What is next after Dreadnaught

Haugu

Hi, 

I purchased Martin D16-E Dreadnaught in 2020. Considered myself as intermediate player to learn all style of music. 

Wonder what body size for second acoustic   guitar collection. Would it OM or OOO be good guitar after Dreadnaught?   Or parlour size.

I like GPC shape but it might be similar sound/tone as my Dreadnaught.  I am not sure.

Appreciate if can hear some advices from you all.  Thanks

brucegill

Personally I’d go small, like a parlour, 0 or 00, maybe a 12 fret too…. Depends on what you like to play though I guess 

Mellish

What genre would you primarily use the new guitar for? Pop, rock, folk, country? It'll give us some idea what to suggest. Do you want something a little different or quite a bit different?  

BigPaulie

I'd get another dread in a different wood combination.
If you can comfortably play a dread, why go smaller?

Tannin

Note first that adding a second guitar is vey, very expensive. You can safely own one guitar for many years, but once you add a second, there is no good reason not to add a third. And a fourth. And before you know where you are, you're living in a cave full of old guitars eating beans and picking the fleas out of your underwear.

Haugu

brucegill said:

Personally I’d go small, like a parlour, 0 or 00, maybe a 12 fret too…. Depends on what you like to play though I guess 

Thanks for the advice.  I really gotto think what style I will focus in the next 1 or 2 years.   most probably blues in my mind

Haugu

BigPaulie said:

I'd get another dread in a different wood combination.
If you can comfortably play a dread, why go smaller?

Most probably blues.  this is a good advice, I will need to research more on the body size then .

Haugu

BigPaulie said:

I'd get another dread in a different wood combination.
If you can comfortably play a dread, why go smaller?

Interesting advice to go for other wood combination,  I have never thought of this.        perhaps go for traditional dread with standard depth.  my D-16E is same depth as OOO/OM

Haugu

Tannin said:

Note first that adding a second guitar is vey, very expensive. You can safely own one guitar for many years, but once you add a second, there is no good reason not to add a third. And a fourth. And before you know where you are, you're living in a cave full of old guitars eating beans and picking the fleas out of your underwear.

   haha...  I thought there will always second, third, forth and next...          Yeah, my wife might stop talking to me for a week if I got the expensive second guitar.   and second guitar need a lots of thought. 

Kilgore

Haugu said:

brucegill said:

Personally I’d go small, like a parlour, 0 or 00, maybe a 12 fret too…. Depends on what you like to play though I guess 

Thanks for the advice.  I really gotto think what style I will focus in the next 1 or 2 years.   most probably blues in my mind

00 or 12 fret parlour would be my preferred options. 

Mellish

A Martin Streetmaster 000 15M would be a good choice for blues. It depends what your budget is, though  

danishbacon

Lowden S size

Tannin

The classic, almost stereotyped, blues guitars are:

• Martin 000-18. Spruce top, mahogany back, short scale, small body, amazing bass response, character to burn. There are many similar models, from Martin themselves (CEO-7 is a corker if you can stand the ugly black sunburst), and from a host of other makers (my single-luthier Mineur in spruce and tiger myrtle scratches my OM-18 itch pretty nicely).

• Gibson L-series: small body guitars with a nasty, boxy characteristic bluesy sound. There are heaps of broadly similar alternatives, all have their fans. I rather think that the Guild M-40 is the pick of them. 

But the reality is that you can play blues on anything. Seriously - any guitar makes a good blues guitar, and any good guitar makes a great blues guitar. I mostly play my bluesy stuff on one of my "blues guitars" (the Guild, the Mineur, or sometimes the Cole Clark Angel) but every now and then I happen to play blues-flavoured things on the theoretically unsuitable Messiah - a classic sweet-voiced spruce and rosewood guitar, rich and plummy-voiced a bit like a Taylor. And what happens? It sounds great. Sometimes I play blues-flavoured stuff on my gigantic Tacoma baritone. That works great too.  If I had a ukulele that would sound  ....well, it would sound like crap. There are limits. But in general, they all work.

boogieman

Personally I’d try a few 000 sizes and see if it’s something you like. They’re a very different beast to a dreadnaught but don’t assume they lack volume or projection. You won’t get as much ooomph in the bass but the trade off is a more balanced guitar across the strings. I like mahogany for the back and sides, it really adds some great warmth. 

GoFish

The next big step after dreadnaughts are probably battlecruisers.

darthed1981

GoFish said:

The next big step after dreadnaughts are probably battlecruisers.

Damn beat me to it!!

ToneControl

A Jumbo, lovely big sound but a little different to a dread, and better for fingerpicking

bertie

Most people start with Dreads,  simply cos they're much easier to come by - but they're not "the pinnacle"  they're just another option  - there is no "right guitar"  just what you feel best with.

Personally Id go smaller,  or at least give it a go  -  a good / well built "slightly" smaller guitar (OM) you wont notice much loss of tone, but will have different dynamics - you may find it more comfortable,  you might not.

Drop down further to 00 / parlor and with shorter scales and 12 fret joins -  they all provide different playing palettes 

Ive got 3 (and had 5) different sizes of acoustics, and they all play/sound/respond differently  and one isnt worse or better than the other.  ( as does the wood they're made from) 

You "have" to try different models to find the one that suits,  much as trying LPs Strats Teles  "pointy things"  with electrics  -  and it can take years  - but thats all the fun   

TheMadMick

If you're after a parlour, I've a lovely Auden Emily Rose up for grabs. I love the tone but I can't get on with the lack if fretboard real estate on a 12 fret. I simply love 14 fret cutaways. Also I need to raise cash for an Avalon due very soon, so I'm open to offers.

Cryptid

A Dread One?

bertie

Cryptid said:

A Dread One?

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