There is the old debate about how much the wood of a solid body guitar influences the tone.
The usual debates range from the wood of a solid body guitar having no effect to having a huge effect.
There doesn't seem to have been much research done on it besides people just offering their opinions which can vary all over the place but there has been some research done and here are the results of one test.
Seems like the wood of a solid body guitar does influence the tone but not in a simple way and also the guitars hardware and the pickup can enhance or diminish certain frequencies as well so it becomes a complex case of matching the guitar wood and hardware with the pickup to a players taste which a lot of players realize and do already.
Some people think that the wood of a solid body guitar or whatever other material the guitar is made from has little or no effect on the tone and just the pickup and hardware are responsible for the majority or all the tone.
In these articles, different pickups and electric guitar solid bodies are put through a frequency analyzer and it shows how different types of woods of a solid body guitar and different pickups affect the tone and also how the wood and hardware and pickups work in tandem to make up the tone.
Of course the guitars tone gets altered further by effects and amps and speakers as well.
It also turns out that pickguards and how the pickup responds to pickguard vibrations can also affect the tone to some degree as well.
The usual debates range from the wood of a solid body guitar having no effect to having a huge effect.
There doesn't seem to have been much research done on it besides people just offering their opinions which can vary all over the place but there has been some research done and here are the results of one test.
Seems like the wood of a solid body guitar does influence the tone but not in a simple way and also the guitars hardware and the pickup can enhance or diminish certain frequencies as well so it becomes a complex case of matching the guitar wood and hardware with the pickup to a players taste which a lot of players realize and do already.
Some people think that the wood of a solid body guitar or whatever other material the guitar is made from has little or no effect on the tone and just the pickup and hardware are responsible for the majority or all the tone.
In these articles, different pickups and electric guitar solid bodies are put through a frequency analyzer and it shows how different types of woods of a solid body guitar and different pickups affect the tone and also how the wood and hardware and pickups work in tandem to make up the tone.
Of course the guitars tone gets altered further by effects and amps and speakers as well.
It also turns out that pickguards and how the pickup responds to pickguard vibrations can also affect the tone to some degree as well.
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