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Different tone from different wood, really?
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Your specialty, which, unlike self awareness, you surely learned before middle school.
This. By not plugging it in, and just listening acoustically, you’ve removed the elect4onics from the equation. The only thing left is the materials (wood) that the bass is made from. How that wood absorbs the harmonic content of the vibrating strings is audible by the missing frequencies.
Not at all. Grab any of your basses and play without plugging in. They all sound different. And P and J basses consistently maintain their character plugged in or not. Amplified, they are just louder.
The tougher ones for me, are Ibanez SR basses (which is odd, because my tastes pull me towards them) - they don’t really have a ‘character’ of their own. They are more ‘blank slate’ than their Fender brothers. Maybe, that’s their characteristic sound; that they’re not P or J basses! Tonally, they are much flatter the standard Fender offerings.
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Maybe some reading material for your cat while you fall asleep.
Dude - dial down the bridge pickup, then back up, then dial down the neck pickup. They sound different. Acoustically they sound differenter.
Yes, I edited, to make it clear. I’m sure you’ve never made that mistake. You got me!
I meant to ask you how you objectively measure individual perception. Provide the science you scientist!
Again, to the cat.
Good question. Let it remain a mystery. Not all things need explaining. A lesson to take to heart.
I can’t provide science for that, sorry, just like I can’t prove to you that chocolate tastes good. It’s subjective.
But *objectively* blue exists, A440 exists, and they can be measured. *Objectively* the tonal quality “warm” doesn’t exist, it’s a subjective description. As I’ve said a number of times, I accept that *you* can hear a difference, and maybe you even have a special name for what you hear, but that name and what it means to you doesn’t mean jack to anyone else because they don’t have your ears or your brain. That’s subjective.
There’s no reason why someone can’t spectrum analyze tones from a bass, point out the different harmonics that make each tone “bright” or “warm”, and say definitively that all of these harmonics at these fundamentals means this word. But 8/10 other people will disagree because bright describes light, and warm describes temperature, and regardless of what the words describe they’re subjective descriptions. This is exactly what I’ve been saying all along, so I can’t now tell if you’ve been disagreeing with me all along, or not, but I’ve been consistent with the words I’ve been using and what I’ve been saying, while you’ve been consistently indirectly calling me stupid while coyly pretending you haven’t been. Objectively passive aggressive.
Cats are warm. And a lot clearer at communicating than many people I’ve met.
I could put an envelope filter on it too, and make it sound differenter-er...!
But with all eqing removed, they don’t. Eqing at that point, is being performed by the wood.
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