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Old 12-15-2007, 08:13 PM
Jeff M Jeff M is offline
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Originally Posted by darkburnout00 View Post
oh wow, I did miss all of that...

It's just that my taylor used to have a high saddle on it, and I recently had it shaved down just a bit (professionally set up). It had HUGE implications on the tone and volume of the guitar, literally... it sounds like a COMPLETELY different guitar, i have it recorded both with a lower and higher saddle and the sound is immensely different. The higher saddle gave me this rich even texture that just jumped out of the guitar (beautiful), while the lower saddle gave me a much more treble sound that wasn't very interesting (killed alot of the volume to).


I just thought that tone/volume and action were exclusive...
I think, and our pro builders may disagree here with me, that if you are lowering the action on a guitar already built, you often do diminish volume and tone. How much really depends on the guitar, guitar builder, saddle heigth, neck angle.
If getting a very well built instrument by somebody like a custom builder, they know how to build them to allow low action without compromising volume and tone.
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