Guitar wood doesn't affect your tone - WAT :0

[Pxz]

Take a look at this
http://www.guitarsite.com/news/music_news_from_around_the_world/electric-guitar-wood-myth-busted/

What do you think about it ? Also, this dude has been saying the same shit for a long time . He is probably one of the most hated guys on YT because the way he talks about guitar stuff .....but he might be right ????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VEAjPaxpVOw

To make a long story short, TONE would be only related to : strings, nut type and material ,neck joint type and quality, bridge type , pickups and its location in the body acording to the scale of the guitar, and the scale of the guitar itself.


if this is true . i don't have a problem using guitars like this one

DISCUSS

 

[Robert W]

And what's wrong with a Dan Armstrong?

 

[Mago]

I only flew other the text and didn't watch the vid all the way through.

As far as I'm concerned: if the guy from the university did the test well and he still says it makes no difference to the endsound then his ears must be pretty fucked. poor guy!
the guy in the video has some arguements, but the draws the wrong conlcusions imo

saying the body wood and shape has NO influence on the sound is BS.
I do agree though that a lot of guys give it too much weight/thought, compared to other components of the instrument.

lately did some tests with 2 pretty different guitars (strat style ESP / LP style FGN) with the same Pickups.
the difference in sound was smaller than I expected it to be, but it definitly was there. so I see why some would think the wood doesnt matter. still BS to say such a thing imho

my .02c

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

And what's wrong with a Dan Armstrong?

I think he's more referring to the fact that it's acrylic

 

[53Crëw]

lately did some tests with 2 pretty different guitars (strat style ESP / LP style FGN) with the same Pickups.
the difference in sound was smaller than I expected it to be, but it definitly was there.

By the same token, take two "identical" guitars (same model, even) and it's amazing how different they can sound.

 

[Mago]

^ true. build quality & quality control varies a lot too

 

[4Eyes]

body/neck materials and shape do have effect on the sound of the instrument. it's simple physics that can't be ignored. the other thing is how big the differences are in the context of different instruments, studio recordings, live playing etc.

edit: I watched that video. it's very funny also as the proofs of that guy lol that guy absolutely does not have any idea how physics and creating of waves in guitars or any other string instruments work. but yeah, when you have a shop with instruments you have to tell some fairy tails to customers

 

[Robert W]

God, I wish I could afford a Dan Armstrong....

Something else worth considering, and that's how paint affects a guitar's tone. I remember hearing a before and after vid someone did of a Hellraiser. I was a little surprised by the difference in tone between the painted/before and the stripped/after clips he recorded.

I also remember hearing a lot of talk about the merits of bolt-on versus neck-thru as well.

 

[drawnacrol]

Everything makes an effect on an electric guitars tone. Construction, woods, strings, action, hardware and thats before you even take pickups & your rig into account.

The other day we tested out two guitars of the exact same specs but one had a thinner body and the difference in sound was huge.

 

[jeid]

God, I wish I could afford a Dan Armstrong....

Something else worth considering, and that's how paint affects a guitar's tone. I remember hearing a before and after vid someone did of a Hellraiser. I was a little surprised by the difference in tone between the painted/before and the stripped/after clips he recorded.

I also remember hearing a lot of talk about the merits of bolt-on versus neck-thru as well.

This is also true of Nitro vs Poly finishes.

 

[Empathy]

Read the article, not once was there any actual evidence or any sort of analysis of his findings. Just "SOME GUY FROM A UNIVERSITY DID SOMETHING SO IT'S DEFINITELY TRUE BECAUSE HE WENT TO UNIVERSITY".

Blow it out your asshole, anybody with half a brain and at least one functioning ear knows wood makes a difference.

 

[LeSedna]

Total BS. Take a guitar, record it, cut 80% of its body material, record it, then you have your difference ! The mass especially does a lot.

Also, if they only compared one note at a time, it's way more difficult to hear the difference. I don't see how "i went to university, i took 20 guitars and recorded each note individually, looked at their waveforms and harmonic content with my magic eyes and played those recordings to my guitar friends" a valid scientific research.

I agree though than wood is not as important as people usually think, but to say it has next to none importance is ridiculous. What about sustain ?

 

[LeSedna]

The video is already far too much into ignorance and BS at 1:25

Edit : at 2:30 comparing two guitars about their sustains, but 2 variables change at the same time : body mass, and guitar hardware. You cannot compare two subjects when more than one variable change especially when you know the 2nd one does affect the sound for sure.

4:00 i'm not even commenting this one. i'm done with this video !