Cordoba Stage

[Michael Neverisky]

Popping in to say that I played one of these at my local Mom & Pop shop this weekend. I'm looking through the closet for trade material now.

I play 90% fingerstyle and, these days, mostly classical guitar, so I was digging the Stage played through a Fishman Loudbox. Lots of string noise through the amp, but if that can be tamed this guitar is a winner for the way I play.

If anyone in New England wants to buy my lightly used Godin Kingpin II w/ P-90s today, I can buy the Staqe tonight. 8-)

[Doctor Jeff]

Popping in to say that I played one of these at my local Mom & Pop shop this weekend. I'm looking through the closet for trade material now.

I play 90% fingerstyle and, these days, mostly classical guitar, so I was digging the Stage played through a Fishman Loudbox. Lots of string noise through the amp, but if that can be tamed this guitar is a winner for the way I play.

If anyone in New England wants to buy my lightly used Godin Kingpin II w/ P-90s today, I can buy the Staqe tonight. 8-)

Ironic since I have my eye on a Godin 2 locally as well...

I have a Fishman Artist. I found that turning the treble and tweeter settings down to about 11 o'clock on each made a big improvement, also keeping the undersaddle/body mix on the guitar about 50%. The body pickups add to the warmth and body of the tone, but do seem to increase string and ambient noise (whereas the US pickup has a bit of that annoying piezo click). I am still playing around with the settings.

I also ordered some La Bella polished strings, which should help.

[Woody Sound]

After polishing the frets I just restrung mine with D’Addario Pro Artè EJ-46’s. I prefer harder tension and the new strings added some crispness to the tone. I assume the guitar came with Salvarez normal tension, but I could be wrong.

According to the spec sheet they are Savarez Alliance /Cantiga High Tension 510AJ.

[2bornot2bop]

A steal at $700 shipped, brand new, on Reverb! Time to get your Nova groove on!

[Skip Ellis]

Is there enough saddle that you can get the action really low? I mean, like, Jerry Reed rattling low? Of course, he used the lightest flamenco strings he could find but I like that sound sometimes if I'm playing (or trying to play) his stuff.

Update: just pulled the trigger from Sweetwater - should be here in a couple days. I looked at these when they first came out but was not enamored with the red burst but the antique amber is drop dead gorgeous. Pics when it gets here.

[pedr.browne]

I thought it might be useful for anyone thinking about picking one up to note that there is no grounding for the bridge/strings. If you use strings with metal wrap you will know about it. A fix for this is to run a wire from underneath the strings behind the bridge to the sleeve on your jack. This will ensure the metal strings are grounded.

I was very surprised I needed to do this, and though I've reached out to Cordoba support several times, they have not responded.

[RJVB]

I was very surprised I needed to do this

Me too, because a priori there is no magnetic PU on these guitars, for rather obvious reasons. Have you ever heard about having to ground strings on an electro-acoustic?

Unless of course they did add a PU so the thing can double as an e-guitar?

[macuaig]

Any neck dive on that? With such a light body, I’m wondering.

[Alder Statesman]

Any neck dive on that? With such a light body, I’m wondering.

Not on mine. I find it well balanced.

[Doctor Jeff]

^^I agree. Excellent ergonomics.

[lawson-stone]

I've had mine now for a few weeks. I put strings on it that have somewhat flatter winding so there isn't as much fret squeak, but otherwise it is a lovely guitar and I'm having a lot of fun playing it.