gateroadmusic - Posted - 06/02/2019:  13:33:06

Historically, the loudest Bluegrass guitar has been determined by tradition and a person listening to the different guitars. My question to you… Have you ever actually measured the sound volume from your guitar using an OSHA/ NIOSH approved app? I did, and my loudest guitar registered 96 dB. Ironically, the guitar was a no name brand guitar; a prototype that I have deemed “ The Sleeper”. The second loudest was a Dixon DG5; registering 94 dB. I placed my iPhone about 8 inches directly in front of the sound hole with the bottom of the phone at the bottom of the sound hole. The app is called dB, and has a black background, with a red shield housing the “ dB” letters. If you use this app in the way I did ,I would be interested in knowing how many decibels your guitar registred.

Chris889 - Posted - 07/02/2019:  05:11:20

I don't know about "loudest", but my old Yamaha jumbo (CJ838S) can be very loud, relatively speaking. Certainly louder than either of my dreads, and my dreads are pretty boomy. I tend to play hard, and nothing I've ever played (friends' guitars, GC acoustic room, pawnshops, etc.) was ever louder than the Yammie.

Chris | granite charleston sc

TurtleFarmer - Posted - 07/30/2019:  10:59:57

Without a Doubt ...in my lifetime the loudest most resonate as well as bassy sound cannon i have ever had my hands as well as performed with was a right angled cutaway .... that was so dang well constructed that it took 56 thru 14 gauge strings to pull it down from its natural most likely built that way convex orientation ..and then all hell heaven resonance of all the guitar majick of the coolest hip cat angels .... broke loose , truely awesome powerful commanding complete without comparison forged by the hands of the gods muses of the ethereal realms of music , To the delight of the "Top Dawg GOD" of all that is humqan and angelic .... beyond description ... & INSCRIBED ON THE 14th FRET in mother of pear OR WAS IT THE 12TH fret ... was "God alone Is Real", on the head stock was a mother pearl and blue Abaloney Butterfly .... construted of old growth quarter sawn aged Brazilian Rosewood, ebony fret-board/Bridge , old quarter sawn Bavarian spruce straight and tight as a virgin angel flower ... this organic entity waitin to stroked, musicated and caressed had to be Magickly inspired akin to part and parcel of the likewise realm of ( King Authors Mightiest Sword, the Holy Grail, and all that is sacred ... Certainly one of the Kings of all steel flat tops still alive kickin' on our planet earth .... it should be played not hoarded, yet protected .....and no i am not going to reveal its name

Kyle123 - Posted - 08/15/2019:  10:33:48

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ytterbium - Posted - 10/01/2020:  10:26:48

Haven't tried the app, will check it out this weekend