Alnus Rubra
Loving nature’s wonders
Beauty of tone is in the ear of the beholder!
My Les Paul has a maple neck, and it sounds like about any other mahogany neck Les Paul out there. My experience is that the joint is much, much more critical than the material. Furthermore, as an engineer, my experience with soundwave propagation is that any time a sound wave (or really any vibration) goes through an interface change, some is passed along, and some is reflected. The greater the difference in density, the more is reflected. Air is the least dense, so very little is transmitted into air compared to any other solid material. I don't care how tightly something is installed, there is an air gap there - that is why in ultrasound testing (be it babies or materials!) there is a gel substance placed between the probe and the material - otherwise, almost all of the energy would bounce back. So I'm not sure why Paul would state this, as it pretty much contradicts physics. Perhaps whoever was in the audience misunderstood him.
Count me among those who've seen him speak and recall hearing him say this.So I'm not sure why Paul would state this, as it pretty much contradicts physics. Perhaps whoever was in the audience misunderstood him.
The data would suggest otherwise:
http://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/neckJointSustain.htm
http://www.liutaiomottola.com/research/sustain.htm
It seems the material is more critical than the joint.
The data they were measuring in those articles was sustain and I think we are talking about tone. I would love to hear Paul's explanation why the CE 24 page boast about sparkly bolt-on necks when he thinks there is no difference. I would venture a guess that he would agree with his marketing department on that one.
Man, I'm getting old. I would have bet money that the original post in this thread was not mine......
Kevin
I thought this article was well written and does a good job explaining why they sound different: https://www.guitarplayer.com/technique/unraveling-the-set-neck-vs-bolt-on-myth
yea, like when I played Lenny Kravitz 'Are you gonna go my way' on youtube and there was no guitar solo. I wondered what the hell I have been playing all those years. Even on my iphone the solo was gone. had to dig up an old iphone 4 where the CD version was kept that I imported. I was really feeling the matrix glitch...When this kind of thing happens ...it's a glitch in the Matrix....I refuse to believe it's my age...yup, absolutely a glitch in the Matrix...
The research paper summary states the following:The data would suggest otherwise:
http://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/neckJointSustain.htm
http://www.liutaiomottola.com/research/sustain.htm
It seems the material is more critical than the joint.
The neck was sawed off and then attached with screws
yea, like when I played Lenny Kravitz 'Are you gonna go my way' on youtube and there was no guitar solo. I wondered what the hell I have been playing all those years. Even on my iphone the solo was gone. had to dig up an old iphone 4 where the CD version was kept that I imported. I was really feeling the matrix glitch...