The Best Acoustic Guitars of the RECORDING brand

Let’s go with a selection of the most valued Acoustic guitars for this brand. This is a selection based on different parameters such as quality, sales leader and positive reviews.

Guitar Recording King RDS-9-TS

This guitar usually has a price around 150.00 €

  • Dirty 30’s series
  • Dreadnought body design
  • Solid Sitka spruce top
  • Back and sides made of white wood
  • X-Bracing
  • Nato neck
  • Ovangkol fretboard and bridge
  • Thin C neck profile
  • Dovetail neck joint
  • Scale: 645 mm
  • 20 Frets
  • Nut width: 43 mm
  • Colour: Tobacco Sunburst Satin

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Recording King RDS-9-TS bluegrass flatpicking soundtest

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Guitar Recording King RDS-11-FE3-TBR

This guitar usually has a price around 333.00 €

  • Design: Dreadnought
  • Back and sides: Solid African mahogany
  • Top: Solid Sitka spruce
  • Forward Shifted X-Bracing
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Padauk
  • Ivory Dot fretboard inlays
  • Neck profile: C
  • Scale: 645 mm (25.4″)
  • Nut width: 43 mm (1.69″)
  • Bone nut
  • 20 Frets
  • Pickups: Fishman Sonitone
  • Padauk bridge
  • Ivory binding
  • Ivory Button
  • Open gear machine heads
  • Colour: Satin Transparent Brownburst

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Guitar Recording King RDS-7-MBK

This guitar usually has a price around 113.00 €

  • Dirty 30's series
  • Dreadnought body design
  • Spruce top
  • Back and sides made of white wood
  • X-bracing
  • Nato neck
  • Revebond fretboard and bridge
  • Thin C neck profile
  • Dovetail neck joint
  • Scale: 645 mm
  • 20 Frets
  • Nut width: 43 mm
  • Colour: Black Matt

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Guitar Recording King RD-328 Aged Adirondack

This guitar usually has a price around 631.00 €

  • Tonewood Reserve Series
  • Dreadnought
  • Solid Adirondack spruce top
  • Bracing Forward Shifted X
  • Herringbone binding
  • Solid rosewood back and sides
  • Mahogany neck
  • Thin V-Shape
  • Fretboard and bridge: Rosewood
  • 20 Frets
  • Nut width: 42.90 mm (1 11/16″)
  • Bone nut
  • Scale length 645mm (25.4″)
  • Machine heads: Open gear with butterbean buttons
  • Finish: Natural high gloss

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Guitar Recording King RP-G6-CFE5

This guitar usually has a price around 275.00 €

  • Body shape: O with cutaway
  • Top: Solid spruce
  • X-Bracing
  • Back and sides: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Revebond
  • Tortoise binding
  • Neck profile: C
  • Bone nut
  • Scale: 645 mm (25.4″)
  • Nut width: 45 mm
  • 20 Frets
  • Pickup: Fishman Presys EQ System
  • Colour: Natural high gloss

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Guitar Recording King RD-318 Adirondack

This guitar usually has a price around 461.00 €

  • Top: Solid 30-year-old Adirondack spruce
  • Back and sides: Solid mahogany
  • Bracing Forward Shifted X
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard and bridge: Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)
  • Neck profile: Thin V
  • Scale: 645 mm (25.4″)
  • Nut width: 42.90 mm (1 11/16″)
  • Bone nut
  • 20 Frets
  • Open gear machine heads with Butterbean buttons
  • Colour: Natural high gloss

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Recording King RD-318

Some comments from people who come to the forum about this model:

Comment:

This guitar sounds great. Very responsive. Great woody tone. Pretty loud. Dynamic. I really like how the headstock looks. I also own the RO-328 and I think the laquer is to thick on both. Had been better with a different thinner finish. The tuners on this guitar are sub standard. The RO-328 have open butterbean Grover tuners which are pretty good, but this one have some cheaper knock offs. They do the job but you?d be better of changing them in the long run.
The guitar was set up pretty bad. The string hight was more than 1 mm higher on the 12th fret than «standard» and high on the nut. Made it really hard to play but with a capo it was ok. I play pretty hard on .013 strings so a high action is pretty good for me but this was too high. Had to tighten the neck, file down both the bridge and the nut. When that was done it became a different guitar. So easy to play. I guess you have to expect things like this when you get a guitar this cheap with specs like this. They have to cut corners some places. For me it seems like the corners/expenses were cut on laquer, setup, tuners and quality control out of the factory. I live in Norway and setup and new tuners (Grover butterbean open back) at my local luthier will cost about 200 euros. In my opinon this guitar is worth that times ten. This guitar is simply great, great value for the money. Highly recomended.

Comment:

The guitar has a good weight to it, the finish is really well done, the neck does take a while to get used to, because it is a V shaped neck, actually kind of a deep V, you can actually feel the edge when picking it up. The Adirondack top is superb, I do not know what happened to the wood in 30 years, but I guess the global warming had something to do with it, because it sounds a lot more older and dried out. The back and sides mahogany is a another really good choice, the wood is really well selected. I had the luck to receive one from a batch that actually has a flamed mahogany look to it, which is quite rare. The guitar feels so balanced, the highs are crisp and the lows are well defined. It immediately became a favourite in my collection (Martins, Freshmans, Taylors), no doubt. I highly recommend buying one, even if not tried before. This was my case anyway, it was a blind buy, especially because of the Adirondack 30 years old top and it was totally worth it.
Bonus: I actually own another RK guitar, the RD-T16 which is another good instrument, has Adirondack torrefied top with laminated mahogany back and sides. You can immediately sense the difference between them, the RD-T16 feels drier and uncompressed and unbalanced, has a more vintage vibe to it, and the harmonics aren’t really there. It can be a little loud sometimes as well. You would expect them to sound close to each other but really there are major differences. So, if you are undecided between the two, pick the RD-318, the price/quality ratio is definitely in your favour! Cheers

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Guitar Recording King RPH-P2 TS

This guitar usually has a price around 158.00 €

  • Dirty ’30s Cross Country Model
  • Build: Parlor
  • Top: Spruce, solid
  • Back and sides: Whitewood
  • Neck: Nato
  • Fretboard: Revebond
  • Scale: 620 mm
  • Nut width: 43 mm
  • 19 Frets
  • Colour: Tobacco Sunburst Satin
  • Suitable case available under: Article number 238870 (not included)

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Recording King Parlor Guitar Review Dirty 30s Series 9 Parlor Guitar RPH-P2-TS

Some comments from people who come to the forum about this model:

Comment:

It is a beautiful guitar but the materials are not the best.

Comment:

I bought it to try the parlor feeling and for this, a great starter instrument. Nice tone, comfortable neck, but the finish is really pokey… The matt, painted "inlays" are wear out early. There was a small bump where the neck was setted to the body.

I got the desired feeling, but after a year I sold it out to buy a better parlor.

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