This was an excellent comparison demonstration. I heard of Eastman from another channel when they were describing top quality guitar brands. Richard's stamp of approval sold me on finally getting an acoustic guitar. Thank you for sharing your passion, knowledge and experience, which you do with all your videos!
bless your heart for taking the time to explain the complexities of different body shapes. picked the guitar back up after 13 years break . i know the sound i want rich warm tone . and thank heavens for the internet . lots of help out there. it was sheet music and perseverance lol. And thankfully your an honest guitar seller to boot. big thanks matey .
If I were to buy a guitar, I'd choose the "D" body one. It has an expanding rounding sound that ranges...soothing to listen...🤔🤔🤔⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...yes dreadnought...it is...👍👍👍
I have this exact guitar from Richard, (the OM) and it's a stunning instrument for the money! For £265 you get an amazing guitar, quality set up and excellent advice from Richard, it's worth every penny honestly!
I just stumbled across a PCH1 OM at a used guitar shop. It blew me away. It was so inspiring. They sold it to me for $199. Best deal of my life. It's perfectly set up. The edges are smooth--possibly rolled. Sounds and plays like Heaven. So comfortable to play on the couch or in a chair. Light. Can't say enough about this guitar!
Love the demonstration that compared these 3 types of acoustic guitars, I have been looking at buying a new guitar you have sold me on the Gace, Thank you.
I got to admit, I'm struggling with my dreadnought for exactly the reasons Richard has pointed out. So tempted by these Eastman guitars, in fact everything in your shop is fab mate. I can comment on the set up side of Richards business tho. He turned my cheap Yamaha dreadnought into a fine & easily playable instrument. Worth it believe me. Thanks & I think it's time my shoulder had an easy life with one of those.
Richard, the PCH1 OM that I purchased from you 10 months ago is a fantastic guitar for the money. The finish was superb and it plays very well due to the excellent setup. The best guitar at this price point that I have owned.
I’m a bass player looking for an acoustic. I really appreciate your explanation of the shapes and sound differences. I really learned that I like the dreadnought sound.
This is great. I have problems with my right upper arm/shoulder and I play a dread. Just looking at the difference between the D and the OM makes it clear how much better an OM would be for me. I’ve got my heart set on an Eastman OM. The one you played sounds great. It sounds better to me than the D.
Since a decided to play guitar again after a lot (really) of years, I played mostly electrics but I had an old Yamaha D and my shoulder terribly suffered each time I played it. Then I decided to go for a more little body model and finally I got an Eastman E8OM... Since then I found myself playing the OM most of the time. What a beautiful sound! And it is so confortable!
Amazing video. Love the explanations, demonstration, and my wife's first lesson :-) I'm in the states, near Washington DC. It also comes with a Lifetime warranty.
Great video Richard. I'm a big fan of Eastman guitars. Also prefer the GA style myself. I know how Eastman guitars are made and people find it hard to believe that they are hand made but, that is exactly what they are. Superb quality and incredible value for money.
To my ears, the dreadnought and OM both sound great and the grand auditorium is trying to do sound like both of the other two without succeeding and without having its own voice/identity. Perhaps the cutaway is hurting its tone?
Thats every cutaway model for ya! Of course it affects tone! Imagine having a piece of wood vibrating. Now chop off a corner and vibrate it again....of course it will sound different!
Great acoustic guitar beautiful sounding and well made cant complain at all, apart from the electronics in this guitar, after 10 months the pickup is acting weird and dropping signal strength on the E B and G strings. I cant fathom it. could be due to the crappy quality electronics the Chinese turn out, For example Chinese capacitors are well known to be complete and utter garbage, badly made with substandard materials, Japanese capacitors are amongst the best in the world. Even though i have this annoying problem i realise the guitar is so well priced and such good quality it's hard to complain, but even when the pickup was working properly the sound quality is just about acceptable for recording. I might have to look into putting a K&K in my guitar. The electronics lets this guitar down but then again the price and overall quality is outstanding. Great review mate, very honest and as an owner of an Eastman i can say people can trust everything you said about this guitar, i wish i had it years ago.
