Here is Paul Reed Smith -- doubling down on electric guitar components which he says make a sonic difference, but is complete nonsense. Lighter mass plastic tuner buttons as opposed to metal or wood make a difference in tone? Crazy. Also, no locking tuners on non-trem guitars. Locking tuners are great for ALL guitars for convenience. My guess is that he's trying to save more money, higher profit margins by consolidating components and having fewer options. Notice now he snuck that news in there as secondary to the tuner button nonsense.
So you can see -- if he starts talking like this, how can you believe him on his tonewood argument? It's a conflict of interest since he also SELLS high-end woods in his Private Stock, so of course he has to push this concept.
Here's the nonsense at 00:54. He talks about putting a rubber nut and bridge on the guitar and that robs the guitar of high end. Of course due to damping. The nut and bridge are usually higher mass, dense materials which don't dampen string vibrations and are the only elements which have DIRECT contact with the strings. He then equates this logic to having too much mass on the headstock which asymmetrically weights the neck and is not musical -- robs the guitar of midrange. Hence the need for lower mass tuner buttons made of plastic! This is utter nonsense.
With this logic, what about the metal tuners which are much heavier? Also, if the mass of the headstock is bad, then headless guitars should be even better since there's no headstock, no tuners or buttons!
How can anybody believe this shit?
So you can see -- if he starts talking like this, how can you believe him on his tonewood argument? It's a conflict of interest since he also SELLS high-end woods in his Private Stock, so of course he has to push this concept.
Here's the nonsense at 00:54. He talks about putting a rubber nut and bridge on the guitar and that robs the guitar of high end. Of course due to damping. The nut and bridge are usually higher mass, dense materials which don't dampen string vibrations and are the only elements which have DIRECT contact with the strings. He then equates this logic to having too much mass on the headstock which asymmetrically weights the neck and is not musical -- robs the guitar of midrange. Hence the need for lower mass tuner buttons made of plastic! This is utter nonsense.
With this logic, what about the metal tuners which are much heavier? Also, if the mass of the headstock is bad, then headless guitars should be even better since there's no headstock, no tuners or buttons!
How can anybody believe this shit?
