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This, I think, is the trailer to the documentary he is referring to. So one can go to Amazon and search for it.

@Mike Hoodenpyle I would love to be able to do that. And I've posted this question in a couple forums and been told that. But there is neither of them in a shop locally.

Strings, thanks! But no, I'm not. I was but I am now, I think, ever so slightly, leaning towards the 000-15M. I think! 🙃 But I have to say. Whenever someone posts an "either/or" post asking for guitar purchase advice, some, usually towards the end of the thread, says, "Get both!" But first response?!?! Great job! And "guitarsenal". I love it.

I think I have posted on here about my next guitar probably is going to be a PRS McCarty 594. But, if I look at my guitar stable, where I have a recognizable deficiency is in the acoustic side. I'm an electric guy first and I'm fortunate I've got a handful of nice electric guitars that reflect that. But, if I post a NGD thread anytime soon, it really should be for an acoustic. Should that happen, until now, I have always known that thread would announce a new Martin 000-EC. I had the opportunity to play one at a local store here and fell in love. But recently I watched a guy with Alamo Guitars discuss the Martin 000-15M series. He said something to the effect it is not just the best value in the Martin line but maybe the best value of any acoustic guitar out there right now. He also raved about the mahogany for blues and how all the old blues guys played 000 size mahogany guitars. When I think about those guys and their guitars, he's right! 000 or auditorium size mahogany guitars! Sweetwater also says "the 000-15M may be one of the best values you'll find". There is also a, the term is "artist clinician for C.F. Martin Guitar & Co", named Corey Congilio that I actually met at a "road show" for Martin here in Omaha. (He has also been a guest clinician for Steve at Guitar Gathering and quite a few of us here have purchased his TrueFire courses.) He is the one that had largely talked me into the Clapton. But he also, on a YT video about Martin guitars, raved about the 15M both for the tone of the mahogany for acoustic blues and the value. So.........what say you Martin experts? Anyone here, hopefully, familiar with both the EC and the 15M series? To be clear, I'm not saying the 15M is my fallback. It seems like it is a great guitar in its own right. If not, I'm in a position to go forward with the EC. But if the 15M will serve me well for blues I can take the difference and apply it to the PRS electric soon. (yeah, I've got a problem 😉) Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Sorry I missed this till now. If you haven't bought yet, do it before someone else does!!!!!! I love my Blues, Jr. If was pure accident I bought it when I did. I just thought an amp was an amp. I am now learning what great tone it has, especially for blues. And I paid way more than $200 for it!

It is my opinion that there is absolutely no possible way to answer this. And I base this opinion on being around here for a few years and seeing the dramatic differences in time it has taken people to complete the course. That is to say, the few people that I have seen actually finish. I have seen a couple finish it in what appears record, shocking time, maybe a year or less. But for most that have finished the time can be measured in years rather than months. I suspect that the reasons that there is so much variation in the time it takes can be attributed to a few reasons. There are probably others. The amount of time available to practice. Or perhaps a more accurate way of saying it is the amount of time people are willing to sacrifice to study. We have lots of people on here that have careers and families and it is difficult to carve out study times. We have others, yours truly included, that are retired and have much time available. There just is a variable in amount of natural ability students have. We have seen students go on to play in bands. We have others, again using myself as the example, that hope to be able to play along in the music room to a backing track someday. There is no way to document, but I think most would agree, there is a variable in the amount of dedication the student possesses. This undoubtedly, to a large measure, effects #1. But the amount of fire is going to change outcomes. Age effects progress. If you notice, I edited this reply. After thinking about it I had to come back and add this one. (Subconsciously, I didn't want to admit this?!?!? 😆) The good news is I and my fellow retired geezers have more time to study. The bad news is we retain things more slowly. I'm sure there are other factors. I wish that I could give you a quantitative answer but I can't. Sorry.

