Generally, the highs are slightly attenuated with lows that aren’t that pronounced and a midrange that might use an extra kick because the mids aren’t that abundantly available. I don’t know what tone you want, i am just saying there is a difference. And for those who care about grammar, why not become professors of tone and open up a school for guitar players who need to brush up on their ABC’s LOL Orpheo nice work with the article very informative . Just knocking on different types of wood can demonstrate that....or strum a guitar, especially an electric not plugged in and hold it against the wall. http://www.truetemperament.com ♦ A built in wireless system. Good job. I wouldn’t call that a confirmation. This goes for all woods, but in my experience this is even stronger the case with ash than other types. It should always be remembered that no two pieces are the same, there are the general tonal characteristics to these woods. you all are crazy!!! The tone of this wood is extremely dependant on the thickness of the billet. Electric guitar neck woods. Tonally korina is very similar to mahogany, with a bit more upper mids and presence. There is variance within a species of wood but certain species of wood, especially the heartwood, have certain characteristics. Wood. overall tone of an electric guitar. It’s more like a “That is where my logic goes, but a real test should be made to make sure”. Ask Question Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Softer woods will have a darker tone with less bite. Ebony is most closely associated with black, but brown, yellow, red and even purple hues and stripes aren’t uncommon for ebony. And don’t forget feel. A thinner piece, like an SG, has a warm growly tone with lots of bite and presence. So… if there is no difference to tone NO MATTER the material of the body and all that matters is the scale the pu and the strings, then a tin made guitar will sound exactly the same as a concrete body or a mahogany body guitar!!! The wood is about as hard as maple but has a bit more oil in it than maple, making the tone a bit warmer. Tonally and structurally they are the same, black korina comes from the edge of the tree where white korina comes from the core. Dense and fairly heavy, with sonic characteristics similar to those of mahogany, walnut is occasionally used in electric-guitar bodies. While its very true that the air and wood molecules will vibrate differently, your pickups are not really going to capture and amplify any of that; it’s only of the metal strings. 70% of the strings’ vibrations travel along the neck. Forgot your password? For pure tonal reasons, the cap isn’t necessary: after all, a flattop mahogany guitar also has plenty of bite. The grammar in this article, which is not a piece of guitar playing but a piece of writing, is bad. In short, it’s a muddy situation, as there are vociferous defenders of each side of the issue. Such a nice figure… The tone was the worst!!!! Just because you cannot discern a difference, doesn’t mean there isn’t one. The short answer is yes, different wood species have distinguishable sound characteristics, influencing the tone of an electric guitar. Umm yeah so even while they are made from the same type of wood they sound different. The question is simple, does wood make a difference in the tone of an electric guitar? The reason wood affects the tone of the guitar is because the wood responds to the vibration of the strings. To consider the matter, let’s pan out for a moment and look at how tonewood affects acoustic instruments. You can talk to a thousand guitarists and everyone of them will have a slightly adjusted opinion. Anybody ever done double blind testing to prove this theory? Sapwood tends to have a more porous structure – it is softer, and tends to shrink or swell more easily with changes in moisture – so luthiers avoid it and use ‘heartwood’ whenever possible. So make a guitar body out of crap and play it so we can all listen how it sounds… If you really can’t hear any difference, change instrument… Learn the flute. If not, you cannot compare them and say it is the wood in the back that made a difference. A non subjective test must be made to make sure. But when it comes to the Electric guitar signal to the amp, the wood is bypased. Korina makes for a great substitution of mahogany, not to mention its great looks. Instead, it has all of that, although to a lesser degree. with all due respect, i disagree….i made two Les paul Jr’s one with Mahogany body one with maple body, both have maple necks and rosewood fingerboards. A thinner piece, like an SG, has a warm growly tone with lots of bite and presence. ♦ True temperament frets (True overtones increase sustain instead of strings canceling each other out). Walnut is also beautiful – why not go for a cherry and walnut mix – very tasty – see my acoustics at http://www.catherwoodguitars.com, Idk if this is true with electrics I would belive it when I see a video where someone is blind folded and plays each, don’t feel the wood just play and see if they know what’s what and if it really is a tonal difference. It’s a general rule of thumb that the more dense the wood, the brighter the tone. Nice try though. Strings suspended by a piece of metal and plastic/bone/etc don’t touch wood. I think your sample size is too small – are the two guitars identical in all other respects – necks the same, same type of neck joint, same tuners, same nut, same saddle, same bridge material, same bridge pins, tops the same, size the same, same strings? It has some bite, some growl, some sweetness, but not