AUDIO TEST: Maple+Maple vs. Alder+Rosewood!

[fokof]

If you buy a bass and change the pickups and the electronics , is it the same bass after ?

Take that same bass and change the body and the neck , (same model but different wood) , keep the hardware , is it the same bass ?

 

[mongo2]

if you're referring to me, i'm sincerely sorry if you felt that i was 'dodging' the question. my opinion is that the wood dictates the indelible voice of the instrument, or it's 'fingerprint'. the pickups and strings just give or take away different colors to it, but underneath, IMO, it's what the instrument is made of that dictates how everything else works with it.

+1

 

[cassius987]

I just re-tried this with my really nice Shure SE425 in-ear monitors and still failed miserably! Haha. I could hear a difference, but I was wrong about which bass was which and which. I at least got which one was in the mix but I pretty much guessed my answer for that one, as I was having a difficult time with it.

 

[Big_Daddy]

After having listening to the clips (a little overdue...), I found that the second bass (which turned out to the the maple/maple bass) sounded a little bit warmer. I enjoyed the neck pickup soloed on the maple/maple bass more.

I've never really cared for the whole tonewood thing. No, I don't have thirty years of experience, let alone ten. I just feel that the sound comes from the craftsmanship of the bass and from the quality and placing of the pickups.

Just my .002$.

 

[project_c]

I'm a bit late to this but I just listened to the clips and guessed the right answer straight away. However, I'm listening on studio monitors and studio headphones which makes a big difference. I think the actual difference in a real world scenario would be minimal but the difference is clear nevertheless.