Ruphus -> RE: Old School Tone (Mar. 20 2011 23:07:59)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana This whole notion of old school building and newer guitar sounds is just a bunch of hooey. You can do the blind test with several guitars and several guitarists, and each guitarist will have a different sound often radically changing the way a particular guitar sounds. Objection, here! |OD Though amazing what expectation can do to the senses, and before all to the hearing, to me its seems as if the sound of old guitars can be specifically different from any fresh specimen. There is that mid level Aria classical that I bought in the mid seventies. This one, I am sure, I couldn´t differenciate for its age alone in a blind test. But than there is that old Rodriguez blanca estudio, probably from the eighties, which has a distinct timbre to it ... a characteristic I associate with aged wood ... which - as I am convinced - no recently built could reproduce. ( Not meaning that newer guits couldn´t be better in general; only that they could not deliver that certain `old wood shade´.) Next specimen, and very illustrating example I think, is that 1970 Ramirez blanca ( which quite ressembles sound properties known of Sabicas´recordings.) This one, I believe, everyone would immediately recognize as vintage in a blind test. If we lived near by, and could find other recent builds that were only similar enough to serve as comparison, I would be ready for a blind test in a blink. - Just can´t think of an eventually newly built that one could be mixing up with that distinct old hack sound. quote:
ORIGINAL: RobJe Development is not the same as improvement. If it be about houses and me allowed to chose, a modern blockhouse would be great. If about stone though, a retro Art Nouveau building would be preferred over nearly any modern design. With guitars it appears as if both, new and old to be holding their own. Without neglection of the fact of overwhelmingly beautiful, newly built guitars that can leave you with nothing to be desired. ( - I am deeply impressed by contemporary luthiery.) Ruphus
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