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If this is appealing to you, check out this guy who ran a much more systematic set of experiments on even more sacred and sensitive targets:

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk

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Interesting tests. As a musician myself, you run into no end of snobbery on equipment as if your instrument was made of magical timber.

I do have 2 identical Warwick FNA Jazzman 5s, and bizarrely they do not sound the same at all, so there's some effect from the material? But the most affect is from the strings themselves (steels vs nickels). The most important thing is how they feel to play (in addition to not sounding like mud).

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