Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups

Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by fallingfrog on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:58PM (#27020219)

It does matter though.. you can tell that a strat is a strat whether it has humbuckers or single coils, and you can tell that a les Paul is a les Paul with any pickups too. The body of a guitar does resonate; you can feel it vibrating against your body. Whereas as long as they’re new, clean strings I can’t hear much difference between brands. Clean vs dirty strings makes a huge difference though.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by TylerE on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:23PM (#27020692)

Of course, you can make something rather NOT like a Strat that sounds like a Strat, too.

I've got a guitar that is pretty unlike a Strat headless, neckthrough, full floating trem with a wide range...and it sounds pretty straty. Of course, I specced it with single coils, a maple neck, an alder body.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by fallingfrog on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:43AM (#27023843)

The type of wood the guitar is made of seems to make a big difference, from what I can tell. The shape, less so. I’m on the fence about bolt on vs set necks.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by andreskytt on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:20AM (#27021872)

BB King used his whole big body: his guitar resting on his belly with only one finger holding the note and doing a vibrato let the entire entity vibrate in unison.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by jolux on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:39PM (#27020789)

How much of what makes a Strat sound like a Strat and a Les like a Les is the wood of the body vs the scale length and the bridge pieces though?

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