Good advice. A lot of my friends who have started to learn guitar in their thirties have struggled with dreadnoughts, especially the depth of the body.
If you live in 'Merica....your best bang for the buck is the Orangewood brand. The YT reviews and the hype is legit.... Love my lefty Morgan...gives my son's $1200 Martin a run for its money.
Absolutely love my PCH1-D. I'm by no means a great guitarist but I like nice stuff. I have Alvarez Masterworks and other all solid guitars worth a good deal more than the PCH1-D and I feel quite happy playing the Eastman Dreadnaught. Just a tip, its a real sonic machine, crazy volume and tone regardless of price point. Just astounding really for this price point.
@@tikigodsrule2317 if you are asking me is it worth what I paid for it, the answer is yes. I still have the Alvarez. I swapped the PCH1-D for a PCH1-GACE and am very happy with it.
Hi Richard, another informative video the Eastman models look and sounds great, I’ve got one issue I’m a lefty I like the om and the ga models are these available left handed
I do like the dreadnought guitar most. Is the brighter color of the one in this video due to the glossy finish? Or does it have a different colorcode? Or is the top from a different wood (not spruce but cedar?)?
It is possible (with a huge amount of work) to get even a cheap guitar to play OK but only when you play a quality instrument properly set up do you realise that things are cheap for a reason. I have over the years played even quality instruments that have never been set up properly and are often unplayable which is a great shame. Your philosophy of recommending a price point where you can afford to set up any such guitars that leave your shop is to be applauded Richard because only in that way can new guitarist have a reasonable shot at learning their skills. Great video (and great looking guitars at a ridiculously good price).
It sure feels better to play a guitar that is set up properly, but the only way new guitarist can have reasonable shot at learning their skills is to practice :)
I tried the both the PCH and E1 lines side by side last weekend. The glaringly obvious problem for the PCH line was that the E1 line - which cost 200 pounds more - sounded a thousand pounds better. I think I gave the PCH option less than a minute of my time since it was so clearly not in the same league. The E1 oozes out a gorgeous woody tone that one associates with much more pricey guitars, while the PCH doesn't in my opinion. Fine guitar though it is. I'm happy I went with an 800 series (FS 820) Yamaha when i was looking at OM sized guitars, but my next guitar will be an E1D.
Banjo eh Yamaha FS OM style bridge string spacing is awful less than 2” it’s a way too narrow for a finger style guitar. The string spacing is less than a mexican 90’s Fender Strat. The Eastman PCH kills the Yamaha FS. Eastman PCH 1 OM bone nut and saddle, nitro finish too.... can’t be beat sounds phenomenal! I bough one to toss in the car, take on vacation, sit around a fire in the backyard. Absolutely can’t be beat for the $$$!
I have twice had a frozen shoulder (once for over a year) I was reasonably comfortable playing my slimline Gordon Smith GS1 whilst standing, but not sitting. There was no way I could play even my Gibson ES135 slimline semi-acoustic without pain and my dreadnought sat in it's case for over a year. The OM looks and sounds nice, is that what we used to refer to as a "Folk" body shape?
Here's a service I would take off you if I lived in the area: copy a set up. I own multiple guitars. One in particular plays best for me. I've no idea how it's set up. I have played with the kits that show you how how the strings are etc.
Grand Auditorium has the most beautiful shape but the ugly dreadnought has a huge sound. The perfect guitar would be a GA with a Dreadnought sound. Is there such a thing?
The finish on the guitar looks beautiful. I’m really really interested in the GA but this review ( ua-cam.com/video/ew_KrgljnIk/v-deo.html ) worries me a little. The reviewer says the saddle and nut are not bone as advertised? I know you wouldn’t be able to replace the but and saddle but would your set up service address some of the issues he mentions?
My Phone Exellent. Thanks. Not expecting miracles from a sub £300 guitar obviously but it seems like it might need a bit of setting up. Absolutely love love love the classic finish. Beautiful. 😀
Looks good but ads cost without improving sound. If they left it natural without abalone rosette and used bone nut and saddle and better tuners.... But that's just me and looking at the geometry these are cracking.
@@myphone5242 the geometry is excellent as I mentioned in the video. It is available in natural if you look on the link. If they advertise it as bone its bone.
