Does body wood matter for tone?

[hao_ran]

im experimenting on an old bass I have, learning to DIY upgrade the stuffs myself.. Does the body wood matter alot for tone? or will the pickups play a more signifacnt role..

and wats the diff wif a P/J set up and a dual humbuckle setup

 

[Guest]

the type of wood will affect the nature of the sound.

the sound can be bright,mellow,dark..or wadeva..

pickups are secondary.. :?

 

[rottenramone]

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a combination of weapon, weapon type and specs, and weapon handler determines the sound actually.

hey, post pics of your project! it would be educational for all!!

 

[cherns]

im experimenting on an old bass I have, learning to DIY upgrade the stuffs myself.. Does the body wood matter alot for tone? or will the pickups play a more signifacnt role..

and wats the diff wif a P/J set up and a dual humbuckle setup

Body wood does affect tone, but you can never be sure by how or how much. Pickups will definitely affect the tone in a more obvious manner, but again whether it's "significant" differs between people.
A p/j combines the sound of the P pup thump with the bridge J growl, and dual humbuckles is the sound you get when you wear 2 buckles on a belt and have them rub against each other.






Okok, dual humbuckers are term for a pup config that's got 2 humbucking pickups, which are pups that don't hum... or at least not as loudly as single coils. They will sound different from a p/j setup, but it'll be a fruitless exercise to describe how unless you have a specific brand/model of humbucking pups you have in mind.

To give an analogy, imagine a bowl of meepok. If you use different brand/type of meepok noodles, it will taste different - but it's hard to say how or why. That's kinda like body wood. Upgrading pups (i.e. from stock J's to aftermarket J's) is more like using different kinds of chilli. The taste change is definintely more obvious - but the overall flavour of the noodles will still taste like meepok.
Changing pups (i.e. from p/j to humbuckers) is like changing from bah chor meepok to fishball meepok



But in all things bass - the fingers do most of the talking.

Hope that helped...... :lol:

 

[jeremyrozario]

body wood = vocal chords

pickups = microphone

 

[slapwalkpop]

ya so the meepok stall uncle's skill da most impt

 

[ahkiatt]

how you eat the meepok also veh important.

 

[bin4christ]

juz make sure u dont choke on a ball..

 

[exin]

body wood = vocal chords

pickups = microphone

good analogy ...

i read some luthiers comments before and alot of them agree that you can build the same bass exactly but with different woods and they can guarantee you that both of them will sound different .. even with the same pickups, same amp, same EQ config ...

so yeap .. wood does affect your tone ..

 

[cherns]

And don't forget - mee siam mai hum

 

[wraith]

Mee siam got hum one meh? I thought that was laksa?

 

[ahkiatt]

you didn't hear the national day rally speech thingie.. mr lee said mee siam mai hum by accident...

 

[exin]

you didn't hear the national day rally speech thingie.. mr lee said mee siam mai hum by accident...

they had a big hoo haa over it ... i think maybe he wanted to say mee siam mai hiam ...

 

[Guest]

mee siam mai hiam...

wth is tt supposed to mean???

 

[exin]

mee siam mai hiam...

wth is tt supposed to mean???

that means mee siam dowan chilli ...

 

[Guest]

den wads mee siam mai hum?

 

[ravenelle]

this thread makes me hungry for hums.

*hums (pun intended) 'My Humps'*

 

[Guest]

body wood = vocal chords

pickups = microphone

wow, enlightening!

 

[exin]

den wads mee siam mai hum?

hum is the one you find in your char kway teow lah ...

i think ***** said wrongly ... i think he wanted to say laksa mai hum ...


anyway ... no names here .. just in case the g*h*m*n comes after you ... he ehee ..

 

[ahkiatt]

i thought somebody from his office ammended it... say he din mean to say that.