Please help me decide.

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Gypsy Street

Posts: 11
Joined: Sep. 12 2006

Please help me decide.

This is a question for everybody to answer, each with his own opinion:

Which company or luthier makes the BEST flamenco guitar with the following criteria:

- Solid German Spruce Top
- Solid Spanish Cypress Back & Sides
- Full size (Madrid School)
- Cut Away (AAHH don't sneer)
- Lots of volume, bite, and harmonic overtones
- THIN lacquer or French Polish
- Value for money

Basically, I'm at a dead end with my research. Australia doesn't have much in the way of variety in guitar shops. At the moment I play a borrowed 1974 Conde Hermanos through a cheap condenser mic, and a variety of horrible cheap PAs.

I need a really good acoustic amp. Why? The PAs in the venues are aweful. Please advise. AER? or maybe Ashdown? or Fishman? The best tone. Please vote.

I need a pick up that sounds like a guitar, not a synth. Why? Because I'm tired of this microphone stand! Maybe an LR Baggs LB6 or I-Beam? I also heard the AKG C411 is good. Anyone use one?

Finally, I need a cut away. Why? Because I'm not Paco De Lucia and I can't do what he does, no matter how relaxed or focused I am. So there it is, I'm getting a cut away. I can't take a guitar that's worth half a house busking after the Saturday night gig, but the guitar of my dreams is not a semi-proffesional model either.

Please, tell me what YOU think

1) Guitar 2) Amp 3) Pickup.

Please help me decide, I have no real guitar shops here.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 12 2006 16:22:01

Ricardo

Posts: 14861
Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Please help me decide. (in reply to Gypsy Street)

Hermanos Sanchis Lopez makes a great flamenco guitar, and even one with a cutaway and fishman pro blend pick up (mic plus piezo). That is as good as it gets if you go direct. I use AKG c1000s, good high end response live for flamenco accomp, and the mic is only $150. But for loud applications, any guitar with the Fishman is better, and no mic stands.

Found the guitar for you:

https://ssl.kundenserver.de/s92526103.einsundeinsshop.de/sess/utn;jsessionid=1545071d306eb1f/shopdata/0010_English/0020_Flamenco+Guitars/0020_Ricardo+Sanchis+Carpio/product_details.shopscript?article=0060_Hermanos%2BSanchis%2BLopez%2B-%2BCutaway%2Bwith%2BFishman%2BProBlend%2B%3D28GITRSC2F1CF%3D29

I dont' recomend you buy from Ole-flamenco. Try www.lafalseta.com

Ricardo

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 12 2006 20:54:42

Posts: 31
Joined: Jul. 17 2006

RE: Please help me decide. (in reply to Gypsy Street)

Yeap... I don't recommend you buy from ole-flamenco.com either

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 13 2006 18:43:52

Kev

Posts: 99
Joined: Aug. 31 2006
From: New Zealand

RE: Please help me decide. (in reply to Gypsy Street)

Try this link...
http://www.elflamencovive.es/instrumentostodoficha.asp?refe=13359

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 13 2006 22:18:32

bernd

Posts: 680
Joined: Feb. 15 2004

RE: Please help me decide. (in reply to Gypsy Street)

The best pick up for guitar, especially for flamenco, is the Carlos pick up by Carlos Juan. It is also used by Vicente Amigo.

Look here and contact carlos: www.american-guitar-center.de

Regarding the guitar I can tell you there is no best guitar and the Sanchís López comes with nitro cellulose finish. But you can be sure they make good guitars in sound to the madrid school (although I prefer the school of Granada, don´t like that hard trebles). Powerful instruments coming from Madrid e.g. are made by Pedro de Miguel, Vicente Carillo and specially Felíz Manzanero. The last one uses woods of 25 years of age, but that really costs a proud amount.

Saludos
Bernd

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Sep. 14 2006 10:01:58