Taylor Acoustic Guitar AD12e-SB for Worship Leaders - Review by Lindsey Miller

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Three things I'm looking for when I like, first pick up the guitar would be, first the neck shape for me because I have smaller hands than probably the average player. Usually the comfort of the neck is probably the biggest priority for me, and this one feels pretty good. Um, it's pretty flat and I can get around on it pretty easily, especially up in the higher register, which is pretty important for some of the stuff I do, I end up playing kind of all over the neck, not just down at the bottom of the neck.
The second thing would be the overall tone and sound of the guitar. I like the brightness of this one. This is defintely pretty cool. It's pretty punchy for, say, if you're leading worship and you need your guitar to project more, you probably either need it to be really jangly sounding to give you the mix or you need it to be kind of like on muted stuff to really punch through in the low end. And I'm sensing that here.
And probably the third criteria is actually intonation. Like not just that the guitar, the strings, open strings are in tune on open chords, which, this sounds great. But also as I get up higher in the neck, you want the chords that are up higher to be in tune as well. So probably what I would do to check that out is just try some, like, major triads and it sounds pretty good. So.. so far so good. Sounds great. And then something else to consider is like a lot of worship leaders are going to be using their capo quite a bit and moving that around on the neck. So intonation then is also really important. As I move the capo around, I want to be sure that, you know, the chords up higher and higher on the neck are in tune. So I brought my capo and I'll give it a try. It sounds pretty good if we move it up here, it still sounds really in tune, so I think that's great, especially if you're playing in a situation where maybe you're modulating in the middle of a song or you just need to change the keys for your congregation. I think that this guitar would be a perfect fit.
This guitar is made of a Sitka spruce top, walnut back and sides, mahogany neck and eucalyptus fretboard. This guitar also has a tortoiseshell pickguard, v-class bracing, which is specific to Taylor acoustic guitars, and it also has the expression system which has volume and tone control. If you're planning to be a worship leader or play on the road, that's specifically important because you want to be able to plug your guitar into a PA or a DI for volume.
I kind of like specifically the sort of vintage-y look of it. It kind of has those like older Gibson vintage vibe to it. I personally like really like vintage looking gear, so I kind of like the sunburst type of thing they have going on here. I like that you can see the grain in the wood and the finish. Both are really cool.
It's more top heavy. So the neck weighs- feels like it weighs a lot more than the actual the body. The body feels pretty light. For me. That's really important because the weight of the guitar itself kind of really affects how I play it, how I perceive how difficult a part is to play. So having it feel so light in the body just makes it feel much freer to strum and play without too much force or too much effort.
For me, playability is more like a freeing thing when you first pick it up and play the first couple notes. I just feel very free to play anything on the guitar without a lot of force or effort or feeling like I'm having to like pull sound out of the guitar. The tone of this guitar, it seems like it really kind of blossoms and punches through and projects really well. So I feel like I can probably execute most stuff without too much effort or really having to force something something out of it.
The setup of this guitar, the action, which is the space between the strings and the fretboard, is actually great. It's fairly low, but not so low that the strings are buzzing. Like every string still sounds really clear when I'm playing the notes, but it's not too high to where it's difficult to press down the notes or it affects your intonation or your tuning. It's just the right amount to where I can play really freely without any like buzzy sounds or any tonal or tuning problems.
So this guitar is about $2,000. That's a pretty big investment.
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[@carlosarbona9924]

Is it the neck slimmer than Martin D-18?
I have a D-18 and I feel a little big to me,
I am thinking of a Taylor AD12

[@TheWorshipLeader]

The Martin D-18 typically has a neck width of 1.75 inches (44.5 mm) at the nut, while the Taylor AD12 has a slightly narrower neck width of 1.6875 inches (42.8 mm) at the nut. This difference in neck size can affect playability and comfort, depending on the player's preference and hand size.

[@brianclark641]

Just bought one used for 1,400…love my new guitar

[@TheWorshipLeader]

Thanks for watching!

[@JB-hq9yj]

Great job. God bless.

[@TheWorshipLeader]

Thank you!