Product Spotlight - Gibson J-15 Acoustic-Electric Guitar
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2014
- Guitar Center's Product Spotlight provides a comprehensive overview of the Gibson J-15 Acoustic-Electric Guitar.
The J-15 features the same round-shoulder body shape of Gibson's J-45, aka "The Workhorse", an incredibly popular acoustic that has been one of Gibson's best-selling guitars since it's introduction in 1942. With it's electronics and high-quality body construction, the J-15 can easily become your new workhorse as it can handle the demands of both intimate settings and larger venues.
Check it out at any Guitar Center store or online: www.guitarcenter.com/Gibson-J-....
This video made me buy the guitar 2 years ago. It's a stunning guitar, smells amazing and the sound is so unique. Still loving every moment i play it! Thanks for the video Guitar Center!
Michiel v d M I want this guitar! What is the unique point?
Fully agree (also about the smell)
I bought my J-15 in 2017. It really is an outstanding guitar and has opened up nicely, only getting better and better. I am so glad I decided on it. It has become my go to.
Thanks for the info, I'm thinking of buying one soon. Some luthier forums are skeptical about the walnut fretboard, saying it's prone to wear. Have you noticed anything similar in these last 2 years? Cheers.
I just went out and bought one tonight. LOVE it!
tried this one today and was blown away! Just wow, so easy and confy to play on and that sound just resonates. My taylor is meeh now! Damn it!
Love my J-15! This guitar is a winner!!
I wonder if this has been a popular/good selling model for Gibson. I love the tone of walnut and just about every j-15 I've played just sounds and feels wonderful!
Have a Martin D-28 and a Taylor 314ce. Picked up this rig off the wall at GC and couldn't put it down... they had 4 of them in stock, but the voice on the first one I picked up just amazed me. Had absolutely no need for this rig, but I bought it anyway. GAS sucks, but this guitar is just beautiful.
I just bought one of these recently,and I have to say that I love it,and cannot understand why it was so relatively cheap for the quality and sound,I had the plastic nut and saddle changed for bone,and it's sounding and playing great,I've already got a Custom J-45, and think this J-15 is a match for it.
Might just be my dream guitar
I love how walnut projects sound. I have a spanish classical made of walnut and absolutely love it. Probably my next guitar and first acoustic!
It's what a guitar should sound like.
True dat
Sounds good and sustainable!!!
I just purchased a J-15. In one word I can sum it up: Amazing. I have owned numerous Martins, Gibsons, Larrivees and a Taylor. This is an absolutely outstanding guitar to play, so comfortable. Fantastic sound. Such long, deep sustain. I think the Gibson guy was drunk the day he book matched the sound board though but other than that it is absolutely a keeper guitar for me.
vancvrman604 he glued is sustainably?!?!
Sounds great, with I had one, thanks..
Really nice guitar!
Just got mine today. It feels and sounds like a luxury guitar
Very nice indeed.
I'd love one of these!!!
Did you buy one?
@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 I ended up getting and OMJM Martin but I was tempted with a J15
i have two martins , a taylor and a j45...i like them all. i just bought a used j15 and i like it a lot. i may have it set up a little better and its a little brighter than my martins of my j45, but its real nice. i like the size of the 45 body and i like the 1.725 nut. not too small, not too big. the price is great. i saw a review on youtube between a 29, 15, and a 35. for me the 29 won but the 15 was close. does a set up effect the play up the neck..a barre e f, g? i feel it needs a little tweak for this section. cheers
Nice introduction to what looks like a great guitar for the money.
Small point, but I'd check the provenance of the Grover machine heads, which I was told by the company when I tried to sources spares, are no longer US produced.
Pretty nice!
Does Bill from Guitar Center read these? Bill, I really like your playing, and I also like how one of your eyes is a different color. I wish I had an eye like that. And I'd like to steal some of your riffs!
I think Bill missed the description of the top...listened to it twice and he didn't mention the make of the top. Anyway, I think it's spruce (checked - it's spruce) though it looks like cedar
0:56 I can imagine the director of this commercial saying "Don't say that. It's unnecessary and filler." And I'm over here learning something I always wanted to know.
Love mine
Best guitar Gibson makes... the Walnut wood sounds fantastic...I replaced the Tuners with Locking tuners replaced the Tusk with bone and installed Stainless Steal super Jumbo Frets...and installed a Tiger Stripe pickguard one from the 50s
I just started saving up for either this or a martin ooo15m. can't decide which one I'd rather have but I guess I have lots of time to pick haha
+Justin Bateman I played this guitar today and man is it easy to play. I've never played a J45, J35 & J15 until today. Just figured I could never afford one. But I saw the J15 price and now i think it may be the guitar I'm saving up for. It played and sounded great but some sloppy finish areas where the neck met the body and some overlap on the back of the bridge.
Plays very different form a martin but it was extremely easy to play because of the scale length.
I meant to say the guitar sounds great wish I had one.. Sounds better than a Taylor 314ce to me and the Taylor costs more..
I got 1 and no prob with mine sound nice just av to break it in my sounds nice only had for about 3 months now
I have one. Don't clean walnut fretboards with oil, not furniture polish or lemon oil, use naptha on a paper towel so you can keep the walnut fretboard bright and new.
Naptha won't stain the fretboard. Keeps the walnut fretboard like new -by removing sweat stains in its uniquely colored pale wood hue grain
I can't decide between the j-15, the j-45 studio or the hummingbird studio
The only downside of this guitar is that black walnut fingerboard is not strong or dense enough to be the ideal material to hold frets - so when it comes to refretting this will need to be with extreme care and the new frets properly glued in because the tang alone will not be sufficient once the old frets have been removed
I wonder if this model has a standard version with richlite similar to how the g45 has a richlite version
Is this the antique natural color?
