Excellent comparison. Seems to me that one of each should be owned and played for different repertoire. Now I personally think for the upper register,spruce steals the show in terms of clarity and and openness. And as mentioned, bass region, I love the cedar. I reiterate - PLAY BOTH! 😂

Absolutely beautifully interpreted.

Awesome playing! I aspire to be able to play like you! Thank you for the wonderful comparison.

Beautiful touching, Both guitars sounds great, they are diferent. Bravo Kim!

Love the shape of the hand after years of playing

Spruce is so sweet sounding ❤️

That spruce is a gem. 💕

Cedar by FAR !! Thank you.

Spruce is the sound I like. If performing you can amplify it maybe as the cedar was louder for some reason.

Each model produce thypical sound, spurs with a clear treeble, cedar with a deep bass. Greeting from Toraja, Indonesia.

Each one affords an advantage.. I would use a spruce for large venues and when I am playing with other musicians. This will the guitar to cut through the mid range and be heard better without the tricky volume setting getting too raunchy. Cedar for small venues and solo guitar

i find here the cedar guitar briliant and smooth

Spruce for me. Its tone is clearer, brighter, more defined. Cedar sounds kinda muffled. But in the end it's the musician that shapes the tone, not the instrument.

@c1arkj

4 жыл бұрын

exactly, cedar can be played to sound more bright as well. Especially depends on the way the player plucks the strings.

Geralmente prefiro ouvir o Cedro, mas nesse caso achei mais bonito o som do Spruce, talvez a construção tradicional do tampo em cedro seja mais natural e agrade mais.

Spruce is like the summer breeze while cedar is like the autumn leaves!

I will take both

Spruce for me!

Spruce sounds best. I would like to have a third guitar thrown into the mix: Spruce double top.

I like both. End of story, except that I only have a Cedar guitar but am ordering a Spruce tomorrow... Interesting to note that John Williams plays cedar and Julian Bream, Spuce. Listen to their duets.. They work great together.. I also play electric and have a Stratocaster but I also have a Les Paul. I use and enjoy both in different situations... I'll do much the same when I get the Spruce classical in conjuction with the Cedar. Nuff said...

Owning a spruce and cedar top guitars I've found that cedar is far more forgiving . Most string brands sound great . Cedar only a few .

Her tone is wonderfully warm. Does she have nails or is she playing without?

The solid spruce top has a more bright sound, and more depth. I like the spruce much better.

Psychological or not, I found cedar very different and much more interesting to my taste. Love the bass and there's a also a vivid difference on high frequencies. Cedar is usually recognized for its accent on the bass but, in this case, it seems the double top brought the treble alive too. On the criticism about the youtube audio, of course it's not the same to the live sound, but it's perfectly possible to hear the difference. Above all considerations about the soundboard, the interpreter is outstanding. All my respect and congratulations. She plays like an angel.

@nicholastotoro7721

2 жыл бұрын

The highs seem to just hug the note, if that makes sense. They push it out with the spruce top. I hear exactly what you do, I think. I normally don't care for the "fuzzy" nature of cedar, but the double-top really gives it more dynamics and presence.

What strings that are on these guitars?

Hi, can you please let me know the model of the cedar top guitar?

@LuthierDJP

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff Booker -The cedar double-top is a standard model, with optional Bolivian rosewood back/sides.

is this cedar vs spruce or double top vs single top ? cross comparisons cant have too many differences

Cedar double top sound more sad i like it

The intonation, I'm puzzled by this, both Guitars have great clarity, Cedar has a beautiful warm sound, almost sombre ( in a good way)

Cedar hands down

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The way I hear it is that the double top has the most beautiful tone and clarity at the higher register and, of course, throughout. That's not to say that the cedar is not good, it is, but......

@MattyUkulele

4 жыл бұрын

The cedar is the double top...

@dongee6351

4 жыл бұрын

@@MattyUkulele yes, my mistake. My comments and preference refer to the cedar double top. Have named incorrectly. Let's hope that I don't get chosen for jury duty.

Perhaps enough time with either, and the player could push the instrument one way or another. Generally as has been said, spruce is cleaner and clearer, cedar warmer and fuller. Ultimately depending on the music you may want either of these qualities.

First, a phenomenal musician, wow! What is a "double top"? Also, how did you make the cedar top one sound so brilliant? What kind of strings are you using? Also, is it apropos to use a classical guitar to sing and play pop and folk music. I'm trying to find musicians here on KZread that do. I have arthritis so nylon string is the way I have to go and really like nylon string anyways. Some say I play like a classical guitarist when I sing, yet I don't like strumming and always finger pick, so maybe that's why. My cedar top classical guitar, a Takamine No.10 with a cedar top from 1986 is still coming in the mail. Has anyone heard of those? I bought it because of the name, history, materials... but feel somehow it's going to be beautiful.

Seems the cedar has a stronger, faster attack; immediate; in-your--face. Kinda like it better.

There’s certainly something very special with both, but I lean towards the spruce. Nice hearing a guitarist play with flesh rather than nails. It’s a rarity.

I absolutely like the spruce better. It sounds bell like. The cedar sounds slightly tinny to me.

I prefer the look of cedar.

Remember your hearing this on KZread. The Cedar is awesome but doesn't come through KZread d/t compression. CEDAR!

cedar is definitely louder, but spruce is prettier, a more seasoned sound.

Le jeu est magnifique et le choix des bois devient secondaire. La maîtrise de l'instrument gomme les différences qualitatives.

Would have been more interesting if they'd both been either spruce or cedar.

The solid-top Spruce sounds better... in my humble opinion. When she plays the other one, the notes, for some reason, sound distorted.

Why is it called a Double-top ?

@RoneiRamos

5 жыл бұрын

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Cedar or Spruce, coffee or tea... Very personal and subjective... Cedar lover will prefer cedar, vice versa.. In overall it is A nice guitar.

@Asmr_kungfu

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a cedar lover. Still bought a spruce a few weeks ago.

Double cedar is much more open

I almost feel sorry for the double top. Gimme that solid spruce any day.

It's a clear difference, the double top soundboard, is a lighter soundboard, that's why is more reactive soundboard. More volume, more reverberation, more efficient soundboard to move the internal air

Cedar sound better for Leo Brouwer and Spruce better for Villa Lobos.

The spruce is a brighter tone, with less low tone to it, while the cedar has more roundness of tone, and not quite as bright. My prefrence is the cedar.

Different music would have better demonstrated the differences between the two woods.

I don't think it's a fair comparison. Solid Top and Double-Top are 2 totally different techniques of lutheries.

Ouch....the cedar is painful to listen to.....spruce by far sounds so much better.

How could someone analyze and much less compare a sound which is so faraway from the real sound of the guitar? I know how a classical guitar sounds like. Electronic recording and amplification creates a totally different sound. Very few electronic recordings are successful in preserving enough of the natural sound of the instruments, and plucked strings instruments seem to suffer the most.

Paul McCartney playing classical guitar

Cedar wins

Villa-Lobos sounded better on the spruce.

Dreadful audio, preamp overloading I would guess. Get a different audio setup otherwise No-one could tell which sounded better. They were sounding equally bad!

What strings that are on these guitars?

What strings that are on these guitars?