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I suspect they mostly think it’s obvious that all of the components play a part in creating the sound and it’s just a question of how much and how willing someone is to chase finer details.
The proper academic study that I cited - the one the faithful of the high church of mojo and tone wood try to ignore because it showed that electric guitar 'tone wood' is a myth - did use just such a mechanical picking device, collected a lot more data than that student project did and was much better deigned and peer reviewed. Translations and discussion are in that thread I linked to.
https://physicae.ifi.unicamp.br/index.php/physicae/article/view/physicae.9.5
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Without that, we simply can't take the results as gospel because you've already posted one research project where they falsely claimed a nul result, when a positive one was clearly visible. And I'll remind you again, *you* posted it, not me - when you thought it supported your belief. You seem keen to discredit it now, but you weren't originally. Why is that?
But (again) I really am out of this (again) because you simply will not accept (again) that your contention has been disproved (again). It only takes one piece of contrary evidence to disprove a theory.
You are wrong. The end.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
To borrow a fantastic quote I saw elsewhere:
"We use six bits of wire effectively nailed to a plank of wood, that create a vibration that induces a tiny current in about a mile of cheap copper wire wrapped around a set of crap magnets, which passes through a simple conductor through (if we're using valve amps, which is what most tone purists swear by) a technology that for every other application was rendered obsolete over 50 years ago because it is know to introduce a pleasing sounding harmonic distortion (distortion is a phenomenon who's dictionary definition basically states is a process of not providing a true representation of what is fed into a system) to get it up to a level where it can be amplified by another bit of the same obsolete technology with the stated aim of running at it's very limits to introduce more of this distortion ('edge of breakup', no less!) into some bits of cardboard moved by yet more magnets that are in fact such a poor representation of whats fed into them that no one would use them in a hi-fi/PA situation held in a glued together wooden box that adds it's own special sonic flavour to the whole mix.
And we worry about patch cables being transparent"
My reluctant professional opinion is that anyone who says material makes literally no difference at all to the amplified sound of a solidbody guitar is almost certainly wrong. It is also my opinion that anyone who thinks that different species of wood could be consistently identified by double blind listening tests is also almost certainly wrong. Its a boring answer to a very boring argument.
The frequency analysis graphs are shown in the paper I cited.
As to the other 'research project'. If you can't even understand the difference between a student project and a proper peer-reviewed paper published in an academic journal, then no wonder you can't understand why the whole notion of 'tone wood' is so misguided.
I said the wood the body of an electric guitar is made from is as near as makes no difference irrelevant to the sound produced via the pickups, especially when the amp is been driven. I.e. if there is an effect then it is imperceptible, and therefore irrelevant. Even it it made a tiny perceptible difference, say as much as turning the tone knob a fraction, it would still be all but irrelevant, given all the other factors that do affect the sound produced to a vastly greater degree. (Playing technique, pick used, strings, pickups, the wiring, pots resistors and capacitors, the amp...)
Anyhow, it at least seems that we can agree that this guy is talking nonsense. As are Chapman and Anderton, who can't do any better than resort to logical fallacies and a belief in 'spiritual mumbo jumbo' as one commentator puts it. Something 'spiritual' that can't even be measured and yet determines '80%' of the sound of the instrument. Absolute, irrational BS!
Actually I can remember one - I did once describe particle board as 'a tone wood compared to MDF'.
And for the nth time, it was YOU who used that first study to try to prove your point, not me.
I bothered to find this, just to check. And there it is - that's the whole post, not edited, no attempt to dismiss it as being wrong based on just being an undergraduate study or anything.
I simply pointed out that the conclusion was wrong based on the data contained within, as you are every time you raise this subject AGAIN.
(Note to self: resist answering any further posts about this and stick to it.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Anyway, 23 grand cables are snake oil. We can all agree on that. Right?
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThen they receive a 'perfectly legitimate' bill for tens of thousands for a crappy bit of cable.
I can't believe that anyone would knowingly pay that much for a speaker cable.
Otherwise speakers would all be flat response monitors and the use of valves would be redundant.
This is even more true when it comes to vinyl, it is recorded with the bass attenuated (otherwise the stylus couldn't track) and the treble boosted. Amplifiers (phono) are designed to do the opposite at playback. The amounts of attenuation and boost are set out in the RIAA standard.
Sure you knew all this but the RIAA stuff is something I once knew and then forgot all about until recently - currently researching building a valve phono preamp to inaccurately play back my records!