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I could tell the difference in the OD neck pickup comparison, but got the middle clean and bridge distorted wrong.
As someone who has recently bought a couple of maple necked guitars, having always had rosewood, the differences really aren't that great as soon as you start adding colouration to the sound.
@ICBM should be pleased to see a Blue Angel on the video, lovely sounding amp IMO too.
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a few controls tests would help - without needing to go down the proper scientific method
He could have just swapped the body and kept everything the same...not added the extra variable of fretboard wood being different. makes a big point of braking out the soldering iron and screwdriver to keep electronics the same - why not do the neck too and make this just about the body wood
He could have taken a guitar apart, messed with the set-up, then put it back together again and tried to replicate the original set-up - no change to anything really, but the guitars are being put through this process in the comparisons so its worth ruling out the effect it could have
He also could have done two alder, or two basswood bodies to show similarities or variance within species
I full believe body wood makes a difference, and i believe there are rough generalisations you can make from species, and specific predictions you can make from the actual body blank you will use.... but all this video tells me is two different guitars sound different
Some body buy me a Teuffel Birdfish so I can do some proper tests with the changeable tone bars
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For spruce or cedar to be considered tonewood they have to meet certain criteria. straight grain, quartersawn, so many grainlines per inch etc... These woods can be an acoustic top or a fence post depending on quantifiable and gradable characteristics in the wood.
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I actually think I prefer the sound of rosewood - it's a tad warmer. But I prefer the look and feel of maple.
I never got them all right - again, I don't think the tonal differences are that massive. We kid ourselves a lot.
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I fully agree with him that there's no real meaningful difference and you should just get the one you like the look or feel of best. Blue/maple for me please.
Great amp too - I keep wondering why I ever sold mine...
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If you play with significant gain, the difference is masked by distortion.
If you never play clean, it simply doesn't matter. Buy the one which feels best....
Multiples of those sort of little nuances all add up in the recording studio, choosing the right kit, mic placements, EQ, treatments etc. Subtle use of an Aphex Aural Exciter can really enhance a track whilst not being obvious. My personal feelings as a guitarist, are to use whatever enhances my relationship with my instrument, to bring out the best emotive performance, to "open the channel from soul to sonics".
Funny thing was, when I was listening to the clip where the guitars are seen, my brain was making notes as to how they each sounded different. I thought I had it sorted in my head then got the first two wrong! I unexpectedly got the third right, which is where I thought any differences would be masked by the distortion pedal.
As with so many things in the guitar world, I could tell there was a difference in sound, but I wouldn't say one was better than the other, just different.