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Larrivee Guitar's OM-03RE model has great balance along with a sweet, yet dark sound. The guitar will work well for a variety of playing styles, but will work particularly well for fingerstyle and fingerpicking, as well as slow and medium strumming, Carter picking, and crosspicking.
I started out with flatpicks - a 2.0 mm and a .73 mm Dunlop, and a 1.0 mm and a 0.72 Pointless Picks. If you have not yet played a Pointless Pick, give one a try. Light and medium strumming work great with or without a pick. Hard strumming can be done with hands or a with a flexible pick, but I would not advise doing hard strumming with a thicker pick.
I also tried a bit of fingerstyle and fingerpicking. As expected, the OM-03RE produced great balance, along with a touch more bass than I would expect from an OM body guitar. The bass is dark yet sweet, with a slight piano like timbre to it. The mid ranges are mellow, and the highs have a touch of "snap" to them.
Features include: All Solid Wood Construction, Single Piece Mahogany Neck, Canadian Sitka Spruce Sound Board and Bracing, African Ebony Fretboard and Bridge, Canadian Maple Multi-strip Body Binding, Rosewood Back and Sides, Symmetrical Parabolic X-Bracing, Hand fit Dovetail Neck Joint, Abalone Rosette, Pearl Logo and Silver Headstock Border, Chrome Ping Tuners (18:1 ratio), Ivoroid Fretboard Binding, Exclusive Tortis Beveled Pickguard, Microdot Fretboard Markers, Compensated TUSQ Saddle, Limited Lifetime Warranty, L.R. Baggs Element Notch System (Single Source), and Larrivee Hardshell Case.
Michael Stone owns a business that sells Larrivee Guitars.
