Re:Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days
by abakker on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:33PM
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I'd agree - with an electric instrument you rely on resonance, but to a lesser degree than with a violin or cello. I would consider it with an acoustic-only instrument like that.
Re:Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days
by 6stringmerc on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:07PM
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Yeah I wanted to specify Electric Guitar for that purpose. Acoustic instruments are a whole different design and technique realm. While technically the same family, I view steel string Electric and bronze string Acoustic as two very different instruments.
Re:Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days
by ozi on Thursday February 09, 2017 @03:37PM
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Gains from pretty much all "advanced" techniques are incremental. Most improvements - whether cars, sports, business, marketing, etc. - come from mastering the basics.
Re:Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days
by 6stringmerc on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:09PM
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Well sometimes yeah, but I can state without reserve that when I tried a different set of strings - Ernie Ball Cobalt vs. the Slinky, I actually could hear a significant difference. Same goes for changing pick thickness. I think it's important to note that it's really only at the top % where improvements become kind of logarithmic / incremental. 10,000 hours is kind of just a start with guitar.
By comparison, I had a guitar teacher who would play his G&L Strat 5 days a week for lessons, and you could just see how he was working the fretboard and neck into the sweetest playing, conditioned piece of gear. He always had a line of people waiting to buy his guitar whenever he felt like he wanted a change. I can understand wanting a guitar that "broken in" but by comparison getting something artificially relic'd or aged doesn't seem appealing.