Takamine GD30CE-N

I bought this because the pre-amplifier in my old Harley Benton 120CE had started to misbehave, and I needed an electro-acoustic for gigging. I decided to go up market and choose an entry level quality brand guitar and this was my choice.
It’s nicely finished, although there is stress mark on mine on the body which I find rather distracting. The frets are properly dressed and the neck relief and intonation are both good. The tuner is a particularly useful and effective. The tone from the pre-amp is clear and uncoloured – I am happy with that.
The first thing I did was change the strings. The factory D’Addarios sounded to my ears rather cheap and nasty. I restrung with a set Harley Benton HQS WE 12-53PB and was immediately a lot happier with the tone. The main thing that distinguishes this guitar from a more usual dreadnought is the shape, thickness and finish of the neck which is more electric guitar in profile and has a matt surface. It is even thinner than the necks on either of my Schecters and this causes a measure of difficulty when using a capo – the only capo that will work is a Shubb (S1), my favourite Daddario CP02 simply will not go small enough to fret the strings.
Overall happy with my purchase, but I can imagine that there are better made and finished guitars of this style out there that cost a lot less.

Top guitars! For me i have had three of those and so far excellent sound! Years ago switched from Takamine to Taylor but couldn't use to the weak bass, so i sold the more expensive Taylor to go back to Takamine! Like all of the features of the guitar! In build tuner is great to have on the run. Strings are 12 so the sound has power when you stream hard, crystal clear when with new strings especially Elexir. The battery holds a lot if you use Duracell! High of the strings is perfect and no buzzing out of the box. Like also the features with the strings going through the saddle, so it's very convenient to change the strings fast if you need it! I can speak a lot for this guitar but maybe the most liked feature for me is powerful sound and crystal clear. No cons at all, that's my brand guitars! I have jumbo and classical one also!