@@mimetypeFender Japan made something different with Aerodyne guitars and basses. Nobody wanted them and they were sold at 50% discount, cheaper than Mexican made guitars, that look like regular “boring fender”.
I was having a good laugh at the Timberlake signature model joke, but then I realized we live in a world where Machine Gun Kelly got two signature models at once! So I figure we’ll being seeing something like a Timberlake model soon. 😂
Not a fan of MGK, but he is definitely helping dragging some people into the rock n roll culture... I bet some kids grabbed a guitar for the first time because of him...
@Ry_Valz I find the tele colours ugly but the Strat colours cool. I've seen the brown one in person and it looks a lot better than it does in the video.
Also because the maple is not tinted. On the higher priced models the maple gets an amber tint to represent maple that was exposed to sunlight for some years.
Lovely sounding and guitars are just guitars! If you’re happy with your choice it’s all that matters! Tonewood is silly. Not as silly as you two though!! Enjoy the videos as always!!🎉 The Justin Timberlake Strat 😂😂😂
I don’t listen to players about tonewood. In blind tests they often fail to pick the pickups or guitar. Luthiers, recording techs, and guitar techs will tell you it’s the strings & bridge. In electric guitars there are few variables until the signal hits the speaker. The speaker has nearly all of your tone. Choose your speakers wisely.
Yeah, to my ear, the speaker, the order of the pre-amp, various eq circuits and power amp stages in your amp, and the pickup placement are what make the big differences
"Tonewood" is marketing, plain and simple. There so many variables that are not being thought of when making this debate. Yes you have wood and pickups, but you also have all the manufacturing variations such as: Weight, Lacquer thickness and type, pickup position, wiring, pots, pickup position including z,x and y axis, bridge material, bridge height, bridge weight, bridge surface, nut, tuning pegs, tuning peg position etc etc etc I could go on for a long time but you get my point. IF you could control all of them variables and have the wood type be the only variable you swap out, only then could you debunk this theory. I would bet my savings that given all the other variables, wood type would have an inaudible impact to tone.
It would be nice to see some modern color/hardware variations instead of the same ones we've had for years. Black or gold hardware, block inlays, multi color pickguards, I don't know, just saying lol. Love Captain and Pete jamming and demoing anything.
i would get the sassafras one not for the tone, but because the color's great and it's fun to say sassafras! also I don't think I've ever heard of an electric guitar made out of sassafras, so that's pretty cool too.
I don't know who came up with the word "tonewood".... its just "wood", and whilst I do believe that different woods can have a small impact on the sound of an electric guitar, I don't think there are certain types of wood that can be classed as "tone woods". There are hard woods & soft woods, light woods & heavy woods, and there will be woods that are more approriate for instrunent making than others... but I'm not sure what a "tone wood" is & I wish we'd stop using the term!!
It has yet to be shown that wood has any impact at all in an electric guitar's sound. If you're hearing a difference in sound, there are so many other factors to consider first (even between guitars of the same make and model).
@@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard tbh they are playing in a room. What I want would like them to do is record the different guitars with the same amp, mic, and speakers. But ofc that will not sell guitars so I understand why they won't.
Nothing wrong with the word Tonewood, it is more the context in which it is used. Acoustic instruments do sound quite different depending on the trees used, solid body electrical guitars too if the pickups are build to pick it up, but that also means that they do have microphonic properties which might make them unsuitable from a certain amount of gain. One of the more interesting experiments I discovered recently was with such an pickup installed on the back of the guitar, with the right wiring that may work in most situations. High gain levels will still add diminishing returns, probably enough for the tree used not to matter at all. Much better value to have some good EQ’s in the signal chain when it comes to frequency and attack, for sustain a compressor set to only add more sustain will do. There is probably some pedal that can do the work for resonance/body too. In reality everything on acoustic instruments can be considered as “Tonewood”, even the back of an Ovation, doesn’t sound worse, just different.
The same wood gives different tones too. The weight and grain can't be identical in a natural material. The magnitude of that tonal difference in a solid body is fairly insignificant.
