Even more crazy BS from PRS.
https://www.premierguitar.com/podcast/di...h-tonewood
Does he not read and understand the argument? He states that old strings sound different than new strings and it's not all the pickups. Well - of course! The strings are the actual source of the vibrations! Nobody says that ONLY pickups matter. What the physics says is that pickups matter MUCH MORE than the slight differences in woods used in an ELECTRIC GUITAR -- like Alder, Swamp, Ash, Maple, Mahogany, etc. These "tonewoods" have much less an effect than pickup choice. This is what the physics says, and this is what you see and hear in reality, though it is obscured by myth and human placebo.
Let's put the argument this way. If tonewoods make such a HUGE difference, than a mediocre pickup should suffice, yes? Because the tonewood should overshadow the pickup importance. Alas, that is not the case. It is the other way around!
Guitar makers do NOT want you to believe this, because what it means is that you can upgrade a cheaper guitar with 3rd party pickups and achieve equal or maybe better sound. You can easily upgrade pickups, but you can't upgrade wood on a guitar without buying a new one. So they want you to believe that tonewoods make a difference and that you should buy THEIR guitar with THEIR tonewoods to get THAT sound.
For the words of the profits
Were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen
Of salesmen, of salesmen
https://www.premierguitar.com/podcast/di...h-tonewood
Does he not read and understand the argument? He states that old strings sound different than new strings and it's not all the pickups. Well - of course! The strings are the actual source of the vibrations! Nobody says that ONLY pickups matter. What the physics says is that pickups matter MUCH MORE than the slight differences in woods used in an ELECTRIC GUITAR -- like Alder, Swamp, Ash, Maple, Mahogany, etc. These "tonewoods" have much less an effect than pickup choice. This is what the physics says, and this is what you see and hear in reality, though it is obscured by myth and human placebo.
Let's put the argument this way. If tonewoods make such a HUGE difference, than a mediocre pickup should suffice, yes? Because the tonewood should overshadow the pickup importance. Alas, that is not the case. It is the other way around!
Guitar makers do NOT want you to believe this, because what it means is that you can upgrade a cheaper guitar with 3rd party pickups and achieve equal or maybe better sound. You can easily upgrade pickups, but you can't upgrade wood on a guitar without buying a new one. So they want you to believe that tonewoods make a difference and that you should buy THEIR guitar with THEIR tonewoods to get THAT sound.
For the words of the profits
Were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen
Of salesmen, of salesmen
