What is woody sounding?
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buckethead
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Re: What is woody sounding?
From my understanding it's a more natural sound. like a stand up bass or fretless acoustic guitar.
From my understanding it's a more natural sound. like a stand up bass or fretless acoustic guitar.
Zhangliqun
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Re: What is woody sounding?
It's like you can really hear the wood of the guitar, like an archtop.
It's like you can really hear the wood of the guitar, like an archtop.
idsnowdog
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I consider woody sounding to go hand in hand with transparent and resonant. In other words the pickup doesn't color the tone. Instead it accurately conveys the natural tone of the instrument.
This can be both a good thing and a bad thing depending on the natural tone of the guitar. Sometimes you need a pickup to fill in tonal deficiencies.
I consider woody sounding to go hand in hand with transparent and resonant. In other words the pickup doesn't color the tone. Instead it accurately conveys the natural tone of the instrument.
This can be both a good thing and a bad thing depending on the natural tone of the guitar. Sometimes you need a pickup to fill in tonal deficiencies.
sonnyblu
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Well at least it's not Cardboard! I suppose that it could mean a positive thing.
I think the new DMZ 36th Aniv. are wooding sounding... but not in a good way.
Maybe a term for the tone of the midrange...
I prefer to hear terms such as Chime, Openness, Transparent, 3D in a pickup I'd want to buy.
But what the H@LL do they mean? lol
I call the mids of the Norton as Milkshake... so there's another one.
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Well at least it's not Cardboard! I suppose that it could mean a positive thing.
I think the new DMZ 36th Aniv. are wooding sounding... but not in a good way.
Maybe a term for the tone of the midrange...
I prefer to hear terms such as Chime, Openness, Transparent, 3D in a pickup I'd want to buy.
But what the H@LL do they mean? lol
I call the mids of the Norton as Milkshake... so there's another one.
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Marshall_Abuser
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Re: What is woody sounding?
To me, "woody" means a certain dry midrange honk that is very concentrated and prominent. Think of when you knock on a piece of wood, you get some snappy and dry midrange resonance and, to me, a "woody" pickup enhances this snappy, dry middy character inherent in wood. "Honky" is when "woody" becomes too much and is a nuisance to the tone of the pickup.
To me, "woody" means a certain dry midrange honk that is very concentrated and prominent. Think of when you knock on a piece of wood, you get some snappy and dry midrange resonance and, to me, a "woody" pickup enhances this snappy, dry middy character inherent in wood. "Honky" is when "woody" becomes too much and is a nuisance to the tone of the pickup.
CenterStaqeSilver
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Maple I can explain fir ya'll. Spruce up your tone! Don't be left pining for the oaken days of the past. Mary Magdalene played rosewood fretboards, why don't yew cedar way to get off your aspen and stop birching about your tone problems? You can do ebony thing you want!
"woody" tone to me means transparent, highly responsive, flat EQ response from deep lows to above 18,000hz, and UNCOMPRESSED! Sensitive to all string dynamics, volume range, pick action, guitar body influence on tone, etc. "Compressed" signal is the opposite of woody, it's like putting your Marshall stacks in quicksand and listening to the murmur instead of the tone; it's like filling your acoustic with your morning oatmeal and using shoe laces for strings.
Woody would be like an acoustic pickup on a cello; high detail, high texture; you can hear the resin, feel the bow, have a heart attack when the player misses the note and plays a scrape.
Maple I can explain fir ya'll. Spruce up your tone! Don't be left pining for the oaken days of the past. Mary Magdalene played rosewood fretboards, why don't yew cedar way to get off your aspen and stop birching about your tone problems? You can do ebony thing you want!
"woody" tone to me means transparent, highly responsive, flat EQ response from deep lows to above 18,000hz, and UNCOMPRESSED! Sensitive to all string dynamics, volume range, pick action, guitar body influence on tone, etc. "Compressed" signal is the opposite of woody, it's like putting your Marshall stacks in quicksand and listening to the murmur instead of the tone; it's like filling your acoustic with your morning oatmeal and using shoe laces for strings.
Woody would be like an acoustic pickup on a cello; high detail, high texture; you can hear the resin, feel the bow, have a heart attack when the player misses the note and plays a scrape.
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Re: What is woody sounding?
I always thought of it as having the quality of a cello, played with a bow. Greenback speakers, relative to other speakers, sound woody.
Hearing the wood doesn't always mean this. Some wood sounds like crap. I normally associate this with Gibsons because the mahogany sound does this best in my opinion.
I always thought of it as having the quality of a cello, played with a bow. Greenback speakers, relative to other speakers, sound woody.
Hearing the wood doesn't always mean this. Some wood sounds like crap. I normally associate this with Gibsons because the mahogany sound does this best in my opinion.
St_Genesius
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That's pretty good. I think that, for me, I might add that I think of woody tones as being fairly dark, but just a little grainy on top. That may just be me, though. Like with so many tonewords, it can mean something slightly different to different people.
That's pretty good. I think that, for me, I might add that I think of woody tones as being fairly dark, but just a little grainy on top. That may just be me, though. Like with so many tonewords, it can mean something slightly different to different people.
Sludgenutz
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Re: What is woody sounding?
EXACTLY!:approve:
I'm a less than woody type, in that I prefer tones that sounds more like an uncorked (no mufflers) V8 engine, and other mechanical stuff.
EXACTLY!:approve:
I'm a less than woody type, in that I prefer tones that sounds more like an uncorked (no mufflers) V8 engine, and other mechanical stuff.
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Iron Horse
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Re: What is woody sounding?
Either that or a strong middle mid range sound. Think AC/DC, Ritchie Blackmore on Machine Head, Paul Kossof or Pete Townshend. Actually, think P-90 or PAF in a Les Paul or SG through a Plexi Marshall.
Either that or a strong middle mid range sound. Think AC/DC, Ritchie Blackmore on Machine Head, Paul Kossof or Pete Townshend. Actually, think P-90 or PAF in a Les Paul or SG through a Plexi Marshall.
Re: What is woody sounding?
I still don't get the whole sounds like the wood it's made of description of woody. Doesn't that mean transparent? So if you had a lucite guitar with a really woody pickup, it would sound like lucite?
I love this debate, because the term is all over boards like this, and there seems to be two camps. One with a specific sound in mind, and the other with the transparency slant. If we get this, it's on to world hunger!
I still don't get the whole sounds like the wood it's made of description of woody. Doesn't that mean transparent? So if you had a lucite guitar with a really woody pickup, it would sound like lucite?
I love this debate, because the term is all over boards like this, and there seems to be two camps. One with a specific sound in mind, and the other with the transparency slant. If we get this, it's on to world hunger!
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