guitar tone vid....

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This was really interesting and really cool! Sort like a ‘myth busters’ for all those esoteric (expensive) guitar components.
 
Anyone who watches this and tells you that an $$$$$ guitar is worth it, ... it is, because you say it is, not because it sounds better, it's better because you say it is.

I like the air guitar. Proof.
 
Now that’s entertainment. Enjoyed that.
So if I got the punchline, the video shows it’s basically pickup type and height that matters most?
 
Love it, I was told by my guitar teacher at age 9, this all up to you.
 
splitendz said:
... so why does a Les Paul sound like a Les Paul
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Bump for real-ass sound education. This video is a must watch.

This video ruins the argument that your guitar is most of the tone, it isn't and the proof is here in this video. If you have an argument against this guy's video, let's see it or shut the fuck up.

It's the pick-up, duh!!!! Not the "Tonewoods".

To be continued,.......
 
I'm going to be very upset if my wife stumbles on this video and comes back from Menards with some wood and screws and says "here, build your 72' Tele between the dining room table and kitchen counter "Keef".....

All joking aside, that is pretty damn cool. Sounded really good! We all know though that tone, and playing guitar is more than just that sound. It is the feel, the way the guitar fits against your body, etc. To be honest, my frustration with cheaper guitars was never the "tone" as much as the buzzing electronics, out of tune tuners, loose screws, etc.

I do think wood makes a difference to a point. My Classic that is weight relieved, has a slight "honk" that my non weight relieved Standard doesn't have. It is probably a lot of things but is there.
 
A thread was started on this 11 days ago bro', so I shifted your post here. :thumbsup:
 
This isn't the most scientific experiment, but is one of the most thought out and thorough ones I've seen on the subject. A lot better than those other well know ones where 2 drastically different guitars are strummed by different people going "look can't you hear the difference it's all in the wood." Or some idiot screaming at a pickup saying it's picks up my voice so it must pick up the tone of the wood.

Tone wood is a term that comes from the acoustic guitar world that rolled over to electric guitar a marketing spin to jack up price. How else are companies going to justify the higher price model when all other components, manufacturing and QA/QC is all the same. Introduce tone wood marketing. Everything else may be the same but the wood makes it sound so much better that's why it's more expensive. The the buyer brings in confirmation bias / placebo effect to convince themselves that there really is a major difference in sound and the extra money paid was actually worth it. I think I've heard a term that describes this..... something about putting Crisco oil on snakes???

Yes, 100% ACOUSTIC guitar wood absolutely makes a difference in the sound. How the wood vibrates and which frequencies are reflected and absorbed in the sound chamber play a big role. And there's even debate in this realm if it's mainly the soundboard that mostly shapes the tone and how much influence the back and sides have.

Electric guitars are a different world. I won't say wood has zero influence on the sound; I think it does, but not in the way most people do. I find it has influence on sustain in the way it absorbs the kinetic energy (vibration) of the strings, but little if any on the tone. In theory pickups should not be microphonic so only disturbance of the magnetic field by strings should produce sound. Any acoustic influence from the wood picked up by an imperfect microphonic pickup would be negligible at best.

There's no claim this video is the be all end all of the debate. I'm sure some diehard tone wood aficionado will come back with something. But it does demonstrate how much influence components in the signal chain influence the final sound. Or to put it sarcastically, the solution would be to change pot or cap values or use a different pickups to brighten a darker sounding guitar. I've never heard anyone suggest to add a maple top to brighten it up.
 
Wow- that was well done. The follow-up on sustain is worth a watch too.

 
I'll watch later, but I've put the same pickup in different guitars, but sometimes (to my disappointment) they sound different. Sometimes it seems certain guitars need a higher-output pickup to match up with what I'm getting from a different guitar with a lower output pickup, and I've never been able to understand why that is. Some guitars just seem like flamethrowers.
 
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