yngzaklynch
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How do these sound compared to mohogany and alder, two woods i am familiar with
carlygtr
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I had a Korina body Gene Baker Strat. The word I use to describe the tone was sweet midrange.
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Lance-a-not
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Both of my guitars are Korina, and I have played a ton of them...
I personally think it sounds Mahogany like with a bit more push in the upper mids, a bit more "crack" in the attack and usually a bit more lively overall. If Mahogany hits you in the gut, Korina hits you in the jaw
Hope it helps!
I personally think it sounds Mahogany like with a bit more push in the upper mids, a bit more "crack" in the attack and usually a bit more lively overall. If Mahogany hits you in the gut, Korina hits you in the jaw
Hope it helps!
Badronald
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carlygtr":3g4zn003 said:
Sounds great!
yngzaklynch
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carlygtr":1fjjrd27 said:
moltenmetalburn
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Singing mids, a little lean and warm highs. Great guitar wood.
rupe
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Korina is simply a name given to Limba wood by Gibson...it isn't even a real wood species. So Korina and Black Limba (or White Limba) are the exact same thing.
As has been mentioned, tonally it is typically very similar to mahogany. Like any wood, there is quite a bit of variance from one piece to the next (even when taken from the same tree/board) so you can't say with any level of certainty how it will ultimately sound. As a player who has built dozens of parts guitars for myself and others, there are simply no hard, fast rules on how something will sound. I've had/built extremely bright and thin sounding guitars with mahogany bodies, and dark, muddy sounding guitars with solid maple bodies...you get the picture.
As has been mentioned, tonally it is typically very similar to mahogany. Like any wood, there is quite a bit of variance from one piece to the next (even when taken from the same tree/board) so you can't say with any level of certainty how it will ultimately sound. As a player who has built dozens of parts guitars for myself and others, there are simply no hard, fast rules on how something will sound. I've had/built extremely bright and thin sounding guitars with mahogany bodies, and dark, muddy sounding guitars with solid maple bodies...you get the picture.
Disfigured
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I haven't tried many different korina guitars to attest to their variance, but they aren't supposed to vary to extremes as much as mahogany.
I do own 2 korina guitars but they are cut from the same batch of wood. I still have some korina body and neck blanks that have been sitting in the basement for years.
They sound pretty much as others have already described, sort of in the mahogany family of tone except the resonance is in the upper mids instead of the lower mids like mahogany. The notes really sing in the upper mids with amazing sustain, the highs are nice and clear and articulate. One major difference between my korina and mahogany guitars is that there seems to be a deficit in the lower mids of my korina guitar. I thought there was something wrong with the guitar or pickup at first (EMG 85), there is jump from the mids to the bass lows, like somebody scooped out the low mids with an eq. I also have a brazillian rosewood fingerboard on that guitar, not sure if that contributes to it or not. I've only tried a few other korina guitars which sounded similar but not as good, but they were cheaply made by comparison, I don't recall if they had quite the same deficit in the low mids as mine, but undoubtedly Indian Rosewood would help fatten the tone a bit.
Van Halen I is apparently all Ibanez korina destroyer, and Hot for Teacher is a korina flying V.
I do own 2 korina guitars but they are cut from the same batch of wood. I still have some korina body and neck blanks that have been sitting in the basement for years.
They sound pretty much as others have already described, sort of in the mahogany family of tone except the resonance is in the upper mids instead of the lower mids like mahogany. The notes really sing in the upper mids with amazing sustain, the highs are nice and clear and articulate. One major difference between my korina and mahogany guitars is that there seems to be a deficit in the lower mids of my korina guitar. I thought there was something wrong with the guitar or pickup at first (EMG 85), there is jump from the mids to the bass lows, like somebody scooped out the low mids with an eq. I also have a brazillian rosewood fingerboard on that guitar, not sure if that contributes to it or not. I've only tried a few other korina guitars which sounded similar but not as good, but they were cheaply made by comparison, I don't recall if they had quite the same deficit in the low mids as mine, but undoubtedly Indian Rosewood would help fatten the tone a bit.
Van Halen I is apparently all Ibanez korina destroyer, and Hot for Teacher is a korina flying V.
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fearhk213
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Lance-a-not":25swgtpn said:
That's been my finding in general too.
Compared to alder, I find korina typically fatter and more forward in the mids.
yngzaklynch
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ok guys. Thanks for the info
charveldan
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I heard G. Lynch say in a video Black Limba is toxic and dangerous to work with.
yankeebulldog
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The Ibanez Destroyer was a copy of the Gibson Korina Explorer but it wasn't made of Korina.Disfigured":5u67sjcu said:
yankeebulldog
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All the Korina guitars I've owned, black or white limba, all seemed to be slightly brighter than Mahogany but that might have just been the upper mid emphasis. I have a PRS SC245 with a Korina body and it's a monster. It's a lot more balanced sounding and tighter in the low end that my hog bodied SC245.
Disfigured
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yankeebulldog":v1d59jn7 said:
Here's an interview with EVH from 1979 where he states his Destroyer was an earlier model made of korina. He also goes on to say Ibanez later switched to ash because korina was too difficult to work with.
http://jasobrecht.com/eddie-van-halen-c ... interview/
Pushead
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Lance-a-not":36750ytt said:
I'd agree with this.