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Acoustic Guitar is a comprehensive resource for acoustic guitarists of all levels. Find lessons, music to play, gear reviews, artist interviews, podcasts, and more.
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic soundboard (the top of an acoustic guitar) to help transmit the strings energy into the air in order to produce its sound. The soundboard will add various tonal qualities due to its own mix of tonewoods and bracing, and the soundboard also has a strong effect on the loudness of the guitar.
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Wondering how we assembled our 2023 acoustic-guitars dream team? We took sales data, customer ratings, and personal experience; threw them in a blender; set it to “Pulverize,” and the list you see here is the result. We’ve grouped our best acoustic guitars into four price categories and sorted them by price, so you’re free to infinite-scroll until ...
Yamaha FS800 Concert Acoustic
A First Guitar That’ll Grow with You You’ll find Yamaha’s 800-series acoustics at the top of countless intro and beginner guitar lists, and for good reason. These guitars manage to be consistently well built, well voiced, and well set up at a shockingly good value. We chose the pinched-waist FS800 over its boomier cousin, the FG800 dreadnought, on account of its slinkier 25-inch scale length and wraparound concert body shape. These qualities give this the edge for any acoustic student or elec...
Gretsch G9500 Jim Dandy Parlor Acoustic
Cozy Tones to Go from This Rootsy Relic The G9500 Jim Dandy looks back to a time when acoustic players relied on small, portable guitars that traveled easily yet were capable of producing big sound to cut through a bandstand. Its comfortable parlor body means the Jim Dandy is always down for a campfire chorus or sofa singalong. Meanwhile, its easy-playing 12-fret design — that is, the neck joins the body at the 12th rather than the 14th fret — positions the bridge and soundhole where they can...
Epiphone Hummingbird Studio Dreadnought Acoustic-electric
Everything You Want in an Affordable Hummingbird The Gibson Hummingbird has helped propel the sound of pop, rock, and folk music in bold new directions since its creation. The iconic square-shouldered flat top has been seen in the arms of Keith Richards and Bob Dylan in the ’60s and Taylor Swift and Dave Grohl in the modern era. The Epiphone Hummingbird Studio (here in Sweetwater’s exclusive Trans Ebony finish) is everything you want in an affordable Hummingbird: it’s bold when picked, sweet...
Seagull Guitars S6 Original Dreadnought Acoustic
A Spacious Dreadnought with Some Tonewood Plot Twists Handcrafted Canadian goodness comes in many forms when it comes to Seagull Guitars. For our money, it’s hard to top the S6 Original. It’s a classic dreadnought that packs several twists. For starters, Seagull shakes up the time-honored dreadnought recipe by giving the S6 Original a solid cedar top on furniture-grade laminated wild cherry mated to a neck of silver leaf maple. This construction supplies a warm and lively t one that’s flatter...
Recording King RD-328 Tonewood Reserve Dreadnought Acoustic
All the Makings of an Heirloom Classic — on a Budget The competition for great-sounding acoustic guitars runs pretty stiff around Sweetwater HQ. So, the fact the RD-328 can compete with one of the reigning kings of the flat-top hall of fame for a fifth of the price? Well, color us flabbergasted. The RD-328 belongs to Recording King’s Tonewood Reserve collection. It’s built from hand-selected solid woods using familiar overseas production techniques to produce an acoustic that plays, records,...
Alvarez Masterworks MDR70ESB Dreadnought Acoustic-electric
A Big-sounding Dreadnought with Clarity to Spare The MDR70ESB is a full and punchy dreadnought that manages to retain its note clarity at every point in a song — from wistful fingerpicked intros to banged-out aggressive outros. The secret lies in a 12-fret design and forward-shifted FS6 “X” bracing. Together with its cured solid-woods construction, these enhancements give the MDR70ESB an ample, honest bass response and clean note separation. Factor in a real bone nut and saddle and a hand-hol...
Fender Acoustasonic Player Telecaster Acoustic-electric
Rethinking the Acoustic-electric As We Know It It’s the classic conundrum: Do you haul two guitars — an acoustic andan electric — to the wedding you’re playing next weekend? Or do you make one guitar work for most of the material? The Acoustasonic Player Telecaster answers the call by giving guitarists an electric-style magnetic pickup and a powerful acoustic-style undersaddle system in an all-in-one Tele package. Now it’s possible to whip out everything from Texas blues to T. Swift with the...
Yamaha FSX3 Red Label Concert Acoustic
A Pre-aged Concert That Would Make Granddad Smile The FSX3 takes cues from a series of red-labeled acoustic guitars manufactured in Japan between 1967 and 1971 under the Yamaha/Nippon Gakki name. These “red label” acoustics are widely accepted to be the start of Yamaha’s iconic FG line (from which the FS series was later derived). The Red Label FSX3 fuses modern innovations — a sleek Concert shape and cutting-edge Atmosfeel electronics — with old-world production techniques to create a best-o...
