Re: poly vs. nitro clear coat - age

The Repair Guy wrote:

jtees4 <jtees4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Lot's of claims fying around this newsgroup
(probably some are even mine), but IMHO
the only real way to do it is with a blind listening
test... then whenever anyone posts a clip or something and asks "what am I using?" everyone starts making excuses about how
it is an ufair test. That's what has always happened here in the past.


Recording clips & posting them is nothing
like doing an actual live double-blind test.
With the clips, * you're at the mercy of the mp3 (or other compressed) format
* everyone participating will probably use
different systems to play them on
* the person making the clips may have
some bias, he knows what equipment he
used, and he may unintentionally (or even
intentionally) skew the test


What I have always said and still stand by is...
I have had many sets of "twin" guitars....
sometimes even "triplets". I have a habit of getting ijnto something and then buying a bunch of them...kind like Double GAS. The exact same guitar model etc. still sound very different than each other in most cases..
hey wait..usually they are a different color...
hmmmm...maybe it's really the color that causes the differences in sound. Time for a new thread on this new subject.


Even with two seemingly indentical guitars,
there are too many variables to say "this is
the part (or parts) that make this guitar sound
different than that one." The main culprit, IMO, is the wood in the body and neck. Wood is not uniform.
Pickup manufacturing has gotten a lot more precise, and they're more "identical" than they were when 80-year-old Martha was hand-winding them for $2.00/hour.

The Repair Guy repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com

I'm in total agreement. A true test would have to use the SAME guitar (finish, test, strip, finish, test), played by a freakin' robot (to make sure all notes are hit the same way).

Oh, and if you wanted to test the aging theory? You'd have to wait that 10 or 50 years, then record with the SAME equipment.
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