Rosewood vs Maple - Clips + Poll

[Psycho Ward]

I have hearing damage, fretboard choice to me is a color issue. On a dark stage I prefer a roeswood board so the contrast between my white fingers and a dark board helps me see where I'm at. In daylight I like a maple board...


As far as sound goes between the two, there are knobs for that.

 

[Golem]

Sorry, Golem! I honestly thought you were being fecetious in your post, since it came just 3 short posts after Phatty revealed the answer. I thought you were pulling our leg(s)! No offense intended.

Cool. That's just the way these forums display stuff. You answer the question in post #1, your reply posts at the very tail end of the thing, which by chance is 3 posts, or 2 hours, or whatever, *after* the question is resolved.

A while ago I tried setting my display to reverse order [latest post shows first] but it drove me nuts, going backward through various hijacks, OTs, tangental sub threads, etc. Sorry I misread your meaning.

 

[fulda]

The difference between the two is negligible to me. If I were just throwing something out there, I would have to say that #1 sounded a tiny bit brighter than #2.

But I've always been a proponent of the difference between rosewood and maple boards being so minute that either could be eq'ed to get the sound you want.

I aggree completely. When you think of it, although maple vs rosewood do have different sounds, I have always preferred rosewood, as it seems to be a stronger laminate to the neck. But with an "active" bass, it really does not, IMO, make any sense, other than an astectic one, because you can "dial in" a bright or dull tone by the turn of a knob. Now, on a passive bass, the different fingerboard woods would make a bigger difference.

Try using "driftwood" as the fingerboard. That should give you a dry tone.