What does acoustic-'electric' mean? That it is connectable to an amp?
Correct, you can plug a 1/4inch plug into it.
Don't expect it to sound like an electric guitar lol
+Alex Leezer When did I say I expected it to sound like an electric guitar?
+Albus Dumbledore I was just joking.
...there's not a " best " sounding acoustic.. depends what ur looking for ....I play a Guild and love it ....in sayin all of that ....most sound good
I have 4 US made Guild acoustics. Love the necks. Love the 12" fretboard radius.
I have Martins, but no Gibson acoustic right now. I wish I did just for the variety of that characteristic Gibson sound.
so is this the Standard or the Studio ?
It’s more like a standard. 12” radius like a J45 (the studios have 16” radius), and body size more comparable to the J45 too.
This guitar will become a sought after classic. It is quite balanced. That this guitar came about with a reasonable price is kind of unusual given what a great guitar it turned out to be. Too bad it was a short lived guitar.
Is it Top solid guitar or All solid guitar?
Solid spruce top and solid walnut back and sides
How hard is it to change the battery?
+Garry Miller Nice. I'm digging this guitar. Not my first choice but a solid axe nonetheless.
***** Good to hear. I'd like to have the J-15 as a second guitar. Ideal situation of course.
The 16 series doesn't have a dovetail neck joint.
16 series?! You're talking Martin not Gibson
Is it just me or this dude got two distinctive eye color?
Can you still get a guitar like the J160E that John Lennon Played.
***** Yes, in fact, you can get many variations on it. The actual guitar he played was the original J-160E, and it had a ladder-braced, laminate top. It did not sound fantastic. However, he loved it, and they mic'd it up, and the way they recorded it sounds wonderful in so many Beatles songs. If you want that sort of sound out of a guitar, though, I'd go with something more like the J-15. Same body shape, solid instead of laminate spruce, x-braced instead of ladder-braced, and walnut back/sides instead of laminate. You could also get a J-160E, rather expensive, that is made with all-solid wood, but due to that solid wood and the x-braced construction, it probably won't sound any more like John's guitar than this J-15. It might also sound like a J-45, which is the same materials as the new J-160E.
Epiphone also makes the EJ-160E. I played one and frankly thought it sounded terrible.
Sorry for the mouthful, but I hope I've given you some info to satiate your curiosity.
+Jesse Watson thanks for the info it's actually a piano I play but would love a guitar but the little Finger in my Left Hand locks and is slow to open I'm Right Handed.
***** Does your little finger affect your piano-playing? Guitar-playing has made my little-finger a bit weird too ha! You could actually play without using your little finger. If you're heard of Django Reinhardt (sp?), he was missing a much more important finger than the little one, which caused him to create some pretty interesting chord voicings! Another option is to simply get a left-handed guitar and learn that way. I think anyone can learn either direction, really, and it is good for us right-handers to use our left for things. :) There are arguments about which hand is more important for guitar-playing. Some actually say the strumming/picking hand is more important (which is why that's what our primary hand does), but others say the opposite. Where there's a will, there's a way! Sorry for leaving you another wall of text :P
Thanks for the sound advice my little finger doesn't affect my piano playing just a Guitar id love a guitar to play Dear Prudence,Julia Blackbird and Norwegian Wood.must try another Guitar out in a Local Shop.No problem on the Texts write anytime.
***** Good choices in songs! Most of those were actually written and recorded on a Martin D-28. If you listen to the White Album demos (like on Anthology 3), you'll hear a lot of Martin D-28. Neat guitars. But to me, the Gibson sound is what really captures The Beatles. :) You'll have to try both! I'm selling my D-28 to buy a second Gibson. :)
She's pretty.
Sounds not so good at 4:39.
I tried one of these at GC in worster Ma. and it sounded horrible, out of tune, and the strings were very high off the frets, in my 30 yrs of playing exp, and as a singer songwriter I find G.C. to be very poor in taking care their acoustics as far as tuning and maintaining to appeal to potential buyers and customers , and for me as a musician that's a real problem. also why barely any Martin's except for the cheap ones at GC no MMM No D15 , and unlike zzounds who offers a pay as u go plan , even with not great credit can get good guitars. I really want an hd28 or mmv but zzounds does not offer, GC does, but bc their lender is so picky on credit ZZounds has a new customer :-) way to go Guitar center ur making many happy customers w zzounds
Sounds like mostly knocking GC, here. I agree GC is negligent about guitar setups for demoing but for one to expect to pickup a guitar and it be in tune . . . come on! Correcting the tuning should take one less than a minute.
The G45 STUDIO sounds better... believe it or not..
So you've played both then? Not sure if either one is still in Gibson's current lineup.
Nope! Ordered a new G45, sent it back a week later. I just wasn't at all impressed. 1 year later I bought a used J15 and it's NOT going to leave me, EVER!
Frankly the playing in the background sounded so awful that any notion I had of buying this instrument left my mind for good. I don't care if walnut grows faster than rosewood I want an instrument that has a great sound and understated good looks...in that order. This thing has neither. Oh Mr. Gibson, how far the mighty have fallen.
Hey wait a minute! That's not even Bill playing! Guitar Center, you tricked me! You are less than swine.
Jesse Watson Thats him
Those chord changes suck
No imported woods equal more affordability