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Guys, I might be the only one with doubts but..... for example I always keep the back covers off my guitars for easier access at any moment....and in two different occasions after playing them like that for a long time ... I put the back cover back on one and actually felt it sounded different like there was something missing....... second time did it again on a different guitar.. I put the back cover on and started practicing with it and and It also felt different same sensation has that ever happened to you???? :shock:


Do you live anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle? Or, Maybe Rod Serling is your next door neighbor? :?

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Guys, I might be the only one with doubts but..... for example I always keep the back covers off my guitars for easier access at any moment....and in two different occasions after playing them like that for a long time ... I put the back cover back on one and actually felt it sounded different like there was something missing....... second time did it again on a different guitar.. I put the back cover on and started practicing with it and and It also felt different same sensation has that ever happened to you???? :shock:


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Guys, I might be the only one with doubts but..... for example I always keep the back covers off my guitars for easier access at any moment....and in two different occasions after playing them like that for a long time ... I put the back cover back on one and actually felt it sounded different like there was something missing....... second time did it again on a different guitar.. I put the back cover on and started practicing with it and and It also felt different same sensation has that ever happened to you???? :shock:


Do you live anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle? Or, Maybe Rod Serling is your next door neighbor? :?


HEHE no I don't live near the bermuda triangle and I dont know who rod Sterling is but anyways..... I am serious about the different sensation haha I am not saying literally it adds more sustain or anything like that... I am just saying it feels different when I play it ..... probably the vibration of the guitar on my body feels different because after all when putting back the cover you are blocking a hole made of wood that resonates and sends sound vibrations thru it which hit my body just like a tiny drum (which in theory that makes a lot of sense) I don't know but I am sure it feels different :)


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Guys, I might be the only one with doubts but..... for example I always keep the back covers off my guitars for easier access at any moment....and in two different occasions after playing them like that for a long time ... I put the back cover back on one and actually felt it sounded different like there was something missing....... second time did it again on a different guitar.. I put the back cover on and started practicing with it and and It also felt different same sensation has that ever happened to you???? :shock:


Do you live anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle? Or, Maybe Rod Serling is your next door neighbor? :?


HEHE no I don't live near the bermuda triangle and I dont know who rod Sterling is but anyways..... I am serious about the different sensation haha I am not saying literally it adds more sustain or anything like that... I am just saying it feels different when I play it ..... probably the vibration of the guitar on my body feels different because after all when putting back the cover you are blocking a hole made of wood that resonates and sends sound vibrations thru it which hit my body just like a tiny drum (which in theory that makes a lot of sense) I don't know but I am sure it feels different :)


Rod Serling was the host of a TV show called "The Twilight Zone".

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CAFeathers wrote:

Rod Serling was the host of a TV show called "The Twilight Zone".

Submitted for your approval...

As an aside, not only did he host "The Twilight Zone" but he actually wrote a significant number of the episodes. And yet others were adapted from his other works of fiction. that show was truly his baby, he wasn't just the voice.

And dont forget about Night Gallery!

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Just think what you could acheive by removing the scratchplate and using the guitar as a lap steel.

I keep all my plastic parts on. It gives me a great sense of completeness :lol:

Wheres the bemuda triangle? do they make weird shorts their?

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Synkronized wrote:
Guys, I might be the only one with doubts but..... for example I always keep the back covers off my guitars for easier access at any moment....and in two different occasions after playing them like that for a long time ... I put the back cover back on one and actually felt it sounded different like there was something missing....... second time did it again on a different guitar.. I put the back cover on and started practicing with it and and It also felt different same sensation has that ever happened to you???? :shock:


At this point, I shall recuse my goodly self.

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Martian said it first and best.

This is utter nonsense, as are most suspect claims for tone improvement. Back in the day on another forum, there was a wise man who conducted scientific tests of some of the most popular tone myths. He coined a witty phrase that I still think of every time one of these discussion comes up:

"Every modification to an electric guitar improves tone and sustain."

He went so far as to say that you could take the back cover off a Strat, for example, and get an increase in tone and sustain, and then get another improvement by putting the cover back on. :D


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OK, enough of this inane drivel, I have some real news:

The following is an ABSOLUTE FACT. It was posted on a 'very reputable' guitar website so even without any empirical knowledge as collateral verification, it MUST BE TRUE:

If you arrange all the phillips screws on your Strat so that they all look exactly like this, "+" when you hold the guitar at a 45 degree angle towards the moon on Halloween, the guitar's tremolo springs will play the theme to DisneyWorld's Haunted Mansion ride.

Again, this phenomenon is absolutely true and NOT open for discussion!

If you meticulously follow the above procedure and the resulting consequence does not happen, it is only because your OEM back plate was made on a Friday, thus rendering your Strat sonically IMPOTENT. Unfortunately, there is no remedy for this as once any one of the backplate's screw's threads has simultaneously touched the plate and the raw wood (via the appropriate screw hole), the entire instrument is forever contaminated and must be considered akin to leprosy.

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Oh no!! My strat is impotent!! :wink:


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Whats really crazy when you think about is is that as i mentioned in one of his articles he shows how to swap the bridge and middle pickups physically in thier slots so that you can get the neck/bridge combo without rewiring, BUT AT THE COST OF THE BRIDGE/MIDDLE TONE. Not only is that nuts because all you need a a free pot or a push/pull switch on one of the pots and you can do it while still retaining the bridge/middle sound. But what strikes me as being on the verge of insanity is that he refers to the loss of the bridge/middle sound as "no big loss", then at the same time tries to convince you the back plate yields great tonal improvment by removing it !! Makes you wonder....if for the sake of argument, removing the back plate disabled the bridge/middle tone, would he call that a worthy trade-off too? Gung coo coo, gung coo coo.....


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Whats really crazy when you think about is is that as i mentioned in one of his articles he shows how to swap the bridge and middle pickups physically in thier slots so that you can get the neck/bridge combo without rewiring, BUT AT THE COST OF THE BRIDGE/MIDDLE TONE. Not only is that nuts because all you need a a free pot or a push/pull switch on one of the pots and you can do it while still retaining the bridge/middle sound. But what strikes me as being on the verge of insanity is that he refers to the loss of the bridge/middle sound as "no big loss", then at the same time tries to convince you the back plate yields great tonal improvment by removing it !! Makes you wonder....if for the sake of argument, removing the back plate disabled the bridge/middle tone, would he call that a worthy trade-off too? Gung coo coo, gung coo coo.....


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Although I do agree with you guys.......

My partsocaster has no back plate (due to a drilling error by me :? ) and after i stop playing you can hear the springs vibrating. Its kinda reverb...ish.

Although this sound is acoustic and not through the amp so only i get to hear it!


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