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Miguel de Maria
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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: crack under jack (in reply to rombsix)
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Ole, Ramzi! I got the guitar today. First impressions were kind of meh, to be honest. The action is high, the trebles are soft, and it has a very boxy, mid-rangey sound when I play it in my normal way. By adjusting my playing style, it starts to sound pretty decent. Interestingly, it seems to sound quite good plugged in, better than my other Cordoba (FCWE). I am going to change the strings first and see how that changes it. Weirdly, the guitar does not come with golpeadors! Apparently that is standard. There is supposedly a flaw near the pre-amp, which accounts for the $300 discount, but I am not even sure I can see it.
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Date Sep. 23 2018 3:35:42
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Miguel de Maria
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RE: crack under jack (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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So I am liking it quite a lot after changing to my standard D'Addario Normal Tensions, getting the action lowered (both at saddle and nut) and the neck straightened. I brought in my old FCWE (old-style Gipsy Kings model) and the guitar tech measured it and just tried to make them play the same, and he succeeded. I have brought it to three gigs, and it has performed well. I do think it sounds better amplified than the FCWE, and I think it's unamplified sound is actually quite decent. So far, I think this is a really flexible gig guitar, perhaps the best on the market for my purposes. I ordered a golpeador from Cordoba and installed it yesterday--very carefully. Their instructions were to mist the golpeador with water while placing it. The job went well, except that a tiny bit of the blue masking tape got trapped under the plastic near the bridge. Arg! It's hardly visible, but I'm afraid of cleaning there too aggressively because I don't want to mess up the glue. Beyond that, there are some light bubbles, but maybe not too much? Now here's the weird thing: I played it today for a while, and found my golpes have already resulted in some divots in the plastic. !??! I am not an aggressive player, and I haven't made divots in any of my other guitars. I'm thinking this golpeador sucks. I guess it hardly matters for my gigs, which don't require much at all in the way of golpes, but it looks that if I practice a lot of flamenco on this guitar, there'll be a hole in the finish in no time!
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Date Oct. 6 2018 22:06:22
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