much. What is “hardwood” used in budjet guitars. Rosewood is on occasion also being used for neck blanks. And yes tones can easily be adjusted to sound like different woods, but then you are just overriding the natural tone already presented. Rickenbacker uses this wood for their fingerboards. Wood has very minimal effect on the tone of an electric guitar. Your statement is vague with no clear direction. Ya I know those 1500’s luthiers really knew how to get the most out of their ELECTRIC guitars. A plexiglas/acrylic type of guitar looks very cool but sounds bad. You cannot properly evaluate the tone of production guitars, they are too inconsistent in supplies and craftsmanship. Compared to Pau ferro, walnut has less push in the mids. Those who don’t believe wood affects a guitar’s tone point to the physics of how an electric guitar works. You have hard ash, which has a lot of bite, almost like maple, but with more (and chunkier) lows. If you use epoxy for grain filling you just killed your guitar tone. There are some other woods, though, that have been finding their way into the market. You just said they sound different with that little piece. For a list of what pickups work well with particular wood types, read this article or go directly to Tone Wizard for a personalized recommendation. This is by no means a complete picture, only a global overview. The more I read this article, especially with the reply of John Catherwood considered, the more I suspect this article was copied from somewhere else and then edited by Orpheo. The purple is its natural color but it will change to a brownish hue over time under the influence of air and light. Here is a definition from Wikipedia: The genus Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar, is a relatively small genus of 21 species of evergreen tree. My guess is: ♦ Locking tuners ♦ A good bridge (Tune-o-matics are crap, because the strings lay on small blades and they snap a lot, also small surface area is bad for sustain) ♦ A metal nut, best if it also locks. If the guitar is tonally dead unamplified, its electrified tone will mirror that inadequacy. For most players it’s just too heavy. Having a thick maple cap on mahogany is a way of getting a thicker body yet retaining clarity, attack and a bit compression. Due to its price tag and hard nature, ebony is most often used for fretboards, though some luthiers are known for using ebony as the sides and sometimes even the top or back of an acoustic guitar, and on occasion you can even find ebony necks. All the same materials. The wood does not need to resonate for the string to induce a current in the pickup, but the idea that wood type directly affects sound quality has been applied to the electric guitar in publications and media (Sweetwater 2013; Wormoth Custom Guitars & Bass Parts). Of course, you can use electronics and amplification to dial it all back in or enhance the sound, but as with so much in engineering, the final result depends on a sound base to work from. Put a set of lipsticks in a strat and they won’t have the same spank and boing as in a dano; put a set of strat p’ups in a dano and they won’t have the same fluidity of sound as a strat. BACK TO INDEX . That makes it a perfect template for your own sound. Individual vibro-acoustic characteristics are mainly due to different densities of wood types. This classic, brownish wood has being used for instruments for years. Amps, pedals, whatever. Also, I noticed quite a lot of grammatical error. I own both a full maple acoustic and a mahogany body, maple top acoustic. on tgp: yes, only the most expensive, rarist finger board wood will give you good tone. It looked amazing!!! Are you an idiot or just plain stupid? This coarse-grained wood can be used for bodies, necks and fretboards and feels incredibly fast because your fingers have less drag. While they both sound very similar, I can absolutely hear and favor the mahogany bodied. The difference may not be huge, but there is still going to be a difference. One is an original 59. But since it’s so rare and expensive, you’d be hard pressed to find a solid rosewood guitar. were the braces carved to be a close as identical as possible? Cherry is lovely and I use it for bodies and necks – makes excellent acoustics and I see no reason not to use it in electrics – it is a lot like maple to work and in strength and flex, (although it smells nicer – but the dust can be an irritant – use a mask) although that can vary with the tree – some cherry is hard, some are soft. Rosewood is incredibly heavy! The wood from the centre of a tree is called “heartwood” while the outer layers are called “sapwood”. I have strangers come in and they can tell the difference….sorry, it’s true. It is not the only factor, there is also the touch of the player, quality of strings, amp settings, pickup quality and so on. