Monday, December 29, 2008

Acoustic Guitar Reviews - A Must Before You Buy

By Jay Tyler

Very important before buying a new acoustic guitar, be sure to check out some acoustic guitar reviews. Two kinds of reviews you'll find are ones written by experts who sample and play a wide variety of guitars, and reviews written by ordinary people who just want to give you an opinion about how the guitar works, sounds and feels to them.

An expert acoustic guitar review should be one that is written by someone who has had several years of guitar-related experience. The reviewer should also have several different models from different manufacturers. The reviewer should be able to put aside personal preference and objectively point out a guitar's pros and cons. Should a bias be present, it should be admitted and explained. A degree in music is not necessary for evaluating acoustic guitars. Applicants should really know their stuff, and should be able to explain why their opinion is valid and should be taken into consideration when buying a new guitar.

If you want acoustic guitar reviews, you should look for a site that has multiple reviews of each guitar by many different musicians. Many music stores also have websites with user reviews. Each guitarist plays in different types of venues, different kinds of bands and has a unique style of music. A guitarist from a band that plays at wedding receptions has much different instrument preferences from a guitarist who plays in a rock band. Look for reviews for people who play in the same area that you do, or someday hope to.

If you're using an internet search engine to locate acoustic guitar reviews, you should know some useful shortcuts. For instance, try putting your key search phrase in quotation marks (like "acoustic guitar reviews"). On Yahoo alone, that will reduce your hits from 17,000,000 to a more manageable 6000 or so.

When searching for specific individual acoustic guitar reviews, this trick will also work. Let's say you want to find reviews about the Martin DX1. Typle in that phrase in Yahoo search and you'll end up with about 38,000 results. But if you type in the same phrase using quotes like this "martin dx1" you'll get only about 10,000.

Try this hint and use is a simple plus sign (+) right next to the word you are seaching for in that hit, this will allow you to be more specific in your search. The simpler the better, seems to be the trick. By putting "Martin dxl review", the returns will be only 9, the reason being you will hit the sites that have the exact phrases in them.

If you change things up and type "martin dx1" +review into your search bar, you'll get nearly 500 hits. If you want specific information about something like guitar action, then put that in with a plus sign (+) next to it without using a space. Utilizing these hints for performing web searches can assist you in locating practical and precise acoustic guitar reviews that will make your choice of guitar easier. - 16003

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