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I used to own a lightweight Les Paul & the big issue tonally was that it didn't have anywhere near the low end of others I tried that were all heavier. So I sold it on. Same with chambered guitars. I can always hear a distinct absence of low end. There may be the odd one that breaks that rule. But I've never played one.
He sounds as vague as Dumble
Humbuckers, the most nasal thin guitar I ever played
I tried overwound Kinmans (my choice became the Woodstock set) my mahogany bodied strat: far too dark, I had to replace them with brighter pickups
does Santana want quack and spank.
there 100's of guitars All do a different job for different people.
As my reading of physics goes the best sustain is 2 x cubic metre block of granite with a single string tuned across them
the rest of the stuff in a guitar context is a subtractive process and it the bits taken away we like not the string stretched between the granite blocks
so effectivel a neck of x dampens or removes certain frequencies a body of y removes other parts.
endless sustain for most guitarists is santana or a Gary Moore cover down the dog and gynocologist. All feedback not sustain.
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This ain't a yes/no, rather more/less.
When does the damper become the positive feedback and ring? An analogy is: to test if wood is seasoned and ready to burn then bang two pieces together. A thud, it ain't seasoned. A clink the wood is good to burn. Even cast iron can oscillate - amazing really.
Best visual representation of this is to Google Slader waves in sand - awesome!
A guitar body, even a solid is going to contribute to the oscillations. The same brand can't offer real consistency - unless they by all the same wood from the same location in the same year (denseness of the wood, the rings) will fluctuate but, . . . they could be consistent at identifying what makes a good guitar?!?
Remember all of those aftermarket brass nuts, bridges etc that were all the rage because of the extra sustain? Some makers even stuck lumps of brass in the body.
Wonder where they all went?
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If the current owners of the Gibson brand were listening to their customers, surely they would not have waited 20 years to produce a Historic Les Paul which does not have a plastic sheath wrapped around the truss rod?
When I was a kid I'd ask both parents the same question and if I didn't get the answer I was looking for I'd rephrase it time and time again to illicit the answer I wanted.
Weird how this happens on forums too.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'll have a go.
Guitar vibrates nicely to any of E, G, A, and D notes. Since those are the keys people play in.
If I could find a brass that could make my instrument sustain, I'd not be with Alistair. Fact.
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Same principle as finding the fundamental on an EQ - dime the gain, have a very tight Q value, and sweep the range until the EQ 'rings' very loudly and harshly... then dial the gain back down and widen the Q a little bit, and either boost or scoop depending on if you want more of that frequency or less.
But I think guitars are probably a bit more complex than a simple subtractive passive EQ circuit.