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Maple vrs Rosewood...a fair comparison

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GTmaker
Just saw this video and it seems to me to be a very fair way to compare 2 necks.

what do you think?

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jdto
I think the difference is more in look and feels an anything with sound. The blind test makes it very hard to hear the difference.
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vadsy
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High/Deaf
It's not the type of wood but rather, how much you paid for it, that makes all the tonal differences. ;)
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Steadfastly
It's not the wood, it's the different colour dots on the fretboard. The black dots give you a darker sound whereas the white dots give you a lighter, trebly, sparkly sound.

I'm sure you can all hear the difference if you listen closely.
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GTmaker
conclusion :
pay a lot of money for custom dots = GREAT tone

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Diablo
im not jedi enough hear a difference in this stuff....but I can feel it, and that counts for something.
For me, in feel, ebony beats all.
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Diablo said:
im not jedi enough hear a difference in this stuff....but I can feel it, and that counts for something.
For me, in feel, ebony beats all.
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That, I will go for.
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djmarcelca
That's because there is no difference.

We could do the same thing with guitar body's and transfer electronics.
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High/Deaf
Yea, I've been playing some high end guitars but I guess it's just a big waste of money. All anyone really needs is this:

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It plays kinda like a guitar, its sounds kinda like a guitar, it looks kinda like a guitar. What more do we need? Perfect is the enemy of good.

A one-eared person is king in the land of the deaf..........................
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NSStratguy
With my strats I have both maple and rosewood. As far as sound goes if there any difference it is a very little. However for playing I actually like maple better. I find my fingers slide better on it and it feels better on bends.
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JBFairthorne
The difference between the tone of my American Standard rosewood neck and maple neck Strats is quite noticeable (the maple being much brighter). Being that the guitars were manufactured 3-4 years apart, supposedly within the same group of years with identical specs, everything SHOULD be the same (pickups, electronics etc.). Without swapping the necks, there's no real way to definitively tell whether the tonal differences are solely due to the neck though. I guess it's possible the pickups (my 2nd most likely cause for the tonal differences) aren't the same even though they should be (from my research).

As far as what I prefer...for feel, I definitely prefer the rosewood under my fingertips. As far as tonal characteristics, I would have to say that it doesn't make much difference to me. Not that I'm not concerned about tone, I just think that both have something pleasing to offer.
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Rollin Hand
All I know is this -- when I play the intro to "Romeo Delight," the tapped harmonics "pop" more when I use a guitar with a maple board. And that was instantaneous -- I could never get the notes to separate well on my rosewood-board Strat, or its predecessor, my Ibanez RG410. It may be all psychological, but I notice a difference.

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vadsy
Not scientific by any means but I have a partscaster I initially put together with a maple neck and after months of playing it I switched to a maple with rosewood neck. I felt like something was a little different sonically, just a tiny bit dull on the initial attack. I tweaked the EQ and it was all good. Kept the rosewood, prefer the look of it on this guitar.
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Steadfastly
High/Deaf said:
Yea, I've been playing some high end guitars but I guess it's just a big waste of money. All anyone really needs is this:

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It plays kinda like a guitar, its sounds kinda like a guitar, it looks kinda like a guitar. What more do we need? Perfect is the enemy of good.

A one-eared person is king............................... in the land of the deaf
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Fixed it for ya! I thought it had more oomph, at least for me this way.^^^^^
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KapnKrunch
Haha. Glad you posted this GT.

I ignored this for days thinking: "More mojo bullshit. Will it ever end?"

Anyway, watched the video and be danged, thought I could really hear a difference!

Blind tests? Got every one wrong!!

Guess it is bullshit...

Lol.
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vadsy
KapnKrunch said:
Blind tests? Got every one wrong!!

Guess it is bullshit...

Lol.
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Your ear probably just isn't as in tune as the rest of us,,. I got every one right.
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StratCat
NSStratguy said:
With my strats I have both maple and rosewood. As far as sound goes if there any difference it is a very little. However for playing I actually like maple better. I find my fingers slide better on it and it feels better on bends.
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Same here. I feel the grain on my Rosewood Strat when I bend strings. It's not as smooth as my Maple Strat. I wonder though if it's the "grade" of the rosewood, if there is such a thing.
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djmarcelca
KapnKrunch said:
Haha. Guess it is bullshit...Lol.
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I agree
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vadsy
djmarcelca said:
I agree
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yea.. I don't think it is. I'm sure there is some truth to it, not enough to make a huge difference but still enough to argue about.
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