Sure. What else makes difference: different examples of the same wood; current humidity; humidity in the shop, where guitar was built; strings (including their age, wear and environment, where they were stored after opening the package); same pickups can vary in tone as well; pods and caps also don’t exactly match their nominal values, which will affect tone; pickup heights; frets material, heights and wear; action; bridge and nut material; pick guard material, shape and thickness; guitar finish and wear; is guitar played hanging on strap or resting on lap; pick material, thickness and wear; nails/no nails if playing with fingers, etc. And I didn’t even started to talk about where guitar is plugged in, where real difference is happening. And guitars are usually played by humans, who also aren’t very reliable in repeating exactly the same fretting/picking motion. Discussing difference in tone introduced by body material of solid body electric guitar has roughly the same value as discussing tone difference between using new and old well-used pick: it is there, but there is not much value in it. Unless you are selling some “magical old-formula cellulose pre-broken-in picks” that “definitely make a difference, but you simply cannot hear it through the youtube compression” for $20 a piece.
Not so much frequencie wise, there are most likely more tolerance difference on the electronics than we would like, but we don’t know without them being checket besides string tension, action, relief and the distance between poles and strings. With everything matched a null test will tell how much it matters.
Just an FYI note: North America has several types of Pine trees that grow sufficiently large for lumer/timbre. Most are relatiely soft but with consistant grain and texture (White, Ponderosa, etc). We also have varieties of Yellow Pine that have alternating hard and soft growth rings making them more difficult to work/tool for musical instruments, but great for wooden structures. (No judgement here for musical qualities.) 🤓
To my ears, different woods don't make that much difference with solid body guitars. The type of pickup, amp and pedals are far more important to the overall sound of a guitar. Tonewoods have more of an effect on acoustic guitars in my experience.
I heard that Fender stopped using pine in the early days because it was often getting chewed up by the the tools (routers, drills, etc.). So they switched to ash, because it was more durable and easier to work.
I build my Telecasters and Esquires out of Pine. I don't know that it sounds different or better or worse. I use it #1 because it is cheap and #2 because it is light weight.
Satin finish looks good for 5 mins but if you buy it you have to live with it. It’s weird to the touch. Tone wood makes very little difference and if you can actually hear it then you’ve too much time on your hands! Once Fender get rid of that silly big headstock on the Performers I’ll buy one. Hopefully they’ll ditch it on its successor when that comes.
The difference in the pot values due to manufacturing is gonna be bigger than the wood difference. If even in a cab the material matters not, then for sure not in an electric guitar lul
@@void_snw sure thing buddy. I'll assume you can't tell the difference between a clarinet and saxophone. In optics we have a saying, if you* can't tell the difference go with the less expensive option. Other people can tell the difference. I'm sure a cab made from Styrofoam could sound cool for an effect, but it's not going to sound the same. Not at all
@@schaerfentiefe1967 You are right. The strings vibrate the wood which in turn affects the vibration of the strings which is read as tone by the pickups. If wood made no difference you could put expensive pickups on a $200 guitar and it will sound like a custom shop guitar. Or an SG would sound just the same as a Les Paul.
@@BloodBoughtMinistries There is hardly any difference in the tolerance in two guitars with the same electronics. Even if one of the pots has 10k missing, you wouldn't be able to hear it. The difference in brightness from the first Strat to the second would be like if someone took a 250k pot and jumped it to 500k, and then upgraded the capacitor.
I believe tonewood only matters for acoustic guitars and not for electric guitars. I don't care what wood an electric guitar has as long as I like the look of it. I have heard electric guitars made out of different materials that sounded good and it was because I liked the pickups. For acoustic guitars you can hear the differences in wood and size more.
