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Post subject: Ash vs Alder with Rosewood Neck = Tonal Differences?
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:02 pm
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Has any one experienced Ash (thin skin nitro) with Rosewood Neck compared to Alder (thin skin Nitro) with RW neck tonally. What tonal difference might one hear and is difference very noticable. If matters, amps used are D-style amps.

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Post subject: Re: Ash vs Alder with Rosewood Neck = Tonal Differences?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:11 pm
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Hi there t. I aced my ear-training exams in music school. I consider myself good at it. Yet your subject escapes me. Some identical Fenders I have sounded present different timbres, so comparing different woods brings in variables that are hard to pinpoint. This guy with a japanese telecaster replica, his guitar sounded so great, he would not trade for a proper Fender instrument. Some people hold on to the sound of a specific guitar and swear by it. I think it is kind of cool that identical guitars might actually respond differently. I love the esoteric side of it all. My experience has been that Ash rings deeper, warmer, yet I never know if it is the block, the details involved in pickup installation and set up, I go nuts. What an exciting adventure, trying guitars out in search of that ONE! It is so intriguing to me that I hear someone playing and I go, hey what a great sounding guitar! And then when I grab it my hands make it sound inconsequential. This is what I currently focus on, trying to sound like my heroes out of an attitude, an intention. I am not totally in love with the timbre of my CS, it´s a bit thin, but I will not doctor it, I am trying to let my hands warm up the tone. All the best man!

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Post subject: Re: Ash vs Alder with Rosewood Neck = Tonal Differences?
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:53 pm
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tt92780 wrote:
Has any one experienced Ash (thin skin nitro) with Rosewood Neck compared to Alder (thin skin Nitro) with RW neck tonally. What tonal difference might one hear and is difference very noticable. If matters, amps used are D-style amps.

Thank you all.

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Organic materials vary greatly, despite so many species that taste like chicken...

Same as some beef steaks taste great and others don't, wood from different trees of the same species may well sound different to the same pair of ears, and even from different parts of the same tree. So, two alder bodies might differ in tone more than one alder and one ash, or not. It's potluck. Any lot of tonewood can yield great guitar bodies and necks, but then again it also may not.

That does not stop many from generalizing and attributing a particular tone to this or that species of wood. A blind test would soon show such assurances to be just voodoo. But no one bothers: it's a killjoy.

The same goes for how much each part of an electric guitar contributes to its tone. The mother of all cans of worms.

In the final analysis, the electric guitar is already an extremely complex resonant system, before you add amp and speakers, and understanding it well at just a survey level it's quite an intellectual exercise. Much easier is to pickup the ax and see if you like what you hear. After all the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

(No offense to those who say can hear the improved tone of a Callahan bridge and the like, I am happy for them).

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