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January 4, 2023

It's All Bullshit

January 4, 2023

Here is a series of videos from a guy who has done the most scientific testing of electric guitars and amplifiers that I have yet to find. His results surprise even me. I have always felt that "tone" is mostly imagination, but these carefully constructed tests show that it is entirely imagination.

Sustain comes from feedback. It's that simple. No, it's not your $10,000 Les Paul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqBDIaZ0BE
Notice how he is using recordings to test the amps. This is the first time I have seen this done. Most 'tone' experts do this by playing the same lick differently with each amp, and then claiming the difference is the amp.

This guy is too smart to be a musician, he should go to MIT.

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Acoustic Bass ?

Rather than design an acoustic bass according to luthiery principles, which are basically 500 years of "we do it this way because we've always done it this way" together with 50 years of "there is no other way", I would like to design an acoustic bass like a loudspeaker. Plenty of bookshelf speakers and subwoofers are about the same volume as a guitar.

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