How Size Affects Tone of Acoustic Guitars – With Sound Samples

Sweetwater carries hundreds of guitar models (at last count, there were 941 if you count just six-string acoustic guitars), so deciding which handful to audition was quite a challenge. Ultimately, we ended up with three general body sizes (small, medium, large) from 11 different makers, with prices ranging from $399 to $5999. For this listening session, we didn’t sort by price, shape, wood, cutaway, or any other criteria. We focused, instead, on listening to a wide assortment of sizes, from minis to jumbos.