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Build a few guitars then you will realize just how stupid a statement that is. Do you really think the last 500 years of guitar making with exotic wood was bullshit?? Young’s modulus of elasticity describes stress (density) over strain (the material moving and responding to stress) or more simply put—stiffness in an object. With that said though, most people believe that wood does still have some impact. Admits what? When used on necks, it imparts a warmer tone than ebony or maple. Then how could the wood not play a role in your guitar’s tone? Acoustically – Yes, everything on the guitar affects the tone, because the tone comes from strings resonating the wood, and the vibrating wood (The whole guitar actually) is causing the amplified sound. to me the sound difference is huge. This fast growing wood produces relatively soft timber with long grains. Maple: Many an electric guitar is capped with a maple top and neck. For that matter I am sure I could change the way your guitars sounded simply by changing bridgepins (use brass or aluminium or horn or rosewood or ebony or boxwood or ox bone or camel bone or tusq or plastic) change the strings (silk and steels, flatwounds, bell bronze, 80/20, different manufacturers, different gauges). The short answer is that nearly all the parts of an electric guitar affect the tone in some way. The 50 year old seasoned wood made for one loud guitar. Its color and grain pattern is a love or hate affair. The wood type and its vibration characteristics change the "color" of the signal and give different tones. The big question is whether the species of wood makes a noticeable difference in the electric tone of a solid body electric guitar. ♦ Great pickups for your taste. And the wood of the neck and body is an ingredient in that recipe. “They simply absorb certain frequencies, which in turn affects the string vibration in a subtle way. *grammar …and until I see a group of people pick different tone woods out in a “blind” hearing test, i will always thing this argument is ridiculous. Its just more subtle. As a luthier, I tend to agree with those who say that the species of body wood has little effect on the tone (especially in electric guitars – pickups, scale length and hardware have more influence, while shape and the topwood, and how it is braced are the vital drivers in acoustics.) Unless you checked sonically and measured every sound from the lowest to highest and directly compared them, you can not make that statement, if you had checked,you would see a measureable difference ,and anyone with a discerning ear would be able to hear it, all else being equal,(obviously if you crank everything to 11enty eleven and at 150 db where there is no possibility of actually making music instead of noise,whats left or your hearing isn’t likely to hear anything but volume.The changes will be made at specific vibrational frequency’s ,and change specific characteristics,IE sustain, tone attack, etc whatever your term, dependent on what you change ,how its connected ,what its connected to. So if you buy a maple, what kind of sound are you going to get from it. With a tone similar to bubinga, the feel is less ‘glassy’, more like rosewood. Rosewood is most often used as fingerboards because of its durable nature and sweet, warm tone. Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoi2sDiBa0Ebpai8s. Minor grammar errors in an article like this don’t bother me. For years I have challenged folks to do double-blind tests of identical guitars (shape, paint, etc) varying only the wood say of the body, neck, or fingerboard. Maple is far and away the most common type of electric guitar neck wood, and for good reason. The woods used to build guitars—acoustic guitars in particular—are called tonewoods, and they have enormous effects on the sound and price of an instrument. Grammar might not be relevant in the field of guitar playing, but it is absolutely relevant in the field of professional writing. Having been the favoured tone wood of the Gibson family of guitars for years, it produces a warm, mellow tone with excellent low frequencies, pronounced lower-mids, and a smooth but subdued higher end. So what’s the difference? So I put EMG’s on it to save the sound… Then it was fair. One pickup if you want sustain, more pickups if you want more tones. Rosewood makes for a very heavy and overly bright-sounding guitar—and an expensive one, too—that is typically more of interest for looks and novelty factor than for tone. Gear, Equipment, Recording & Off Topic Gear, Equipment, and Recording discussed here. It’s not as soft as mahogany or as hard as maple, which culminates to a tone without a major boost in the tonal spectrum. It tends to be warm and full, but usually with a firmer low end, and more overall tightness. A thicker piece, like a Les Paul Junior, has a thicker, chunkier, meatier tone with softer highs and more push in the lower mids. Body wood contributes to the acoustic tone, especially in an acoustic guitar. It isn’t in my head nor is it imaginary if luthiers have discussed this at length since the inception of electric instruments. I am surprised no one made a real test yet. I don’t know… I think I disagree… Once I tested 5 G&L ASAT guitars, same model, and same construction and each of them hade its own sound… I think in whole process of construct a guitar, the major variant is the wood, since it’s kinda “organic”…. It’s a debate that has waged on among beginner and advanced players alike for a long time, and it’s something that Reddit user NissanGT77 asked. Not everything is a conspiracy. Rosewood can also be used as a body wood, though. One can argue true artistry is the successful pleasurable combination of these subtleties that create true genius and unique music. Johann, better start fixing your own grammar before trying to fix other people’s mistakes. Tonewood is a dense specialty wood coveted for it's tonal resonance and ability to reverberate. The strings might not directly touch the wood, but the energy from a strummed string is transferred from the bridge and nut into the body and neck, creating frequencies that move through that wood. But somebody who is being paid to write should be able to write with correct spelling and grammar. For years, boutique luthiers and guitar purists