Members johnfrusciante Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Personally, I think the tonal difference in nominal. You'll never find anyone who could tell the difference just from listening to an album. :poke: i can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnfrusciante Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 I do listen with my ears. I recently started watching live youtube videos of my favorite bands and noticed my favorite guitarists seem to use maple necks. I saw hendrix used both but saw he went with maple for woodstock. I would like to think he went all out for woodstock and thought maple would sound better. Or maybe he just thought it lookd cooler.The fingerboards effect on tone isnt exaggerated. The fret contacts the fingerboard like a bridge into the body.After I get my maple neckd strat, Im gonna get a telly. To see how much different a fixed bridge compares to tremelo one. jimi was never about a guitar in anyway.he didn't use maple at woodstock for any reason other than it was the guitar he had there to play. he didn't give a {censored} about his guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Poppycock. You can only notice it if you have a reference tone. You're ears adjust to one tone and the other stands out like a sore thumb. That's the reason no one could ever tell in a recording or live because there is no reference to compare to. Any one guitar will sound different than another, solely because variation in body and necks blanks, even if they are same model, but that is also what makes such general rules little more than rough guidelines. The fact is, if you take two of anything and compare them side by side, then the differences scream out out. But the way the mind and ear work are different once you introduce more samples. Compare a Maple board to a RW board side-to-side, you'll hear a difference; hell, compare a Maple board to a Maple board side-by-side, you'll hear a difference. Compare a dozen Maple Strats with a dozen RW Strats, and your perception changes, eventually you notice similarities instead of differences. By the time you got through two dozen Strats, regardless of fingerboard wood (probably body wood or even hardtail vs. trem) and they will all sound like Strats to you and you wouldn't be able to tell one from another on sound alone (human minds just don't process like that). It's practically a law of market research analysis. Is there a difference between the two...yes. I believe so. I'm saying it doesn't mean {censored} because you aren't going to go back and forth compare, eventually you get used to whatever you have and that becomes "normal"; ultimately they all sound like Strats. Stop with the rational thoughts already. I like the way maple feels over rosewood. I have been told and have read that there is a difference in sound and I am really in the camp that there is a difference. Is it a huge difference? Probably not, but every part of a guitar impacts the tone somewhat; the woods used for the fretboard surely has to have an impact as well.Will it be the same impact on every guitar? Hell, I doubt it, but like you said you can compare 20 of the same exact damn model and you'll hear a difference between them all just because there is so much variance between everything that makes up a guitar.I'd never choose a rosewood or maple neck over the other just based on what type it is. Its always the one that feels and sounds better and that could be one, both or neither of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Or you could just get a neck and swap it,but then you blow a perfectally good reson to buy another guitar. Is it possible to swap it for a hiway one neck? I got a lefty and think itd look cool with a reveresed fat headstock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnfrusciante Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Fingers. Where tone comes from.Even if you're going to blame/credit the gear, fretboard wood is WAY down on the list of stuff that matters. on the list, from most important to least important, sure, but they all still affect tone. tone is in the fingers? let's hear some jimi from an affinity strat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 I dig all those guys, plus Eric Johnson in the maple camp, so I had to buy one of each. Love 'em both! :love: Variety is the spice of life, ya know... hell yeah, Im gonna get me an ash telly too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 as usual wyatt is correct. so go play what feels and sounds the best to you. and for the love of god, shut up and play your guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Blackmore used a maple board guitar for much of the 70s, Hendrix used both, and Jeff becks Tele and Tele big are both maple boards, it's not a sound thesis wow, it seemd like every pic an video of rb and jb they always had a rosewood strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted September 24, 2008 Moderators Share Posted September 24, 2008 Wyatt is correct. . More people need to learn this simple rule, it should be a HCEG sticky, it'd save a lot of wasted threads:thu: I'm on opinionated SOB, but when Wyatt declares, I heed, and concede. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 The difference is not big enough to be noticed in a band context. But if you hook up similar strats, one with a rosewood neck one with maple, to the same setup, you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members golias Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 on the list, from most important to least important, sure, but they all still affect tone.tone is in the fingers? let's hear some jimi from an affinity strat. Jimi played big-head CBS-era strats a lot of the time. Many of those were at least as bad as a typical Squier Affinity is today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Fingers. Where tone comes from. Even if you're going to blame/credit the gear, fretboard wood is WAY down on the list of stuff that matters. my guitar playing sux so much it needs all the help it can get. the goal is to find a guitar amp combo that even the wrong notes sound good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kentuckyklira Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 thats what I noticed with the maple strat I played. Seemd brighter than mine. I want to try it with the 69 pickups But it can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted September 24, 2008 Moderators Share Posted September 24, 2008 wow, it seemd like every pic an video of rb and jb they always had a rosewood strat One of Purples most famous gigs....California Jam? [YOUTUBE]2CErFTm72UQ[/YOUTUBE] This guitar was used to record Smoke, if you look up the archive pics from Montreaux, he also had a black Strat, maple board 68 or 69 used qite a lot til about 76. Jeff Beck [YOUTUBE]eW73VIz7ctU[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]BsfL6ATX1i4[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 thanks for the link, good tunes the maple fingerboards definitly made them better guitarists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members golias Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Personally, I think maple just looks "right" on Strats & Teles. Rosewood or Ebony looks better on most other guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted September 24, 2008 Moderators Share Posted September 24, 2008 Personally, I think maple just looks "right" on Strats & Teles. Good job guitars aren't made for just "looks" then:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Griffin Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 My maple board strat has a warmer sound than my rosewood one. Of course, they have completely different pickups, different saddles, tuners, one is a 2-piece body, the other a 3-piece, etc. I don't even know how you could a/b the two in a fair manner. Wouldn't you have to have two of the same model, with the exact same pickup height, strings, and action? They might even sound different if they were both maple or both rosewood, anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 I think rosewood looks cooler. Im looking at this lefty thats very similar to mine. Mines a '89 the maple one is a 91 or 92. Both are american standards with the same hardware. It would be a cool comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ESPImperium Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Freshly Modded today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goldenhose Posted September 24, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 looks cool. how does the hb sound? which one you using? I want to do something similar with a p90 in the neck position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mondaymonkey Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Maple just feels sticky to me, so I play rosewood. If I were to play something with a maple board, I would still sound like me. i LOVE rosewood... but maple looks cooler Rosewood just seems to be softer to my fingers... I might just be retarded or something but maple is just too hard. If you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roygbiv Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 jeebus, what a bunch of wieners. arguing over the tonal differences of maple vs. rosewood. i guarantee that all the players in the OP's original post would LAUGH OUT LOUD that people actually debate the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jtr654 Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 Jeff Beck in that 2nd clip . GREAT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 Is it possible to swap it for a hiway one neck? I got a lefty and think itd look cool with a reveresed fat headstock I don't know what your strat is but if it's a Fender I don't see why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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