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Rainsongs improvement over the years
July 30, 2010 - 4:44am
I had briefly played Rainsongs in stores years ago and was on the road trip for the JM-1000 a month ago. I was just very impressed with the sound and super resinance, light weight of the Rainsong. I don't remember being as impressed years ago. Rainsong models have been made for many years. Have improvements to manufacture occurred that aren't seen on the outside? Are there certain time periods where new processes where introduced, I thought I remember something about that. Could be I was having a bad day years ago with my first playing of them. I am also much more aware of carbon sounds now.
Steve
July 31, 2010 - 4:27pm
#2
While I thought Rainsongs were a cool idea when the company first started, the price was beyond the budget, and the recordings I heard back then were always too "crystalline" for me. So, while I did look up a price every few years, I didn't really follow them very closely. I am most definitely NOT an authority on the evolution of their designs. However, the "projection tuned layering" was a radical design change - sort of. If you think about it, it's kind of like a graduated thickness archtop turned upside down. I don't know when they made that change, but I suspect that has been some fine-tuning since then.
I have the H-WS roadtrip guitar now, and it shares an interesting characteristic with the regular OM road trip I tried before: they are incredibly easy to tune with an electronic tuner. With most guitars, the tuner has to be fairly close to the tuner unless you play pretty loud, and even then the "needle" or readout or whatever dances around some. There's kind of an art to interpreting the needle movement. With both Rainsongs, the tuner can be fairly far away without needing to play very loud, and the needle is almost rock-steady. And yet, there's no lack of harmonics.
Their PTL top design is certainly going to have different modes of oscillation than a conventional flat-top, and I don't think their goal has ever been to sound "like" a conventional guitar.
July 31, 2010 - 4:47pm
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sgarnett wrote:
Their PTL top design is certainly going to have different modes of oscillation than a conventional flat-top, and I don't think their goal has ever been to sound "like" a conventional guitar.
Excellent Point!
Let carbon ring in all its glory and let it be enjoyed and rejoiced upon by those who appreciate the tone. I already have some fine Martin Dreadnoughts and other fine all-wood guitars, so I want a guitar that gives me something different than the already exquisite all-solid-wood guitar tones I already have. A RainSong does just that and I would never hesitate to take a RainSong DR1000 Dreadnought, setup with either light-guage or medium-guage strings, to a bluegrass festival for any parking-lot picking!
Regards,
RainDance
i have a similar experience with CA. i tried a cargo just when it came out in NY and i was not really surprised. now i love it... this like this happen. anyway, i'm sure rainsong (and all the companies) kept improving all this time
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