These are cheap woods. They will ding. And neck bolts will break out easily. That's why normally alder and ash was used. And mahogany. What a real hard wood is.
idk about tonewood... I feel like adding gain will lower the effect of wood. When you have a really clean tone with single coils i suppose wood can make a tiny dense of difference but all above that i suppose wood is not doing anything
Saying wood doesn’t matter in a guitar is like saying that tyres don’t matter on a racecar. Saying it makes a big difference is like saying that all the speed of the car comes from the tyres
Pete my man…I have long said that you are the “vibeyest” most in the pocket guitarist I know of….I have to say that Lee is right at your heels now…Lee…your technical progression has been a joy to watch, but I really must acknowledge that your feel has progressed beyond your technical ability….you are an absolute joy to listen to. Anybody can learn to be technically proficient…but only a musician can do what you do!!
So... PRS SE are all glossy, and then PRS came up with the mate finish, and they're the cheapest now. And fender comes up with the matte finish and they're selling them for an extra $100 ? :))))))
I like my Bass guitars made from basswood. Guitars made from pine, more like a tubafour..where's my Fender shovel guitar with a hickory handle? Seriously though, those are some nice lookin guitars. Yes, the change over at 7:34 was definitely different, agree it has a bit more low end.
I’m here to engage in ~tonewood discourse~ by telling everyone it does effect tone, just not as much as people pay for. THE REAL GOOD THING about this series? These woods are far more sustainable and can be sourced more easily. That matters too. Feel good about where your Git came from.
I don't think tonewood should trigger anyone, there's no need. Just make up your own mind and pay the premium if you want to. Most embarrassing thing ever was seeing Paul Reed absolutely losing his mind about it at some event. Another reason if one was needed to never buy his stuff. Total child.
They sound different. They sound like Strats. Unless you have both guitars and try to hear a difference it's absolutely and completely 100% impossible to hear the subtle, minuscule, irrelevant, totally totally totally, tonally, topiary, tobleroney irrelevant tone change and in fact, anyone who claims there is even the slightest whiff of relevance or actual functionality affected or even reckons they have a remote preference for one or the other of the woods due to its character or anything (grrr its even winding me up imagining this person!! wtf??!) then they deserve to have their own wood and by that I don't mean 'wood' subjected to the same treatment that resulted in the lovely shaped bit of timber we know as a Strat. for example, I'd probably start with the aptly named b@$^&\d file, then the spoke shaver and chisels finishing off with some sandpaper before cleaning up with some alcohol\acetone then a nice few coats of varnish to preserve the glowing red patina 🧐 But that's just me 🤔
As more and more species of wood becomes scarce fender will start telling people pine from my garden shed has amazing tonal qualities and start charging five thousand sheckles of the realm for that. 😎
Lee, it's still not a rosewood neck. It's a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. Might be called a fingerboard as well. Yes yes, I sat in the front row in class and I do wear glasses. Thick glasses.
Beautiful guitars, tonewood as an idea for "tone" is crap, tonewood as something pretty to look and inspire is really the proper point. Worth the money? Of course if you've got it
Given that a 52 Telecaster made of Pine will sound virtually identical to a modern Telecaster made of Alder, it's clear the concept of Tonewood in an Electric guitar is rubbish. Once those strings are picked up by the pickups and ran through an Amplifier and the sound comes through the speakers, the wood makes no difference at all.
Beautiful strats to be sure but...I am really tired of all the C, deep C and modern C necks coming out of Fender. Seems if you want a decent neck you have buy one separately at $300.00 to $700.00 a pop or buy a Custom Shop Guitar for $4,000.00 to $10,000.00. Uh...NO! After spending around $2,800.00 on an American strat, who wants to spend anymore money on a brand new guitar that is most likely worth about $800.00 in mint condition? Even If you do get a great soft V or an oval C neck for let's say under $1400.00 it's usually with an unusable 7.5 radius and or some crappy wood the body is made of like Basswood, Poplar, Nato or pine. Yikes! The exception to this is there under 3k signature line of guitars i.e. Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, SRV etc... Don't get me wrong I like those three guitars I mentioned. However, last year I bought a FIREFLY STRATOCASTER and was totally amazed at what I got for $159.00 plus tax and shipping (shipping was $27.00) i.e. Locking tuners, Stainless Steel Frets, Roasted maple neck, Ash body, upgraded hardware and alnico 5 pups. Honestly if they made a Strat with a soft V neck, instead of a modern C, I would never buy anything from Fender again. If I had bought this type of guitar, with all these features, from Fender it would have cost me $3,000.00 to $5,000.00. For what Fender charges for guitars we should at least have a choice of radius and neck. Just my 2 cents worth. Peace.
