Swiss Frank
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I've owned a bolt-on rosewood SR5 H (humbucker-only) since 2002.
Yesterday I played a neck-through rosewood SR5 (another H) for the first time. It seemed quite good, but it was blown away in my opinion by a bolt-on maple SR5 (an HS, but I'm only talking about the bridge humbucker setting here). I liked the bolt-on maple's fiercer attack.
Which do you think is more likely? That I 1) must prefer the bolt-on sound to neck-through? Or that 2) the maple just has a clearer, more percussive tone than rosewood? Or 3) there's simply enough variation between StingRays that you may strongly prefer the tone of one or the other even if they had the same neck and fingerboard?
Yesterday I played a neck-through rosewood SR5 (another H) for the first time. It seemed quite good, but it was blown away in my opinion by a bolt-on maple SR5 (an HS, but I'm only talking about the bridge humbucker setting here). I liked the bolt-on maple's fiercer attack.
Which do you think is more likely? That I 1) must prefer the bolt-on sound to neck-through? Or that 2) the maple just has a clearer, more percussive tone than rosewood? Or 3) there's simply enough variation between StingRays that you may strongly prefer the tone of one or the other even if they had the same neck and fingerboard?
