Just to confuse the “Tone” debate further!

[Velarian]

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out, we now have ‘tone pickguards’ to add to the mix!

 

A new revelation in the quest for perfect tone or emperor’s new clothes?

 

Discuss 😉

 

 

[Doctor J]

If there are aftermarket manufacturers for it, there will be propaganda for it. If it can be used for one-upmanship, there will be propaganda for it. If there are bedroom players who only ever play in isolation and can obsess over microscopic perceived changes in tone when nobody can really hear it because the only part of this whole circus which actually matters in the end is the music these tools make, there will be propaganda for it.

[itu]

I heard a slight change in tone. If the pickups weren't the same, and their height was different, they weren't testing the pickguard.

[BigRedX]

Like all these "tests" the scientific methodology is so flawed that the test itself is worthless.

 

The proper scientific way would be first to see whether simply dismantling the guitar and putting it back together with the same parts produces any change in sound. 

 

Once you can prove that it can be done 50 times in a row without any difference, only then can you start examining the the effect of replacing ONE component at a time.

[Guest]

I've seen more scientific method in a Laurence Fox rant.

[neepheid]

I'm not even going to dignify this with a view.

[nilorius]

Hmm, maybe this is a start for new Fender model series!

[Bassman68]

It’ll be the colour of the screws next?

Chrome screws are brighter sounding than Black ones? 😂😂

[paul_5]

Just now, Bassman68 said:

It’ll be the colour of the screws next?

Chrome screws are brighter sounding than Black ones? 😂😂

Unless they’re a left-hand thread, but everyone knows that!

[Paolo85]

I am really not an expert but to be honest, if tone wood was a thing, then I would think that a thick bit of plastic that covers half of the body placed in between the wood and the strings and all around the pickup would also matter. And they would not all be the same

[Waddo Soqable]

21 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

Unless they’re a left-hand thread, but everyone knows that!

Yeah but, what if you live in Australia... 

[nilorius]

Golden pickguard on Fender j and p, that is our soon future. Money must be funny in a reach mans world !

[TheGreek]

What about your mood being a factor in the sound of your bass, eh?

 

I tell you, my basses sound completely different depending on whether I'm happy or angry...

 

 

 

 

 

About as believable.....

[nilorius]

3 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

What about your mood being a factor in the sound of your bass, eh?

 

I tell you, my basses sound completely different depending on whether I'm happy or angry...

 

 

 

 

 

About as believable.....

My basses sound different depending how much alcohol is in my organism.

[Velarian]

I think it’s a load of bunkum. When I changed a white pick guard for a black one I didn’t notice any difference at all 😉

[Reggaebass]

Tort definitely adds something  

[Doctor J]

Nausea?

[nilorius]

10 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Tort definitely adds something  

Yeah, it does. I like blue/silver tort on my black jazz.

[SteveXFR]

Surely this video is satire? It is isn't it? 

[Cato]

Honestly I wouldn't back myself to correctly tell humbuckers from single coils in a blind clean tone test.

 

Let alone tonewoods and the rest.

Edited July 2, 2023 by Cato

[nilorius]

3 minutes ago, Cato said:

Honestly I wouldn't back myself to correctly tell humbuckers from single coils in a blind clean tone test.

 

Let alone tonewoods and the rest.

And what about soupbars ?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

But are aluminum pickguards better for metal?

[nilorius]

4 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

But are aluminum pickguards better for metal?

For metal, the best - stainless steel pickguards!

[Guest]

Where do you chaps and chapesses stand on the tone strap-nut debate?

[Maude]

The funniest part of all this tone this tone that nonsense affecting the resonance of an guitar is that you then go and rest it against a big, fat, tone sucking belly.