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Echi -> RE: Not another $200-$200k Guitar Vid (May 14 2022 13:51:33)
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Ricardo has a point: if you listen to the last part of the video (the direct comparison) while reading the comments, the differences between the guitars are less evident than when you watch the video: there is a obvious bias as you are helping your ears with your eyes.
Nonetheless, imho the problem is the recording. Any recording.
When you play in a room, you get the tone in a 3d environement, which means the sound waves projects ahead and bounce back.
Some guitars are stronger in certain registers than other guitars, some give a more compressed tone etc, with the result in a live session you perceive that some guitars are just better. I remember again the first time I was trying some guitars at Luthiers in NYC with direct comparison with my own guitar: it was eye opening and yet the recording with my phone was just very poor.
As a player, you get a certain kind of feedback (particularly on the "bass frequencies" or in the overtones, which is just different than the listener's; your perception is also helped by the vibrations of the strings under your fingers or the guitar's back on your belly..
In other words: a recording is just unfit to fully reproduce what a player (or even a listener few meters from you) would perceive in a live session.
I wouldn't spend 200.000 $ and probably not even 20.000$ for a guitar, but I understand where the money goes. As Rob suggests, it would be more interesting a comparison between cheaper guitars, maybe priced between the 3000-7000 $range
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