If you flick from one guitar to the other based on the clock to hear the same notes played on each, (1:401:53 for example), I suspect you can hear that the maple is definitely just a tad sharper, (assuming your picking technique is identical in each case which is difficult to achieve). I will own up and admit that I'm normally a debunker of this sort of cork sniffing stuff but even I can hear that though it is subtle just as you said. I think your assessment that it will make no difference in real life playing is an honest and a refreshing one in these days of internet hype where everything has to be 101% perfect for the bedroom "tone junkies" (and they describe themselves as that with such pride) or it's absolute dross. In the real world of band playing these things are generally a total non-issue. Good comparison and great straight talking conclusion Sam.
Always interesting. Hated maple until I tried it! I think some peopl have felt that string slip when you are sweating buckets and it just seems like rosewood is the better option but regarding sound - I saw Jimi in '69 use about 6 different strats as they kept going out of tune and they of course all sounded perfect.
Don't buy before watching this... oh.. well that is too late... I bought a Fender Players series J bass ( love it ) A Squier affinity telecaster ( love it, but did change tuners to fender tuners which did require me to drill new plug holes lol and swapped the bridge pickup to a DiMarzio chopper ) Now let's talk about my Strat that i bought om February this year while watching this video for the first time and what I have done and what's left for me to do! Bought a 2023 seafoam green Fender Player series Stratocaster. Swapped bridge pickup to Seymore Duncan SHR-1B Swapped the Neck to DiMarzio Air Norton S Swapping the mid to DiMarzio Pro Track ( waiting for it to be shipped ) Swapped the tuners to Fender Locking Tuners Swapped the pickguard to US made pickguard ( the one it came with had 2 dents that pointed outwards so Fender issued me a new one ) Swapping the Tone/volume pots to Fender 500K split axel pots. ( waiting for those 3 to be shipped as well ) Swapping the Pao Ferro Neck to a Fender American Professional II Scalloped Stratocaster Neck, Rosewood ( will be shipped and arrive in mid of September ) My strat is also setup with .08-38 gauge My Tellie is setup with .09-42 gauge And the J bass came with flatwounds unsure of the gauge size to be fair, did never bother to check and have yet not swapped gauge on it yet as i bought it last year of December! I did want tapewound on it, UNTIL i heard that it doesnt ground and you'd have to touch the bridge in order to kill the noise that comes due to the fact that its not grounded so I kept it as is with the flatwound gauge. What would I have done different if I've watched this video before buying? Probably nothing 😀
If you flick from one guitar to the other based on the clock to hear the same notes played on each, (1:40 1:53 for example), I suspect you can hear that the maple is definitely just a tad sharper, (assuming your picking technique is identical in each case which is difficult to achieve). I will own up and admit that I'm normally a debunker of this sort of cork sniffing stuff but even I can hear that though it is subtle just as you said. I think your assessment that it will make no difference in real life playing is an honest and a refreshing one in these days of internet hype where everything has to be 101% perfect for the bedroom "tone junkies" (and they describe themselves as that with such pride) or it's absolute dross. In the real world of band playing these things are generally a total non-issue. Good comparison and great straight talking conclusion Sam.
Always interesting. Hated maple until I tried it! I think some peopl have felt that string slip when you are sweating buckets and it just seems like rosewood is the better option but regarding sound - I saw Jimi in '69 use about 6 different strats as they kept going out of tune and they of course all sounded perfect.
Yes for me!!!!!!
Don't buy before watching this... oh.. well that is too late... I bought a Fender Players series J bass ( love it ) A Squier affinity telecaster ( love it, but did change tuners to fender tuners which did require me to drill new plug holes lol and swapped the bridge pickup to a DiMarzio chopper )
Now let's talk about my Strat that i bought om February this year while watching this video for the first time and what I have done and what's left for me to do!
Bought a 2023 seafoam green Fender Player series Stratocaster.
Swapped bridge pickup to Seymore Duncan SHR-1B
Swapped the Neck to DiMarzio Air Norton S
Swapping the mid to DiMarzio Pro Track ( waiting for it to be shipped )
Swapped the tuners to Fender Locking Tuners
Swapped the pickguard to US made pickguard ( the one it came with had 2 dents that pointed outwards so Fender issued me a new one )
Swapping the Tone/volume pots to Fender 500K split axel pots. ( waiting for those 3 to be shipped as well )
Swapping the Pao Ferro Neck to a Fender American Professional II Scalloped Stratocaster Neck, Rosewood ( will be shipped and arrive in mid of September )
My strat is also setup with .08-38 gauge
My Tellie is setup with .09-42 gauge
And the J bass came with flatwounds unsure of the gauge size to be fair, did never bother to check and have yet not swapped gauge on it yet as i bought it last year of December!
I did want tapewound on it, UNTIL i heard that it doesnt ground and you'd have to touch the bridge in order to kill the noise that comes due to the fact that its not grounded so I kept it as is with the flatwound gauge.
What would I have done different if I've watched this video before buying? Probably nothing 😀
The best review video so far, I bought the solid rosewood since it has catchy looks and the neck feels great
Great to hear!
The answer is NO. - good grief! Why would it? And with the levels of reverb/distortion etc demonstrated - why would it matter anyway?