Fender - PRS is constantly going on about tonewoods and selling an assload of guitars at inflated prices. What are we going to do to? You can pick up two of the exact same fenders and they will sound different.
Who on their right mind thought that it was a good idea using spruce, sassafras or sugar pine for a solid body guitar? Those things are gonna ding and dent by just looking at them, those woods are too soft on the surface. 😐
The real advantage of Tonewood™ is its effectiveness as a clickbait video title.
Fender is so boring and predictable. Meet the new Fender, same as the old fender.
Nice trademark there
Truth.
They do what sells.
@@mimetypeFender Japan made something different with Aerodyne guitars and basses. Nobody wanted them and they were sold at 50% discount, cheaper than Mexican made guitars, that look like regular “boring fender”.
Matte finish on a sunburst is nasty work
I was having a good laugh at the Timberlake signature model joke, but then I realized we live in a world where Machine Gun Kelly got two signature models at once!
So I figure we’ll being seeing something like a Timberlake model soon. 😂
The Timberlake comes with a bottle of jack and a set of car keys!
Not a fan of MGK, but he is definitely helping dragging some people into the rock n roll culture... I bet some kids grabbed a guitar for the first time because of him...
And coming up next a limited edition Strat with one odd colour tuner
Haha What’s with that?? Bloody fender.
i would love a matte fiesta red with those dark rosewood fret board. These colors look ugly IMO except the tele which is cool as always.
@Ry_Valz I find the tele colours ugly but the Strat colours cool. I've seen the brown one in person and it looks a lot better than it does in the video.
It’s a “tone” tuner
These look like Squier Affinity models. It's the headstock finish.
Also because the maple is not tinted.
On the higher priced models the maple gets an amber tint to represent maple that was exposed to sunlight for some years.
Yep. Same with the low end Martin acoustics. The wood has no tint to it. Looks cheap.
Scandinavian Pine sounds like a song that sounds like a song
I once had a man,
Or should I say he once had me,
He showed me his sign,
Isn't it good Scandinavian Pine?
Lovely sounding and guitars are just guitars! If you’re happy with your choice it’s all that matters!
Tonewood is silly. Not as silly as you two though!! Enjoy the videos as always!!🎉
The Justin Timberlake Strat 😂😂😂
I don’t listen to players about tonewood. In blind tests they often fail to pick the pickups or guitar. Luthiers, recording techs, and guitar techs will tell you it’s the strings & bridge. In electric guitars there are few variables until the signal hits the speaker. The speaker has nearly all of your tone. Choose your speakers wisely.
Yeah, to my ear, the speaker, the order of the pre-amp, various eq circuits and power amp stages in your amp, and the pickup placement are what make the big differences
Yosemite pickups sounding sick as always 🤘 have been in the market for a Performer Tele for a while, but must admit that mocha Strat looks lovely
Wow Lee you have improved so much man!!! It’s really inspiring to see, much love from Texas y’all.🤠
"Tonewood" is marketing, plain and simple. There so many variables that are not being thought of when making this debate. Yes you have wood and pickups, but you also have all the manufacturing variations such as: Weight, Lacquer thickness and type, pickup position, wiring, pots, pickup position including z,x and y axis, bridge material, bridge height, bridge weight, bridge surface, nut, tuning pegs, tuning peg position etc etc etc I could go on for a long time but you get my point. IF you could control all of them variables and have the wood type be the only variable you swap out, only then could you debunk this theory. I would bet my savings that given all the other variables, wood type would have an inaudible impact to tone.
See 0:56 for the "you're my boss so I'm not going to say anything about that bum note" look on Pete's face.
Captain is sounding great!
Eric Johnson Strats are sassafras I think.
Just the Virginia model is Sassafras I believe.
@@mlwilliam213 Think you are correct.
