Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

[C-Martin]

This is a simple question.. i just wanna know and from my logic i think i know the answer but i could be wrong since i dont got dozens of guitars to have tested this.. Does a guitar douting alter the guitars tone and combined with diferent setup of pickups? I mean like S-S-S, H-S-S, H-S-H or "Pool" etc... and say you use diferent types of pickups according to the routing config.. like use 3 single coils in a H-S-H rout and so on.

Wich on a side note i have a strat that has a somewhat wierd routing.. its H-S-H but the neck rout is smaller.. a regular humbucker dont fit looks kinda like a mini-bucker kinda rout if that makes sence.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

Any change you make to a guitars body will in some way affect tone. How it affects it, I'm not sure. What I do know is that if I find a guitar that absolutely sings in it's stock configuration, I don't want to rout out the body or change the neck mass too much.

 

[fenderiarhs]

Re: Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

No to my ears there is no difference..........

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

I think the diff is usually so subtle that it's unimportant. There's some great sounding Strat style guitars with swimming pool routs. Lew

 

[Gila_Crisis]

Re: Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

on my strat which is a lefthanded model (s-s-s, but loaded w/mini hb in H-H-S configuration), i don't have the routing for each single pu but one "swimming pool" under the pickguard!!!!

to me this was always like having a tonal room in the guitar.

the sound is huge (but wait, i use big strings and high action too!)

 

[theodie]

Re: Guitar Routing Question (Altered Tone?)

I think the diff is usually so subtle that it's unimportant. There's some great sounding Strat style guitars with swimming pool routs. Lew

+1, there was a thread while back that addressed this issue! When you hear a great player with a strat do you ever say man, thats sounds great, I bet thats a SSS rout under the guard! I think the differences are not that much to worry about IMO!