Re: What working at Gibson is really like

salty@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:54:16 -0500, Bruce Morgen <editor@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Arlowe <bare.arsed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

RS wrote on 24/12/2009 :
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:24:54 -0800 (PST), DeeAa <aepheikki@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Body wood importance on electrics is about as big a sham as imagining
notable differences between pickups of exact same construction and
materials, or super-$$ speaker and audio cables etc. Modern myths
players are keen to believe. But then again, a staggering number of
people also believe in ghosts, various deities and various other fairy
tales so I guess it'd be too much to expect from people to think with
their own brains for a change ;-)

Cheers,

Dee

You know, Dee, I've told you that I appreciated what you post here,
but this is an exception. I own quite a few guitars, and I've worked
on hundreds of instruments. I can tell my guitars apart easily, and
much of it does relate to type of wood. If you can't hear a difference
between the sound of a piece of stone and a compressed paper body, I
don't think you should be making pronouncements or calling other
people brainless.

Oh come on...be fair here.
He never used the word brainless, he wrote "think with their own
brain."
big difference.

I have to somewhat agree with Dee, The quality of design, workmanship
and materials (quality, not type) have a bigger impact than the species
of timber used.
Ok, you may be able to tell the difference between a cedar body and a
spruce/rosewood body on an non-amplified acoustic, but 99.99% of the
population can't.
However... I would bet money you couldn't tell the difference in sound
between a Maple Telecaster body & an Alder body with all things being
equal. By the time the sound exits the speaker the signal has been so
coloured by the signal chain that whatever subtle differences there may
have been will be gone.

If you can't hear a difference
between the sound of a piece of stone and a compressed paper body

Read Dee's post again. You will find that he said the material can
change the sound.

Actually, I found a bigger
audible difference between
two alder-bodied Teles than
between one of them and an
otherwise-similar Tele with
an ash body -- it's more
the density and seasoning
of the individual body's
lumber than the species of
the tree is was cut from.
My best sounding electric
has an Asian basswood body
and an American rock maple
neck -- and imo that neck
has much more influence on
its tone than the body!


I once built a guitar with a rock maple neck and a 2 inch thick rock
maple body just to see what would happen. Let me tell you... it
sounded different than any solid body guitar I ever played. Sustained
for about a day and a half, and rang like a bell.

My old Gibson L-6S was all
maple, all the time too
(yes, even the fretboard)
-- a truly wonderful,
underappreciated instrument
that I wish I hadn't sold
off in a fit of poverty
back in '85 or so.
.

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