@Nairon You have received some just great advice and I applaud everything that has been said. @Six String, makes such a great point about considering your use. In the video I am going to link below the presenter takes a pick to the back of the Martin laminate to demonstrate how resistant it is. And certainly you are not breaking any rules "by getting specific ". We do it all the time. This video may be helpful as it is talking about guitars mostly in your price range. It is, admittedly, all about Martins, but you did mention Martin in your OP. It's a little over your budget but I think it is the Martin 15 Series he calls "not just the best value in the Martin line-up but maybe the best values in an acoustic guitar, period". I have been thinking very seriously about a Martin 000-EC. But I am now, thanks to this guy about the 15 M. I want to play acoustic blues and he raves about the tone of the mahogany for blues. And I would save a lot of money, We are all hoping to see a NGD post from you soon! Let us know how the shopping goes!

Don't apologize for providing something we all might find helpful! Thank you for this.

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Craig, I know that you "pulled the trigger" but perhaps for anyone else looking this will be relevant. He starts off saying for home use it has to be less than 15 watts. Then demos some that are 22 watts or more. But those all have some form of attenuation. Rhett Shull's Best Tube Guitar Amps for home Use:

Channel 105 and "Guitar Heroes" is not what they call it. Whatever they call it, it is interesting.....entertaining. I just came across it a couple days ago. The guest host when I first stumbled across it was Nancy Wilson. She spoke very complimentary of Pete Townshend and how he influenced her. She discuss a lot about Townshend's rhythm playing. And then, of course, played some Who music. I can't remember who she discussed and played next. Then the next day the guest host was Peter Frampton and he discussed and played BB King and Clapton. Frampton spoke at length about having BB King on his "Guitar Circus" tour, meeting him and how nervous he was meeting BB King the first time. If Wilson and Frampton are representative of their typical guest hosts listening to them might be as entertaining, or more so, than the music. If you have Sirius you might check it out.

You guys are making me very envious😡 Someday, I hope to make it there. (Yeah, I say that every year!) enjoy!!!

Perhaps you are Henk. But then, so am I.

I love it already after a couple minutes!! "A guitar. Like finding the woman of your life"😄😉 Btw, we don't allow advertising here. But since this is a documentary and you're not selling (your only revenues are from YT) we are going to allow this. (And I hope you don't mind. I made your YouTube url a clickable link. Maybe a little easier for folks.)

Henk, congratulations on the beautiful new guitar. It is, as you described, gorgeous! I am curious why the requirement of 1 3/4" nut. Enjoy it a long time.

I have seen many references to "Manny's Music" in different stories about different guitar legends. I remember in Clapton's autobiography his mentioning getting some guitar there. Henry Goldrich, Gear Guru to Rock Stars, Is Dead at 88

@BrokenSpoke I'm not sure, when the dust settled, who ended up owning the copyright to the course. I would guess that Legacy now owns it since they sell it on the website and through Amazon. But knowing the answer to that is probably little more than an academic exercise. It's not offered anywhere as a digital download I've heard nothing to suggest that it will be offered that way anytime in the future. Of course, as you said, you could buy a DVD player and hook it up. Will that allow you to play them where you practice? Or you could do as @Fretless, I, and many others have done. You could rip the DVD's to your hard drive, and then play them with a video player such as VLC. @Fretlessmentioned he used HandBrake; I use a program called WinX DVD Ripper. Just about any lessons I own on DVD, I rip to MP4 files because I study using a slow down/looping program called Video Surgeon. BrokenSpoke, is it possible for you to rip the DVD's to playable files? I realize you're shelling out more $ to play something you already own. I think I paid around $40 for the DVD Ripper program. I think Fretless' Handbrake may be free. If not, do you know someone that could rip them for you? Know a highschool kid could do it for you?!🤣 I hope you get this resolved soon and can get back to studying.

