Presentation Series Luxury Bolstered with Next Generation Upgrades
For the player after the very best that Taylor has to offer, only a Presentation series instrument will do. Instruments such as this Next Generation PS14ce showcase the finest tonewoods in Taylor’s stash, with this Grand Auditorium boasting a sinker redwood top that beams with deep stripes and rich variegation. Apart from its striking appearance, sinker redwood offers a deep and expressive tonal foundation that Taylor often describes as “cedar on steroids.” What’s more, Taylor’s Next Generation Scalloped V-Class bracing imparts the top with a touch of extra low-end resonance. Around back, a set of premium Honduran rosewood back and sides features a far denser composition than your typical rosewood — a quality that lends a touch of smoothness to rosewood’s traditionally bright trebles and booming bass. Plug in, and Taylor’s refined Claria electronics faithfully capture the Next Generation PS14ce’s complex acoustic character with plug-and-play simplicity. Plus, this PS14ce’s Standard Carve mahogany neck and glassy Crelicam ebony fingerboard are joined to the body via Taylor’s trailblazing Action Control neck system, thus allowing users to set the neck’s angle with the simple turn of a bolt. An heirloom-level range of appointments rounds out the PS14ce, including winding California Vine inlays, an inlaid rosewood pickguard, dazzling paua purfling around the body, and a beautifully beveled armrest.
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Treasure-grade tonewoods abound
From top to bottom, the PS14ce exudes the radiance of wood grain with figured cuts of sinker redwood and Honduran rosewood. The guitar’s sinker redwood top is a sight to see and a pleasure to play. Each guitar’s top is sliced from old-growth redwood logs recovered from Northern California rivers, where they’ve often sat for more than a century. Sinker redwood takes on unique hues from mineral-rich water and natural sediment over the years, which adds tastefully aged character to an already stunning wood grain. Sonically, redwood has a bold and quick response with bright brilliance and warm overtones similar to cedar. (Around Taylor headquarters, it’s often referred to as “cedar on steroids.”)
On the other end, the PS14ce's Honduran rosewood body supplies all the deep, low-end rumble and shimmering overtones you’d expect from a top-shelf set of rosewood back and sides. Even better, Honduran rosewood’s extreme density imbues it with a smoother, more rounded-over tone compared to Taylor-standard Indian rosewood.
Plug-and-play Claria System electronics
Road-tested and refined for over two years with the world's biggest touring acts, Taylor’s Claria System represents the next step in the brand’s ceaseless pursuit of acoustic-electric excellence. As opposed to the more sensitive and microphone-like performance of Taylor’s ES2, the Claria System features a single under-saddle piezo transducer paired with a powerhouse preamp to supply you with the warmest, most accurate acoustic-electric tone possible with the least amount of tweaking required — simply plug in, adjust your sound to taste via the Volume, Tone, and Mid-Contour controls, and you’re ready to go.
So, how does the Claria System differ from a typical under-saddle pickup? Taylor’s expert engineers built Claria from the ground up to overcome the most endemic challenges of standard under-saddle setups, allowing the system to perform free from piezo distortion and avoid unwanted frequencies with its clear and focused voice. Moreover, Claria also avoids clipping by gain staging the preamp and the controls within the preamp. As for tone shaping, Claria’s Mid-Contour control offers a vast sweep of dynamic sounds to explore, from smooth, rhythm-ready warmth to a midrange-forward timbre that promotes lead playing and fingerpicking to the forefront of the mix. For the guitarist seeking a plug-and-play system that preserves their guitar's inherent acoustic character and excels in any environment without a fuss, Taylor’s Claria system is as good as it gets.
Rich and responsive Scalloped V-Class bracing
First launched in 2018, Taylor’s V-Class bracing revolutionized the brand’s sound with one of the most innovative advancements in steel-string technology in nearly a century. Here, Taylor has changed the game once again, tweaking the forward-thinking formula of V-Class by precisely paring away material from key locations of each brace.
The result is Taylor’s Scalloped V-Class architecture, a design that preserves all the defining sonic features of standard V-Class bracing with a more muscular bass response and a softer, warmer blend among notes. Strum an open cowboy chord, and Scalloped V-Class delivers the familiar low-end thump and harmonic cohesion that’s most often associated with typical X-braced instruments. However, as a direct descendant of Andy Powers’ original V-Class design, Scalloped V-Class bracing preserves the former’s spot-on pitch accuracy, rich sustain, impeccable balance, and crisp note-to-note definition — especially as you venture farther up the fingerboard with complex chords, intricate fingerpicked patterns, and rapid-fire leads.
Cutting-edge Action Control neck joint
Taylor has led the charge in neck joint technology for decades, from Bob Taylor’s earliest bolt-on experiments to the dawn of the easily adjustable NT Neck at the turn of the 20th century. Under the leadership of Andy Powers, Taylor has once again pushed the boundaries of steel-string design with the Action Control Neck, a trailblazing bolt-on system that allows you to adjust the neck angle without requiring removal of the neck or strings.
From fine adjustments to optimizing the neck’s pitch over the top, the Action Control Neck gives you the power to set your string height from shred-ready specs to a higher, strum-friendly action with the turn of a bolt. Moreover, it also transforms repairs that generally require major surgery on traditional glued-in dovetail joints (such as neck resets) into a straightforward, routine procedure. Best of all, the Action Control Neck’s long-tenon joint protrudes well into the heel to properly mate your guitar’s neck and body, increasing the stiffness of the heel and resulting in a deeper tone with greater low-end resonance, even on higher notes.
Taylor Next Generation PS14ce Features:
- Taylor’s Presentation series PS14ce is treated to all the trailblazing upgrades of the Next Generation collection
- Sinker redwood top sings with a warm, dynamic, and aged-in response
- Scalloped V-Class bracing boosts low-end performance and results in a warmer, richer resonance
- Honduran rosewood back and sides deliver an overtone-dense tone with a smooth and rounded-over edge
- Claria under-saddle electronics system provides acoustic-accurate tones and plug-and-play simplicity
- Soundhole-mounted Volume, Tone, and Mid-Contour controls for quick tone sculpting
- Mahogany neck in Taylor’s always-comfortable Standard Carve profile
- Action Control neck joint system gives users the ability to set the neck’s angle, allowing for easy action adjustment
- Long-tenon neck joint enhances your sound with a deep low-end resonance and a fuller-bodied tone
- 15-in.-radius Crelicam ebony fingerboard laden with California Vine inlays
- Presentation series upgrades include an inlaid rosewood pickguard, a comfortably beveled armrest, and inlaid purfling that enwraps the body, fingerboard extension, fingerboard, and back
- 1.75-in. nut offers a just-right width for fingerstyle players, strummers, and flatpickers alike
