Cordoba C5 CE Lefthand Iberia

I bought this guitar mainly because it has this lovely catway and my teacher told me he played once Cordoba and it was amazing. I have to admit that sound is really good, deep and reach. Also the way it is build and finished is just perfect. I have it for 3 of 4 years already and it keeps it high quality. However there is one position in which cables inside make annoying noise bumping against the front side and it's really difficult to spot and fix it. Also battery socket lit has broken really quickly and I had to workaround it. So this guitar is mainly for recording and you should keep it in mind. The quality of recorded sound is very satisfying although I haven't use it a lot so I cannot really comment on that. It's not of one of the cheapest model. So if you don't looking for instrument perfect for recording/amplification it may not be worth that big money. Next time I would rather bought some Admira without fisherman pickups two times cheaper.

After viewing the specs and listening to the audio demos on the site, I decided to take the plunge and buy this guitar. I'm a professional guitarist and studio musician so I wanted a guitar to handle studio and performance duties. The C5 CE delivers. Well built beautiful, sound. The only changes I made was to have the edges of the fret smooth down and the strings lowered, which were a bit too high for my personal tastes. I like my strings low as possible, for two hand tapping, etc. After making the changes I'm now extremely happy with this guitar. Lovely to look at, awesome feel and the built in tuner is also very practical and cool. It's early days yet, so I'll give an update in a couple of months, but so far I'm very pleased with my purchase. Highly recommended. Now back to Bouree in E minor.

I spent a long time debating between this Cordoba guitar and various Alhambras and ended up going with the Cordoba namely because it has a truss rod, which I wanted to deal with neck changes from the humidity in my area. However, aside from that, I'm very happy with this guitar; the sound is really nice and the quality feels very solid. The guitar is very light and sits nicely on the lap and encourages good posture.

Although I had mixed feelings about the built-in electronics at first, I really appreciate them now. I don't really play this guitar in an amp and don't intend to record it on the line, but having the built-in tuner is very practical for a quick mid-session re-tune (and not needing to keep an ugly headstock tuner on the guitar).

It should be mentioned Cordoba guitars ship with high-tension strings, which may or may not be what you are looking for. This isn't really well documented on the product's description, but it does state this on Cordoba's website.