What makes your guitar sound the way it does?
Let's do the science!
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 18:47,
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You don't have a guitar?
Preposterous. Next you'll claim you don't have a synth.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 20:01,
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Being able to play chords?
Hammer-ons and pull-offs might be tricky too.
I like how he's gone about it and it illustrates a point.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 1 Jun 2023, 20:32,
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I'd prefer
if he'd used a cleaner signal path because that amp/mic setup is adding a fucktonne of distortion which is going to diminish all but the least subtle differences. Also you can see him playing the parts differently according to body type, it's especially prominent when he uses the 2x4 body compared to the 'caster.
The air guitar test isn't great because the two benches he bolts it to are not bolted to the control guitar... I think the sound is resonating through those benches.
To make the tests fairer I think he should have a robot doing the strumming, and break out the oscilloscopes and spectrographs to do some slightly more objective comparisons.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 21:48,
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My guitar sounds the way it does
Because 'it fell off' the wall when the kids were playing football and the soundboard is held on with No More Nails.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 22:07,
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Antmulder and the GlueTones
my frets are so worn down if I play near the nut they now buzz as the strings touch the other frets
but Im too attached to the old girl to get another, and too lazy to replace them
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 1 Jun 2023, 23:20,
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tone is in the fingers
before I played guitar I thought the way it sounded was how you play it
that's mostly true
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colmcq2, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 9:38,
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yeah this guy talks crap
He is using a slide for starters so the neck is removed from the equation. Sustain is totally changed.
I have 3 electrics and they each sound differently acoustically and that difference is the difference you hear when plugged in. So that's all you need to know.
And there's more! How the guitar feels affects how you play, the build of the guitar changes how it feels to bend strings, fckn countless things all of which change tone.
I call bullshit, clickbaitery and fakism
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 10:01,
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I don't think he's trolling or deliberately bullshitting, he's doing his best.
But as I said, put literally any signal through that path and it will share timbral characteristics *by design*. A direct input (with no distortion, no added noise, no filters or signal processing) into a computer equipped with an oscilloscope and spectrograph would reveal so much more information.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 2 Jun 2023, 17:39,
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