17!!!!!!! 17!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!? Do we really need 17 pedals on our individual boards? Of course we can argue about that ad infinitum. And if we come to some sort of agreement we don't need 17, how many pedals do we need? Which ones? If I recall Steve's video on this, there are 4 essential pedals: chorus, overdrive, delay and compressor? I'm not sure on Steve's 4th. I think it was a compressor. But here is an interesting article on what they consider the 17 Must Have Guitar Pedals. If you agree these are 17 must have or not, it is an interesting discussion about the different pedals available. It may at least spark some thoughts on trying some other pedals. And, of course, that isn't necessarily a good thing!!! 😮😄

Same here, Cinco. I wish I could help out. Doug got further into the course than I have. I bought it not too long after the main L&MG course. But working on the main course I just never started the Blues one. And I actually did start playing with others just before Covid-19 hit. I found 2 other guys to jam with. It was so much fun. We met weekly on Wednesday and I looked forward to it every week. And, yep, then the pandemic changed everything. With the great news of the vaccine(s) hopefully life will be back to near normal before too long!

are appropriately named. These are Top Backing Tracks! To be clear, these are backing tracks, not jam tracks. Learning a song and want comping for your playing? These may be just what you need. Which is exactly how I came across them. I was looking for backing for Santana's "I Love You Too Much" and I don't know how I could find a better one. Nor do I know how they produce these. It is almost as if they have the original tracks to the song and just muted the lead guitar. They are that good. Santana, Hendrix, Clapton, BB King, Aerosmith, Prince, GNR, Zeppelin, they have them. This is the Santana "I Love You Too Much" I found. Go here on YouTube and then go to his channel to find his list of tracks. Enjoy!!!

I will venture the compression pedal is one of the least understood pedals on our pedal boards. It is probably not fair to say this just based on my ignorance of the workings of the compression pedal, but if I am at all representative it may be true. I'm sure many, as I did, dialed in settings until it "sounded good" and left it there. This is the best explanation/tutorial video I have seen on how to use a compression pedal. There are many more videos on YouTube and also on places like Sweetwater, on their website, that have explanations. But most of them, the Sweetwater ones as perfect examples, are little more than suggested settings. (I highlighted "video" above because this is the best video I've seen. I also have a link at the end of this post for a good print article.) This video goes into all the different settings, demonstrating the knobs on different compression pedals may have different terms for the same settings, demonstrates with graphs how the settings effect tone (the geek in me loves the graphs), and even uses Jimmy upstairs, mom on the main floor and dad in the basement for example🤔 JHS pedals is a pedal manufacturer so one would logically expect lots of selling of his product. But, in all of his pedal videos, he goes to great lengths to describe lots of his favorite pedals from other manufacturers. He also always includes humor ("start your own music genre, spaghetti western"!) and he always ends every video with a record that demonstrates remarkable use of the effect he is discussing. Finally, he is a very good guitar player and demonstrates the settings he uses. If you are the type that prefers a written explanation this, perhaps somewhat self-aggrandizing, article calls itself the Ultimate Guide to Guitar Compressor Pedals. Ultimate or not it is very comprehensive.

We saw Chick Corea just once decades ago. It was with Return to Forever at this intimate little venue here in Omaha called "The Ranch Bowl". Somehow fittingly, where this Ranch Bowl sat, is now a Walmart. It was an enjoyable show. But at the time I had no idea of his genius. Hard to imagine but I was even more oblivious then than now. How many musicians has he influenced? Jean-Luc Ponty? How many guitar careers launched? Al Di Meola? Chick Corea passed away yesterday.

Yes, @Jay.A and @3PowerChordsAndAnAttitude it is done manually. First off, @3PowerChordsAndAnAttitude, I love the username! 😎 And, yes, it seems like everyone at some point asks, "How is that done?" I did. You just go to your User Profile and incorporate it into your signature. I hope you guys keep us posted on your progress. Anytime you have questions, post here!

Good Luck to you, @Dolph and welcome to the forum. Keep us posted on your progress.