Makes a lot of sense. The 000 definitely wins that battle! It's the go-to when you just wanna sit down and relax and play something nice.

so the 000 has evo frets is that right? and from what i read you dont detect much difference in terms of tone etc?

@@rblanks2050 That’s right. I sent my Dreadnought in for a re-fret also and had them change it to EVO fretwire. I’m sure if it were possible to play the same guitar back-to-back with standard vs EVO frets, you could probably notice a very slight difference, but my dread sounds the same to me as before. The EVO fretwire feels a lot smoother and peace of mind knowing I’m likely not to ever develop a buzz because a fret is worn out since they last much longer.

Thanks. Glad you liked it and thanks for the nice comment. :)

Glad it was helpful! :)

Thanks for watching and your kind comments.

Thanks! I'm planning on making another quiz soon using two Pre-War Guitars Dreadnought guitars that have different tone woods. It'll be fun to hear them back-to-back. Haven't had a chance yet because I recently had shoulder surgery, but I'm on the mend, so hopefully soon!

@@BoydTimothy Thank you!! Sounds great!! I hope your shoulder gets better and better. For a few years My arms and fingers have not been perfect to move so I changed the way I play. No play a guitar, no life for me. I'm waiting for your new cool demo!!

Thanks. If you can find the right one, a 000 can really do well.

Nice! Congrats and thanks for watching. :)

P.S. - I'd have to try them both live - but 99 % the dread would win.

@@Ziraffe2 Thanks for watching and for commenting. For sure, I'd likely choose the dread myself too, especially since I mostly play bluegrass. The 000 is fun to play on when I'm solo and even though it has the volume, it falls apart a little bit with too jangly of strings when trying to flatpick fast at a jam.

Wow! Great ear and congrats on your 000! :)

Thank you. You really can't go wrong with a good 000. I'll bet your '63 D28 sings nicely too!

@@BoydTimothy The '63 is like a grand piano.....just an amazing guitar.

Wow! Nice work and thanks for dropping a comment about them.

000s are definitely not brighter than Dreads. Well all depends on the bracing. But usually short scales are warmer

Way to go! Thanks for your comment and you’re among the lucky ones who has gotten them all correct. I’ve taken it myself a few times and have missed a couple.

@@BoydTimothy can't wait for your next quizzes. 👍

@@vivattt I recently released another one comparing two dreadnoughts with different tone woods that you might like: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/apiRa8Vhts6UYYk.html

Thanks! Nice score to only miss one. I’ve been doing some recording of some songs I’ve written and have been finding that my 000 is a lot more balanced and needs less EQ treatment to remove (barely) certain low frequencies. My dread I have to pull down certain lower frequencies in order to make it not be too boomy. But, when playing live with others there’s nothing more satisfying than the big bottom end of my dread. The newer D28 guitars that Martin is making right now are pretty stellar. I wouldn’t mind picking one of those up myself. :)

Nice work! 000 is an excellent choice. Wish I could play blues a little better. It’s a work in progress.

Nice work! 6/7 I is better than I’ve ever done. You can’t go wrong with a 000 for sure. One thing I found recording my dread is the location I record makes a huge difference. I’ve since treated my room with acoustic panels and, more importantly, bass traps in the corners. That and mic placement make a huge difference. But for sure the body size difference affects the sound a lot. Best of luck with the RK. Sounds like it’ll be a great one!

Glad you liked it and nice job getting 6/7! Great plan to save up for a 000-28 too. Can't go wrong with one of those. :)

It does always seem that N+1 is the solution to all problems! :)

@@BoydTimothy Ain't that the truth! Have you ever watched some of the older videos of The Greekflatpicker (Yiannis) . He has some priceless videos of many different vintage and custom guitars. Yiannis is in Greece and super nice guy and a killer player too.

