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Can You Tell The Difference??? MAPLE vs. ROSEWOOD
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+1. I got it right too. People are mistaken if they think you had to have gotten it wrong to criticize that test. Anyway .... new day, new thread.
Seattle: A is maple, B is rosewood
San Francisco: Do I hear a '68 er there?
LA: Atkinson on bass A? On base 1 y'mean...
(Hurry, Dan)
I can definitely hear a slight difference in both of those clips. Clip B seems to have a slightly rounder bottom to it. It seems to have just a little bit more bump in the low-mid range. Both clips sound great....
And now by going with the idea of a Maple neck being a "snappier" or "brighter" tone, I'm going to have to agree that I think A is Maple and B is Rosewood. (Unless Rosewood is snappier, than I go with the opposite
).
And now by going with the idea of a Maple neck being a "snappier" or "brighter" tone, I'm going to have to agree that I think A is Maple and B is Rosewood. (Unless Rosewood is snappier, than I go with the opposite
).
Ding..Ding..Ding...we have a winner...sort of.
As long as the holistic nature of the interactions is considered.
Like I've always said...it's a crapshoot.
Edit: However you did contradict your "conventional wisdom about fretboard wood contributing to tone (in a signifcant way) is probably greatly exaggerated" statement when you said,
So, which one of your contradictory statements is the one you want to go with? Fretboard contribution to tone exaggerated or fretboard wood type easy to differentiate?
Then you nedd to do the P bass pickup and the solo jazz neck pickup test LOL 
oh and series parrallel too!
oh and series parrallel too! 
A clip's attack seems "faster" than clip B , it leads me to say that A is maple/maple , and B rosewood/maple.
If the sound difference is truly audible, wouldn't a fairer test be something like, say, 5 samples of each in some randomized order? With only one sample of each, it's just a "coin-toss" guess for those who can't detect which is which. With 5 (or some reasonable number) of samples per wood type, someone who can really hear the difference should get all samples correctly categorized.
I can hear a difference between these two. Unfortunately I got confused and voted for the wrong ones 
I should have voted:
A=maple
B=Rosewood
so -1 from option 1 and +1 to option 2
I should have voted:
A=maple
B=Rosewood
so -1 from option 1 and +1 to option 2
The difference, if any, is so small I wouldn't care. I did vote before reading the posts and I voted:
A = Maple.
B = Rosewood.
I honestly would get hung-up on differences as small as this. If it sounds good (which both clips do) and plays good, then that's good enough for me. Oh, and looking good would be icing on the cake.
I wish I could get my P bass to sound that good!
Great playing!
A = Maple.
B = Rosewood.
I honestly would get hung-up on differences as small as this. If it sounds good (which both clips do) and plays good, then that's good enough for me. Oh, and looking good would be icing on the cake.
I wish I could get my P bass to sound that good!
Great playing!
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