Taptone Tonewoods & Wood Selection for your guitar project - BigDGuitars tonewood debate
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2013
- The tonewood debate is the stuff of legends. It matters, how much is up for debate. Players, amp, style, pickups all matter more but you can manipulate just depends on what you are looking for.
I worked in a high end lumber shop for a period in my life and processed probably a million board feet of wood. You could hear wood whine as it went through the various machines.
I did this series to introduce folks to all the different lumber that is available in the market.
Thank you so much for this series! Once again, learning! I can't wait to watch the rest of it! Thanks so much BigD!
These videos are greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Great Video! This is my porn. That Cherry sounds amazing. My Strat "Grail Wood" is Swamp Ash (from below the water line) with a 1/4" maple top. It's grown in an area that sees some winter freeze. With single coils, the clean tones are bell like. With a distorted humbucker, it's clear without being harsh. I'm a huge fan of White Limba as well. It's my set neck grail wood.
Many people don't understand the importance of tapping out lumber to get an instrument that will meet the customer's expectations. Someone who takes the time to select these woods is usually taking the time to build an extraordinary instrument.
Thank you so much for these videos! They are tremendously helpful.
Is the tap test only useful when the body is unfinished? This is off topic but what kind of watch is it that you're wearing (Omega Seamaster)?
1:08 ? I thought it was called basswood (rhymes with ass could). Basewood? I would assume that the wood was named long before instruments were made of it.
Great info and explanations. I could definitely hear the difference between the sections with figuring vs the straight grain sections. It seems the figuring is interfering with the resonance or transmission of vibrations. Almost as if the straight lines in the wood act like individual strings in a way ;)
Thanks!
Yeah, the difference was totally not because he was holding the the wood on the straight part.
And the difference between the "taptone" of the hickery compared to korina was definitely not down to the size of the pieces.
I have a large piece of Florida swamp cypress. If I sent you the wood would you consider cutting a tele body out for a swamp tele? If so how would we go about it and how much?
from where did you buy that piece of ebony???
Bring it on brother!
My first built back in -82 was a beautiful black walnut strat that sounded like crap, no sustain, no tonal properties at all. In the following built I used very old birch, who looked like an accident, but sounded unbelivable. Never know what you`ll get, sometimes the tonal difference in one species are wider than compared with another.....in addition, I`d found that bass-guitars are under a totally different wood-regime than guitars. Wenge, one of my prefierred bass-woods are not usable(in my opinion) as guitar-wood. Great vid, man, thanks!
Where do I find quality quarter sawn lumber?
What does the grain of the wood have to do with the species? It was just that there was a branch there. Any species can have a branch. People that argue against tonewood generally do not do so because they don't believe the grain of the wood can have a subtle effect on the tone. The point is that trees are biological structures and therefore chaotic, organic and inconsistent.
When it comes to taptone the only wood I'm concerned with is morning wood.
Lol I thought you were dead?
I have a Squier II Strat body made of plywood, and a Fender Standard Strat body made of ash. The difference in sound is massive. I'm here to learn something from someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
+budgetguitarist.com Yes. You`re right! People think that wood doesn`t help and does nothing on a electric guitar. So they can give theirs Gibsons and Fenders for us and change to some very cheap guitars...lol...I think they forget about resonance properties of wood wich has influence over the strings vibration.
Look up the Fender made of Cardboard, it sounds great.
it sounds like dogs#!% clean, that's why they have to process the hell out of the signal. if you think that's "tone" then you might as well play a cardboard, plywood, or saran wrap guitar.
budgetguitar you are exactly right. There are nerds out there that don't know anything.
Vitor you are exactly right. There are nerds out there that don't know the different.
I need to go answer the door ; I hear knocking.
Wood does affect tone. Looking at a solid body electric guitar as just a bunch of strings and a pickup is quite simplistic. Picking with a plectrum sounds different from finger picking. Even different picks produce different tones. It's got something to do with how a string vibrates which is affected by a lot of factors and that includes how the wood resonates with it.
Yeah, also different brand batteries in the stompboxes sound different. You have no ears if you claim otherwise.
I think tonewood is a myth largely in part for solidbody electrics. Its fact your pickups will most largely affect a guitars sound. tonewood is extremely minimal and mostly affects sustain. Check out acrylic guitars and skeleton frames for evidence. I believe its not worth the extra effort for such small difference. However sometimes the small difference is much more interesting.
