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by acoustic madness » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:01 pm
Thank you all for your welcome here, even those who don't like what I wrote seem friendly enough.
I do seem to have stirred up a bit of a hornets nest, but I do hope I have made many of you think more deeply.
Some have obviously misunderstood the points I was trying to make, and some seem to have missed them.
The main one is that even with the very best Hi Fi equipment, it is difficult to reproduce the subtleties of sound from mp3 clips let alone on the average PC sound systems.
I don't decry the efforts of the author of the original experimenting at all, in fact if it wasn't for folks like him we would no doubt still be trying to reach our audiences through bits of tin rolled up to make megaphones. It is more the difficulty I have in making a truly useful comparison in these situations. The variables that exist are too many between the performances used to demonstrate the changes in tonality and the listener for them to give more than a hint of the truth but at least the effort has been made. I suspect that these improvements or otherwise, depending on your individual point of view would be much more clearly heard and understood by anyone listening in the same room as the player and the amplifier.
As I said in my original post, keep up the good work.
And to the person asking why anyone should want to buy a hand made acoustic (or electric guitar come to that) rather than one from some Korean/Chinese/Indian/Mexican mass producer, I simply say this, not all drivers buying a Porsche rather than a Ford are doing so just to display their wealth and status, some actually enjoy the superior performance and enjoyment of ownership, and are prepared to make sacrifices to achieve their desires.
My reputation as a guitar builder is largely as a result of attention to detail, quality of materials and, I hope, an understanding of what folks are telling me they, as individuals want from their guitar. I make a point of not selling guitars but of providing what my customers want and need. I spend a lot of time listening to what they want and trying to make sure that I properly understand that sound that is in their head so that I can reproduce it for them. Tinkering with an acoustic guitar after it is built to get the sound right is not a viable option. Sure you can alter the nut, saddle, bridge pins and strings to fine tune it a little, but if the sound isn
Wear a blindfold and listen properly