You're telling me that a violin filled with rootbeer with a bridge made of mdma won't make a difference in tone?? -PRS probably
You won today. No need to scroll for more funny comments
Hahahahahaha PRS definitely! Although to be fair, a bridge made of mdma will DEFINITELY make a difference!
That Tele Pete is holding in the beginning is gorgeous!!!
It would be nice to see some modern color/hardware variations instead of the same ones we've had for years. Black or gold hardware, block inlays, multi color pickguards, I don't know, just saying lol. Love Captain and Pete jamming and demoing anything.
Fender has toyed with those things in the past and they didn't sell.
@@adrianhjordan1981 I guess that stuff is for Charvel and Jackson, lol.
Check out the Squier 40th anniversary models, pretty much what you just described.
nice one guys loved the vid, preferred the honey burst strat.
Eric Johnson's favorite Strat is Sassafras'
Spruce Forsythe. lol. Love it.
Not for electrics. Pickups, amp, pedals, and of course hands
i would get the sassafras one not for the tone, but because the color's great and it's fun to say sassafras! also I don't think I've ever heard of an electric guitar made out of sassafras, so that's pretty cool too.
Eric Johnson's strat was made from sassafras.
There's an Eric Johnson Strat made from it. Not the normal signature one, but a "Stories" series one.
G&L makes some ASAT Specials from sassafras.
Never been keen on the Tele design but the matt sunburst is very nice
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I don't know who came up with the word "tonewood".... its just "wood", and whilst I do believe that different woods can have a small impact on the sound of an electric guitar, I don't think there are certain types of wood that can be classed as "tone woods". There are hard woods & soft woods, light woods & heavy woods, and there will be woods that are more approriate for instrunent making than others... but I'm not sure what a "tone wood" is & I wish we'd stop using the term!!
It has yet to be shown that wood has any impact at all in an electric guitar's sound. If you're hearing a difference in sound, there are so many other factors to consider first (even between guitars of the same make and model).
Always magical! Thanks for performing and demonstrating.
@@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard tbh they are playing in a room. What I want would like them to do is record the different guitars with the same amp, mic, and speakers. But ofc that will not sell guitars so I understand why they won't.
So...stop using the term? You're one of the biggest retailers in the world, you can make a difference.
Nothing wrong with the word Tonewood, it is more the context in which it is used.
Acoustic instruments do sound quite different depending on the trees used, solid body electrical guitars too if the pickups are build to pick it up, but that also means that they do have microphonic properties which might make them unsuitable from a certain amount of
gain.
One of the more interesting experiments I discovered recently was with such an pickup installed on the back of the guitar, with the right wiring that may work in most situations.
High gain levels will still add diminishing returns, probably enough for the tree used not to matter at all.
Much better value to have some good EQ’s in the signal chain when it comes to frequency and attack, for sustain a compressor set to only add more sustain will do.
There is probably some pedal that can do the work for resonance/body too.
In reality everything on acoustic instruments can be considered as “Tonewood”, even the back of an Ovation, doesn’t sound worse, just different.
I cant hear the difference through the youtube compression on my bluetooth headphones
Different woods give different tones. Period. It's just not as noticeable on electric as it is acoustic. But it's there.
The same wood gives different tones too. The weight and grain can't be identical in a natural material. The magnitude of that tonal difference in a solid body is fairly insignificant.
Sure. What else makes difference: different examples of the same wood; current humidity; humidity in the shop, where guitar was built; strings (including their age, wear and environment, where they were stored after opening the package); same pickups can vary in tone as well; pods and caps also don’t exactly match their nominal values, which will affect tone; pickup heights; frets material, heights and wear; action; bridge and nut material; pick guard material, shape and thickness; guitar finish and wear; is guitar played hanging on strap or resting on lap; pick material, thickness and wear; nails/no nails if playing with fingers, etc.
And I didn’t even started to talk about where guitar is plugged in, where real difference is happening.
And guitars are usually played by humans, who also aren’t very reliable in repeating exactly the same fretting/picking motion.
