Taylor T5z Pro Hollowbody - Pacific Blue Review

Easy to play

I have found myself splitting time for work between two cities (and away from my guitars). I asked Alex Rodriguez at Sweetwater for his recommendation for a versatile, apartment friendly pick and play guitar. The Taylor T5z Pro he recommended really fits the bill. Sooooo easy and fun to play. I am mainly an acoustic player and from a playability standpoint, I like this a lot more… read more than my Strat. It just seems easier to move up and down the neck and I like the lighter weight. Zero complaints from the neighbors even when I am rocking out (via headphones). Highly recommended if you need something fun to play and not disturb neighbors.

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Reid Bright is awesome

I love these guys. Reid has been looking out for me for years. Supremely good customer service, knowledge, etc. Whatever he's getting paid, it's not enough! Thanks Reid. Alex

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Sweet Guita

I bought this guitar in Late December 2019, when I received it and finally got it out of the box ( the hardest part is waiting the 24 hours for the new guitar to acclimate to our surroundings ) I was very happy with the purchase, it is beautiful and plays great. This was my third guitar purchase from Sweetwater and I cannot say enough good things about my Sales Engineer Joel Helton… read more or the other staffers who helped me from this fantastic company. I had Joel set up the guitar and also had the Plek Pro Process done on this purchase, the guitar is easy to play and the action is perfect, the T5z is a dream to play even for a novice like myself. You can't underestimate the wonderful customer service and the knowledge of the staff and engineers at Sweetwater, I personally think their Customer Service and support is second to none! If you have not made a purchase here at this site I encourage you to do so, you will not be disappointed.

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Best Guitar i have ever played.

I've had this guitar for over three years now and just saw this review in my e-mail archives. So, I guess it's definitely broken in !! I have, by my last count, twenty eight guitars as of July 2019. From top of the line Fenders, Gibsons, Charvel, Kramer, Dean, Epi's, and some that I can't remember. I am about to turn fifty-nine in days. I'm thinking real hard of selling off most… read more of my instruments, amps, and probably a hundred pedals. Thinking of keeping just one guitar and a couple amps. This Taylor is the keeper. Does it all. Can't ask for anything else. The quality is hands down the best of all I own, including the more expensive ones. This is all you will ever need.

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What a beautiful thing

Being cursed with small hands and arthritis I have always struggled playing acoustic guitars because of the thickness of the neck. I took the Keith Richards approach and used a capo but was never satisfied with that so I used my electric for everything. I heard Taylor was starting to dabble in creating acoustic guitars for electric players. Wow ! I said to myself that would be… read more great if they can really pull it off. I thought if anyone knew it would be my sales rep Randy Akins. I called Randy and he confirmed what I had heard and told me about the T5z. I did a lot of research , read countless articles and watched every you tube video out there and decided to pull the trigger and bought the T5z pro. When it arrived I immediately went to work unpacking , inspecting and marveling at this beautiful thing before my eyes. I started to play unplugged and the neck truly felt like an electric pretty close to a les Paul slim taper . The sound unplugged was not great but not bad and I expected that but when I plugged into my audio interface I was at awe. The sound was beautiful the tones I was hearing as I switched through the pickups were blowing me away. You know the feeling when the creative juices start flowing that"s what was going on. I then ran it through my helix and tested it on some of my high gain patches and with some minor tweaking the ax was screaming. I ran it through an eleven rack , a tc helicon voice live 2 and directly into a PA and the guitar and sound passed with flying colors. I played the guitar for 3 straight days no less than 6 hours per day it was very hard to put it down. On the 3 rd day I popped the high E string and without thinking I grabbed a set of Martin light acoustic strings and slapped them on. Un plugged the strings improved the tonal sound but it did not feel right in my hands then I realized the strings that are shipped with the guitar are electric strings ellixers medium lights I think. Anyway I had some electric Ernie ball super slinky light strings slapped them on and that was the ticket. I will be using the elixir medium lights as soon as they arrive as feel the light strings are too light for the guitar I wasn"t crazy about the tone or the feel. In closing some important things I should also mention about this guitar. Although it may sound great it will not replace the tones of a genuine acoustic guitar. This guitar is what is called a hybrid guitar made to do it all. I highly recommend this guitar to anyone that has shied away from playing and enjoying an acoustic guitar , is serious about tone experimenting and has short arthritic hands that cannot handle play a traditional acoustic hope this review was helpful

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