Recent content by brorbjoern

Leo always just used what he could get a good deal on. He was an electrical engineer, not a luthier. Pine, Ash, Alder and maple were cheap where his factory was, that's why they got used. Same goes for the wire, 1 month he'd buy formwar, the next enamel, dependent on the deal he could get...

Just chiming in with a bit of stuff. First of all their is one large fallacy with this. youre expecting wood of the species to be more or less the same. Fact is that there is often quite as much variation of the physical properties of wood inside the species as there is between species. In...

I dont know if Mørch guitars (Invalid Link Removed) qualifies as little known? He stopped advertising years back because he didn't need to. Over the years he has built basses for people like Jaco Pastorius and Victor Bailey, and he supplies pretty much everybody on the professional danish scene...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9z7i4WcrE this mørch bass. Or, if staying in vintage bass world, to mørch five string curls with one piece necks, one fretless the other fretted. The man with wood matching and pickup winding, and his active electronics are (imo) the best standard (nonfilter based)...

To make the basswood guy happy it should be mentioned that basswood has been used for piano and organ soundboards in the past, and is quite a sounder in the acoustic domain, having a stiffness coefficient between alder and spruce (quite high). It's one problem is its softness, which both has an...

Rather than state that i missed the point, explain why. I can't really take criticism seriously if it provides no reason as to why it is critical. so... What is the point? HaMMerHeD style?

And if we are to split hairs as to scientific principle, which seems to be popular: can you tell how something sound based on a frequency response graph? No you cant, and thus the only access we humans have to how sound sounds, is our ears. And thus no experiment in the field of sound is more...

To shorten up the rant for people not liking long texts: in the making of music, instruments, and music reproduction humans are equipped with two things only: our ears, and our ability to quantify and explain what why our ears are hearing what they are based on scoentific principle, and good old...

To the guy who said that subjective evidence is not scientific evidence... Well it is when we're, talking about things like acoustics. One of the main methods in the field actually, for two reasons: how humans like sound is a highly subjective thing, and thus how good the results are are in a...

I've been reading up on some textbooks on the seasoning and material properties of wood. Turns out that hardwoods vary in density by up to 50 percent in the same species. If wood has has an effect on tone, you can be sure there is variation in intruments made from the same species of wood (and...

For proper scientific evidence look up gerald marleaux's columns in baagearmag 9 and 10. It's mostly a study on construction types, but in it are included many explanations of what actually happens in an electrical instrument.

The reason why nobody has put research into this is that the mechanics of it are on a pretty low level, it's the psychoacoustic response end result that's interesting. Which is why people tap the wood, figure out where in the guitar it qould fit nicely, and think about how the combination...

Ok. Several things: wood changes tone. Any material changes the frequency response of a flat signal sent through it. This process is described by a materials damping factor, which is determined by the speed of sound in the material, which is a product of stiffness and, to a lesser degree, grain...

I'm not so sure about the repeated "wouldn't work in death metal" comments; first off, has anybody actually tried? That would probly give a good idea of whether it works :P and secondly: Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath and Steve Harris from Iron Maiden have always used flats, and it works...

my bass is made of Wenge, ebony, maple (the least part of it) and bubinga. I think that's about as heavy as it gets ;) only thing that's light about it is it's tuners ;) (hipshot ultralights). it's a fairly common wood combination on Warwicks (mine isn't one though :b), but if you wanna go even...