RE: Jazz tone

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

Swamp ash is nice and light, too. But I generally have to agree with Kris
that (as I interpret it), given a basically decent solid body guitar,
twisting tone controls on the amp and pickup (or changing the pickup) can
usually give me whatever I need. 

By contrast, BTW, I have a vintage Guild archtop with floating pickup whose
tone is rather difficult to tame - it tends to be both too trebly on the
high strings and too boomy on the low for my taste. Strangely enough, I get
the best results putting it through an overdrive circuit with lots of 
treble
rolled off. (it actually sounds best pretty much unamplified, which says to
me that maybe my issue is with the pickup. Being a vintage guitar, I don't
really want to mod it at all. OTOH, that floating pu looks like it could be
easily replaced and then restored if I want to sell the guitar).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:19 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Jazz tone
> 
> On 6 sep 2007, at 20.40, Krispen Hartung wrote:
> 
> > Heck, all I need is a stick with strings and pickup on it. I could 
> > care less about the fancy wood, etc.
> > Kris
> 
> 
> I take it that you are really meaning "fancy talk" about wood?  
> Because different wood definitely give different tone to a 
> guitar, as true for solid bodies as for jazz boxes. I have 
> some friends that build guitars as for a living and I have 
> spent many hours hanging at these workshops, trying out all 
> kind of guitars and getting told about different wood used in 
> them. Too bad I was never as interested in wood as in tone, 
> so I don't remember a everything ;-))  Well, swamp ash sounds 
> good to me in solid bodies, that's a fact I memorized after 
> finding that all solid bodies I picked out was built of it. 
> Mahogany sounds good too, I think. Myself I once built a 
> solid body guitar out of a piece of oak. It was horrible. No 
> life in that tone, way too much sustain and treble that made 
> it feed back whenever you played through an amp. It was too 
> heavy as well. Oh well... guess mistakes are for learning ;-)
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
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