what brand acoustic guitar does opeth use?

[Werther]

wondering...

 

[Led Opeth]

cf martin ,takamine ,and maybe ovation?

 

[tk_421]

Look in the album booklets, should tell you.

 

[Tubbs]

They used a Takamine 12-string on some songs I think too.

 

[JoeVice]

the official site lists the acoustics used on each album. mike uses his martin (d-16 i think?) live.

 

[Werther]

i just looked in the gr booklet and it says gibson. :_( i wanted to buy what they use but gibsons are $4000

 

[Tubbs]

If there's a Gibson, Epiphone probably has a rip-off of it.

(Well, not really a rip-off because Gibson owns Epiphone)

 

[Werther]

that martin d-16 is $1500. does a ibanez sound much worse?

 

[Tubbs]

Martin's are like, the highest quality guitars made today.

 

[Sanzen]

that martin d-16 is $1500. does a ibanez sound much worse?

Yes.

I love your posts. It's like you have no idea how people make music.

 

[Ermz]

Martin's are like, the highest quality guitars made today.

True classical guitarists would probably beg to differ there. Nonetheless, Martin's are high quality mass-produced acoustic guitars.

 

[MegaMoose]

the official site lists the acoustics used on each album. mike uses his martin (d-16 i think?) live.

And I thought the band already had too many Martins....

 

[Ermz]

*zing*

 

[JoeVice]

wow

 

[martyrs_price]

They are undoubtedly Takamine and Gibson. Unsure about anything else they may use....

 

[årt]

Try out a bunch of different ones and go with what you can afford and what sounds good. I have a Yamaha FG-435, sounds fine was $400 or so. Not as nice sounding as my friend's Takamine, but I didn't spend the $2000 (each) that they did.

One of my favorite things is to go into the humidor at Guitar Center, grab the most expensive Martin, Gibson, Takamine, etc...
and play the opening to Rainbow in the Dark look at it, hang it back on the wall and go, "This is crap!"
Make sure someone is watching.

Try it some time, I call it stress relief.

 

[Led Opeth]

And I thought the band already had too many Martins....

thats a good one.... "2 martins plus 3 swedes plus a few more martins = Opeth"

 

[Benighted Joe]

Opeth uses the 6-string CF Martin 00016GT on the latest three albums.

This is the one I have as well.

It's an outstanding guitar - Take a look on my avatar

This is gonna make you kinda jealous: I bought the guitar where Mike bought
his! When I asked the seller about Opeth he told me he knew Mike, because
Mike had actually worked in this very shop for six years! Wrote his first
material there.

 

[Tubbs]

That's pretty interesting.

Although I must admit, I would rather have one of the insanely high quality models like the D-45 or something.

 

[N-MAYH]

this is taken directly from www.Opeth.com
Mike Akerfeldt
"Acoustic guitars/steel string: CF Martin 00016GT (with Fishman pickup), CF Martin 00028, Takamine EF385 (12string), Seagull S6CW (with Fishman pick up)
Acoustic guitars/classical nylon: Amalio Burguet 3am (cedar top), Landola CT2/w. Fishman pickup "
thats what it says about accoustics