Your claim that these guitars are manufactured without machines is absurd and unsubstantiated. No electric sanders? No tablesaw? No electricity? Huh? I bet they even use CNC in making these. Even USA small bench luthiers use machines in making guitars costing $5000.
Bourgeois Guitars.have teamed up with Eastman as a World Leader in hand built acoustics. I think maybe you have taken things a little to the extreme but rest assured these are as hand made as a guitar gets and that really is the point of the video.
This was an excellent comparison demonstration. I heard of Eastman from another channel when they were describing top quality guitar brands. Richard's stamp of approval sold me on finally getting an acoustic guitar. Thank you for sharing your passion, knowledge and experience, which you do with all your videos!
bless your heart for taking the time to explain the complexities of different body shapes. picked the guitar back up after 13 years break . i know the sound i want rich warm tone . and thank heavens for the internet . lots of help out there. it was sheet music and perseverance lol. And thankfully your an honest guitar seller to boot. big thanks matey .
hopefully people looking for their first guitar will stumble upon this sight. you give years of advice in
If I were to buy a guitar, I'd choose the "D" body one. It has an expanding rounding sound that ranges...soothing to listen...🤔🤔🤔⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...yes dreadnought...it is...👍👍👍
I have this exact guitar from Richard, (the OM) and it's a stunning instrument for the money! For £265 you get an amazing guitar, quality set up and excellent advice from Richard, it's worth every penny honestly!
Another cracking video Richard. Really clear explanation of the different guitars and your value based ethos and approach to quality. Brilliant.
I just stumbled across a PCH1 OM at a used guitar shop. It blew me away. It was so inspiring. They sold it to me for $199. Best deal of my life. It's perfectly set up. The edges are smooth--possibly rolled. Sounds and plays like Heaven. So comfortable to play on the couch or in a chair. Light. Can't say enough about this guitar!
Much preferred the gloss dreadnought to the satin finish. Sounded very good.
Love the demonstration that compared these 3 types of acoustic guitars, I have been looking at buying a new guitar you have sold me on the Gace, Thank you.
I got to admit, I'm struggling with my dreadnought for exactly the reasons Richard has pointed out. So tempted by these Eastman guitars, in fact everything in your shop is fab mate. I can comment on the set up side of Richards business tho. He turned my cheap Yamaha dreadnought into a fine & easily playable instrument. Worth it believe me. Thanks & I think it's time my shoulder had an easy life with one of those.
Richard, the PCH1 OM that I purchased from you 10 months ago is a fantastic guitar for the money. The finish was superb and it plays very well due to the excellent setup. The best guitar at this price point that I have owned.
That was a really useful and informative video, thanks Richard.
Thanks for the very nice informative demo.❤
Very informative video.I learned a few things I was unaware of.Thank you.
I’m a bass player looking for an acoustic. I really appreciate your explanation of the shapes and sound differences. I really learned that I like the dreadnought sound.
This is great. I have problems with my right upper arm/shoulder and I play a dread. Just looking at the difference between the D and the OM makes it clear how much better an OM would be for me. I’ve got my heart set on an Eastman OM. The one you played sounds great. It sounds better to me than the D.
Since a decided to play guitar again after a lot (really) of years, I played mostly electrics but I had an old Yamaha D and my shoulder terribly suffered each time I played it. Then I decided to go for a more little body model and finally I got an Eastman E8OM... Since then I found myself playing the OM most of the time. What a beautiful sound! And it is so confortable!
@@olimon63 my dread is a Yamaha fg830, and it was killing me! I got my Eastman e20OM a week ago. I love it! What a difference! So comfortable.
Amazing video. Love the explanations, demonstration, and my wife's first lesson :-) I'm in the states, near Washington DC. It also comes with a Lifetime warranty.
Thank you so much
Great video Richard. I'm a big fan of Eastman guitars. Also prefer the GA style myself. I know how Eastman guitars are made and people find it hard to believe that they are hand made but, that is exactly what they are. Superb quality and incredible value for money.
Are these made in China or Indonesia?
