Tone concrete - sounds like any other guitar

[ErikH]

Next, let's hear what a guitar made out of varnished jalapeno poppers sounds like...

That would be a hot and crispy tone with some Texas sizzle.

 

[ehdwuld]

I saw a NAMM video where they had fluid filled strats and teles

that did a lava lamp thing whilst played

 

[JOLLY]

That was a great video. I wish I had that guy's shop. I wonder how much it cost for him to ship that body.

 

[Top-L]

You simply can't make those assumptions from this demo. Resonant frequency has more to do with the pickups than any other part of the whole guitar. As for highs being filtered out? How do you know? Have you played the pickups in this guitar, through that same rig, but with a wood body to compare?

It "sounded pretty bad" because his sound is overly processed and clunky, not because the body is concrete

I have swapped enough pickups into enough guitars that I know what the guitar is imparting. Much of the upper mids are filtered out. What you are hearing is a maple neck with a null, non-resonant body. Horrible for lead guitar and soloing.

The reason the sound was "over processed" was because he knows it sounds like junk without it.

 

[Francois]

What they're proving is that just about any material can sound "good".

I think a lot of the tone of a guitar comes from the neck.

In a solid body guitar the neck might be the most resonant part of the guitar.

This right. And I noticed a guitar with a bad sounding neck sound good with a quality slide. A proof that is the neck is ...

 

[AlexR]

Yep, structure matters.
A lot.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Why hasn't anybody tried one made out of lead yet?
You could mount Strat pickups and neck on a railroad tie and it still could be made to sound pretty Stratlike.
But it wouldn't feel and behave like one through a cranked amp.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz II]

Thats gotta be heavy, no thanks, my back will not like that

20kg . . . yup, that is a mongrel of a slab around your shoulder.
Will make a plexi-glass LP feel like an absolute ultra feather weight.

 

[Hsb]

I remember picking up one of the either the Travis Bean or Ibanez plexi-glass guitars and man that was heavy, though my local guitar shop has this special edition EVH Wolfgang Special made of Ash that I think outweights the TB plexi-glass.

https://reverb.com/item/35643046-evh...lectric-guitar

 

[GuitarStv]

20 kg is a little heavy. Maybe the next one he makes could be chambered. But that would change the toanz! lol

 

[Lewguitar]

I kinda doubt the guy who made that concrete ax plans on gigging with it regularly. Pretty sure he made it to "prove" a point. And just for the fun of it. Look how much fun it's been just talking about it. :chairfall

 

[Demanic]

How about 3D printed chambered concrete? Or the less expensive alternative, pumice?

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[Howlermonkey]

Soft rubber in a guitar will try to damp all vibrations of the part it is attached to.

 

[beaubrummels]

Just goes to prove, you can make a peanut butter sandwich using sourdough bread, and it will still taste like a peanut butter sandwich, because peanut butter is the most influential flavor in that recipe; and while the average person might not mind the difference, any person who regularly eats peanut butter sandwiches can probably sense the influence of the sourdough in this case also.

 

[Demanic]

Just goes to prove, you can make a peanut butter sandwich using sourdough bread, and it will still taste like a peanut butter sandwich, because peanut butter is the most influential flavor in that recipe; and while the average person might not mind the difference, any person who regularly eats peanut butter sandwiches can probably sense the influence of the sourdough in this case also.

What about a nice marble rye?

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[beaubrummels]

What about a nice marble rye?

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Sounds interesting, but custom shop.

 

[Demanic]

Fine, I'll make it myself.

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[Wattage]

Well it was fun to watch anyways

 

[Erlend_G]

I can clearly hear the KOA top of my lmt. ed. Epiphone Wildkat "koa". :/ - the louder I put the amplifier, the better I hear it.

especially trough the neck pickup, that is suspended in the lid- and the guitar is completely hollow except a "tone block" underneath the bridge.

so... :O