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and I responded in a very sarcastic way…
these recordings you mention, something like an album maybe? A produced release?
That guitar tone you hear on the record has gone through a mic, you hear the room it was recorded in, its prolly gone into outboard gear etc before
being printed… then it’s mixed in with all the other instruments on the song… massive chunks of its frequencies are cut out to make way for other instruments so everything sounds nice… bit of saturation to make it sparkle…then it’s off to mastering… more eq changes etc etc… then you listen on your setup with the eq set the way you like it…
Most folk (myself included) would be hard pushed to say what guitar was used on any recording let alone what wood it was made of or how resonant it was…
@thegummy here is a little clip of me dicking about earlier today... Ive stripped the audio out of a video...
You tell me what guitar I used and Ill post the video after you've had a guess...
https://soundcloud.com/user-931985443/comfortablygummy
Go on. Have a crack at it
The One I Love on a Les Paul. (And through a Marshall, too!)
The interesting thing about all these is that when you know what you're listening for, you *can* tell... eg with The One I Love, listen to the last two chords at the very end, which are much too thick-sounding to be a Rickenbacker and a Vox despite what you see in the video.
I've said this before a lot, but the only *really* distinctive electric guitar sound is the Strat in-between positions, because they have a unique comb-filter sound that's determined by the unusual spacing of the pickups - and not by any other aspect of the guitar. Anything else really just sounds like a bridge pickup, a neck pickup, or both together.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As soon as you add distortion and stick things in the context of a mix of band pickup choice is more important, purely in the mix even that becomes way less significant.
only thing that really matters is “do you like how it plays”
Caveat edit : unless you’re playing an acoustic. Probably has some effect then …
This is gonna be a trick thing isn't it. Is it a proper full on '69 Strat or something ?? That's my guess.
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There is quite a big variation on acceptable bridge and neck pickup positions anyway, and it does account for some of the big differences between otherwise comparable models.
Definitely a bigger difference than woods to my ears, but I still pay attention to woods and materials as it matters to me.
Athough If having pickups closer together then it makes sense to have a bigger difference in wind to still get decent variation between positions.
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https://youtu.be/sPaYvw0DB5I
Good point, nicely made