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Now tell me which accounts for the difference you hear between each guitar?
Thopy I know you are quite an intelligent guy with a lot of experience in certain areas, but think about it, we have been programmed to think certain ways by marketing.
70's strats are the reason for the vintage market, as they were so poor, now we think of 70's strats as desirable vintage guitars, why?
I don’t need ‘any’ scientific papers to tell me this - over 40 years of playing experience means I know it to be true....
i.e. I can hear that a solid rosewood neck guitar is darker than a solid maple neck guitar... as can most people i imagine.
Why? Because one sounds darker than the other. The reason this occurs is because rosewood is denser than maple, has a lower natural speed of sound in the wood.
this is nothing to do with marketing, I naturally buck against marketing speak.
My guitar collection isn’t a reflection of marketing, I like hearing different woods and like to own things that sound different. Personal choice based on curiosity, not heats hot or what someone suggests I buy.
Is this so hard to fathom without resorting to pages of scientific jargon which is meaningless unless there is a way to test a guitar in truly laboratory conditions.
Even then how many strat bodies made of Ash, would need to be tested with same neck, and hardware to get a standard reference point to work out the difference between Ash and Alder bodies?
I will put a test together for you if it's that easy
Honestly, it's like reading a debate about burquas.
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Also, in reality the bridge to body interface of an electric guitar has a very high impedance with little energy passing through to the body
This is also largely irrelevant. There is enough energy passed to the body for me to be able to tune my guitar with a clip on tuner attached to the pickup selector. If this much energy can be passed to the body then some of that energy can be passed back via the same mechanism, modulated by damping and resonance of the structure.
The body vibrations can also be passed to the pickups and change the relative position of them to the strings which may also colour the tone.
I share 3cs view that this has led me to investigate things I otherwise would not have bothered to look at.
But my conclusions are different. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. Most people don't care and there's not conclusive proof either way.
This discussion has been had hundreds of times on the internet with no resolution.
Expecting that to come here is probably the very definition of insanity. And yet still we do so. Crazy!
To me the biggest part of the way a guitar sounds is drum roll please... ..........................................................
The player.
should we forget about all the variables created by the instrument and blame the player anytime a guitar doesn't quite work?
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not sure many of us could positively ID that one from sound alone.
It does make the test a bit "Name a Hairy Dog?"
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Can you explain why Gibson decided to put a maple cap on the first Les Pauls?
And don't say aesthetics because they were goldtops originally.