Beating a Dead Horse

Monson said:
Yeah, but using science to win an argument is cheating.
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I wasn’t doing experiments, just wood working and then in a machine for years early on. Later I picked up the guitar and learned to play and then tinkering with them and then lots of other work just made me think like that.
 
DinoMikeSr said:
I wasn’t doing experiments, just wood working and then in a machine for years early on. Later I picked up the guitar and learned to play and then tinkering with them and then lots of other work just made me think like that.
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Did you ever build a slide guitar out of garage workbenches? If the answer is no, I think that automatically disqualifies you as an expert.
 
jrockbridge said:
I’m a fan of this guys videos for entertainment. But, I’m not sure what this video definitively proved.

If the idea was to show that a cheap guitar with cheap wood and certain parts upgrades can sound very close to an expensive guitar in a YT video, ok. I can believe it because I’ve upgraded a few cheapies with quality pickups, electronics, even tuners and bridges. But, does a cheap guitar actually feel and play like a more expensive guitar? I doubt the cheap guitar in that video felt and played like the more expensive one but there’s no way for me to know. I do own a few cheapies I like that do play fairly well.

Near the end of the video, Thera is a comparison between the guitar tuned to an open chord vs his workbench slide guitar tuned to the same chord. Maybe, they sound close through speakers but I was listening through headphones and they sounded different to me. I thought the workbench slide sounded fine but what does that prove?

If the point is that a guitar neck and body are not critical for slide guitar, ok, I’ll go along with that point. I’ve converted a few guitars with lousy necks to slide guitars. One is a 1965 Sears Silvertone (Danelectro) with a Masonite body.

Maybe, the point of the workbench slide guitar was to prove that the neck and body wood contribute nothing to the sound. Perhaps, there is something to that point when considering open string notes. Personally, I fret chords and notes on my guitars most of the time. Also, those workbenches seem to be made of a lot of wood. But, I’m sure the wood is cheap lumber, not carefully dried and selected tonewood. If the point was to show that you can make a decent sounding slide out of workbenches in the garage, ok. It worked ok in that YT video.

I recall watching a YT video comparison between an Ibanez Tube Screamer vs a Klon Centaur. The video made them sound nearly identical. I don’t own a Centaur but I do have a Klon KTR and I used to own an Analogman Brown Mod Maxon OD9 which is a classic 808 circuit. Those two pedals emphasize different frequencies. They clip different. They even feel different, at least in person.

I think that video raises as many questions as it attempts to answer. Again, I do get a kick out of his videos.

I laughed pretty hard watching his video where he made a bunch of stomp boxes sound like an amp. Don’t try this at home folks! I’m pretty sure my ToneX One pedal by itself does a better job.

She blinded me with science….
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To me, looks and feel contribute to the whole playing experience as much as the quality of the electronics and amps involved. Like I'm sure a lot of brands produce better strats than fender ever did, but they lack the strat mojo IMO. Or like a lot of modellers are kind of dull when used on their own for practice or noodling around but will sit perfectly well in a good mix, and you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between those and the real stuff. Or like I remember the odd, disconnected feeling of recording guitar in an old-school analogue studio with headphones and a mic'ed up cab in the basement below. As far as feeling goes that might as well have been some modeller, had they been around back then.
 
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