adorshki
Reverential Member
Yeah, coffee hadn't kicked in yet, and was probably editing to correct my post while you were composing.Semi-hollow is the term you’re looking for, but otherwise correct.
Yeah, coffee hadn't kicked in yet, and was probably editing to correct my post while you were composing.Semi-hollow is the term you’re looking for, but otherwise correct.
I can hear it in my Betts, solid body with Novak BSDS compared to either of my Starfires. The pickups are not identical but are a lot closer than comparing either of the Starfires to the JS or the Pilot. I figure if I can hear it in both Starfires and not the Betts then it comes from the hollow body.I don't hear it in my Starfire bass vs. my solids.
Picture from the Westerly factory:yes. SF-1,2,3 are fully hollow. SF-4,5,6 are semi hollow.
Remember that everything you hear online is afftected by the player, the strings, the amp, any pedals in use, the room being recorded, the compression, the playback software, and the speakers in use.Regarding the Stranglehold solo tone, I am not meaning the distortion of the tone, just the "voice" of the instrument. A wood-vibrating-thin-panel sound I don;t hear outta solid bodies. At the 6:07 point. Not the vibrato technique but the voice sounds hollow. Hard to describe. I'm not really a Nugent fan just like that solo.
I have listened to Guild semi, holla, and s-100 videos. I don;t know that I could tell which was being played if I was blindfolded. The only one that stood out to me was an Aristocrat that sounded like a very mellow and soft attack. However, I don;t think it is that noticeable to me to warrant a semi or hollow over a solid body. I would probably hear better by playing in person.
That's one way of putting it, I think. I'm not positive of the exact physics, but it's just something from experience. I think it's one of the reasons you can get away with a wooden, or slightly less compensated bridge on an archtop. Notes don't sound as 'out.' But a solidbody requires a sharply defined and compensated bridge to work well. Something like a traditional telecaster with a 3-saddle bridge requires (sub)conscious fingering changes to keep chords from sounding sour.So a solid body will have the most defined fundamental and the further toward hollow you go you get a more scattered, vaguer sounding fundamental, would you say?
After some thought, I suspect that it has to do with the vibration of the top ever so slightly altering the string length - a sort of minuscule vibrato. The stiffer the bracing, the less deflection there is, the tighter the note.I'm not positive of the exact physics
This.I'd definitely recommend playing them side by side with the same rig.
Any reason beside hope to expect those finishes any time soon?Thanks for the info, y’all.
NS S-100 I think.
Just need to decide if I want to wait for a future walnut or natural finish or get a current cherry. Course vendors are empty now, so I got time to mull it over.
That's a pure "don't offend anyone, don't promise anything, but keep hope alive" marketing response.I emailed Guild today asking if different colors are coming in 2021 for the S-100 and if they are gonna do JSII basses and they said :
"We may do some more colors of the S-100 some time in the future, so be sure to keep an eye out! As far as your request about the JS bass, I'll be sure to forward it to our products team for them to consider.".
Not sure what to make of that answer in regards to hope for new S-100 colors. Seems one could read deeply between lines to assume that "may do more" means no and "keep and eye out" means yes. So no way to tell.
As for JSII. Sounds like it ain't gonna happen.
My interpretations only.
Marketing speak designed to neither discourage nor commit.I emailed Guild today asking if different colors are coming in 2021 for the S-100 and if they are gonna do JSII basses and they said :
"We may do some more colors of the S-100 some time in the future, so be sure to keep an eye out! As far as your request about the JS bass, I'll be sure to forward it to our products team for them to consider.".
Not sure what to make of that answer in regards to hope for new S-100 colors. Seems one could read deeply between lines to assume that "may do more" means no and "keep and eye out" means yes. So no way to tell.
As for JSII. Sounds like it ain't gonna happen.
My interpretations only.