Can you hear the difference between a Fender Telecaster and a Gibson Les Paul if both guitars have the exact same Pickups, setup, strings and wiring?
A fun little experiment in the great debate over where the tone comes from.
Telecaster vs. Les Paul but they both have the same pickups, set up, strings, and wiring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAgjYQY0uk
10 Comments
manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 29d
Having multiple guitars, I’ll still go by what Jim Lill and SMG say: it’s mostly up to the speakers. I have a knockoff tele, Epi Wildkat and some others. They sound exactly the same with my setup using an fx chain in reaper going out to my shit Line6 amp. Personally I don’t care as much about sound as I do does it make me want to play?.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 5 pts · 29d
Amen to that!
I loved the Jim Lil series, and it was nice to hear Ryan give a nod to it in this video. I'm not familiar with SMG, are you referring to smg-guitars.com?
manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
No SMG is Spectre Media Group. This place He does all metal music production stuff.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 29d
Oh, yeah, I've seen his stuff. He's real big on Neural Amp Modeler and why everyone is an idiot! 😅
manwichmakesameal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
LOL yep that’s him. TBF, NAM is pretty amazing. Only way I can play an Engl.
Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
The "different scale length" comment is spot on... also affects probably relative position of the pickups, string tension. I do think they sound very similar, but there is a small difference and it's likely due to those factors.
From scale length you'd expexr the longer scale guitar to sound brighter, which I think is what I can also hear.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 2 pts · 28d
yeah, it's a refreshing exercise in that it shows there's a distinct impact on the sound from the physical design of the guitar without invoking tone wood discussions.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 3 pts · 29d
I think there was a clear difference in at least the bridge pickup sounds between the two.
eyesquash@mastodon.world · 1 pts · 28d
@baronvonj 60-cycle hum did this with CuNiFe wide-range humbuckers. [edit: this is that video]
My concern then was that the pickups were not proportional distances from the bridge. They look pretty close in the thumbnail, tho.
I used to have a coil split and a switch that would let me choose which coil was active, on a split neck humbucker, and there was a noticeable difference in the sound.
baronvonj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 28d
Yeah that seems to be the whole point, to me, along with the scale length so many are bringing up. The things you want from a Tele or a Les Paul are still present even with the same pickups and electronics, without even invoking the tone wood debate. I think this is the first time I've seen someone approach it from this angle.