Great video!! This is how comparisons should be done. Bubinga sounds best to me as combines the mids of hog with the bass of rosewood. Rosewood always sounds lacking to me. The mahogany sounds sweet but not so much bass. On Larrivee I always vastly prefer the Mahogany (I know this is Boucher...). So how do you find Boucher vs Larrivee? Btw re Larrivee Bhilwara is akin to Bubinga here re having mids and bass. I keep hearing folk saying rosewood and it makes me want one. They say it is lush but to me it misses mids and can sound metallic whereas the softer woods like hog have real character to their tone. I think Boucher will be lighter build but I still think Larrivee is my fave. Regardless the price. Fyi check out Halcyon. I'm getting a custom of theirs in a few years - Ed Bond was from Larrivee. I think I prefer the in between "hard woods" such as zebrawood, laurel, Bhilwara. I.e. rosewood-like but with mids. You do a consistently good job with these videos - thank you
In the build quality, the Larrivee Guitars are sturdier than the Boucher Guitars. There is a certain delicateness that Boucher has that Larrivee does not. Boucher sounds more alive and articulate. As Larrivee guitars age I think they start to change towards that Boucher sound. There is about a $3000 difference between the base models of the two builders! I've heard great things about Halcyon. Thanks for the comment!
@@G_Demolishedyeah that can sound good though sometimes it can unbalance the sound and if you add more bass, I've found it can take something away from the bass-mids, a richness in frequencies is lost. There's always a tradeoff, I guess. Boucher scalloped, agree
Would like a fingerstyle shootout next😊
Like the Bubinga SG 21-G the most!
That's my favorite. I just got in the HG-46 which is the 12 fret Bubinga model. I'll hopefully have a comparison video up soon.
@@tuneupguitarsmine, too! Surprised me…
I'm after that Rosewood but I'll have to try the Maple before just to be sure.
Mahogany for me
Great video!! This is how comparisons should be done.
Bubinga sounds best to me as combines the mids of hog with the bass of rosewood.
Rosewood always sounds lacking to me. The mahogany sounds sweet but not so much bass. On Larrivee I always vastly prefer the Mahogany (I know this is Boucher...). So how do you find Boucher vs Larrivee?
Btw re Larrivee Bhilwara is akin to Bubinga here re having mids and bass.
I keep hearing folk saying rosewood and it makes me want one. They say it is lush but to me it misses mids and can sound metallic whereas the softer woods like hog have real character to their tone.
I think Boucher will be lighter build but I still think Larrivee is my fave. Regardless the price. Fyi check out Halcyon. I'm getting a custom of theirs in a few years - Ed Bond was from Larrivee.
I think I prefer the in between "hard woods" such as zebrawood, laurel, Bhilwara. I.e. rosewood-like but with mids.
You do a consistently good job with these videos - thank you
In the build quality, the Larrivee Guitars are sturdier than the Boucher Guitars. There is a certain delicateness that Boucher has that Larrivee does not. Boucher sounds more alive and articulate. As Larrivee guitars age I think they start to change towards that Boucher sound. There is about a $3000 difference between the base models of the two builders!
I've heard great things about Halcyon.
Thanks for the comment!
Get mahogany with scalloped bracing, like a D18. You get the mids and the bass.
@@nick-x1o I’m sure that will have the scalloped bracing too. Boucher isn’t messing around.
@@G_Demolishedyeah that can sound good though sometimes it can unbalance the sound and if you add more bass, I've found it can take something away from the bass-mids, a richness in frequencies is lost. There's always a tradeoff, I guess. Boucher scalloped, agree
Great comparison!!! How would you compare rosewood aganist their (Boucher) new torrefied maple back guitars?
I have the new torrified coming soon!
@@tuneupguitarsexcited to see this comparison🎉
@@kamarienedwards1757here you go czcams.com/video/qP1YB2Mqk3I/video.html
Amazing. Rosewood by a mile.
Frankly, none of them sound that great strummed - too thin...
Impossible! Are you listening from a cellphone?
@@tuneupguitars No, but I'm probably spoiled by "dred ear" from playing dreds most of my life LOL