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No no..
It only makes a difference if its glued with hide glue... Flavour comes second..
:P
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I wouldn't even buy a plectrum based on an online demo.
All you can conclude is that different wood does not allow a difference to be detected in the electrical signal generated by the pickups of an unamplified guitar, when using a spectrum analyser.
It's quite a leap from that to outright rejection of the tonewood hypothesis.
Ohh.. I found that video with the music box test...
He does however say that the pickup is unwaxed... Which I think was covered somewhere on here.. That unpotted pups are more mircophonic.. Still interesting though.. Go to 3:50 for that test.
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Well while we are at it. This is one of the more interesting alternative guitars ive seen.
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This for me just as an example (in the solo) is the sound of mahogany, you simply won't get that exact same response from anything else. I don't expect you to hear it, because well you're deaf. And this thread is stupid.
Hmm, I kind of agree and don't.. Because for example most people assumed that Jimmy Page recorded with a LP but a lot of us know now that he played a Tele in the studio for many tracks.
And similarly many assumed that Gilmour recorded with a Strat but that wasn't always true either. Check out 4:20 in.
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Jimmy Page Stairway solo for years was hailed a great Les Paul tone.
David Gilmour Another Brick solo classic Strat despite being played on a custom guitar that shared more heritage to a Les Paul than anything.
Eddie Van Halen You Really Got Me.... Super Strat with a Floyd..... nope a Les Paul.
A lot of Slash's parts on Appetite are in fact not a Derrig Les Paul replica, but a BC Rich Mockingbird with a Floyd.
what you refer to as 'the sound of mahogany' is really the sound of Gibson PAF's, Marshall 50w heads, Celestion Greenbacks, Shure SM57, Neve Console etc etc.
If Angus guitar was made of Basswood or Teak or even Bakelite, there is no way, I think, that it would be perceivable in any way to tell the difference in a mix.
For the Angus example I posted, I don't think the track would necessarily be worse off or even that different if he used a Telecaster, but listen to the little harmonic he does at 2:26/2:27, the high bends around 2:46 - it's subtle stuff but as soon as you pick up a Humbucker loaded mahogany guitar and plug it into a mid gained amp, you instantly recognise those rounded highs, and blurry notes. Humbuckers in alder / ash etc sound different. Yes in any production environment the lines can and often are blurred, but my point is you can here the mahogany characteristics in that ACDC clip.
I don't care if people think I'm nuts, it astounds me fankly that I share a niche forum where people can't tell the subtle difference between guitars.
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Form an orderly queue.....
Especially if I listen to him on YouTube using my phone's speaker.