Why Wood Matters | Rules of Tone: Episode 1 | PRS Guitars

  • Thread starter Thread starter JohnnyGtar
  • Start date Start date
Floyd Eye said:
I'll let you in on another secret. While it's pretty easy to hear subtle differences in tone when rolling tubes, it really doesn't make all that much difference. At least as far as real NOS glass goes. Now speakers, yeah, pretty easy to hear the differences usually, although I would still argue that you can mitigate a lot of differences in tubes and speakers with different combinations of pickups, preamps and amps.
Click to expand...


Agree.

when I posted the Casablanca pic it was in response to my first line in the post which is easy to miss: "Still no consensus?" and being shocked, facetiously.
 
Floyd Eye said:
Admittedly I haven't been following this thread too close lately, but has anyone actually suggested wood doesn't matter at all ?
Click to expand...

Yes. It's the only reason I even posted in this thread.

The weight of each individual component is up for debate, but I wouldn't have posted if that was all that was being discussed was the extent to which each item matters. It sounds like you and I have similar views on the matter fwiw.
 
tallcoolone said:
Yup—here in this thread those are the guys with the 5000+ word posts
Click to expand...

To be fair, I've been making long posts too - maybe the longest - but it's trying to bring a bit of actual science/engineering into the discussion.

I should have known from the beginning that was pointless here! ;)
 
Floyd Eye said:
I'll let you in on another secret. While it's pretty easy to hear subtle differences in tone when rolling tubes, it really doesn't make all that much difference. At least as far as real NOS glass goes. Now speakers, yeah, pretty easy to hear the differences usually, although I would still argue that you can mitigate a lot of differences in tubes and speakers with different combinations of pickups, preamps and amps.
Click to expand...

This is like how I dial in every amp to sound like me! Sure, my Mesas, Soldanos, and Marshalls all sound different, but by them time I'm done with them, they sound pretty similar with me playing through them.......even when I really wish they'd sound like someone better!
 
Uh-huhuhuhuh… wood.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top