RobF -> RE: Old vs modern sound (Dec. 27 2020 16:11:25)
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Ricardo - “Box like sound” is 100% subjective and means absolutely nothing. We can talk in terms of mids trebles and basses though quote:
Armando - “A specific sound is hard to describe with words and even more difficult to explain differencies in sound coloration and timbre. I think Stephen Faulk understood best what i mean.” But you have no way of knowing this for certain, precisely for the reason Ricardo is stating. Some descriptive words, like “bright”, “deep”, “resonant”, “harsh”, or “clear” can be fairly easily correlated to the tonal spectrum or a response characteristic, but words like “boxy”, “woody”, “lyrical” are pretty subjective and can mean wildly different things to different people. Maybe you and Stephen are outliers and the rest of the planet attributes “box-like” to an entirely different sonic characteristic. Or maybe not. The only way to know is to assign specific examples to the description. My point is, perhaps the use of vague terms is not going to be helpful when attempting to address what are often posed as highly specific questions about implementation. It appears that you may have a target sound that you’re trying to achieve. I have no idea what that is. It appears Stephen does. Will John or Scott? Who knows? It’ll depend on what their idea of “boxy” means. Maybe they won’t even want to get involved in a discussion based on vague terms. I used to have an old teacher from my electronics days who would say “if you want to be an engineer, you have to start to think like an engineer.” I think this also applies to guitar making. It’s OK to analyze and discuss, but at the end of the day, building a couple in each of the styles that you’re curious about is likely going to get you further. It’s a forest for the trees thing, sometimes having a laser like focus on a specific detail isn’t going to get the job done, but just throwing caution to the wind and doing the job might answer the question plus a few more bonus ones, to boot. You might be surprised at what is discovered, as some previously held assumptions may get challenged. Pen on paper is good, but sawdust on the floor is a pretty good teacher, too.
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