Discussing difference in tone introduced by body material of solid body electric guitar has roughly the same value as discussing tone difference between using new and old well-used pick: it is there, but there is not much value in it. Unless you are selling some “magical old-formula cellulose pre-broken-in picks” that “definitely make a difference, but you simply cannot hear it through the youtube compression” for $20 a piece.
Not so much frequencie wise, there are most likely more tolerance difference on the electronics than we would like, but we don’t know without them being checket besides string tension, action, relief and the distance between poles and strings.
With everything matched a null test will tell how much it matters.
That matte orange Strat looks like a Donald Trump signature series
Just an FYI note: North America has several types of Pine trees that grow sufficiently large for lumer/timbre. Most are relatiely soft but with consistant grain and texture (White, Ponderosa, etc). We also have varieties of Yellow Pine that have alternating hard and soft growth rings making them more difficult to work/tool for musical instruments, but great for wooden structures. (No judgement here for musical qualities.) 🤓
To my ears, different woods don't make that much difference with solid body guitars. The type of pickup, amp and pedals are far more important to the overall sound of a guitar. Tonewoods have more of an effect on acoustic guitars in my experience.
I wish fender released these in natural. Kind of pointless with the almost solid finish with the alternative wood choices.
Sassafras is a beautiful wood, some of the best black heart sassafras is found in my home state of Tasmania. Safarin is the extract.
Non colour-matched headstocks on rosewood/dark boards look like a toe hanging out of a bust sock imco
Damn, I can't unsee that now!
A white strat sounds brighter than a black one!
So the new tonewood is ugly paint?
that title is basically begging for views
In my experience as an arborist, you can certainly hear a difference in resonance between different species when their timber hits the ground.
I heard that Fender stopped using pine in the early days because it was often getting chewed up by the the tools (routers, drills, etc.). So they switched to ash, because it was more durable and easier to work.
I build my Telecasters and Esquires out of Pine. I don't know that it sounds different or better or worse. I use it #1 because it is cheap and #2 because it is light weight.
I could defiantly hear the tonal qualities of the wood with my eyes!
We get charged extra for “exotic” timbers so why are we not charged less for cheep woods like pine?😢
The tone's in the finish.
Where's me popcorn.
toan strap buttons
Satin finish looks good for 5 mins but if you buy it you have to live with it. It’s weird to the touch. Tone wood makes very little difference and if you can actually hear it then you’ve too much time on your hands!
Once Fender get rid of that silly big headstock on the Performers I’ll buy one. Hopefully they’ll ditch it on its successor when that comes.
The difference in the pot values due to manufacturing is gonna be bigger than the wood difference. If even in a cab the material matters not, then for sure not in an electric guitar lul
The cab material is secondary to the baffle material, which is MDF. If rhe baffle was pine it would resonate
@@didamnesia3575 you can make a cab out of Styrofoam and you won't be able to tell the difference, so long as the dimensions are the same.
@@void_snw sure thing buddy. I'll assume you can't tell the difference between a clarinet and saxophone. In optics we have a saying, if you* can't tell the difference go with the less expensive option.
Other people can tell the difference. I'm sure a cab made from Styrofoam could sound cool for an effect, but it's not going to sound the same. Not at all
@@didamnesia3575 you tell me which one is the styrofoam cab at the end of this video. ruclips.net/video/-eeC1XyZxYs/видео.html
It's not rocket science. Offer something new that most don't already have, and sucker's will fork over their cash for it.
They had the fender master builder on a few videos ago and he said it’s not a debate… tone wood is 100% a thing
Tolerances in electronics causes tonal differences between guitars, pickups in an electric don't pickup anything from the wood.
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But the STRINGS pickup the vibrations from the wood!
@@schaerfentiefe1967 You are right. The strings vibrate the wood which in turn affects the vibration of the strings which is read as tone by the pickups. If wood made no difference you could put expensive pickups on a $200 guitar and it will sound like a custom shop guitar. Or an SG would sound just the same as a Les Paul.
@@BloodBoughtMinistries There is hardly any difference in the tolerance in two guitars with the same electronics. Even if one of the pots has 10k missing, you wouldn't be able to hear it. The difference in brightness from the first Strat to the second would be like if someone took a 250k pot and jumped it to 500k, and then upgraded the capacitor.
