What People Are Saying
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Modern Drummer Magazine
Or view the article at moderndrummer.com.
June 2023
The selling point for me is how it changes the guitar without changing the guitar.
Sometimes you get a little bored, but when you pick up a new guitar you play different things. Or you are interested again. When you play every single day, sometimes you get tired of it. And maybe somebody is like ‘hey you got to check out this guitar,’ and you sit down with a different guitar and you are like, ‘I hear new things. so I play new things.’ And it’s inspiring, it’s good for you as a player. It’s a good refreshing exercise to do, and having options tonally will cause you to practice more, it will cause you to be more interested and pursue it a little more and in a different way.
These are all good instruments, built well, well crafted. The temperament is good, the intonation is good. You don’t have to compromise that in the pursuit of another instrument or another voice. [. . .] You can take that guitar and make it five different guitars, and I don’t know anybody that wouldn’t like that.
– Joel Key
Studio Musician,
Starstruck Studios, Nashville TN
The selling point for me is how it changes the guitar without changing the guitar.
Sometimes you get a little bored, but when you pick up a new guitar you play different things. Or you are interested again. When you play every single day, sometimes you get tired of it. And maybe somebody is like ‘hey you got to check out this guitar,’ and you sit down with a different guitar and you are like, ‘I hear new things. so I play new things.’ And it’s inspiring, it’s good for you as a player. It’s a good refreshing exercise to do, and having options tonally will cause you to practice more, it will cause you to be more interested and pursue it a little more and in a different way.
These are all good instruments, built well, well crafted. The temperament is good, the intonation is good. You don’t have to compromise that in the pursuit of another instrument or another voice. [. . .] You can take that guitar and make it five different guitars, and I don’t know anybody that wouldn’t like that.
– Joel Key
Studio Musician,
Starstruck Studios, Nashville TN
I played it and said, ‘there’s no way! This can’t be for real!’
It’s incredible, the clarity is ridiculous! It feels effortless too. I used to have to battle with my other guitar. I would tweak so much, in different kind of ways to play and different things to use. Then literally brought this in this room and strummed one time, and that was probably one of my most favorite services.
It was just so cool for one moment not having to fight with the guitar. Just sing with it.
– Jonathan Etienne
Worship Leader, Song Writer, Producer
Free Chapel, Gainesville GA
I played it and said, ‘there’s no way! This can’t be for real!’
It’s incredible, the clarity is ridiculous! It feels effortless too. I used to have to battle with my other guitar. I would tweak so much, in different kind of ways to play and different things to use. Then literally brought this in this room and strummed one time, and that was probably one of my most favorite services.
It was just so cool for one moment not having to fight with the guitar. Just sing with it.
– Jonathan Etienne
Worship Leader, Song Writer, Producer
Free Chapel, Gainesville GA
From the performers standpoint it makes you feel like you are playing an instrument that deserves to be heard!
The first time I picked up the guitar and played the first chord, I noticed the sustain was amazing. It stayed forever. You played one chord it would last. And the tone, it actually didn’t change the tone at all, it actually brightened the tone just a little bit to make it to where it would cut through a mix. I know in my ears it’s been a night and day difference as far as the hearing of the guitar. Before it was there, but it wasn’t there. Now with this little system put in it, it really cuts through the mix a lot.
– Chris Smith
Worship Leader, Song Writer
Free Chapel, Gainesville GA
From the performers standpoint it makes you feel like you are playing an instrument that deserves to be heard!
The first time I picked up the guitar and played the first chord, I noticed the sustain was amazing. It stayed forever. You played one chord it would last. And the tone, it actually didn’t change the tone at all, it actually brightened the tone just a little bit to make it to where it would cut through a mix. I know in my ears it’s been a night and day difference as far as the hearing of the guitar. Before it was there, but it wasn’t there. Now with this little system put in it, it really cuts through the mix a lot.
– Chris Smith
Worship Leader, Song Writer
Free Chapel, Gainesville GA
Each note seemed to ring out
I had the droplet sound systems installed on two Taylor guitars and an Avalon, I noticed that the Avalon had greater clarity and sustain. Each note seemed to ring out nicely. The folks that play the Taylors a lot also were very impressed with the increased sustain and how pure every note and every string sounded. I also noticed that the balance between strings and notes was better, like it had compression on every note! I use the Avalon every week and each time I strum it I’m very pleased again with the sound that the systems gives my guitar.
– Bob Kilpatrick
Guitarist, Composer,
& owner of Walkabout Drums
Each note seemed to ring out
I had the droplet sound systems installed on two Taylor guitars and an Avalon, I noticed that the Avalon had greater clarity and sustain. Each note seemed to ring out nicely. The folks that play the Taylors a lot also were very impressed with the increased sustain and how pure every note and every string sounded. I also noticed that the balance between strings and notes was better, like it had compression on every note! I use the Avalon every week and each time I strum it I’m very pleased again with the sound that the systems gives my guitar.
– Bob Kilpatrick
Guitarist, Composer,
& owner of Walkabout Drums