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Topic: Black Guitars sound Better?? |
Wally Taylor
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Hardin, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 1:30 pm |
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I see a lot of posts claiming that black guitars sound better. Is this a tongue in cheek thing or are you guys serious and please explain how the color of a guitar could affect its sound? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 1:44 pm
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Tongue in cheek.
But I still say green sounds best  |
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 1:49 pm
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| ...and red plays faster! |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 1:50 pm
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That's just a rumor that was started by Ronnie Milsap and Ray Charles.  |
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Nick Reed
From:
Russellville, KY USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 2:00 pm
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Black Guitars are the best sounding, problem with me is I JUST CAN'T PLAY'EM!
Last edited by Nick Reed on 17 Jan 2008 7:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ron Sodos
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 2:50 pm Black does sound better
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I own 2 double neck steels. Both are state of the art with the same BL pickups. One is blonde and the other is black. Everybody that listens on and off stage says the black one sounds better. Whooda thunk?  |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 2:53 pm black
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mines Black
but ive heard other colors soung just as good
but black sounds best
hahehahehaheah!!!!!  |
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Paul Norman
From:
Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 3:18 pm
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Wally, dont let these guys put you on.
Sound is vibration and the vibration does not know
what color formica or wood it is vibrating on. |
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Scott Henderson
From:
Camdenton, Missouri, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 3:23 pm
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ok here's how it works. When you are playing a black guitar you are in a darker mood so your ears want to hear more lows so you turn them up when you do you also have to bring in more highs to compensate so you more EQ which means more gain which means more volume and your tone is heard better!! Gee souds all nice and scientific just wish I had some real data to back it up hehehehehehehe
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 3:23 pm color
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| BLACK. SONNY. |
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Antolina
From:
Dunkirk NY
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 3:24 pm
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| Paul Norman wrote: |
vibration does not know
what color formica or wood it is vibrating on |
It most certainly does. Everyone knows that red sounds better 
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Ron !
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 3:31 pm
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Ok let's cut to the chase here.Most people think that because of the fact that there is more "Carbon" in the mica the black guitars sound better.
Bullocks....
Some people say that black guitars sound darker then other guitars....Maybe....Depends on who's playing it.
Mica does not contain Carbon....
My guess is that this is a wide spread fable. |
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David Hartley
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 4:06 pm OF COURSE THEY DO....
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| The black ones sound second best to the grey ones... Have a look at the thread posted by Victor Eaton titled "question"... There's a picture of the best sounding steel ever made I am sure! And its his. I've just got to do a 12,000 mile round trip to get it for him.. Can't wait though.. DH |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 4:15 pm
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I do know that the black mica used in the earliest Emmons guitars is thinner than rosewood mica, for example.
The early mica could be polished with wet dry paper and would remain black -- just glossier. The same treatment to newer black mica would "sand through" to reveal a light under color. |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 4:36 pm
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Different colors almost certainly would vibrate differently. But would that difference be perceptible to human ears?
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 4:59 pm black mica
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| Turn out the lights! Hard to beat the black with the polished aluminum package. Black looks good and blends in with anything but I also like the blue colors as well. |
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Jim Means
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 5:56 pm
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Wally,
Does this answer your question? 
Jim in Missouri
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Tony Dingus
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Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 7:01 pm
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I heard Jimmie Crawford say what Chris said. He was talking about the Emmons guitar and the black mica was thinner and they would use a steam press and press the mica on the bodies and if you could see the wave of the grain , that was a great sign. That was from the "Masters of the Steel Guitar" video with Jimmie, Hal Rugg, Weldon Myrick and Lloyd Green. If you don't have it, get it, you won't be disappointed.
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Mark Treepaz
From:
Hamburg, New York USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 7:42 pm
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Red is much higher in frequency than Black in the color spectrum. That means that Red guitars will sound much brighter than black guitars. White guitars will have the most high end to them.
Hmm...Yea, Yea, that's the ticket...That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Bent Romnes
From:
London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 8:16 pm
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I stick to green. Just look at the color of Lloyd Green's green LDG and all the beautiful sounds he cranked out of that thing.
Need I say more? |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 10:03 pm
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| They just look like they sound better! |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 10:28 pm
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Jimmy Day's BLUE DARLING sure did sound good to me.But doubt if the colar had anything to do with it,it was ALL Jimmy.DYKBC.
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Mickey Adams
From:
Bandera Texas
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 10:35 pm Dark
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Most black guitars are very dark sounding...Blue guitars are generally very sad sounding. Red guitars are the hottest...Green guitars....havent matured yet...pink guitars, sound feminine... Grey guitars sound very mature...Grey and black sound mature with childish overtones....Wheres this going?......LOL..Cherry...Ok Cherry...Burgundy????? Maple...Sweet?....
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 14 Jan 2008 11:00 pm
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| They just look like they sound better! |
I think Clyde nailed it. |
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