What's your favourite acoustic guitar tone on record?

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We all like a bit of acoustic guitar don't we? What's your favourite acoustic tone on record?

I like these:

The Who - Overture, the end acoustic section
The Who - Going Mobile

I know Pete Townsend used the late 60s Gibson J-200 with the tune-o-matic tone robbing adjustable bridge but I still like the tone!




John Williams - Cavatina. A frustratingly quiet recording but lovely tone



Bauhaus - The Passion Of Lovers (Live) A (Washburn?) 12 string plugged into a HH amp and played loud and ragged. Frustratingly this song isn't on the 'Press The Eject...' live album featuring songs from the same gig



Any my absolute favourite of all...

Eric Roche - With These Hands played on his Benjamin OM model:



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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24793
    Great idea for a thread....

    John Martyn - Solid Air:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UikPQOaJpfU
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13929
    edited March 2018
    Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Ready My Mind, with his Martin D28 (or D18?)



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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13929
    edited March 2018
    Joni Mitchell - Big yellow Taxi on her Martin D28:



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  • FuengiFuengi Frets: 2849
    I really like the acoustic on Elton John's mid 70s records, especially Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy. I think Davey Johnstone played all the guitar parts on that album.
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13929
    Fuengi said:
    I really like the acoustic on Elton John's mid 70s records, especially Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy. I think Davey Johnstone played all the guitar parts on that album.
    Agreed, I just love the sound of the mid 70s full stop, everything sounds so warm, drums, bass, elec guitars, vocals, pianos...


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  • KDSKDS Frets: 220
    John Denver: Rocky Mountain High
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71960
    Neil Young on almost anything.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • kt66kt66 Frets: 315
    Nick Drake and his Martin, yes it was a Martin.
    Peter Buck on his Guild F412 all over 80s REM 

    Whilst a bit over compressed I love the Teenage Fanclub acoustic sounds on Grand Prix 

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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13929
    edited March 2018
    ICBM said:
    Neil Young on almost anything.
    What you mean like this stunning rendition of Mr Soul?

    Oh look it's a D28...



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  • LewyLewy Frets: 4126
    Clarence White on any of the Kentucky Colonels records.
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7732
    edited March 2018

    Dave Rawlings - Epiphone Olympic & Sony C37
    Gillian - J45 & Neumann m582



    Ray Lamontagne - D35 and a Neumann U67
     

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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8534
    Great shout on The Who Overture - one of my all time fav acoustic guitar thingys.

    As for tone, I love Be. Howard zen of an Affair - you can’t hear the top light up each time he hits those harmonics.

    https://youtu.be/3_ojOSHowRA

    Also love the understated organic acoustic sound that Rick Ruben gets on Neil Diamonds 12 Songs album.
    This is a great example.

    https://youtu.be/cQRLuA-EUFg
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  • BigLicks67BigLicks67 Frets: 766
    Neil Young on a vintage D28 at the end of the Jonathan Demme film "Heart of Gold" made me want to get a D28.

    The Acoustic sound on Gillian Welch's "Harrow and the Harvest" (J50 & Epi)

    Bert Jansch on the Black Swan album (Yamaha)



    and best of all Pierre Bensusan on the Intuite album (Lowden)



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  • equalsqlequalsql Frets: 6084
    Martin Simpson always seems to nail such a wonderful tone in his recordings.




    (pronounced: equal-sequel)   "I suffered for my art.. now it's your turn"
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  • menamestommenamestom Frets: 4641

    Generally, a Martin Dread, strung heavy.  Single mic into a slightly on the verge of overloading analog desk.

    Much as I appreciate the more modern lighter built 'breathy' acoustics, miced up for a more sensitive, harmonically complex sound, I do like the more old school fundamental weight of a Martin. 
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71960
    Neil Young on a vintage D28 at the end of the Jonathan Demme film "Heart of Gold" made me want to get a D28.
    Me too, but oddly I've never found one that really 'did it' for me - but my Gibson Dove did. It's not just being behind it when I play either, I've recorded with it and it still sounds like the sound in my head.

    To be completely perverse, I also love Lloyd Cole's 90s acoustic sounds on albums like Bad Vibes and Love Story, and those are his Taylors. It's not a sound that works as well for me when I play them, either.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • Agree with the shouts for John Martyn and Nick Drake wholeheartedly.

    Those opening chords of Bigmouth Strikes Again, though. Marr is God.
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  • BigLicks67BigLicks67 Frets: 766
    ICBM said:
    Neil Young on a vintage D28 at the end of the Jonathan Demme film "Heart of Gold" made me want to get a D28.
    Me too, but oddly I've never found one that really 'did it' for me - but my Gibson Dove did. It's not just being behind it when I play either, I've recorded with it and it still sounds like the sound in my head.


    Well, I suppose it's not that surprising, you've got the body size, the scale length and I'd imagine the maple B&S gives you good note separation.
    I need to play a good Dove, the only I've played in recent memory had strings on it that Moses must have put on.
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9794
    ICBM said:
    Neil Young on almost anything acoustic
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9794
    James Taylor on most of his stuff
    Wizz Jones
    Isaac Guillory
    Jonathan Kelly on Twice Around the Houses
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