Jonny Broker they are handmade by a small team of Chinese luthiers.
really enjoyed the vid and learned a lot, only been playing guitar around 9 months, so interesting to see and hear the difference thank you
just got one today from my local guitar shop! can't wait to start playing :)
if you like to get on fast approaching learning rhythm guitar ping me I just finished my first guitar booklet out of 5. I sell it for 10euro
To my ears, the dreadnought and OM both sound great and the grand auditorium is trying to do sound like both of the other two without succeeding and without having its own voice/identity. Perhaps the cutaway is hurting its tone?
Thats every cutaway model for ya! Of course it affects tone! Imagine having a piece of wood vibrating. Now chop off a corner and vibrate it again....of course it will sound different!
Great acoustic guitar beautiful sounding and well made cant complain at all, apart from the electronics in this guitar, after 10 months the pickup is acting weird and dropping signal strength on the E B and G strings. I cant fathom it. could be due to the crappy quality electronics the Chinese turn out, For example Chinese capacitors are well known to be complete and utter garbage, badly made with substandard materials, Japanese capacitors are amongst the best in the world. Even though i have this annoying problem i realise the guitar is so well priced and such good quality it's hard to complain, but even when the pickup was working properly the sound quality is just about acceptable for recording. I might have to look into putting a K&K in my guitar. The electronics lets this guitar down but then again the price and overall quality is outstanding. Great review mate, very honest and as an owner of an Eastman i can say people can trust everything you said about this guitar, i wish i had it years ago.
Great review! Exactly what I was looking for and more! Cheers!
Good advice. A lot of my friends who have started to learn guitar in their thirties have struggled with dreadnoughts, especially the depth of the body.
You mean cos it's really big?
If you live in 'Merica....your best bang for the buck is the Orangewood brand. The YT reviews and the hype is legit.... Love my lefty Morgan...gives my son's $1200 Martin a run for its money.
Richard, love your videos. I wish we had a shop of your caliper in my city. All we have is the mega type stores.
Absolutely love my PCH1-D. I'm by no means a great guitarist but I like nice stuff. I have Alvarez Masterworks and other all solid guitars worth a good deal more than the PCH1-D and I feel quite happy playing the Eastman Dreadnaught. Just a tip, its a real sonic machine, crazy volume and tone regardless of price point. Just astounding really for this price point.
if you like to get on fast approaching learning rhythm guitar ping me I just finished my first guitar booklet out of 5. I sell it for 10euro
Was your Alvarez Masterworks guitar worth it?
@@tikigodsrule2317 if you are asking me is it worth what I paid for it, the answer is yes. I still have the Alvarez. I swapped the PCH1-D for a PCH1-GACE and am very happy with it.
Dreadnought sounded awesome
Hi Richard, another informative video the Eastman models look and sounds great, I’ve got one issue I’m a lefty I like the om and the ga models are these available left handed
I do like the dreadnought guitar most. Is the brighter color of the one in this video due to the glossy finish? Or does it have a different colorcode? Or is the top from a different wood (not spruce but cedar?)?
It is possible (with a huge amount of work) to get even a cheap guitar to play OK but only when you play a quality instrument properly set up do you realise that things are cheap for a reason. I have over the years played even quality instruments that have never been set up properly and are often unplayable which is a great shame. Your philosophy of recommending a price point where you can afford to set up any such guitars that leave your shop is to be applauded Richard because only in that way can new guitarist have a reasonable shot at learning their skills. Great video (and great looking guitars at a ridiculously good price).
It sure feels better to play a guitar that is set up properly, but the only way new guitarist can have reasonable shot at learning their skills is to practice :)
Cheap guitars set up properly can play and sound beautiful.
Price on this has gone up quite a bit
I tried the both the PCH and E1 lines side by side last weekend. The glaringly obvious problem for the PCH line was that the E1 line - which cost 200 pounds more - sounded a thousand pounds better. I think I gave the PCH option less than a minute of my time since it was so clearly not in the same league. The E1 oozes out a gorgeous woody tone that one associates with much more pricey guitars, while the PCH doesn't in my opinion. Fine guitar though it is.
I'm happy I went with an 800 series (FS 820) Yamaha when i was looking at OM sized guitars, but my next guitar will be an E1D.
