Laurens":2b82pv14 said:
Look up the tone wood video's on YouTube. It blew my mind. Interesting debate and makes you think twice before you buy your next guitar. Construction, pickup and strings are still important though. But "tone wood" not so much.
I can tell you there are HUGE differences when changing the wood in a guitar. I owned a few identical Suhr moderns, one of which was a solid maple body...literally everything else was identical and while I initially thought the maple one sounded awesome by itself, when it was played back to back with any of the other 4 moderns I owned at the time, you could immediately tell how much brighter it was than the others, and I mean IMMEDIATELY...
You can test this yourself by going into any guitar shop and grabbing 3 identical strats with the same pickups...according to his arguments, they should all sound 100% identical because there is zero difference in pickups manufactured by machines (this is also according to him, that since pups are now manufactured by machines that there is no variance in pups ie...all pups of the same model should be identical) so the ONLY true variance is the wood itself...so in this case you should not be able to tell a difference between the 3 guitars...which we ALL will. He also states that guitar shape, density, materials have no affect on tone either....so if you take a strat and a les paul with the same scale length, same nut material, and same bridge that it would sound identical if you have the same pups in them....which IMHO I dont see as true.
He states a lot of things that I have personally experienced the exact opposite...as I have a number of guitars with unfinished rosewood necks that sound completely different than an identical guitar with finished necks..I have a guitar with carbon fiber top and headstock overlay and I can tell you emphatically that it sustains different than guitars that dont have it....where in his own words, as long as the nut and bridge are the same, with same pups, same strings, and same scale length that it makes no difference at all...which maybe from a scientific standpoint should be correct but my ears tell me different.
And above all of that, besides tone....I am absolutely tell you that woods FEEL different when playing...no doubt about it.
To me his video comes off as he is butthurt because his Epiphone LP isnt as nice as someone elses R9...and there are a million Walmart shoppers that want to be on that bandwagon too....
