Assuming they've been set up properly - obvs if the action's paper-thickness, the string movement will be limited by the fretboard. It's just something I can't quite get my head around. If you just pick a note and play from quiet to loud, different guitars have different envelopes. Some seem to keep giving more - you can really lay into them and get aggression, grunt, grind, spank, whatever adjective you want. Others seem to reach a plateau earlier when extra energy into the strings from your picking hand doesn't seem to make it to the amp.
Pickups obvs play a big part in it but it doesn't feel like it's the whole story, I've swapped pickups on plenty of guitars and still heard the same character coming through...
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Comparing two different guitars, be it different price points of a similar guitar, be it say Custom Shop and Squire, or 2 totally different guitars, ie Tele and LP - Then everything comes into play - wood, scale length, bridge, pick-ups
A floating trem lends a different feel from a hard tail bridge. Or an oversprung screwed down trem. Fer instance.
Ah fuck it who cares.
You do you chaps.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Firstly no one is measuring a guitar build to the tolerance of atoms and spending a sizeable chunk of the GDP of an entire nation to build a guitar that's absolutely perfect in its performance, so it's a stupid comparison.
Secondly since human hearing is a psychoacoustic phenomena where our perception of sound level is a confluence of frequency response, weighted average signal levels over short windows of time, and not just a flat measure of peak or RMS signal level, further contextualised by what's going on around it sonically, it's actually not easy at all to analyse a waveform and categorically say that a human will hear it as being slightly louder or quieter.
I'm just asking a simple question about something that anyone can easily check out and experience just from playing a few guitars, and the cynic apparently would respond by shitting inside their own skull.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
Touched a nerve there did we?
Your third paragraph there is dangerously close to the sort of pseudoscientific babble you'd find in a review of £10,000 per metre speaker cable.
The idea of this forum is to discuss things, starting to throw insults around if people take the opposite side of the discussion is infantile at best. If you are only interested in people agreeing with you - just talk into a mirror.
Bollocks
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
You what? You are being very silly and honestly I don't get the vitriol.
This basic discussion happens here every week, people say what you said, people say what I said, life goes on and most people can politely agree to disagree. I find usually I can agree with people in one thread and disagree in another at the same time without it getting awkward for precisely that reason.
For some reason you have taken personal offense at a general comment, you prerogative I suppose but seems pointless to me.
If I don't bond with a guitar unplugged, then the odds are that it won't work for me. I have a lot of vintage and custom guitars and do know what I want and am capable of setting them up the way that feels right to me, including wiring and pickups.
You have to try them to know, which is why buying online has so many potential problems.
That's part of the problem: The experience described in the first post is as real as anything else an individual experiences, and like everything else, the actual experience can't really be 'known' any more than it is 'felt'. You can't get closer to it than the experience of it.
I can't really help with the 'why'. There must be so many variables, e.g. adjustment to pickup height or even rolling off a little volume can change how a guitar responds to playing dynamics.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.