more into detail about the guitar it's probably just worth mentioning
that in this video of course i'm going to be talking about the guitar now we are aware that for
some people they just want to hear what a guitar sounds like and then maybe hear a little bit more
about it afterwards so if you're one of those people and you just want to hear guitar playing
then there is a playlist in the description below you can click through that you can hear all of the
sound bites that we've recorded just completely uninterrupted and you can get an idea and feel for
what the guitar sounds like those sound bites are also going to be in this video as well so
if you're happy to hear me talk about the guitar too then feel free to stick around so with all of
that out of the way let's talk about this brand new guitar it is the taylor american dream 27e
or ad27e flametop now taylor of course are one of our most favorite brands if you have ever
watched any other videos on this channel where we talk about tailors you probably already know that
taylor are an amazing acoustic guitar manufacturer probably one of the best in the world one of the
biggest operations in the world they have got so many guitars to choose from and we just love what
they do and we love what they are all about one of the best things about taylor guitars
is that they always have a guitar for every single person one of their big tag lines is find your fit
taylor have got a vast selection of body shapes words finishes looks fills everything
there are so many different guitars to choose from so as i say there's always something
for every player of course sometimes when you are spoilt for choice it can get a little bit
confusing so taylor also keep their line pretty simple almost all of taylor's guitar models
are named after three numbers and maybe some very easy to understand letters but let's talk
a little bit more about all of those details so the american dream series what's it all about
the american dream series first launched a couple of years ago basically taylor wanted
to bring a warmer richer sound to their product line taylor's generally speaking have got kind of
like a more modern feel as far as acoustics go and they wanted to do something that was more akin to
some of their more vintage classic counterparts of course with american being in the name they
are also american built but taylor have always aimed to keep the american dream series in a
somewhat accessible range for an american-built guitar of course it's not going to be quite as
budget-friendly as some of the other guitars in taylor's range which are not built in america
but as far as american guitars go this one is pretty accessible on a slightly lower budget
all of the american dream guitars are all solid which is pretty important to note
and it's also probably worth mentioning that this is not the first ad27e to exist so when the
american dream range pretty much first launched there was already an ad27e and that's like a
mahogany top sapili back and sides kind of thing the ad27e flametop is completely different and now
let's talk about that two in the middle the 27 e so two as i already mentioned stands for hardwood
on the older ad27es which do still exist they use mahogany on this particular model
as you can probably guess from the fact that it has a flamey top this guitar is made of all maple
and for some people that maybe know a little bit about tone woods some alarm bells might be
ringing there because generally speaking maple is a very bright almost harsh wood and when guitar
manufacturers use maple on their acoustic guitars a lot of the time they might use it on like their
back and sides on a really really big body shape that has that bass response and then they
would level it out with a different top that's because as i say maple being a very bright wood
if everything was maple generally you would expect the guitar to just not have a lot of range tonally
be a very sort of tinny bright guitar so when we first heard about these we were a little
bit taken back thinking wow okay all may pull acoustic guitar from taylor let's see how this
goes but we have all been so pleasantly surprised by this guitar it really did just subvert all of
our expectations these guitars have got so much tone and depth across the frequency spectrum all
the way from the low end to the high end it is not just a bright boxy sound which really
really impressed us as i've already said maple you just don't expect that and one of the reasons for
that which i think is quite interesting and worth noting is that these guitars when they ship come
with nickel strings on them which is very unusual for an acoustic guitar normally you find nickel
strings on an electric guitar and you have some kind of bronze alloy thing on an acoustic yeah
nickel strings on these apparently that helps add to the tone and character of the guitar
in a way that responds with the maple makes it sound really nice and deep and let's
talk a little bit more about the sound of the guitar because i think that's really important
this guitar has a really rich bottom end and a really distinct high end
and what you generally find is this is a really good acoustic guitar if you're playing like a lot
of rhythm on your acoustics so one of the things that we really found is that if you were to play
this guitar and had someone else playing some more sort of like lead acoustic if that's a thing
on top of it this guitar sits really nicely underneath the other guitar in the mix and
that's because it's not battling in the same frequency areas and it gives everything else
a lot of room to breathe so if you're like a singer-songwriter and you know you're going to
be singing over the guitar all the time or you play with other guitarists and you don't want to
overshadow their performances this guitar is going to be really really good for that i've
spoken about the body word but that isn't the only thing that contributes to the sound of the guitar
let's move on to that last number in the model number the seven so the seven stands for grand
pacific and this again is a body shape that taylor have only really had in their line for the last
few years it's one of the most recent ones that they've launched grand pacific is basically a
sloped shoulder dreadnought to keep it brief basically a dreadnought is pretty much one
of the most classic acoustic guitar body shapes for a very good reason it has lots of projection
but it also has a very good balanced sound however a lot of people find with what we call square
shoulder dreadnoughts i might have just made that up but i'm pretty sure that's the uh that's the
correct terminology a lot of people find those can be quite big and uncomfortable whereas a
sloped shoulder dreadnor i don't know it just it feels slightly different in your hand somehow they
just feel a little bit smaller than your regular dreadnought and they just feel really really
comfortable and such a familiar shape and such an iconic shape made famous by so many players
and this guitar does not disappoint on that front of course the e stands for the fact that it has
electronics so you can plug this guitar in you can perform live with it it has the famous taylor es2
expression system built into it so you're going to get a really great plugged in acoustic sound which
represents your body words very well and finally let's talk about the flame top this is obviously
one of the biggest benefits of having an all maple guitar it means that you can also have a very cool
figured flame maple top and it just looks amazing it's not very often you get to see an acoustic
guitar with a genuine flame maple top normally that sort of thing is reserved for like your les
pauls this just looks incredible and it's such a striking guitar on top of all of the great
sound that you're going to get out of this guitar you're also going to turn some heads we won't go
too in detail about all of the specs if you want to see those then i would recommend checking our
product page for these guitars but one thing that is worth mentioning is that these are built with
taylor's v-class bracing systems so you're going to get all of the sustain and richness that you
would expect from tailors nowadays and of course it also comes with taylor's error case gig bag
which is an amazing gig bag i've said this a few times on our channel but i genuinely feel
like i would rather have one of these cases than a hard case for my acoustic guitar it
just feels so good it's nice and padded going to protect your guitar so so well and it's also not
going to be a pain to carry so great stuff comes with that gig bag couldn't recommend it enough
so
if you are interested by the taylor ad27e flame top then i highly recommend coming
into a guitar guitar and trying one out they are fantastic guitars for so many different players
i really think it's just gonna put a whole new perspective on guitar playing for a lot of people
when you take into account that these guitars are made with a wood that generally people would just
write off and just say no that's that's no good that's not going to work and the fact that taylor
just got such a good sound out of it it's worth trying out just for that fact alone but of course
these are amazingly made guitars they are such good quality and they just feel and sound so good
so yeah cannot understate how much you should just come and see what these are all about if you have
any more questions about this guitar you'd like answered please do feel free to get in contact
with us whether that be in the comments below it could be on one of the chat boxes
on our website we have got lots and lots of very experienced staff who all love guitars
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