Robert Godin, on aging your guitar.

[sepultura]

Very interesting. How many of you knew this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPh9_gFH7t4

 

[le_Doucereux]

Interesting.. I'm taking it with a very generous pinch of salt, but that's an interesting theory nonetheless..

Hmm.. Maybe they should make guitar cases with speakers embedded in them.. Could hook your iPod up to it.. Hehh..

 

[nkubi87]

he says that by playing more the guitar gets to 'exercise' rite. & he talks bout the movements of the particles in the wood or sth like that.

anyone can explain the physics behind this, i'm very interested to know. & he says the more u play it the more it'll sound better. the 'better' in this case means? better tone? more sustain? thanks.

 

[Phil]

I am leaning towards believing the man. I mean, it's Godin himself.

Better would probably entail a richer, fuller tone.

I wonder if it applies to electrics as well.

 

[XJAPAN]

Play too much distortion will make the wood distorted? :lol:

maybe put some mozart music beside the acoustic, just like letting the baby listening the sonatas. See what happens

 

[Black_Death]

the sonic vibrations will "flex the wood" so it makes the wood "flexible" instead of "stiff"..thus when the wood is "flexible" the projected sound from the soundhole will sound better..i have a feeling it will sound warmer..

i tink a similar analogy will be..ur vocal cords.when u wake up from bed.try singing..sounds crap right? now do some warm up or wad not.i mean..given tt ur sumone who CAN sing..after the warm up.ur vocal cords are "warmed up" so ur voice projection may sumwhat be better..


tts my opinion la.. :lol:

 

[Guest]

I think he's talking about aging/transformation the sap in between the wood grains when he talks about the "sponge".

 

[sepultura]

Though he talks about acoustic guitars, the concept probably applies to electrics as well, to some extent. Anything authoritative on that subject?

 

[Black_Death]

electrical??i dunno..

maebe,maebe not..

if it does..den maebe not all..

if not..

its doesnt la damn it.wad am i talkin abt..

 

[ala_carte]

would'nt know for electrics, the sound signal produced in an electric is chiefly thru the pickups, though the wood plays a significant part too.

but as for the acoustic, the wood, the size, basically u can play it unplugged(duh) so the sound production is due to the body of the acoustic.

imo won't work for electrics(there's a paint layer too)

 

[noobastank]

it sounds reasonable
sound more normal than this

 

[sepultura]

Holy @(*#&$@(* what the heck was that?

 

[sleepykitty]

a quirky way to seasoning the guitar huh?

 

[nkubi87]

ya it applies to electrics as well, according to the link below. the link talks bout using sth like a machine to shake the guitar rigorously, so that it'll sound like it has 'aged' & has been played for a long time, making it sound better.

basswood body electrics benefit the most by this process by the machine. haha. even Eddie Van Halen & Aerosmith have had their guitars shaken before.

here it is. http://www.acousticguitar.com/Gear/advice/vibration.shtml

 

[df]

If wood's solid, the particles can only vibrate 'coz in a solid, the particles have no space to move unlike in liquid or gas. *Physics!*