I agree in a way. Its like a Big Cake mix, and all the components (ingredients)come together for the sum of the final product. Each ingredient will determine the flavor to an extent. I have had guitars where the body was not kiln dried, and the guitar had great tone. Amplifiers are overlooked too. THats half your tone right there, plus not to mention your playing styles, and fingering techniques. All a Big Cake Mix.
is narra wood great for making guitars?!
It is similar if not the same as Padauk wood. Used on Washburn Nuno Bettencourt guitars. Choose the driest and the lightest you can find. Do you live in PI?
I'm not sure why you are making claims without evidence.
Because there is no evidence. None of the guys drooling over "tonewood" would be able to tell between cherry, plywood and say, acrylic in a blind test. Tonewood is a marketing invention, so that companies can sell a guitar with a rosewood fretboard and an otherwise identical guitar with a maple fretboard to numpties that believe in voodoo.
I recently saw a guy chopping off 70% of a guitar body with a jigsaw - no difference in sustain, no perceptible difference in tone.
@@kardRatzinger an electric guitar with a good unplugged tone will feel better in your hands when you play it (even when plugged in) and you may play it with more feeling thus making it seem it sounds better. So it is in your head yet it's kind of not.
@@AR-zq9hq I agree, a fancier guitar may inspire you to play better. The guitar is just not objectively better, just nicer.
@@kardRatzinger Go to the Warmoth channel and check out their video where they made the exact same guitar twice with all the same parts except a different body wood. They sound slightly different. I agree there isn't much difference between good, dry wood species. Why am I responding to something from a year ago? Who knows!
solid electric guitars are not the same as acoustics . solids are happy with any old wood. don't be daft.
it's no coincidence that everybody who thinks this plays their guitars through a pile of usually digital effects to get a totally processed Steve Vai sound that has nothing to do with how the actual guitar sounds. If you pick up a '55 Telecaster and strum it, not plugged in, it resonates and projects like crazy, and it's a rich sound with dimension and character. That's old dry ash wood. Pine, bass, plywood doesn't do that. And when you plug in, that sound also comes through the amp. That is why those instruments are prized by the most highly sought-after session players, and the legends of rock n roll, etcetera, and much of the time the signal is not interfered with. You hear the instrument, overdriven tubes maybe, a fuzz pedal. If you have ears. But there's the rub. Anyway the fact that I'm even taking the time to explain such a simple, logical concept like this at all does make me feel daft. So cheers
Great videos, but the whole tap tone thing is more religion then science for solid body guitars.
No, at least for feel, it matters so much
People who say tonewood doesn't matter are surely are dellusional. It matters so much, at least for the feel. I am confused why people don't hear or feel the difference
The sound leaves the guitar before the wood comes into play.
haaa haaaa. OHH NOOO... STOP!!!
Seriously??? hahaha. Tonewood.
Hahaa you guys who think an instrument's materials don't affect its sound are a crack-up... let me guess, the Earth is flat too, right?? All photos from space ever taken were Photoshopped. Ahhaha. Y'all should be making yr gitars out of hardened silly putty. Very cheap, and so easy to work with! Just drop some DiMarzios in that putty, plug in the Line 6 digital multieffects pedal and yer set to shred! It's no coincidence most of y'all are video gamers, who think Trump is a genius... oops, I said it. I swear it's all part of one as-yet-unclassified psychological disorder. Or maybe just auditory... go take a hike in the woods folks!
If you play dirty, or through lots of effects pedals etc. then yes, you probably won't notice much of a difference from one wood to another. Since I play clean and through a fender tube amp, I hear a big difference between my Swamp Ash strat body vs. my Alder body. The difference between various woods are sometimes subtle and whereas one may sound brighter and the other may produce more bass or midrange. Some of you are partly right saying that the pickups make all the difference but remember: the pickups amplify the vibrating string attached to the body as a whole. This is where the difference in sound comes from. If you were able to rig up a string stretched across an acrylic or metal slab for example,and mounted a pickup on it, guaranteed it would not sound the same as the string mounted on your electric guitar. The total mass of your guitar wood also affects the tone.
White Straight Male Atheist Sperg go tell Leo and Les that 😂
@@U2BER2012 I usually play in overdrive, it is still noticable. Maybe he play with delay or reverb so much then forget how electric guitar should sound like