@@USNAVDC I've watched a number of his videos. He is such a great player! I've "borrowed" one of his many breaks to New Camptown Races. Amazing that he comes across so many different guitars. I like when he and his friend trade back flatpicking breaks.

and after getting the OOO, and the dread, get a mandolin, and then a banjo, and then a parlor, and then... :)

Thank you!

Good job. I think overall my 000 gets more play time, but if I'm performing live (which will eventually happen again), I'm usually toting the dread.

Glad it helped. Thanks for commenting. The Pre*War 000 can certainly handle a lot. Good luck with your search!

Nice job! It’s definitely harder to pick them out than I though they’d be. In person it’s a little easier. Thanks for your comment. :)

Thanks for your comments. I'm glad I'm not the only one who got fooled in the test by a couple of them. The Martin 000-28 is a great guitar and I love the neck width and bridge spacing they're currently doing - exactly the same specs as both my PW guitars.

Great point. Nothing beats first-hand experience. I'd also say that my 000 records really well. It has a very balanced sound where my dreadnought can get a little tricky because it has so much low end to it. I use medium gauge strings on both and that also contributes to a closer sound. A lot of people like to use lighter gauge strings on a 000 and that definitely makes it feel and sound quite a bit different. Thanks for reporting your score and for your insightful comment.

@@BoydTimothy I agree. I’m mostly a fingerstyle guitarist myself, and it’s interesting because the first proper acoustic I bought was an mahogany Eastman E1-OM, that I ended up “trading” for a rosewood dreadnaught (Yamaha LL-16). It’s fantastic, but yes the bass is harder to control. I still have the credit locked in the store, so I might go pick up that Eastman again (like a fool, lol), but have a hard time deciding between the OM or the dreadnaught equivalent (E1D). I found the D to actually be more balanced in sound albeit more “boring” where as the OM was a bit boomy in the low mids (the reason I gave it back) - but it also had an incredible midrange sweetness to it. Just a little story on the difficulties of finding that “stranded-on-an-island-guitar”. Like you said, one needs both. Thanks again for commenting and this excellent unbiased and blind comparison, there needs to more like this.

I agree. I usually associate a bigger bass response to a dreadnought but I also think it has a lot to do with the particular build of the 000 in question. I’ve never been a fan of the Martin-built ones from the 90’s and early 2000s with straight braces. Once they moved to scalloped bracing it made a huge difference. And then, of course, the modern ones built by Pre-War Guitars Co. are in a different league entirely because they are building them in the same way as a good 1930s specimen with scalloped bracing, hide glue, etc.

same here, also on 6 he played a little softer then louder on the 000 passage so it was a little confusing but agree, on all the others the dreadknaught sounded much better especially the E string.

I felt the opposite. Amazing how the 000 held up with certain strengths of a dread

Exactly

You make a great point!

Ah, great work! Thanks for giving it a go. I've missed a couple myself when I've taken the quiz so don't feel to bad. Great to have both of them to pick on.

Thanks, and great work getting that many right. It's more difficult than you think. Hard to pick which one I like the most although 8 times out of 10 choose my dread ... but only because I mostly play bluegrass.

Totally true. You can get a lot of use out of either of these guitars. Thx for watching and for your thoughts. I do find though that the 000 falls a tiny bit short when I want to flat pick really quickly. The strings are just too loose because it's a short-scale that they feel a bit jangly. That same phenomenon doesn't happen on my dread.

Nice! Hey, at least your ear is consistent. :)

Same hehe

I couldn't have said it better. That's a really great explanation about these two styles. Thanks!

Thanks for the comments! My studio is currently torn apart waiting for new carpet, but I’d love to add a follow-up video to this one. I have much better microphones (some DIY KM-84 clones I made) and a good way to stereo mic my guitars. My two guitars featured in this video both ave a 1 3/4” neck and the exact same bridge spacing. You’re right, I ventured out of the norm by using mediums on my 000. My particular 000 handles mediums perfectly. The purpose of my video was to keep as many things consistent as possible and in this case, the woods are the same (both mahogany back and sides and Adirondack tops). For sure, they’d sound a lot less different if I put light gauge strings on the 000 - but then I probably wouldn’t play it as much (personal preference). Haha.

