Re: You guys who say the wood tyoe makes no difference on electrics

Over G wrote:
On Mar 16, 3:05 pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 16, 8:00 am, "Over G" <odpe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Mar 15, 5:07 pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 15, 9:44 am, "Guncho" <cgun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly. It's my understanding
that you want as much transer from the strings to the body as
possible. That's why people screw their tuneomatic bridges all the
way down. Right?
Chris
No! That's not why you screw it down tight. Anything that's loose
will result in damping of the spring vibration, so the notes decay
faster than you want them to. Overall, in a solid body, the less
transfer the better. You gotta keep that string going and prevent the
body from taking it up. It would be different if pickups were mounted
deep in the body.
QED,
so you can use block of concrete it will be the best.
according to this thoery..
(so wood is the worst material you can get to that mission.)
No! Concrete will absorb the sound! It's horrible acoustically!- Hide quoted text -

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conrete his horrible acoustically , correct, but does a realy good job
returning the sound to u,
that is why in studio they put something on the wall to cover it so
the sound won't return,
that is why when string vibrate in an empty room you hear it very loud
because the sound is getting back from all over the place,
and that is why a concrete guitar will sustain for ever..



You're mixing different properties. Sound waves traveling through the air and reflecting off of a wall have little relationship to vibration traveling through material. The former is more dependent on the surface characteristics of the material where the latter is driven by the material's properties.

Take that same room you were talking about and drill a 1 inch diameter hole about an inch deep on a 2 inch by 2 inch grid all over all four walls and the cieling and you will have dampened the sound nearly as effectively as if you put up some curtains or homosote panels.
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