Tonewoods are the friends we make along the way.
I don't know why but I always think start and tele bodies are looking thinner these days.
If it ain't an acoustic guitar then we ain't talkin tone wood.
Your ears don't work if you can’t hear the difference between those two strats.
It could be the different pedal boards and amps..
Pete! The 1990s called and they want your pants back.
I believe tonewood only matters for acoustic guitars and not for electric guitars. I don't care what wood an electric guitar has as long as I like the look of it. I have heard electric guitars made out of different materials that sounded good and it was because I liked the pickups. For acoustic guitars you can hear the differences in wood and size more.
Are you trying to invoke glen fricker with that title, or what?
These are cheap woods. They will ding. And neck bolts will break out easily. That's why normally alder and ash was used. And mahogany. What a real hard wood is.
Sasaphrass idk how to spell it. They use it to make Traditional bows. Pretty cool to have a strat made out of it
I'd go for the sugar pine Strat!
idk about tonewood... I feel like adding gain will lower the effect of wood. When you have a really clean tone with single coils i suppose wood can make a tiny dense of difference but all above that i suppose wood is not doing anything
That Tele is sweet.
not this again man
I love that guitar the captain was holding in the beginning. If the headstock was the same color. I would order one right now.
Seconded!
Just lovely guitars top quality sound great woods materials used all make a difference to the sound how much longer can you talk about Strat and teles
Satin finishes are the best finishes
for about 3 months
@@GoofieNewfieWhat happens after 3 months? Serious question.
Tonewood - I hadn’t heard, does the wood make a difference? #paulreedsmith
They all sound just like Squier Debut series from amazon, so they are good guitars for sure... 👍
Christ the trigger warning needed a trigger warning
Saying wood doesn’t matter in a guitar is like saying that tyres don’t matter on a racecar. Saying it makes a big difference is like saying that all the speed of the car comes from the tyres
F# is the major 3rd of D, Lee.
There’s no such thing as tone wood. It’s just wood.
This could summon some people...
Pete my man…I have long said that you are the “vibeyest” most in the pocket guitarist I know of….I have to say that Lee is right at your heels now…Lee…your technical progression has been a joy to watch, but I really must acknowledge that your feel has progressed beyond your technical ability….you are an absolute joy to listen to. Anybody can learn to be technically proficient…but only a musician can do what you do!!
Lol....
Please SCAM US AGAIN, YOUR FOLLOWERS NEED THE FEELING ONCE AGAIN... SO GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR VICTORY AMPLIFICATION LAP
So... PRS SE are all glossy, and then PRS came up with the mate finish, and they're the cheapest now. And fender comes up with the matte finish and they're selling them for an extra $100 ? :))))))
Marginal sound difference! Either way, if you like the look, sound, the way it feels, go for a guitar that feels right for you! 👍🏼
I like my Bass guitars made from basswood. Guitars made from pine, more like a tubafour..where's my Fender shovel guitar with a hickory handle?
Seriously though, those are some nice lookin guitars.
Yes, the change over at 7:34 was definitely different, agree it has a bit more low end.
Me as a foreigner, learning English, thinking I’m good and can understand speech
English speech: 2:48
I’m here to engage in ~tonewood discourse~ by telling everyone it does effect tone, just not as much as people pay for. THE REAL GOOD THING about this series? These woods are far more sustainable and can be sourced more easily. That matters too. Feel good about where your Git came from.
Scamwood! Charge more for a pretty wood grain. What a concept!
Nothing wrong if you like the look of it haha. But if you're buying it expecting any change to your sound your psychotic
Pete, Strip off the finish? 😂
I don't think tonewood should trigger anyone, there's no need. Just make up your own mind and pay the premium if you want to. Most embarrassing thing ever was seeing Paul Reed absolutely losing his mind about it at some event. Another reason if one was needed to never buy his stuff. Total child.
