Re: A few specific questions about testing wood influence on tone
Your premise that you are using to insult and spew hate at other forum members here is incorrect to start with. The assertion is not that you can hear wood through the pickup. The assertion is that the body wood, neck and all the materials in the construction influence vibration characteristics of the string that the pickup turns into a signal, and those influences are perceptible when the sound is reproduced.
For example, a more dense body material might allow a string to sustain longer with a wider frequency response while a less dense body wood might dampen the string vibration to a degree that is perceptible as part of the tone when translated into a signal by the pickup. The question is how much influence the various components and materials exert on the string vibration and to what degree each is perceptible. It's not superstition, it's a perfectly valid hypothesis, formed because numerous people noticed these differences.
Also, you need to be aware that a fair number of the people you've been insulting on this forum are guitar luthiers, as well as inventors who have conducted extensive research and contributed significant innovations in the evolution of guitars, as well as long-time industry professionals. I don't know what your credentials are that you feel gives you the authority to talk this way to others, but you could at least show common decency and respect; and perhaps an introduction - what exactly do you do for a living in music or any industry that makes your scientific position so defensible to the exclusion of all others?
It gets old arguing against specious narratives after a while, which is why the most natural conclusion of any "YES I CAN NO YOU CAN'T YES I CAN NO YOU CAN'T" standoff is with stakes and a wager.
You claim you can hear it? Great! Lets get some samples, set up a blind test and put that to the test.
BUH... BUT... WELL.... SEE.... TEMPERATURE AND BLOOD PRESSURE PLAY A ROLE IN WHAT YOU THEORETICALLY HEAR.
AND FRETS! THE FRET SIZES MUST BE NORMALIZED DOWN TO AT LEAST A HUNDRED THOUSANDTH TO BE SURE THAT THEY AREN'T INTERFERING!
AND WHAT IF THE WOOD COMES FROM DIFFERENT LOGS! DIFFERENT CUTS OF WOOD WILL SOUND DIFFERENT!
AND ATTACK! SEE, PLAYING IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY CHANGES IT, TOO!
I'd say the quickest way to derive an argument AGAINST the typical tonewood narrative is to simply challenge any tonewood believer to a blind test and watch him either argue that blinding itself is the 'wrong way' to determine efficacy (thus arguing against all known scientific rigor and discrediting his insight) or watching him instantly abandon ship on his claims of what can be heard and change premises, that really, a fret that is +/- 0.002 varied from another can throw the whole thing off, thus discrediting everything he said about being able to hear electro-wood as a reliable variable.
Luthiers aren't scientists. They're woodworkers.
I have a cousin who owns a plant nursery. Think he can explain 'the science' of every plant he sells?
Yes, you probably would. Change your thinking. You don't strike me as a 'Category A'.
