Neck comparison samples?

[Phait]

Anyone have samples with the same amp/settings/pickups just about between a bolt-on neck, set-thru and neck-thru?

 

I'm wondering if it should be a factor in my next guitar purchase.

[WRGKMC]

The best advice I can give is to play the instrument unplugged first and see if it sounds good placing your ear directly on the body. If its a good chunk of wood it will sound good acoustically. Next make sure the neck fits your hand and is confortable to play. You have to rule out the string gauges if they're not what you're used to. Even if the strings arent great of the intonations off or actions not quite right shouldnt be a major determining factor. Frets are though.

 

After that, a clean amp to check the pickups frequency range. Anything beyond that is a complete a variable. Pickups can be changed, effects for dirt and tone can be used, you can used a thousand different amps and speakers, and use different recording techniques, mics different rooms etc to get different tones, so that would be the very last thing besides how it looks to trust making a purchase decision.

 

An instrument can look grest and sound and play like sheep {censored}. It can also look like you pulled it out of your butt and sound and play and sound like god. These are all things you need to check first hand to know. Bolt ons, set necks and through designs all have their pluses and minuses. Its all in the workmanship and acoustic tone thats going to be the strongest buying factors. After that you can mod it for sound reproduction or select what best suits your needs. Bringing your amp to a shop and trying different guitars can help too because you're familure with it and can better tell how a guitar performs through it.