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Sustain on MM guitars

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I was reading in an italian forum that basswood guitar has lower sustain then mahogany. Is it true?
How do compare MM basswood guitars to other basswood guitar like some ibanez?
 
Tim O'Sullivan said:
I am how they directly compare like for like, but my Basswood EBMM guitars sustain for days!
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Tim....:) you are indeed correct that basswood sustains for days... I remember your good self demonstrating this very fact a good few years ago.... on a FENDER....;) I believe after 1995...!!!!! ah Sunday afternoons... they were great....:cool:
 
gerry d said:
Tim....:) you are indeed correct that basswood sustains for days... I remember your good self demonstrating this very fact a good few years ago.... on a FENDER....;) I believe after 1995...!!!!! ah Sunday afternoons... they were great....:cool:
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Fender?!?!?!? Me?!?! After 1995?!?! You must be joking!!!

And who is this from my past haunting me?!
 
Yes, mahognay sustain a lot, but they are more expensive and heavy than basswood.

ohh, and dont forget, this is due to direct relationt with density.

And MM basswood sustain better than Ibanez guitars 'cuz the bridge is mounted different, and pickups mounted direct can catch better sound.
 
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tommyindelaware said:
if sustain was the only sonic quality the mattered in a guitar ....they would be made of all aluminium or glass or plexi or something.
dig ?????
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I absolutely agree.

Sustain is important up to a point. But if guitar X sustains for one day and guitar Y sustains for 2 days, would you think guitar X sucks because it only has half the sustain of guitar Y?

Or would you accept that it still had much more sustain than you'd ever need and move on to other important aspects?

MM guitars sustain just fine. Better than a lot. Not as good as some I'm sure. But if you can't get enough sustain out of an MM guitar, you're just not trying.
 
i like good sustaining guitar for clean sound. I don't need the most sustaining guitar but i don't want something like my Strato american series
 
Tim O'Sullivan said:
Fender?!?!?!? Me?!?! After 1995?!?! You must be joking!!!

And who is this from my past haunting me?!
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:) an old mate Tim, you had 2 musicmans, and they were beautiful, the strat you played had a famous autograph which would be of interest to all here, as it was to me, all will be revealed soon, is the jam still running on a Sunday afternoon? :cool:
 
I have a mahogany Tele sustains really great - has a nice Lawrence/Duncan config.
There again a swamp ash that weighed next to nothing weighed even less than my AL rang out for days!!
Sonics !!!
 
Sustain? I know little about the other MM guitars, but try out an EVH or an Axis, they have fantastic sustain unplugged! Amplifying it, only makes it better. Truly great sounding, resonant and very full of sustain.

The basswood, maple top combination is great tonewise.
 
gerry d said:
:) an old mate Tim, you had 2 musicmans, and they were beautiful, the strat you played had a famous autograph which would be of interest to all here, as it was to me, all will be revealed soon, is the jam still running on a Sunday afternoon? :cool:
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Well, I have 5 musicmans now and sadly the Strat is gone! I went thorugh a period of extreme poverty, and had to sell it! It was signed by Luke of course, on the back of the headstock.

The jam is still running though I rarely attend these days, though I should as I live in Twickenham now. I was thinking of going this Sunday, just to see what its like these days.
 
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