Taylor 214ce Deluxe - Natural with Layered Rosewood Back & Sides Review

Awesome guitar for the price.

As most people know the x14 Taylor series is considered the Swiss army knife of guitars. This 214ce dlx is awesome. I like the all satin finish and colored tuning pegs.

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The Best!!!

This is the best guitar i've ever had and it's my first Taylor, if you're looking to buy a Taylor i'd get any you are able to but if you can get this one go ahead and snag one!!!!!

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So far..........

..........so great. After a long wait, prayer, fairly extensive research, and much thoughtful consideration--I ordered the Taylor 214ce Deluxe with ES-2 Expression System; and am extremely pleased with this instrument. I was considering a Takamine and a Yamaha acoustic electric as well. However, the Tak was on back order and the Taylor reviewed just a little better than the Yamaha… read more in several forums. They ran very closely and I purchased the Baggs Para DI/EQ upon several recommendations by owners of this particular Taylor--but I've not had need of using it. Upon unboxing and playing, I immediately loved the unplugged acoustic tone, action, and intonation. As with my 25 year old 810, this guitar performed well whether strumming or fingerpicking. After a quick start read of the electronics, I ran it straight into my Sweetwater purchased Behringer Studio Monitors via the auxiliary quarter inch input, leaving all EQ on both guitar and monitors flat and bringing the volume up on the speakers to check signal to noise issues and gain before feedback. It had a terrific strum sound up and down the neck and capoed as well. Then I brought the volume up on the guitar to fingerpick. Without use of feedback buster, I was able to get plenty of volume with no feedback and no noise. I repeated this process plugging straight into a QSC k8 powered speaker, and it delivered even better with no tweaking or fuss. I've used this guitar about 8 times in live concert with my Fleetwood Mac tribute band, running it through TC mini tuner and Fishman Platinum Stage EQ/DI(set to flat) and housed in my Sweetwater purchased Voodoo Lab Dingbat mini pedalboard. As of this writing, I've only used the guitar on fingerpicking("Never Going Back Again" "Landslide" "Big Love" "Oh, Daddy"). It has performed extremely well with no hassles, aggravation, or issue. I've yet to use it on variety classic rock solo performance, but I do feel confident that this will be a terrific overall acoustic. I was a bit concerned having no mid control, but the mids are wonderful just the same. Hardshell quality Taylor case came with the instrument. I'm so pleased and want to thank Bob Mondok and crew for keeping me in good gear at good prices and in good time.

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Believe the 5 stars,Best guitar I've ever played !

I've been a guitar and banjo player for 40+ years,played some great guitars.When I opened the case and picked up this one I will say I was a little nervous.After admiring the awesome workmanship I played a few chords and was very excited.I took it in my music room and checked the tuning on my Roadie 3.Got it in perfect tuning,the tuners are really high quality.Up and down the neck… read more everything was right on.The intonation was perfect.Checked it out with a Shubb capo,down to the 7'th fret sounded great.The action is so great,plays like a dream.I have big hands and was a little concerned that it was described as narrow neck.Don't let this concern you.It is the best playing neck that I have ever used.I plugged it into a Fishman Mini Loudbox.I can't really describe the sounds other than it deserves more than 5 stars.My thanks to Gage for another awesome transaction.When I decide to buy any instrument on line,I go straight to Sweetwater and Gage.I'm not big on writing reviews but in this case it might help someone making a decision.You can't go wrong with this one.

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Best Guitar I have ever had!

I love the guitar it does not disappoint! And I got a great price too! thank you sweetwater. It came to me in one piece well-packaged! With the 55 point inspection paperwork filled out and signed. Everything great play ability great action great just a really well-made well-put-together instrument!

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