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Only wood diff was the fact that one was Indian Rose, the original is Brazillian.
(I sold the spare neck on here last August).
Why would this happen if tonewood has no bearing?
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The tonal difference was marked.
Any one who argues with this has either never done it or has very poor hearing....
That's not tone that's Mojo the 64 neck had Mojo and the 62 CS didn't.... don't confuse Mojo with tone
I said the whole shape of the note, not just the decay.
You seem to be skimming through these comments determined to prove your own single minded opinion.
The reason- more energy transferred into wood which then resonates more.
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Tone is a moderator on here; Mojo isn't. Simple.
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fully chambered- the structure is greatly affected and there is a large change in n resonance. You notice the difference
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I'm sure I've read some comments by knowledgeable people that the neck is a very big part of the tone. It makes sense.
It's a different construction of guitar, but I had a rosewood necked PRS McCarty for a while. That definitely sounded different to the regular mahogany necked version. I've played a few of them over the years, and they all had a similar tone that I've never heard from a mahogany necked PRS.
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A neck is effectively a trussed cantilever.
Anyone who claims that a cantilever is not capable of huge acoustic resonance knows absolutely fuck all about physics- structurally, they've more sine wave resonance than virtually any form of structure. An acoustic wave has been known to destroy cantlilevered cable tied bridge supports in minutes.
But no, according to @threenotesunburst, this is impossible.
I really have rarely read such a load of bollocks on here as the frantic pseudo intellectual arguments purported thus far on several threads. (unless of course I typed it about Gilmour, Cricket or Rugby.)
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We've all played guitars that are a bit 'meh' or that don't sound great - even stuff that is supposed to be great, made of great "tonewood". I've even played a very famous guitar (one of the most famous in the world) that frankly didn't sound as great in my hands as it did on those classic recordings. I guess thats more to do with the connection of the the player to the instrument than the actual construction. However, what made that Les Paul sound 'meh' to me and another (my own) that inspires me to play - and in fact sometimes inspires me to play beyond my perceived limitations - due to its incredible sound? The pickups? The hardware? Or the woods? Or all the above? If it was just about a string vibrating freely then surely all Les Pauls would sound the same or react the same to the dynamics of your playing... but they *don't*.
So - many variables. And those that bang the drum that it doesn't make any difference are welcome to their opinions - they won't change mine. :-)
It seems that the fact that magnetic pickups can become microphonic is jumped on by those who believe that 'tone wood' makes a significant contribution to the sound of an electric guitar as it appear to offer a mechanism by which the vibration of the body can influence the signal. Thing is, for this to be true all pickups would have to be microphonic to a significant degree and I don't think that this is the case.
I have looked at some of the supposed 'proofs' that all pickups are microphonic on YouTube and so on and they are a bit of a joke. For example someone shouting at their guitar body and noting that this (maybe...) produces a small amount of sound through their amp. However, the guitar used has strings fitted so any sound produced is most likely do to these resonating slightly, not the pickup itself.
What I'm saying is that a large part of the tone we hear from a guitar is effectively encoded in the specific way the strings vibrate. However, that is not to discount some of the other reasons for tone differences already put forward in the thread.
Actually I like the idea of alternate materials so I'd be up to try one of these. (My only objection to this thread is the assertion that materials make no difference.)
Yesterday I was looking for stuff on resonances of various different materials - elastic or fourier response etc. There are published papers, but I haven't found anything like an authoritative table of data yet....