Gibson Acoustic G-45 Generation Collection Dreadnought Acoustic
An American-made ’45 for a New Generation of Player Gibson turned heads with the release of its Generation Collection of modern American-made acoustics. Most striking across the line is a Player Port “soundhole” installed in the shoulder of the guitar. This Player Port works almost like a personal monitor, directing sound to the player’s ear so they can hear the nuance of a performance similar to the way the audience hears it. We like the J-45–inspired G-45 (“G” for Generation Collection) for...
Taylor 324ce Blacktop LTD Grand Auditorium Acoustic-electric
Mahogany Rocker in a Black Satin Tux The 324ce Blacktop LTD is many things to many players. Whether it’s the deep, dark bloom of its artful mahogany construction or the “Urban Cowboy” aesthetic calling your name from the void, one thing’s for certain: this is one guitar that deserves its place on your bucket list. Apart from its Sweetwater-exclusive squid-ink finish, the Blacktop is a standout within the Taylor lineup. For starters, its body and neck are solid mahogany from stem to stern. Sec...
Ovation Adamas I GT Non-cutaway Acoustic-electric
A Stage Guitar That’s Made for Cranking Up Ovation produced some of the first “electric-acoustic” guitars to emerge in the burgeoning ’70s pop and folk acoustic scene. Unlike traditional acoustics, which tended to treat amplification as an afterthought, Ovations were built with amplification as a priority. Though Ovation has made some incredible strides since Charles Kaman’s first guitars hit the scene, models like the Adamas 1687GT-2 continue to bear a striking resemblance to their forebears...
Breedlove “Myrzilian” Custom Concert Acoustic
A First-ever Pairing of Myrtlewood and Brazilian Rosewood Breedlove partnered with Sweetwater to create a limited run of five exotic acoustics crafted with a never-before-seen tonewood combination. The affectionately named “Myrzilian” Custom Concert fuses hand-selected Puerta de IglesiaBrazilian rosewood with an exquisitely figured myrtlewood top. These woods are painstakingly tuned and treated until just the right balance of clarity and power is achieved. Does it live up to the hype? Let’s j...
Short History of the Acoustic Guitar
The invention of the modern steel-string acoustic guitar dates back to the early 19th century when a German-born American luthier, Christian Frederick Martin, designed a unique X-style bracing system to provide the reinforcement necessary to handle the extra tension created by metal strings. Before that, acoustic guitars (also known as Spanish guitars) were strung with cat-gut strings and were the direct predecessors of contemporary classical and nylon-string guitars. The Spanish guitar desig...
Choosing an Acoustic Guitar by Body Shape
Acoustic guitars come in numerous body shapes, ranging from small parlor-size guitars to larger dreadnoughts and jumbo-size guitars. The shape and size of an acoustic-guitar body significantly affect the tone and volume of an acoustic guitar. Acoustic guitars with smaller bodies have a midrange-forward sound, making them ideal for ensembles and recording applications. Large-bodied acoustic guitars are louder and deeper; because they fill so much sonic space, they are often the go-to for solo...
Selecting an Acoustic Guitar by Tonewood
“Tonewood” refers to any wood with pleasant tonal properties. For the most part, acoustic guitars are made from one or more of the many species of tonewoods available. Some of the most common tonewoods used for acoustic guitars are spruce, mahogany, cedar, maple, and rosewood. However, many acoustic-guitar manufacturers have turned to alternate tonewoods such as koa, ovangkol, bubinga, sapele, myrtlewood, and others. These alternate tonewoods add diversity to manufacturers’ lineups and can he...
So, what are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time to buy an acoustic guitar. In fact, there’s never a wrong time to buy an acoustic guitar! Shop acoustic guitars at Sweetwater or reach out to your Sales Engineer at (800) 222-4700to get started today!
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- Fender CD-60S All-Mahogany Acoustic Guitar. The best acoustic guitar for beginners. Specifications. Type: Dreadnought. Top: Solid Mahogany. Back and sides: Laminated Mahogany.
- Yamaha FG800. Could this be your ideal ‘second guitar’? Specifications. Bobdy: Solid Spruce Top, Nato/Mahogany Back & Sides. Neck: Mahogany. Fingerboard: Walnut fingerboard.
- Martin LX1E Little Martin. Hey, if it’s good enough for Ed Sheeran… Specifications. Body: Sitka Spruce Top, High Pressure Laminate Back & Sides. Neck: Rust Birch Laminate.
- Taylor GS Mini. Smaller body, big sound. This is the best acoustic guitar for home use. Specifications. Body: Solid Sitka Spruce, Sapele Back & Sides. Neck: Sapele.
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. [1]
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