The pitch may also change and the intonation gets false. Being to close may cause the magnetic field to prevent the string vibration, hence reduce sustain. The closer the string vibrates to the pickup pole, the louder and more trebly the tone will be. Change strings often if you care about tone and always wash your hands before playing your guitars. New strings sound superior to older strings that are lubricated with fat and finger dirt. Thicker strings are darker and fuller sounding and have more sustain. Weight, tension, distance to pickups, fret action.
We always ensure on a montyly basis that our guitars’ truss rods are adjusted correctly. We must also add that the we personally find straight necks most comfortable, offering good sustain and a consistent low action across the whole neck length. Remember that playability is more important than tone – great guitarists appear to sound great through most equipment. But one must be careful to suit the size of your hands and fingers. Also, the thinnest necks do not have enough back side support for the left hand. We’ve experienced that sustain and tone richness is improved with larger necks, also the spank and bass response is tightened up in big necks, mostly noticed in larger one-piece necks of maple, ebony or other hard wood. A general observation from our side is that a neck with a medium fat profile (thicker than the USA standard strat) will more likely resonate well and give a nicely sustained tone than a thin neck. The neck is acting like a frequency filter and working together with the strings to produce a complex blend of frequencies. Depending on which frequencies that resonates well in a particular neck the strings will eventually vibrate at other frequencies in addition to the initial note. The purpose of the neck is both to steal/absorb some frequencies and respond with other desired frequencies. The initial pick attack and string vibration will make the neck wood vibrate. Even two necks coming from the same tree can be different because of where and how the wooden plates are cut from the tree. Two necks coming from different maple trees can naturally have different density, stiffness, humidity and weight. This isn’t always true, though. There are many individual factors in each neck that can make both rosewood and maple necks bright and dark. It is a rule of thumb that rosewood necks are generally darker sounding than maple necks. The advantages were less friction between fingers and wood and less wear with the more robust rosewood. In 1962 they also offered the option of having a rosewood fretboard on top of the maple neck, a so-called rosewood slab board. The stratocaster has had maple necks since the very beginning. Let’s list a few components and parts in the Fender Stratocaster that affect tone:
The guitar must be considered together with the amp and pedals. Some things you can change, some things you can’t.
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Still, the amp can not produce a signal that was never there from the beginning (except harmonic frequencies due to clipping/distortion). It is therefore important to know how the guitar works and how to improve and shape its tone. We’ve said earlier that the amp and the speakers are the most important for what you hear, and we stick with this. The guitar and amp affect the tone in different ways.
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