Topic: Do finishes change the tone of the electric guitar
On my Fender Tele, I think I have the water base type of finish, but to me it seems to have that Fender trademark tone
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- jamesd74
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Re: Do finishes change the tone of the electric guitar
Don't really know I have a quilted maple top, with a high gloss automotive finish.
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- alun
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Re: Do finishes change the tone of the electric guitar
watermelon john wrote:
On my Fender Tele, I think I have the water base type of finish, but to me it seems to have that Fender trademark tone
This is an argument without end, 
some say the finish does affect tone, some say not,
Mine is 2-colour sunburst with a urethane finish, and it say's in the owners manual, "with thinner undercoat for body resonance", 
Personally I think think it's more down to the timber the body's made from........ 
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record it as it is......then strip the finish down to bare wood and coat it
with something different....record it again.. then use a spectrum analyser and comparator
to monitor the difference ( must be the same strings/situ/temperature etc ) ....because your ear wont be sensitive enough
or in a nut shell .... how will one ever know????
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polyal wrote:
record it as it is......then strip the finish down to bare wood and coat it
with something different....record it again.. then use a spectrum analyser and comparator
to monitor the difference ( must be the same strings/situ/temperature etc ) ....because your ear wont be sensitive enoughor in a nut shell .... how will one ever know????
Stripped it down to bare wood, and re-coated it with white emulsion, and recorded it again, but then at the crucial point in the recording my spectrum analyser shorted out on the comparator flange grommet, am still trying to get the rest of it in a nutshell..........
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6 23-11-10 22:10:04 (edited by polyal 23-11-10 22:18:23)
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you shouldn't re-record it until the emulsion has dried ...thats what shorted the nutshell
wiring.....i hope health and safety are unaware..else there 'll be grommets and all sorts of
sh!te flying all over the forum
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polyal wrote:
you shouldn't re-record it until the emulsion has dried ...thats what shorted the nutshell
wiring.....i hope health and safety are unaware..else there 'll be grommets and all sorts of
sh!te flying all over the forumwhere did you get the git player from?
Thanks for that, didn't realise that the emulsion needed to be dry, the player was from Asda,
ps, look out for flying grommets...............
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