My favourite guitar sound will be from the song "Little Wing" by Laurence Juber in his "The Collection" CD, It is recorded with his Adirondack/Brazilian OM2C... thats probably part of the reason... It is so rich sounding, clarity and powerful! This is what in my mind the what a perfect guitar should sound like..

I also love the guitar sound on his "Altered Reality" Album..

Some of Tony Rice's Recording were also my favourite, the guitar recorded beautifully.. not sure if they are with his 1935 D28 or Santa Cruz Tony Rice Model.... It sounds like a Piano more that a Guitar...

My least favourite will have to be Doyle Dykes' guitar sound... But I do love his music a lot!! Such a wonderful player.. just don't like how his guitar sounds like in the recordings.. sounds very electric to me..

Lets here it from you as well!

For flatpicking - Tony Rice's guitars on "Unit of Measure". In-Friggin-Credible.

For fingerstyle - Ed Gerhard's Somoygi. IMHO, no one comes close to Ed's tone and musicianship.

David
Atlanta, GA
www.daviddugas.com

I have to add another one!! The recent MP3 recording from Phoenix with his new Merrill OM28 is extrodinary!! A very nice guitar sound!!

Ammanda's Reel by Kenny Smith (wow...)
Tony Rice, Manzanita album recordings.
Hey Porter, Lynn Morris Band (great V Martin sound).
There are others for sure.

Not a favorite? Dan Crary, Synergia. Great picker, but why THAT sound?

Ed, of course my favourite acoustic recording would be fm the great Tommy Emmanuel Don't know how in the world he made it sounds nice with his Maton & u & I know how Maton sounds like

Another favourite of mine is Pat Danohue. His Somogyi & Ryans guitar are simply nicely recorded.

I guess what made Doyle Dykes guitar sound so electric is its maple B/S. As u know, maple are what electrics are made of. I guess that's reason

My favorite guitar sound is on Bryan Sutton's solo CD "Ready To Go". Those Bourgeois guitars he plays sound like a million bucks!

Also, Tony Rice on "Unit of Measure". That is my favorite for a dry and deep sounding dreadnaught.

My favourite recording of course fm the great Tommy Emmanuel. My favourite is his Asia released "Initiation", & the recent "Only". I like especially his solo pieces. His Maton guitar though doesn't sound great to the ears, however did great on the recordings.

My other favourite are those 2 CDs produced by Taylor guitars.

Wonder whether there'll be CD collections by Collings guitars?

Traditional sound: Anything by Norman Blake.

Free-form: Andrew Hardin's work behind Tom Russell. (I understand Andrew is a new Collings owner, although he played a "cardboard" Takamine, I think, for years - playing lead, with Tom playing rhythm on a Collings!)

All-time Classic: John Heralds' work on the early Ian and Sylvia albums.

Peter.

I agree with Dave Dugas; Ed Gerhard's Somoygi as used on his CD's "Luna" and "Night Birds" is incredible.

Martin Simpson's Sobell (at least I think that's the axe he used) on "Fair Annie," which is from his "The Bramble Briar" CD, sounds very good to me, too.

I've always been floored by Mississippi John Hurt's sound on those live Vanguard albums from the 60's.Sounds like it was tuned down a lot but it's big, whatever the guitar and tuning.

I love Joni Mitchell's lowered open tunings on acoustic like the stuff from For The Roses

Check out the electric guitars on Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road The best tone I've EVER heard.