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Originally Posted by ZeroSignal
EXACTLY!  Gilbert, Vai, Satriani and Petrucci ALL still use basswood. Go figure. |
Gilbert owns so many guitars that you can't pin him to any one wood. Steve Vai absolutely lives on one Jem almost always, dubbed Evo, that is alder. The early Satch stuff was cut with alder and ash bodied Kramers and ESPs, and even now, the guitars he plays most are mahogany.
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Originally Posted by ZeroSignal
Yeah ok we were getting bogged down in OT crap. Still I find that basswood is tighter than mahogany. That's just me.
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Basswood in a death metal band just makes me laugh. The wood is all mids, which makes it just collapse under low, fast riffs and high gain levels. Now, in all fairness, I think the mahogany neck and body with a rosewood fretboard this is also wrong for this style, since the lower midrange rumble and oily rosewood dampening the highs also makes the sound collapse. I would want a maple neck and ebony or maple fretboard, just about any wings if it is neck through, or alder or ash if it a bolt or set neck. You mentioned that Fear Factory doesn't work for you on a COW7, but you have to remember that COW had a 7-string Soloist with a maple neck, and Dino had a Marshall that would make anything sound awesome.
We may disagree on wood choices, but even you have to admit that application dictates what you should be looking for in a guitar,