2008 Martin D28 - horrible resonances

[Monkey Allen]

1) Yeah that's nice but I have a million things on my plate. So don't hold your breath.
2) Nobody except me has played the guitar or heard it in real time, therefore any advice in the thread is handicapped and limited by that. This goes without saying and I would have thought been well understood. Conflicting theories yes...my own theories have changed many times. Advice offered has been varied and ranging from this to that. I'm not dismissing any of it. I'm taking it all on board. From time to time I disagree with some of you. Probably because you can't touch, play or hear the guitar properly. But I can and I know what's what. If you want to pontificate from your armchair, without my guitar in your hands then of course you can. It's just an internet forum thread. We're not launching nuclear missiles or troubleshooting molecular biological contagions here. If you get my drift.
3) Just a joke 60's Guy
4) If you must keep harping on and on please do. But I'll be staying out of it. I'll reply when the guitar is fixed.

Stay tuned!

 

[60's guy]

Yeah that's nice I'll reply when the guitar is fixed.

By all means, take another 6 to 12 months to get it fixed.

 

[Mick Doobie]

a) No, I wouldn't imagine people would care too much.

Nah, I think you're wrong there, friend. People do care. Rumor has it there is interest among folks within these pages in the sound(s) that eminate from wooden boxes overlayed with tensioned strings. People love a mystery. They also love resolution, even if the resolution is subjective, all in one's head. I have tinnitus, but I'm never going to convince someone else to hear what I hear. At times it has been so loud, a sudden ring, there's no way!...I had to ask, "did you hear that?!". Surely, but no.

Just as an experiment, it probably means nothing....if you can find the time...

Finger a C chord, with your left hand, of course. With your right hand, ring finger(finger next to your little finger), pluck the string as you deaden the note with your index finger(pointing finger). Start any string you would like, perhaps beginning with the B string, then G, etc & so forth. Move up the neck fret by fret. Using the mystery problem sound you're hearing as a reference, see if you can identify or replicate that sound by doing as stated above. Of course some frets you should simply get a *thunk* dead sound, others you will get a harmonic.

Honestly I'm not sure why I suggest doing this, not entirely, but it would pretty simple and take not a lot of time & energy. An alternative, have you tried a stern talking to, perhaps a strongly worded of letter of reprimand?

 

[Mick Doobie]

Any progress, luck?

I'm not a luthier. I change strings, most everything else I prefer to trust it in someone elses hands. That said....

I think what I was getting at: If you do that plucking/dampening with the right hand thing I mentioned, perhaps, even if you're not detecting an obvious fret buzz, perhaps if a string is while vibrating barely touching on a fret it may be producing a harmonic tone. Probably a long shot, but who knows. I think from what you're saying the annoying sound you're hearing is most audible when playing a C, or Am, played with the left hand. Thus the necessity to do both the plucking & dampening with the same hand, the right hand. I know, sounds crazy, maybe worth a consideration?

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I read through some of your thread; until it started getting speculative, IMO.

So you wants to know whether you D-28 (a fine guitar) has issues, right?

I’ve played a few D-28s an when shopping 2003-ish, bought a Taylor 414 CE at GC . I liked the strumming equalization, low end and tone over D-28 an Guilds.

This is in a non-microphone situation and what I’d project up to my ears from the soundhole to my ears is way different than 90 degrees straight outward from the soundhole.
Pieces of wood will resonate differently, sane manufacturer, same tree, same day and assembly line. Pieces of wood just don’t know any better.

Absolute BEST acoustic guitar I’ve Eve heard/played in my entire career as a guitarist is a Martin D-35 anniversary that my close bud owns, player but never really a regular band guy.

I’ve played that instrument three times and it is the most beautifully- perfect acoustic guitar I’ve ever heard and played in my life. He bought it blindly from GC from a rack.

If I bought the same model snd year would it sound the same? Probably not.

Does my Taylor sound the same as as the one I fell in love with at Mars Music (When they were still open)? It does not.
It’s till a fine guitar, but not every Taylor or Martin is going to sound similar, even same pieces of wood, same production line, same day.

 

[Mick Doobie]

If I have an opinion, i'm leaning towards what Steen was saying earlier in the thread. We've all been there, drums sitting idle, someone's say plucking on a bass. At some point the snare goes nuts active. That Martin resonates at certain frequencies. The only remedy I would think is some sort of dampening, which defeats the purpose/point. Unfortunately it's a sound that once you hear it you can't unhear it. Heck, to some it might be a positive feature. Put it the neutral hands of someone, a luthier you trust. If it checks out....the most important thing, when all else fails, keep picking them guitars!