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Can You Tell The Difference??? MAPLE vs. ROSEWOOD

WHICH IS WHICH?

  • Clip A is Rosewood, Clip B is Maple

    Votes: 49 24.1%

  • Clip A is Maple, Clip B is Rosewood

    Votes: 154 75.9%
  • Total voters
    203
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#26
LM Bass said:
I guess B is maple, just because I like maple better, and I like B better, so it must be maple! That's called "Logical", right? : )
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good one, :)

but you're simply wrong. You (and the others that voted B=maple) must be deaf. Even a 5 y.o. can hear that B is rosewood and A is maple. :D:D:D

My ears are so good that I didn't even need to hear the clips. :hiding:


Seroiusly now, I have not had a chance to hear them on a good set of speakers yet, but on my computer speakers maybe A sounds a little brighter and following the theory that maple is brighter, I voted A= maple.

Dan, thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to do all this hard work.
 
#27
Chris K said:
No compliments for Dan's play so far? That's a crying shame.
Prooves y'r all deaf :D

Í'm with the majority of listeners here, unless tone is in Dan's hands, which could very well be the case, literally...
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+1, great playing also, Dan. :bassist:

I have to say that I love ash/maple basses and that I also love warm tones. I have never had a problem to have a warm tone out of an ash/maple bass.
 
#29
JimmyM said:
too bad you didn't have a "who the hell knows" option, dan, because that's what i'd say. maple necks sound brighter because they look brighter. those two clips sounded nearly identical to me, and if there were any differences at all, i'd credit that to you playing it two different times rather than any obvious tonal differences. btw, nice job playing!
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+1. This seemed to me to be the hardest to call of the three threads you've done over the last few days. I called A maple and B rosewood by the way, but the difference was really minimal.

These threads have been entertaining and informative, by the way. What have I learned? Well, I've learned that differences that I would call tiny and almost insignificant are described as being plain and obvious by some. I've learned that some people think that discerning these differences is something to do with experience (although for the life of me I can't figure out how that works). And I've learned that bassists (including myself) can get their panties in a wad WAAAY too easily - but this last one could apply to people in general. :D

Nice work!
 
#32
bassybill said:
I've learned that some people think that discerning these differences is something to do with experience (although for the life of me I can't figure out how that works).
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Re-reading that, I should clarify by saying that experience may be really crucial when selecting materials to build basses, and I'm not belittling that in any way. I just meant that I don't think experience is a factor when it comes to hearing differences in direct comparisons between instruments.

Also, it's almost certainly the case that some people can hear differences that others can't, but I don't think that fact is necessarily related to experience, either
 
#33
IMO, having experience in choosing the materials to build an instrument is kinda like chef's experience in cooking. you have to know what ingredients to use and how to use them. it doesn't take any experience to know if the result tastes good (and even that's subjective), but if you're creating something you should be very familiar to what degree each ingredient will do in order to have a desired outcome.

for example, to make spaghetti sauce, anyone can throw some tomato sauce in a pot, add garlic, basil, oregano, mushrooms & wine, you just have to know how what type, how much of each, and when to add them to yield balance and taste great, instead of having one ingredient overtaking another.
 
#34
johnk_10 said:
IMO, having experience in choosing the materials to build an instrument is kinda like chef's experience in cooking. you have to know what ingredients to use and how to use them. it doesn't take any experience to know if the result tastes good (and even that's subjective), but if you're creating something you should be very familiar to what degree each ingredient will do in order to have a desired outcome.

for example, to make spaghetti sauce, anyone can throw some tomato sauce in a pot, add garlic, basil, oregano, mushrooms & wine, you just have to know how what type, how much of each, and when to add them to yield balance and taste great, instead of having one ingredient overtaking another.
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Very good post.
 
#40
Krohurte said:
Be free to embarrass me if it was a hoax.
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Unfortunately I'm not near my home system so I can't listen to the samples right now but that's a good point, considering the OP's chicanery in his Alder/Ash thread one has to wonder if this is believable.

If it isn't a hoax, the only thing that could be revealed by this comparison is that two necks can sound different since the comparison sample size is precisely 1 and there is no way to isolate the tonal effects of the fingerboard wood from the effects of the rest of the wood in the neck.
 
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