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Quick Note Decay - Contributing Factors???
What factors contribute to fairly quick note decay in an acoustic guitar????
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Too thin top or not braced stiff enough? The banjo effect,
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gibson on the headstock.. love em but sustain ain't their bag
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A cheaper guitar and/or old strings.
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Crud built up on the nut/saddle. I gig full time during the summer and gotta give em a good clean occasionally or even new strings will sound slightly dead. Also tight action can be a factor...or even using medium gauge strings when a certain guitar might like lights on it better. These are just my experiences, hope they help.
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"Acoustic guitar" doesn't always mean a round-hole flattop (preferably an OM) with a 1-3/4" neck...
A typical first-tier Big Band-era archtop - not exactly a sustain machine - has a top significantly thicker than a similar-vintage flattop... They were braced to handle a 14-60/15-62 set tuned to concert pitch, often with a wound B string... The unbraced membrane top of a banjo exhibits a more complex vibrational mode than many people realize, as well as comparatively quick decay... There's a more intricate and involved mechanism here - I'm thinking one of the resident luthiers could explain it better, and in less space...
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I think of the tonewoods as having a big impact/influence on note decay
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String tension not being optimal for the top; too much or too little
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As mentioned - very old strings.
Saddle not seated correctly.
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I haven't gigged enough further inland to see a noticeable difference... I do know that the intense humidity in Southeast VA in the summers cuts my string life in half so I normally have to use coated strings (sigh) so they at least last two gigs.
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Doyle Dykes has his guitars optimized for rapid decay. According to Doyle, a relatively shallow body, large sound hole, and maple b/s all help.
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I would think just the opposite. My 000-15 has a light, thin, lightly braced top and rings like a bell. I believe too thick, too heavy bracing and old strings would add up to short decay. I could be wrong, I usually am.
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Overbuilt sound box of thicker plates minus tap tuning, heavy bracing and complete lack of luthiery in the design. I could have just said Gibson.
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RP, were you thinking about your 414 when you posted this, by any chance?
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