Baton Rouge AR81C/ACE Natural

Finish: Setup is OK no problem, good. Tension not too high, comfortable. Only strings has to be change for maybe some XT Daddarios or Elixir. Neck is wider for bigger hands (guiet fat) as normal 43mm, not comfortable too much, but I play on every nut types guitars. Tuning machine is from China, it feels cheap but no problem with tuning at all.

Sound: Sound is good, not high end, but for this price range it´s fine. Good amount of bass, light low-end, middles and highs are more clearer than on Spruce/mahagony guitars, but not sharp at all. Fingerpickers good choice. If you want to improve sound on this guitar you need to change plastic bone nut and saddle for BONE nut, than it will shine this guitar much more.

Electronics: BR 2.1 pickup is piezo+mic. First time I tried to dial good sound wasn´t easy, but next time I quiet found how to dial sounds. For me Onboard tuner is average and I wasn´t satisfied too much with piezo+mic blending.

Overall: This guitar is ALL SOLID absolutely, I can confirm Solid cedar, solid mahagony back and sides. This guitar is good, not inspirative one for me. If you setup this guitar as i wrote it will be really good guitar for this price.... I was comparing with Yamaha fsx 3 and Yamaha won with sound but failed with electronics.

Celkem příjemná kytara, hlavně širší krk.
Ale velké zklamání,
nejede o celomasivni kytaru, jak je uvedeno v popisu.
Boky jsou laminované! Je to patrné při pohledu do otvoru.
Jeden z boků je na polovinu vyroben ze dvou odlišných dýh. Naprosto evidentní laminát.
Zvukově je kytara zcela průměrná, jako většina polomasivnich kytar za mnohem méně peněz.
Je smutné, že je možné, aby takový prodejce, jako je Thomann takto klamal zákazníky.
Kytaru posílám znovu zpátky. (u předchozí kytary Guild byla
prodejcem uvedena špatná šířka krku! )

PROs:
- Amazing sound
- Very easy to play
- Great build quality
- Pickup is good for percussion

CONs:
- Some small visual defects on some places, nothing major
- The pickup system is great for recording percussion, but the guitar itself doesn't sound really good, it's pretty distorted, though generally most pickups don't sound too good

Overall I love the guitar, it was perfectly set up by Thomann they also changed both the nut and saddle. It's extremely easy to play, even with higher gauge strings (12/53), it's easier to play than my Guild DS-240, which uses 11/52.