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I bought a new Jay Turser electric resonator several months ago. I know this brand comes up from time to time and there's not a lot of reviews on these. So this is just some of my opinions on it.
I just wanted something that was inexpensive, would be devoted to open tuning, was a resonator and have a pickup. I have several "nice" guitars and didn't see any reason to spend a lot of money on something I wasn't going to play very often.
The guitar is basically on the cheap side. The workmanship is fine, the finish is very nice. The tone is very resonator-like (metalic, no bottom, etc.) - I personnally love the sound of this thing. I usually play slide on it. The neck feels very comfortable - no troublesome frets issues or anything.
The resonator does have a slight buzz that you hear when you just play it accoustically - (remember, this one is a "solid body" with the big resonator in it)
The resonator works very good at amplifying, so I hardly ever even plug it in an amp when I practice! It's about as loud as a classical guitar without being plugged into anything.
It has a single coil at the neck and a piezo inside somewhere. The single coil has a real nice full, even sound, the piezo is rather screechy.
Here's the downside on this thing - the volume control is more like an on/off switch. You get a very narrow range of volume control (basically full volume) or nothing. There's a "blend" knob that cuts out all the time if you're not carefull - but the concept is cool and really lets you fine tune the sound (... until it cuts out).
I'm planning on changing out the controls at some point.
I paid about $200 on ebay for it. I highly recommend this thing to anybody that needs a cheap-o, "single purpose" guitar for recording or just mess'n around.
I do not believe this would hold up very well under professional conditions.
I just wanted something that was inexpensive, would be devoted to open tuning, was a resonator and have a pickup. I have several "nice" guitars and didn't see any reason to spend a lot of money on something I wasn't going to play very often.
The guitar is basically on the cheap side. The workmanship is fine, the finish is very nice. The tone is very resonator-like (metalic, no bottom, etc.) - I personnally love the sound of this thing. I usually play slide on it. The neck feels very comfortable - no troublesome frets issues or anything.
The resonator does have a slight buzz that you hear when you just play it accoustically - (remember, this one is a "solid body" with the big resonator in it)
The resonator works very good at amplifying, so I hardly ever even plug it in an amp when I practice! It's about as loud as a classical guitar without being plugged into anything.
It has a single coil at the neck and a piezo inside somewhere. The single coil has a real nice full, even sound, the piezo is rather screechy.
Here's the downside on this thing - the volume control is more like an on/off switch. You get a very narrow range of volume control (basically full volume) or nothing. There's a "blend" knob that cuts out all the time if you're not carefull - but the concept is cool and really lets you fine tune the sound (... until it cuts out).
I'm planning on changing out the controls at some point.
I paid about $200 on ebay for it. I highly recommend this thing to anybody that needs a cheap-o, "single purpose" guitar for recording or just mess'n around.
I do not believe this would hold up very well under professional conditions.