Nice work! For sure, most 000 guitars I’ve played have something quite a bit different than dreads. Most of the 15-30yr old Martin 000 guitars (before they recently changed them to thinner and scalloped bracing) don’t sound that great to me. I like what they’ve done in their recent builds and Pre-War’s 000, to me, produces quite an incredible clear tone.

Spot on!

Bingo

6! That's a pretty good score. My dreadnought's out of commission for a couple weeks, but my 000 is filling in very nicely. Thanks for watching and reporting your score. Keep on picking!

I also got 6 of 7, and it was ALSO number 6 that I had backwards! Guess we have the same ears!

Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but great choice!😄

It's fun when you can use guitars for what they were designed to

I like the Dread inside too. Idk. I just like the sound of a dread

Nice job! I think I prefer dreadnought most of the time, especially playing out with friends. You might try one of the traditional series of Collings. Their necks have seemed a bit more chunky to me, but maybe I'm just forgetting. :)

You can definitely get a very chunky neck on a Martin dread

Hehe. Don't feel too disappointed. I've taken the quiz myself and I don't think I've once gotten 7/7. You're right, they're both pretty stellar axes and I feel lucky to have them. Thanks for watching and your comment!

I know right, small body is just so cozy and accessible. But once you hear that dreadnaught thump it’s hard to go back.

Get an OM, size of the 000 but with the scale length of the dreadnought. Get a little more punch and volume.

Same

Thanks for watching it. Yes, these are made by the “Pre*War Guitars Co.” Located in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Good luck on the search for the RK 127.

You can never go wrong by having one of each. :)

Go for it! Variety is the spice of life!

Wow! Interesting that you had them flipped, but that consistency is better than how I did on my own quiz. Thanks for trying it out. :)

Also, my jumbo, Dread and 000 are all the same scale length so I don’t know what he’s talking about. My L-OO and my taylor GS mini both have shorter scales but not by much. The L-00 is just slightly smaller and the mini needs med. strings to have the same tension as light or “regular” strings

Good perspective. I also think it depends on the size of the ensemble. When it's just me, the 000 works great but put me in a loud acoustic jam and I definitely want my dread. Singing and performing solo with a mic? A smaller-bodied guitar does the trick really well. Such good tone too.

@@EveyoneCallsMeTheDude 000s are supposed to be short scale. OM is the same scale as a dread

Perfectly said! :)

"What can you do but buy both?" Honestly, I feel guilty that I don't play my single acoustic often enough to keep it in top shape, so it just sits there and gets older by useless string tension. The more I play her, the better she sounds. And it's a 25yo WRC top, which does not require much work to get it going. My nephew got himself a spruce top acoustic, but then transitioned to electric. His guitar is not even broken in. She sounds dead as a doornail. But those strings pull on her 24/7 for several years already...

@@bakters - Sorry to hear your time is in such short supply. I regularly play 4-5 guitars at home and they sound great. Have a travel guitar I enjoy several times a year as well. Fun and great sounding for what it is.

@@jamesmartin9406 "I regularly play 4-5 guitars at home and they sound great" Well, what if you played just one. All the time. Then tell me if they (all) still sound great. Or, to put it differently, pick one and play it a lot, while you "exercise" all the rest, just to make it fair. The most played guitar will sound the best, as long as you picked the one which fundamental sound you already like.

@@bakters - I like to play different sizes and wood makeups to much to focus just on one. Works for me. I’m in this for the fun of it. Nothing more.

Nice work!

Nice work! Lately I’ve been favoring my 000 because I think I might like how much warmer it sounds in person. :) Jazz is awesome!

@@BoydTimothy Thanks man! Indeed, it is!