They sound different. They sound like Strats. Unless you have both guitars and try to hear a difference it's absolutely and completely 100% impossible to hear the subtle, minuscule, irrelevant, totally totally totally, tonally, topiary, tobleroney irrelevant tone change and in fact, anyone who claims there is even the slightest whiff of relevance or actual functionality affected or even reckons they have a remote preference for one or the other of the woods due to its character or anything (grrr its even winding me up imagining this person!! wtf??!) then they deserve to have their own wood and by that I don't mean 'wood' subjected to the same treatment that resulted in the lovely shaped bit of timber we know as a Strat. for example, I'd probably start with the aptly named b@$^&\d file, then the spoke shaver and chisels finishing off with some sandpaper before cleaning up with some alcohol\acetone then a nice few coats of varnish to preserve the glowing red patina 🧐 But that's just me 🤔
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As more and more species of wood becomes scarce fender will start telling people pine from my garden shed has amazing tonal qualities and start charging five thousand sheckles of the realm for that. 😎
Would anyone know which wood (Spruce, Pine, Sassafras) is generally the lightest weight? Would love to get a lighter weight tele than what I have now.
Lee, it's still not a rosewood neck. It's a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. Might be called a fingerboard as well. Yes yes, I sat in the front row in class and I do wear glasses. Thick glasses.
Beautiful guitars, tonewood as an idea for "tone" is crap, tonewood as something pretty to look and inspire is really the proper point. Worth the money? Of course if you've got it
Are the boys on the bags / nose beers ? 😂
Everyone is talking about tonewood, but to me the real problem with these are the atrocious finishes.
Given that a 52 Telecaster made of Pine will sound virtually identical to a modern Telecaster made of Alder, it's clear the concept of Tonewood in an Electric guitar is rubbish. Once those strings are picked up by the pickups and ran through an Amplifier and the sound comes through the speakers, the wood makes no difference at all.
1:25 Are you thinking of High and Dry by Radiohead Captain?
Beautiful strats to be sure but...I am really tired of all the C, deep C and modern C necks coming out of Fender. Seems if you want a decent neck you have buy one separately at $300.00 to $700.00 a pop or buy a Custom Shop Guitar for $4,000.00 to $10,000.00. Uh...NO!
After spending around $2,800.00 on an American strat, who wants to spend anymore money on a brand new guitar that is most likely worth about $800.00 in mint condition?
Even If you do get a great soft V or an oval C neck for let's say under $1400.00 it's usually with an unusable 7.5 radius and or some crappy wood the body is made of like Basswood, Poplar, Nato or pine. Yikes!
The exception to this is there under 3k signature line of guitars i.e. Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, SRV etc... Don't get me wrong I like those three guitars
I mentioned. However, last year I bought a FIREFLY STRATOCASTER and was totally amazed at what I got for $159.00 plus tax and shipping (shipping was $27.00) i.e. Locking tuners, Stainless Steel Frets, Roasted maple neck, Ash body, upgraded hardware and alnico 5 pups. Honestly if they made a Strat with a soft V neck, instead of a modern C, I would never buy anything from Fender again.
If I had bought this type of guitar, with all these features, from Fender it would have cost me $3,000.00 to $5,000.00.
For what Fender charges for guitars we should at least have a choice of radius and neck. Just my 2 cents worth. Peace.
I feel like the Yamaha approach with calibrated tone chambers have a better chance of affecting the tone.
Fender - PRS is constantly going on about tonewoods and selling an assload of guitars at inflated prices. What are we going to do to?
You can pick up two of the exact same fenders and they will sound different.
Don't be afraid. If you hear a difference say so. It's not your fault others don't know how to listen.
Who on their right mind thought that it was a good idea using spruce, sassafras or sugar pine for a solid body guitar? Those things are gonna ding and dent by just looking at them, those woods are too soft on the surface. 😐
It's cute that the trend this yr is saying wood doesn't matter. Go listen to a Travis Bean and report back.
I can cleary hear a differnce, the spruce is more trebly and the sass is more like ash.
guys whats the reference to sasafras about ? i just poured a small river table with it
Would love to hear all three Strat Woods compared now
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