Hi Gordy,
I just sent you a private message to help you get your article into the wiki in a way that will give you the proper credit for creating it. This is the private message I sent to Gordy. Since this is related to the contest I thought it would be better to keep all of the correspondence public.
Hi Gordy,
I see that you are trying to create a new article for the wiki. That's great.
You can copy the text between the lines below into the new article that will be created when you follow this link.
Composite Acoustic 7M-CE Grand Auditorium Guitar Review ? right click on this and open it in a new window. Then it will be easier to copy/paste the text between the lines into that new article. Then save the page.
This is the text in Gordy's article that got appended to an existing page
The Composite Acoustic 7M-CE is a mid-sized body, all carbon fiber guitar with a unique shaped cut-away. [http://www.caguitars.com link title] The retail price of the 7M-CE is $2299.00 and the street price of the guitar was $1799.00
Composite Acoustic uses bracing, though not needed for strength, to shape the tone of their guitars to sound similar to a wood guitar. The sound is very good compared to almost any guitar that I have played, and it has become my main gigging guitar, taking the place of my Taylor 615CE. The only drawback is that I don't think it sounds quite as good as the Taylor ES system when plugged in.
It has the Fishman Ellipse VT pickup system installed from the factory, and it doesn't have much tone shaping capability.
I am looking for a little more control of my sound, as well as reducing the quack of the piezo pickup.
I am playing through an L1 Classic with a standard R1 and 2 B1's with a Sennheiser 945 microphone and using a Digitech Vocalist Live 4 for harmonies. I play in venues ranging from very small coffee shops with room for 10-15 customers, to large and outdoor venues. My main performance venue, (and my favorite) is a medium sized wine bar/cafe which holds about 75 people.
I have played between 10 and 20 gigs with it and have just ordered an LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI based on recommendations on the Bose L1 forum, to see if that makes enough of a difference in the sound. If not, I will upgrade to the LR Baggs I-beam pick up to use with the Para Acoustic DI.
I really like the fact that the all composite CA isn't effected by moisture or temperature.
Playing it unplugged, I like it almost as well as my Taylor--Almost.:-)
I still use my Taylor for recording as it is a little more balanced when mic'd. The CA has a little more of a tinkly bell sound on the upper register, but the bass is great.
All in all, the two guitars compliment each other very well, and I am glad that I have both of them.
If the plugged in sound didn't have the quack of the piezo pickup, I would say it was the perfect gigging guitar.
I am hoping that the upgrades that I am doing will help, and if I hadn't been used to the Taylor ES, I may not have even noticed it all.
Overall, I give the CA 7M-CE a rating of about 8.5 and if the plugged in sound were able to be closer to the Taylor ES, I would give it at least a 9.
9/13/08
I would just move the entry that you did, but since you added that to an existing page - you are not the in the system as the original author.
Edit: Revised link - no longer needs to go straight into edit mode.