have claimed the quality of wood used to construct solid body electric guitars has impacted tone. In fact, most guitarists would agree that it is an important one. Plus most people adjust the sound though electronics which standardizes the tone. Is it better or worse than basswood used in cheapies also. Were the tops from the same tree? Walnut’s rich … Mahogany is a tonewood that produces a punchy growl with excellent sustain, generally favoured for punchy rock music. I could make the mahogany sound like the Maple, or make the maple deeper and more resonant and the mahogany bright and treble dominated just by doing that – with no change to the wood used in the body. The sound is caused by the vibration of strings through the magnetic field emanating from a guitar’s pickups. Finally, a confirmation of what I have long believed in! You make one statement on all electrics being the same then make a statement outlining every other variable that effects sound. (La Trobe It's a strong, dense, heavy wood that imparts a powerful, upper-midrange snap to the tone that really cuts through an instrumental mix. Don’t expect a smooth jazzy tone of honky, smokin blues sound, but if bite is what you need, maple is your best friend. The answer is that it does. I wrote to the mythbusters, unlikely that they will test it, but it’s worth a try… It’s probably most worth buying unfinished bodies and necks, Just pick the cheapest/lightest one. I can be brief on this wood. Even resting your axe against your body will affect the sound,if however ,you have electronically distorted everything beyond any tonal recognition thru use of distortion, or any other direct change to the original resonance, that will absolutely affect whether ANYONE ,can hear the natural tonal characteristics of whatever instrument you choose. Yes they are, they connect with the wood through the bridge and the nut. But when it comes to the Electric guitar signal to the amp, the wood is bypased. It grew originally in South America, but due to over harvesting mahogany is now being grown in Asia, Africa, and there are even experiments conducted with growing mahogany in the more temperate climates of Europe and North America. Wood is the key to tone. Maybe guitarists are not hung up on grammar. All rights reserved. If that is all you have to comment on then don’t bother, some of us appreciate the article for what it is. That shows disdain for the reader and contempt for his own writing. The highs are kind and singing, the lows are firm but not pronounced. Does an electric guitar's tonewood affect the tone? The tone of this wood is extremely dependant on the thickness of the billet. Basswood is a wood that’s being used predominantly on ‘metal’ guitars. Looking for a beginner guitar? Ignorance is bliss my man. Yeah, and not all of us care about grammer or what you think either. Try that on an acoustic and you’ll have some weird sounding stuff. I have played probably hundreds at this point in my music career, be it at music shops, a friends, my own, etc, Hardware of course will always play a role in tone and in the end, every aspect of the guitar is essentially a tonal factor. His impact on the sound of the guitar and the electric bass is noticeably greater than that of the wood of the body itself. Where does cherry fall into your list? Also, is it just me or is anyone else having a Spinal Tap moment? It won’t be fat or juicy, but it does have a lot of bite, scream and presence. If it was only changing pickups and hardware….. oh what a beautiful world it would be!! - … Electric guitars have been made out of plastics, stone, plywood etc and that didn’t stop them from sounding great. Many players ask: shouldn’t a solidbody electric guitar be immune to the acoustical properties of its materials? HOME > Neck influence in guitar tone THE NECK INFLUENCE IN GUITAR TONE. Sometimes you get a piece of poplar though that seems to defy every ‘rule in the book.’ These pieces will just knock you off your feet due to the sheer beauty of things. Maple brings in a nice amount of high-end with a good bass boost too, however when strings are … So who decides? As a builder of small volume/one off guitars, you use the general rule in the design process, then select the individual blank that taps in a nice resonant way. ESPs are actually incredibly good. Not much mention of wood there, but in reality, that is only part of the story. Manufacturers and guitar players suggest that using a particular shape, or a specific wood material - be it alder, poplar, ash, basswood etc - will produce significant and specific tone variations. Or they haven’t been playing the right guitars. Baked maple is heat treated maple. Also, there is no reason even a shred-style guitar can’t be acoustically resonant and harmonically rich. As a member of the rosewood family, cocobolo has a warm tone with an open clear yet presence. As a fretboard you get the bite of maple and the rumble of rosewood, with a unique, speedy feel. Shut up and go play your guitars!!!!!! I would say the wood species contributes some characteristics to the electric clean sound. The fact that it is about guitar is completely irrelevant. All that nonsense about this wood sounds warm while that one has more bite, etc., etc., are all bullshit blown by self-aggrandizing amateurs. Basically, the tone of the electric guitar is dependant on the pickups, pickup position, the bridge and the nut, the material that strums, strumming technique, The wiring, the main output wire, and the amp, the cabinet, and the room. 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