2 years ago

This is a demo of a first year re-imagined Martin.
The re-imagined series is now what you get as a standard Martin but it was quite an upheaval in the model range, resulting in a new neck style and carve known as the modified low oval carve, open gear Grover tuners, an aged toner to the Sitka Spruce top and forward shifted X bracing.

These changes were first brought to the D-28 model and the year after applied to the rest of the range. If you have played a recent Martin you will be familiar with the neck carve. It's not what I would choose for electric but perfect for acoustic as it's more stressful on the hand anyway and the finger position benefits from support around the carve.
Previous V necks which still feature in the vintage recreations feel awful after a while due to the lack of support for the hand. They may be deeper at the biggest point but it's the sides that support the hand.
I like the carve on Martin guitars.

This was a used purchase: someone's daily player and it sounds really good. Open and full but even across the strings. It's got some nice rosewood too. Indian rosewood for the re-imagined.

My demo features a Rode NT1-A and SM57 on fretboard and behind the bridge and I have added a touch of 'small studio' reverb from a Lexicon plug-in in Studio One.