Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as a fun, experimental debunking of tonewood claims that shows electronics dominate electric guitar sound.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jim Lill

Topic

electric guitar tone

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• An adjacent topic, since TFA is about acoustic guitars and this is about electric, but I recently came across an excellent video where a guitarist tries to determine exactly which parts of an electric guitar affect its tone. He did it by methodically swapping parts …

• If you're interested in how simple they can get, "Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?" is a fun and technically-interesting video: [VIDEO]

• [VIDEO] If you're interested, this is pretty fascinating - he shows experimentaly that the guitar itself has little to do with tone. Other than that better made instruments could (no promises!) hold their tuning a little better, but you can cheaply buy locks or spend …