ha ha I'm laughing as I have a finger drum that rings if I raise my voice in the studio. I have to mute it with a blanket or remove it when I record. I can certainly hear the different levels of sustain and some of the harmonic overtones, but I don't get the feeling that the tonal quality changes too much.. Is the main idea of a tonewood to enhance tone, or provide greater sustain? Great effort in breaking all of this down!
Very interesting. Did you ever check an EQ curve of these (when picked up with a guitar pickup) or was it "just" a sustain test? Sorry if I missed it, checking it while putting the kids to sleep 🤷♂️
What I'd need to see on these results is repetition. You can be as scientific as you want in setup and variables but without repetition, you have a meaningless experiment. We have single event recorded for each variable. In my experience of feedback and using it musically - it's quite unpredictable. I wouldn't trust that the feedback produced has anything to do with the wood imparting sympathetic vibrations to the string unless we had at least, say 20 repetitions of the same notes being struck. Then we might be able to produce a pattern of correlation. I'd also want to see these through a frequency analyser to assess whether the wood is imparting any "tone" or instead, sustain.
For sure. We did the science pretty well and tried to show the most common outcome. There were multiple tests, and they all behaved consistently with what you saw in the video.
@@stevesrecordingtips7247 I'm glad to see I'm not the only skeptical person here. Did you have a picking machine? I know that sounds like a silly question but most of these UA-cam videos don't even have that. Do you have an f test for analyzing frequencies? Again almost no UA-cam video I have seen has that. And finally, in answer to your question, are you saying that you tested multiple woods of the same species, and are those test results available by chance?
Every guitarist, luthier, and audio enthusiast MUST see this.
Go, Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's quite the endorsement. Thank you, sir!
ha ha I'm laughing as I have a finger drum that rings if I raise my voice in the studio. I have to mute it with a blanket or remove it when I record. I can certainly hear the different levels of sustain and some of the harmonic overtones, but I don't get the feeling that the tonal quality changes too much.. Is the main idea of a tonewood to enhance tone, or provide greater sustain? Great effort in breaking all of this down!
Lol, that's awesome!
Very interesting. Did you ever check an EQ curve of these (when picked up with a guitar pickup) or was it "just" a sustain test?
Sorry if I missed it, checking it while putting the kids to sleep 🤷♂️
We did a full spectral analysis in one of the previous videos.
Most electric guitars and basses have a painted surface. I’m curious how that reacts with the wood and sound characteristics.
Me too.
I really wanted to know which wood was which.
It's in the video description! Since it's a spoiler, I put it here in case folks wanted to look right away or guess.
What I'd need to see on these results is repetition. You can be as scientific as you want in setup and variables but without repetition, you have a meaningless experiment. We have single event recorded for each variable. In my experience of feedback and using it musically - it's quite unpredictable. I wouldn't trust that the feedback produced has anything to do with the wood imparting sympathetic vibrations to the string unless we had at least, say 20 repetitions of the same notes being struck. Then we might be able to produce a pattern of correlation.
I'd also want to see these through a frequency analyser to assess whether the wood is imparting any "tone" or instead, sustain.
For sure. We did the science pretty well and tried to show the most common outcome. There were multiple tests, and they all behaved consistently with what you saw in the video.
@@stevesrecordingtips7247
I'm glad to see I'm not the only skeptical person here.
Did you have a picking machine? I know that sounds like a silly question but most of these UA-cam videos don't even have that. Do you have an f test for analyzing frequencies? Again almost no UA-cam video I have seen has that.
And finally, in answer to your question, are you saying that you tested multiple woods of the same species, and are those test results available by chance?