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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 1:14 am
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Just when you thought it was safe...

I appreciate that the compression of YouTube isn't going to help but the difference was way more subtle than I was anticipating, to the point of irrelevance.

You certainly wouldn't be saying "I must have a maple/rosewood neck for this number because...."

I think it is more, as Chappers touched on, in that it is almost a subliminal thing in the way the guitar talks to you as you play it.

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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 4:29 am
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And that's the crux of it. The reason the debate continues is because some people continue to INSIST that there is no difference at all. Nobody on the tonewood side has ever asserted the differences are large. Only that they do exist.

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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 4:58 am
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How many times do you have to say; subtleties and nuances? Those subtleties and nuances are far from irrelevant. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 9:51 am
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shimmilou wrote:
+1 BMW-KTM

How many times do you have to say; subtleties and nuances? Those subtleties and nuances are far from irrelevant. 8)


But then as the guy from Custom Shop demonstrated, if you take a neck that that is subtly darker sounding and then mate it with a body which is subtly lighter, is that subtly different to a lighter neck with a darker body?

I am sure that playing both would feel (subtly) different.

Irrelevant was probably too strong a statement as the fact that we prefer the feel of one guitar, and the way it responds, over another - for no other reason than "we just do" because we may not be able to say why, is far from irrelevant.

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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 10:11 am
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Enough already guys...

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Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 10:57 am
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You know, I bet you that if we put as much time and effort into actually playing our guitars as we did with this thread, on average we would all experience a 35% increase in our musicianship...........but hey, let's face, we're guitars players!


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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 12:17 pm
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My "blind" test:

I bought a strat last week with a rosewood fretboard. I thought, hmmmm, this sounds warmer than my main player which is a maple fretboard strat. Think I'll call my 16 year old daughter in here to ask what she thinks of the new guitar vs my main player. A little background: she knows nothing about tone, guitars, etc. She has ears and likes music. That's about it. I played both through the same equipment. When I finished, she said that the one with the dark neck had a warmer sound and the yellow neck was brighter.

She left and I thought "Well, it's not just me being brainwashed. Must be something to it."

That's it. Feel free to fight amongst yourselves. :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Rosewood necks sound darker? How?
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 3:05 pm
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Sounds fair enough to me. :)

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