6-string Acoustic-electric Guitar with Sitka Spruce Top, Sapele Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard - Natural
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Value-packed Taylor Grand Concert
Combining understated aesthetics, tone-enhancing details, and amazing value, Taylor’s 300 Series guitars are incredibly popular. The richly grained Sitka spruce top of the 312ce Grand Concert V-Class acoustic-electric pairs beautifully with its sapele back and sides to deliver a powerful, beautifully balanced sound with punchy midrange focus and clear treble — a sound forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing and amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. The 312ce is a perennial favorite here at Sweetwater, and it’s easy to see — and hear — why. While you delight in its beautiful tone, your eyes will savor the 312ce’s tasteful appointments.
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V-Class bracing: a sonic revelation
Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that helps shape its sound. Although X-bracing has been standard in acoustic guitars for over a century, it creates an innate conflict between two key elements of a guitar’s sound: volume and sustain. The guitar’s top (its soundboard) contributes to both. The flexibility of the top generates volume (projection), while its stiffness generates sustain. And with X-braced guitar tops, here’s where the trade-off comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that.
With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible, for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and hence sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It’s the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation by producing notes that are not only louder and have longer sustain, but they’re also more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience it for yourself.
Ideal for fingerstyle and tracking
For fingerstyle and tracking, Sweetwater’s guitar gurus favor Taylor’s Grand Concert body style, which gives you clarity and balanced tone that lend itself to layering with other instruments in thicker arrangements where a larger-bodied acoustic would take up too much sonic real estate. This guitar’s smaller Grand Concert body and tapered waist not only make it a great studio and stage guitar, but its short scale and lighter string tension also make it easier to play — perfect for younger players with small hands. It also makes for a more efficient design; the smaller body is inherently stronger, which enables it to be more lightly braced, making it easier to set the strings in motion.
Exceptional tonewoods deliver timeless tone
As a top tonewood, Sitka spruce offers a combination of strength and elasticity that delivers a broad dynamic range with crisp articulation that’s ideal for a wide range of playing styles, from delicate fingerpicking to aggressive flatpicked strumming. Sapele, used for the back and sides of the 312ce, is tonally similar to mahogany, but its higher density tends to produce a slightly brighter sound with more high-end shimmer. The characteristic sapele sound is consistently balanced across the tonal spectrum, which makes it, again, suitable to a broad range of playing styles.
Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics
If you play plugged in, then you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your 312ce. The key to this fantastic system is the 3-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it’s positioned and how it’s integrated into the guitar’s saddle, the ES2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls lets you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet polarity switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.
Taylor 312ce Grand Concert V-Class Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
- Solid Sitka spruce top with V-Class bracing; satin finish
- Solid sapele back and sides; satin finish
- Tropical mahogany neck, Standard profile; satin finish
- Ebony fingerboard, 15-inch radius, 20 frets, Diamond inlays
- Ebony bridge and pins; Micarta saddle
- 1-3/4-inch TUSQ nut; Taylor tuners
- Taylor ES2 electronics
- 24-7/8-inch scale length
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Tech Specs
- String Type: Steel
- Number of Strings: 6
- Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
- Body Shape: Grand Concert
- Back & Sides Wood: Sapele
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Finish: Gloss
- Color: Natural
- Body Bracing: V-bracing
- Binding: Black and White
- Neck Wood: Tropical Mahogany
- Neck Shape: Standard
- Radius: 15"
- Fingerboard Material: West African Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlay: Diamonds
- Number of Frets: 20
- Scale Length: 24.84"
- Nut Width: 1.75"
- Nut/Saddle Material: Graphite/Micarta
- Bridge Material: Ebony
- Tuning Machines: Taylor Nickel
- Electronics: ES-2
- Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light, .012-.053
- Case/Gig Bag: Hardshell Case
- Body Length: 19.5"
- Body Width: 15"
- Body Depth: 4.3"
- Manufacturer Part Number: A303001111000032093
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Such a great guitar for fingerstyle
Decent guitar. Terrible electronics
acoustic electric guitars that were a third of the price that sounded better amplified.
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