Guitar comparison: Collings/Larrivee/Kay Kraft, "Saturday Night Rub" re-visited

[dberch]

A while back I posted a recording of Big Bill Broonzy's "Saturday Night Rub" played on my 30's Kay Kraft Recording King.  Since then, I've also recorded it on my other three main guitars.  I thought I'd post them here just for fun.

Disclaimer 1: I didn't worry about the performance - these are all one-take "wonders" and might be a bit sloppy  ;)

"Saturday Night Rub" played on....
Collings D1A
Larrivee OM-05MT
Larivee D-05
30's Kay Kraft Recording King Style "C" Archtop

It's kind of cool  to load all these in your player of choice and then click from one to the others.  You can really hear the difference in the guitars that way.

Disclaimer 2: This song does not show the strengths of the Collings.  It's really a far better guitar than this recording would indicate.  Somewhere on my "to do" list is an item to record something that DOES feature my Collings at it's best.

Recording details: Same as before...
Guitar -> Behringer B2 Pro large condensor mic -> M-Audio Duo -> N-Track recording software.

Love to hear your comments and your pick for which guitar works best on this song.  I know which one I like.  :D

A huge "Thanks!" to Little Brother for hosting the MP3s for me.

David

[Tycho]

It really is fun to load them all and A/B between them.  They're all very different...and I like 'em all!

The Kay Kraft sounds the most "authentic", but the hog-top comes pretty close.

[djsonovox]

The mahogany sounds the mellowest, and to me, the best. Thanks!
Doug J

[onetubetone]

I also like the OM-05MT for this track, it was really interesting to hear the differences!  And yeah, I can hear that the Collings would excel at subtelty and not really be suited for a fast hard pickin' track like this.  But very cool!