Gibson Les Pauls, the insider story

[JMguitars]

I agree. Wood type only counts a big deal when you're playing acoustically I feel.

If you're gonna throw in distortion, compression, equalization, after-market pickups or what have you into the signal, even the most premium wood won't count for anything.

All IMO.

Vaiyen is right to mention this .......

The cleaner you play, the more you hear the dynamics of the actual guitar. The more effects/dist you put into your signal, the lesser the importance of the actual tone wood.

 

[JMguitars]

can differentiate sound of wood? let them try differentiate after u record ur music or when playing live..

c'mon when u plug in..the natural tone is already equalized..and u make some changes to the knob..become more coloured..and different amp has different default equalization..

i'll tell u..those ppl can only differentiate the tone of wood if they hold the guitar and play..only you yourself know..the audience doesn't know ..

even if you're player, when u become the audience will you know?

Audio, thats also a valid point.

What an audience (in the same room) hears versus what a player hears (even on an acoustic guitar) is always different given the cumulated signal chain and the acoustical effects of the room.

 

[berukblue]

I agree with vaiyen about wood tone and distortion, compression etc but i've always thought i could also 'feel' the difference in tone.Maybe i'm just weird but different woods give different tone 'feel' to me even with high gain, compression, eq etc. LOL i can't explain it better than that

Anyway, the jist of the article was about Gibson's QC and not just about using cheaper woods.

 

[mikemann]

Judging from the response, a new tread should be started.

"What do you want to be?? The guitarist who plays for his audience and the guitarist who plays for himself"

Should split the camp apart.

That said, the tone quest contention has been going on forever. Scrutiny in products become a hobby by itself. But why is the market still so small for "tone" products?? Why aren't we seeing products like Bad Cat, Orange, Budda from any dealers yet??

Don't worry tone phreaks, under the pipelines some headways are being made. Hope you guys could see more 'boutique' stuffs soon. But must be supportive lah, don't test and test and say good, but never buy. Like that how to develop the market further???

 

[blahblah]

everytime i go down to a guitar shop i see people who are supposedly "trying" or "testing"the guitars attempt to outdo one another and burn up the fretboard woth licks and songs and cranking up the distortion..hardly anyone bothers to really take time to listen to the little details. :?

 

[sanXp]

But apparently bad sounding wood comes hand in hand with bad playability, according to the article. Not that they are related, but rather due the effort they put into making the guitar. At least it will be a piece of mind for the player that a good sounding guitar will feel good as well, don't you think? To me, or any player, I think a guitar's playability is the most important. In fact I feel that a guitar's tone can be classified under playability as playing a guitar is a closed loop process, not open loop.