Taylor 614ce Maple Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Torified Solid Sitka Top

6-String | Torrefied Spruce Top | Maple Back and Sides | Hard Rock Maple Neck | West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard | Expression System® 2 Electronics | Venetian Cutaway

Crafted with solid Big Leaf maple back and sides and a torrefied Sitka spruce top, the Taylor 614ce offers an updated take on what players may know as the maple sound. Revoiced by Andy Powers to generate more warmth and openness, this Grand Auditorium takes a boost from the V-Class bracing inside, which adds volume and sustain that complement the torrefied top's extra sweetness and depth. The result is a guitar with a highly player-reflective sound, one that showcases the unique stylistic and technical quirks of each individual player. A hand-rubbed Brown Sugar stain highlights maple's natural figuring; other appointments include ebony binding, a paua/abalone rosette and Wings fretboard inlays. It ships with ES2 electronics and a hardshell case.

• Beautifully figured Big Leaf maple back and sides
• Torrefied spruce top adds depth and sweetness
• V-Class bracing pumps up the volume and sustain
• Player-reflective sound that highlights your style
• Comes with hardshell case and built-in ES2 pickup

FEATURES

Grand Auditorium Body: An original Bob Taylor design introduced in 1994, the Grand Auditorium remains Taylor's most popular body shape thanks to its mid-size proportions, balanced voice and exceptional versatility. Its tapered waist and refined dimensions generate clear, well-defined notes that respond well to fingerstyle play, flatpicking and strumming, a character that fits nicely with other instruments while more than holding its own as a solo instrument.

Sound

• Vibrant voice with articulate, balanced notes
• Impressive projection and sustain thanks to V-Class bracing
• Appealing midrange presence

Feel & Fit

• Medium size with tapered waist makes it physically comfortable
• Large enough to produce room-filling volume
• Musically versatile, making it a great workhorse guitar

Who is this for?

Almost everybody. Its versatility has made the Grand Auditorium Taylor's most popular shape, popular among bold strummers and soft fingerpickers alike. It also performs beautifully in both live performance and recording applications as well as in songwriting, and it’s accommodating enough to be comfortable even for first-time players.

Grand Auditorium Body Specifications: Body Length: 20” / Width at Waist: 9-5/8” / Width at Lower Bout: 16” / Depth from Soundhole: 4-5/8” / String Scale Length: 25-1/2”

Maple Body Wood: Maple has long been associated with a bright acoustic sound, but Taylor’s maple guitars are voiced to bring out greater warmth, richness and sustain. This broadens maple’s tonal range from a single-dimension sound to a more musical, more versatile voice.

Origin: Pacific Northwest

Sound: Traditionally known for having a focused tone with a fast note decay that cuts through a mix, Taylor's maple guitars are designed to produce greater warmth, complexity, volume, sustain and responsiveness, while retaining maple’s naturally clear, linear qualities. The clarity of the high end is still there, but the bottom end has been extended. The result is a more multi-dimensional sound that gives players the kind of musical versatility of other classic tonewoods, making Taylor's maple models a compelling choice as a primary guitar, not just a stage guitar. Taylor's maple guitars are voiced to be very reflective of the player’s technique, so a player with a dynamic playing style or someone who likes to vary their picking attack will appreciate how easily those playing nuances come through in the tonal response.

Goes Well With: Most playing applications. Taylor’s maple guitars respond well to a variety of playing styles and settings.

Torrefied Spruce Top Wood: By far the most popular and common wood used for acoustic guitar tops, spruce has a long heritage in the music world. In typical Taylor style, Taylor developed their signature recipe for a process called “torrefaction” to make spruce sound even richer and more sophisticated, adding a new dimension to this much-loved wood.

Torrefaction is a process in which spruce tops (before being added to guitar bodies) are roasted in ovens typically used for drying out wood so that it can be worked. The roasting process lends the wood a slightly darker visual hue while also altering its structure slightly to give it new sonic traits. In particular, torrefied spruce tops tend to sound warmer and sweeter, giving them a played-in quality you would expect from a much older piece of wood. While torrefaction cannot replicate the effects of decades of age and play, it does provide a touch of extra sonic depth without losing spruce’s trademark clarity, articulation or volume.

Origin: Canada and Alaska

Goes Well With: Virtually all musical genres and playing styles.

Expression System® 2: The Taylor Expression System® 2 (ES2) is a revolutionary pickup design that delivers the latest in Taylor’s ongoing innovation in acoustic guitar amplification. The heart of the Expression System 2 is Taylor’s patented behind-the-saddle pickup, which features three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. The location of the sensors enables a more dynamic range of acoustic sound to be captured than ever before. Together with Taylor’s custom-designed “professional audio”-grade preamp, this system produces exceptional amplified tone and responsiveness. On stage through a PA, plugged into your favorite acoustic amplifier, or direct into recording software, the Expression System 2 faithfully conveys the voice of your Taylor guitar.

Venetian Cutaway: The Venetian cutaway is known for its soft, round lines. The sloping peak of the cutaway will vary depending on the shape of the body. The Grand Concert and Grand Auditorium have a steeper slope, while the Dreadnought is a bit flatter. Taylor's Grand Concert nylon-string models also feature a subtle, flatter slope, while Taylor's 200 Series cutaway models incorporate their flattest slope.

V-Class Bracing: Taylor's patented V-Class bracing is a revolutionary new pattern — a new sonic engine — that marks a major shift away from traditional steel-string bracing patterns. By allowing the soundboard to flex naturally while maintaining rigidity along the center (in the direction of the strings), V-Class helps enhance the volume and sustain. It also creates a more orderly response from the soundboard. Up and down the fretboard, notes are full, true and consistent, with more harmonic agreement. It represents an entirely new design platform that can be adapted to different body styles in different ways to infuse each with a unique sonic personality.

SPECIFICATIONS

General

• Orientation: Right Handed
• Bracing System: V-Class Bracing
• Cutaway: Venetian Cutaway
• Electronics: Expression System® 2

Body

• Top Wood: Torrefied Spruce
• Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge
• Body Binding :West African Crelicam Ebony
• Armrest: No
• Top Finish: Gloss 4.5
• Back/Side Finish: Gloss 4.5

Neck

• Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple
• Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Fretboard Inlay: Grained Ivoroid Wings
• Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Finish Satin

Peghead

• Scale Length: 25-1/2"
• Peghead Inlay: Grained Ivoroid Wings
• Peghead Type: Standard
• Peghead Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Finish: Gloss

Other

• Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• Pickguard: Dark Stained Maple
• Tuners: Taylor Nickel