You'll need to microwave your strings on low for 2.37 minutes to really be able to hear a difference in the woods.

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That must be how you get the " sizzle"

Gives you a hot sound too!

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Don't leave home without it!

Most sound we experience comes through our ear canals, hits a membrane, virbrates a few bones, and is passed on to an internal organ. Some sound we feel, some sound hits our heads and is transferred to the inner ear and we hear it.

So people with thick, dense skulls will hear differently.

Ha!


-T

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Ok, back to this subject. Yesterday I had to fix an input jack on a Fender Ultra guitar. It has 4 Lace Sensors, as most of you know. I had the strings off and pulled up the pickguard, as I was not sure why the guitar was dead. When I got it working I plugged it in (to test it) with the pickguard still loose and no strings on. Wow, ever small movement of the guard made noise through the amp. And even with the "quiet" Lace Sensors, I could hear every movement of my fingers while looking at the guard. I tried yelling into the pickup, and that did nothing. I could tap on the guard or the pickups and heard a very loud tapping noise come through the amp (which was set on only 3). So there is some serious microphonics going on with the pickups. So the resonance of the wood could effect the response of the guitars vibrations.

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Just spent the last our reading through this thread and find it fascinating.

I agree with those saying that different densities of wood will effect how much energy is lost from the string into the wood and hence how the energy with which the string vibrates.

I will also agree that these differences can be almost impossible to hear, though I can hear them between woods that are significantly different (mahogany and alder for example).

I would end by stating that all other things being equal 2 different pieces of wood would sound different, but once you put that into a signal chain then the differences become so small as to be almost un-noticable. But they ARE there.

Which is why a Les Paul sounds different to an SG (same pickups, same scale etc, but a Les Paul has MORE wood and adds maple to the mix as well as mahogany).

you're hear'n things Xhefri

I've enjoyed your web site, read about the photo flames and the Heritage guitars. There's a small shop near me so I'll check out the Heritage a little more closly next time.

What's that? Would you speak up please??? I can't hear you!!!! That is what happens when you play so loud, and then do auto-body work for years without ear protection, and ride motorcycles without helmets! There is a price one pays for the wind whistling through your hair. But honest, the pickups picked up every movement. Try it sometime, when doing a string change. Just lift the pickup assembly and plug in your guitar to an amp (turn it on of course) and listen. I even heard aliens from outer space....

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Could be the copper wires in the coils moving or vibrating next to the magnet. This would produce a current.

If you want to eliminate this, pot 'ur pups. There was a post earlier and a link. It showed how to use wax, melt it in a double boiler pot and sink your pup into the melted wax. This will eliminate any virbations within the pup.

Don't experiment on your CS 69's or if it has an "Abby" signature on the back.

Probably will make it cleaner and thinner sounding.

Oh-oh! Time to start wearing the aluminum foil hat!!!



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Not me - when it comes to alder and ash the difference is more looks than tone. If the grain of the wood is ging to be covered up with paint then it doesn't make much difference but need nice grain for a good sunburst

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Different materials have different sound proofing characteristics as well as heat retention..

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Yeah you're right. But the principle is exactly the same. Differing densities of material kill soundwaves passing through them, not enhance em.

Also it's a simple fact that a string acting on a piece of wood can't be affected by that piece of wood. Especialy when it has to pass through other materials to get to the wood (as in point 1)

No one has yet to explain how altering a strings vibration pattern (which is all the pickup sees) doesn't cause unnatural distortion of the signal.

Theres far too much assumption with electric guitars. In no way rectified by advertizing that seems to want to compound lies.