Here is an article for those on the quest for the "perfect" tone. At least I thought it was interesting.
http://www.ronkirn.com/quest.htm

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The time has gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

Thanks flanker35, very interesting. Now I have to go practice.
Claude.

35 , Bro , thanks for the link!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

That article is closer to being correct on the subject than almost anything I've seen on the Internet. But he does his argument a disservice by calling the effect of the brain "psychosomatic."

That term is loaded with baggage based on the the pop culture definition as "a false something you made up in your head." The truth of what he's talking about is that human perception is not really created in the eye, in the ear, or on the skin: those things are just sensors for the things that actually creates perception, which is the brain. Everything you hear, everything you see, everything you touch and smell is a digitized version of what came in through the analog sensors.

Your nose doesn't smell: your brain does.

This isn't "psychosomatic." It's just the way the brain functions, and your perception of a sound is not the same as my perception of a sound, even if we are standing right next to each other listening to the same source.

But what he has to say about arguing over minute specs and features - rosewood v. maple, poly v. nitro - is dead on.

Fair enough.

But maybe I'll just look into a set of those Mark Levinson wires...

- C

a lot of good points were made that never really though about.

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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!

A very good article, well reasoned and very thought provoking. I was impressed that the author made a very sensible explanation of tone and why it is so hard to find. Thanks for the Post!!!