Banjo eh Yamaha FS OM style bridge string spacing is awful less than 2” it’s a way too narrow for a finger style guitar. The string spacing is less than a mexican 90’s Fender Strat. The Eastman PCH kills the Yamaha FS. Eastman PCH 1 OM bone nut and saddle, nitro finish too.... can’t be beat sounds phenomenal! I bough one to toss in the car, take on vacation, sit around a fire in the backyard. Absolutely can’t be beat for the $$$!
I can also here on the dreadnought, a ton of buzz. Is that execution or set up or guitar construction?
Is the neck satin on the dreadnaught?
Would've loved having one of those for a beginner's guitar. I don't know if the PCHs are all hand-made. At that price, I somehow doubt it.
I have twice had a frozen shoulder (once for over a year) I was reasonably comfortable playing my slimline Gordon Smith GS1 whilst standing, but not sitting. There was no way I could play even my Gibson ES135 slimline semi-acoustic without pain and my dreadnought sat in it's case for over a year. The OM looks and sounds nice, is that what we used to refer to as a "Folk" body shape?
Great review there mate very helpful 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
The OM for my liking, sounds best to me.
Great video !! Considering to buy the GACE because I already have an OM and dreadnought 😁
I like your style of showing the guitars
Hey Richard great video these guitars sound fantastic at that price point....
great informative video!!
@richard: how do these laminate eastmans compare to the sigma range? Like the ooom-18+ for example?
Those look like incredible bargains. Could you tell me, please, how light are they? I may want a 'campfire' guitar.
Also, I think if you take auto stabilization off your camera, it won't go in and out of focus.
Eastman PCH1 GACE or CORT GA 5F-BW NS?
Very good demo. Thank you.
I'm fairly new but not total noob. I have just came in contact with someone selling an E1OM from Eastman. Would you recommend it?
Here's a service I would take off you if I lived in the area: copy a set up. I own multiple guitars. One in particular plays best for me. I've no idea how it's set up. I have played with the kits that show you how how the strings are etc.
you have to buy new trousers !
Really helpful, thanks
I want the Grand Auditorium..didnt know they were handmade,,Thank you Richard..
great advice
Do u ship to NC in the US?
You sure put that Eastman down heavy at 6:23!
Howcome this guitar has gone from £265 to £299?
coronavirus innit
I need and want that glossy dreadnaught! 🎸🎶🎤
Grand Auditorium has the most beautiful shape but the ugly dreadnought has a huge sound. The perfect guitar would be a GA with a Dreadnought sound. Is there such a thing?
The finish on the guitar looks beautiful. I’m really really interested in the GA but this review ( ua-cam.com/video/ew_KrgljnIk/v-deo.html ) worries me a little. The reviewer says the saddle and nut are not bone as advertised? I know you wouldn’t be able to replace the but and saddle but would your set up service address some of the issues he mentions?
There's video showing what's included in the set up and string height at nut is one of the issues addressed 👍
ua-cam.com/video/oGtr1b-Gvqw/v-deo.html
My Phone Exellent. Thanks. Not expecting miracles from a sub £300 guitar obviously but it seems like it might need a bit of setting up. Absolutely love love love the classic finish. Beautiful. 😀
Looks good but ads cost without improving sound. If they left it natural without abalone rosette and used bone nut and saddle and better tuners....
But that's just me and looking at the geometry these are cracking.
@@myphone5242 the geometry is excellent as I mentioned in the video. It is available in natural if you look on the link. If they advertise it as bone its bone.
Imagine if the D did not have a plastic finish on top...
Sorry that you can’t afford a decent pair of jeans...
Your claim that these guitars are manufactured without machines is absurd and unsubstantiated. No electric sanders? No tablesaw? No electricity? Huh? I bet they even use CNC in making these. Even USA small bench luthiers use machines in making guitars costing $5000.
Bourgeois Guitars.have teamed up with Eastman as a World Leader in hand built acoustics. I think maybe you have taken things a little to the extreme but rest assured these are as hand made as a guitar gets and that really is the point of the video.
You speak Too much but dont show guitar sound So much ...So frustrating...when we need to but a guitar we need concrète démonstration