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previous: Dr. Strangelove Mark wrote:[QUOTE]In the absence of... -- 9/3/2002 7:51 PM

Re: What happens when specs elude you

9/4/2002 4:18 PM
Mark Hammer	Re: What happens when specs elude you I'll tell you what WOULD help is the opportunity to have soundfiles and descriptors/specs alongside each other. A couple years back, GP had a SC pickup shootout and the writer extolled the virtues of Fralin pickups saying they had "nuts, ring, shimmer". O.....kay.......what the hell IS that? I like to describe SC pickups in terms of "sheen" and "sparkle". That may mean something to me personally but finding an adjective in the dictionary doesn't help others very much. I think you're quite right that most folks don't want to approach it from the audiophile vantage point, but they DO want comparison information that is meaningful and allows them to make sensible and satisfying choices. Something like this gets done with effects at Tone Frenzy and Larry Spence's modezero.com site. What would be great would be a standardized guitar body you could slide pickups into and out of without changing strings. The player plays similar kinds of music with identical knob settings into a sound card or direct in some other manner, and the end-user gets to hear that in conjunction with a freq-resp curve PLUS the kinds of descriptors that a variety of folks with a broad and informed enough ear use.

9/4/2002 4:18 PM

Mark Hammer

Re: What happens when specs elude you

I'll tell you what WOULD help is the opportunity to have soundfiles and descriptors/specs alongside each other. A couple years back, GP had a SC pickup shootout and the writer extolled the virtues of Fralin pickups saying they had "nuts, ring, shimmer". O.....kay.......what the hell IS that? I like to describe SC pickups in terms of "sheen" and "sparkle". That may mean something to me personally but finding an adjective in the dictionary doesn't help others very much.

I think you're quite right that most folks don't want to approach it from the audiophile vantage point, but they DO want comparison information that is meaningful and allows them to make sensible and satisfying choices.

Something like this gets done with effects at Tone Frenzy and Larry Spence's modezero.com site.

What would be great would be a standardized guitar body you could slide pickups into and out of without changing strings. The player plays similar kinds of music with identical knob settings into a sound card or direct in some other manner, and the end-user gets to hear that in conjunction with a freq-resp curve PLUS the kinds of descriptors that a variety of folks with a broad and informed enough ear use.

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SK That doesn't work either. Sound fil... -- 9/4/2002 6:35 PM