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Location: New York City | Hi - The different bracings, X bracing, A bracing, modified X bracing etc. Can anyone explain to me the difference and how it effects the sound? My 1981 Custom Balladeer has an A bracing I'm told. Is this true? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Bracing pattern effects how the top vibrates and thus effects the tone. But what is pleasing to one person may not be pleasing to another so it's hard to say that one particular bracing pattern is superior to all others. It's kinda like strings, everyone likes something different and their isn't one "best" string. Also depends on the specific guitar.
Sorry this doesn't really answer your question. All other things being equal, I'll take a dreadnaught sized guitar with X bracing and dAddario EJ-16 strings. |
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Location: SoCal | It's interesting. In the Ovation book from 1996, Glen Campbell talks about how the tone in a guitar is in the top and it doesn't make any difference what the side and back are made of.
In the latest (spring) copy of the Fretboard Journal, Paul Reed Smith makes that exact same observation (talking about building acoustic guitars), with the stipulation that the back and sides have to be compatible with the top, but that the tone comes out of the top.
That being said, Toby is right in that your ears are the final judge of what "sounds best". Everybody here has a different opinion..... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Everybody here has a different opinion..... I disagree. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Well I DO agree.
(and Welcome 2-bits) |
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bracings on the 70's & early 80's Ovations
