EBS_freak

Do Squiers have the same preamp, pickups and pickup placement as Bongos?

Umm. Ash. or maple. Or tulipwood.

There’s also a lot out there that sound like ash Fenders.

Oh now we are talking. Pictures?

What wood would be best for thread coffins?

Has this landed yet?

I've now got an urge for chip shop chips... with wooden fork. Hmm, I wonder if there's anywhere local that does battered chips...

Its those picture frames on the wall.

bof

Corrected.

I seem to have stumbled onto bass cat.

ooh. flex.

Well... that, or just buy one that has already been made and you can see if you like the sound (and everything else about it)!

It's like all those ridiculous multi-laminate boutique basses... "The sound of glue"

and that marks the point where the thread has just gone beyond ridiculous.

No - it's because you haven't grasped the fact no piece of wood is the same as the next. So whilst there are subtle differences in the tones that demonstrated in that video, if you built those same basses again, using the same type of woods, they could still sound different again to the ones in the video - because wood, even of the same species, aren't identical. So in short, this video doesn't teach us anything - the sample size would have to be much larger to be able to start drawing any observations of scientific significance. Besides, even the electronics aren't consistent - there are tolerances in the electronic components - and the pickups are likely to be scatter wound... which obviously means they aren't going to be same, even if manufactured to the same spec.

Yeah, I'm feeling that.

Well that's a bit of a whataboutism. An auditorium is dealing with sound waves. The output from an electric bass is electrical.

In reality, you could string up any old table top with a bridge, a set of tuners, some frets, a couple of single coils (spaced like a jazz) - and it would sound within shooting distance of any other jazz bass. Would be a bit of a **** to play though.

Given what we see on social media, I do think a more suitable discussion would be, do different brands of ramen sound different?

I have. The only thing that I can think you are referring to is where I have written "The rest of it? Nonsense." - That is in relation to the variable that is wood. Change whatever you want about the wood - present it as "tone wood", whatever.. it's all a nonsense. In that you can choose whatever wood you want, specify it to come from any area of the tree, any species etc... and you still wouldn't be able to reliably predict it's effect. There's far too many variables within the wood itself to be a fair experiment. There is no control or fixed variables (the very thing upon which experiments from which you draw conclusions must have). And thats before we move onto the preamps, pickups, hardware, neck joints... which I haven't even commented upon because the thread is about wood. Or at least I thought it was.

Umm. I didn't say that at all.

You may be interested in this thread -

Useless experiment. For example, say, Maple from one tree will be a different composition from the sample from the next. Depending upon where abouts in the tree the wood is taken from, it will have a different density. The environment in which the tree grows, influences structure further. Wood by its very nature, can not be the same - each slab is unique. The only way to hear how a bass will sound is to play it when it's built. The rest of it? Nonsense. Next.

No - that’s what the PA speakers are for! 😛