Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 88% confidenceSwaps one variable at a time on a partscaster (wood, pickups, strings, hardware) and records the results, testing guitar-tone folklore with a controlled method.
What you'll learn
A methodical experiment testing which parts of an electric guitar actually affect its tone.
Video by Jim Lill, played through YouTube's embedded player.
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