GuitArchitecture — What The Best Woods to Make Guitars Out of Sound Like - Ed Hale plays them all скачать в хорошем качестве

GuitArchitecture — What The Best Woods to Make Guitars Out of Sound Like - Ed Hale plays them all

So here it is. The episode we’ve been waiting for! In this part 3 of 3, we don’t just study and talk about the science and the best kind of woods used to make guitars. Ed Hale gets them out and plays them to hear what each kind of “tonewood” actually sounds like. We play approximately 10-15 different guitars, each constructed out of a different wood, and try to hear the various differences in both top-woods and the woods of the backs and sides. We listen to each wood’s tone, fullness and richness or lack thereof, their frequency response (or ability to pick up highs mids and lows), their hardness factor, the density of the grain of each wood used, the porousness of the woods, their ability to respond and attack fast and fade out quickly, their ability to sustain, and for complex harmonic overtones. Some of the different woods we will hear are spruce, redwood, cedar, maple, ovangkol, mahogany, koa, walnut, rosewood and nato (or mora). Technical Notes: All the guitars were recorded in the exact same way with the same equipment, 2 microphones — one dynamic and one condenser directly into the mixing board, using no cables or internal pickups. No processors nor effects were used. Whatever the guitar sounds like mic’d up is what you hear. We attempted to play the same musical passages on every guitar to better assist with the comparing and contrasting of the different woods. Guitars used: 1993 Epiphone EJ 200 2021 Guild F-250 2004 Epiphone EJ 300 2020 Epiphone Excellente 1980 Alvarez 5040 Anniversary All Koa 2002 Martin D-18GE 1980 Guild D-15 M 1970 Yamaha FG 180 2020 Yamaha FG 800 1972 Gibson Gospel