friday wrote:I dont mean a live gat , Im talking unplugged pieces of wood with scale lengths .
1/2 step strat ,the body resonates alot more , it comes alive , dont mean bass or clarity. theres no amp!
Not sure this is true. This is coming from some one that has played on both for years form standard tuning down to a whole step down. I am of the opinion that what ever your guitar is it sounds the best, to my ears, at std tuning. Something happens when you tune it down and I am in the process of finding out exactly what is changing. I am wondering if a new pick up could be designed to compensate.
friday wrote:
Ive got maple neck + gold lace + 10s = thats NEVER gonna sound heavy but it certainly feels better, the chunk of wood itself, and I dont like putting it back to std
LP has alot meat and cavities Id assume it resonates a whole lot
Define heavy?
friday wrote:
when 1/2 down , std tuning is at 1st fret but that 1st fret is scaled at 24" = 0.75" less than a gibson therefore less tension for the same note
But no one has yet substantiated that more or less tension is a good or bad thing. About the only thing I can tell is that one is easier to play in one sense and harder in another.
friday wrote:
I never knew tribute was from different shows until read on this site . the tuning on tribute changes thats whats got me about that record . also reel to reel tech has always used speed to manipulate recordings .
songs thruogh out 50 ,60s and 70s are sped up to fit the single or LP to fit radio time .
3 first bob marley records were sped up , he sounds like a ten yr old .
slap a finger against the turn table and his real voice steps in and the band tunes down, same thing for alot of rock n roll LPs
with tribute Ive tuned to 1 song and then the rest of the songs change , Ive always wondered if it was guitar change or recording tech to fit songs on LP $ end of day money folk dont care.
What we have is that most of Tribute is from the Cleveland show. Randy's solo is from Montreal and GBTR and NBM is from, what is believed to be, the South Hampton show from 1980.
friday wrote:
I hear dives so assume its the V , now that I know its a collection of shows thats another angle.
No you can't assume that. When you hear the harmonics on "I Don't Know" and they go out of pitch is Randy using a V on that song?
Ill give you a hint it is his Les Paul.
Randy, for the most part, used the same guitars for the same songs from show to show. He did change a few guitars as he acquired more. E.g.,So in 1981 he used the Les Paul on "I Don't Know". In 1982 when he got his new Jackson he used that on "I Don't Know".