Taylor Gold Label 514e Electro-Acoustic Guitar
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The store is open 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday and 11am - 5pm Sunday and bank holidays.
The stock information shows the quantity of units that are available to purchase at the Guildford store and the quantity of units that are available at our off-site Guildford warehouse. These stock levels are updated in real time.
Our Click and Collect service is available at our Guildford store from 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am - 5pm on Sunday. You can either choose click and collect as your delivery option online or, during store opening hours, call our sales team at 01483 456777 to place a 10% deposit.
If you have placed your order online, you will receive a confirmation email of your order and a separate follow-up text or email to confirm when your item is ready for collection.
Please do not come to the store before you have received the follow-up message, as your order may not yet be ready at the store.
If the only available stock is in our off-site warehouse it can be brought to the store location for you to try - you just need to contact the store within opening hours. Please note any requests received after 3.30pm will not arrive at the store until the following morning.
Please be aware that, unless you have paid a deposit to reserve the item, it will continue to be free, both online and in-store, for another customer to buy. Therefore we would advise you to place a 10% deposit by either using the on-line click and collect service or calling us 01483 456777.
SKU: 514E-GL
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Product Description
Boasting superior craftsmanship, top-tier tonewoods and a bevvy of design innovations, the Gold Label 714e introduces the world to a new kind of Taylor sound. This model features a new body shape we've called the Super Auditorium, a slightly larger version of our famous Grand Auditorium shape that yields impressive power with a heritage-inspired warmth and richness that will entice traditionalists and contemporary ears alike.
Key Features
- Torrefied Body Top - Taylor’s torrefying (roasting) process, in essence, seasons the wood to vintage perfection. With additional overtones and resonance as well as a played-in warmth that you'd only expect to find on a guitar that’s at least 30 years old.
- Mahogany Back & Sides - A midrange powerhouse. Mahogany is prized for balance and articulation, making it one of the best all-around tonewoods there is.
- LR Baggs Element VTC Electronics - The onboard pickup and preamp give a superior warmth and natural balance of tone, heightening the overall sound.
- Action Control Neck - The Taylor Action Control Neck combines the superior tone of a long-tenon joint with their previous neck micro-adjustability, resulting in a neck with enhanced acoustic tone and resonance, along with effortless adjustability.
Super Auditorium Body Design
The Mahogany back and sides are paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, delivering exceptionally well-rounded acoustic tone with a punchy mid-range. Its jumbo size provides added depth as well as the signature warm richness and powerful dynamics associated with Mahogany acoustics. Inside, a new iteration of Taylor's V-Class bracing dials up longer sustain, greater volume and near-perfect pitch accuracy all the way up the neck. A new long-tenon neck joint improves overall resonance and sonic transfer, also providing super-precise adjustability whenever the need arises.
Appointments include a Curve Wing bridge in Honduran rosewood with matching bridge pins, cream-coloured binding and a matching single-ring rosette, Crest inlays, our newly modified headstock shape, a firestripe pickguard, and a full-body gloss finish. It ships with LR Baggs Element VTC electronics and a deluxe hardshell case with a British Cocoa exterior.
V-Class Bracing
Taylor's revolutionary V-shaped bracing pattern allows the soundboard of the guitar to resonate and flex naturally without any of the resistance found in more traditional bracing patterns. The guitar becomes louder and fuller with increased sustain and the notes along the fingerboard intonate better and generally sound more in tune with each other. The carefully thought-out design strikes the perfect balance of enough stiffness to remain stable and the perfect amount of flex for a powerful and harmonically rich sound.
L.R. Baggs Element VTC Electronics
Multi-band compression has long been a secret of mastering rooms worldwide to unlock the warmth and natural dynamics of recorded instruments. The Element VTC’s all-discrete, Class A preamp leverages this studio elixir with a proprietary analog compressor that operates below 400Hz. The compressor is tuned to reflect the actual dynamics of the acoustic guitar, creating in live performance the superior warmth and natural balance of tone achieved in professionally studio-mastered sound. Includes soundhole-mounted volume and treble tone controls.
Specifications
Body
- Body Top: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
- Body Back: Neo Tropical Mahogany
- Body shape: Super Auditorium
- Body Binding: Cream
- Rosette: Single Ring
- Bracing: Fanned V-Class with Tonal Route
- Body Finish: Gloss
Neck
- Neck: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Profile: Standard Carve
- Fretboard Inlays: Crest
- Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Finish: Satin
Peghead
- Nut Width: 1-3/4”
- Scale Length: 25-1/2”
- Peghead Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Inlay: Crest
- Peghead Finish: Gloss
Other
- Bridge: Honduran Rosewood
- Bridge Pins: Honduran Rosewood
- Pickguard: Firestripe
- Nut: TUSQ
- Saddle: Micarta
- Tuning Machines: Taylor Nickel Standard
- Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
- Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light
- Guitar Case: Gold Label Hardshell Case British Cocoa