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Originally Posted by Dawgrit
I thought resonance and sustain were about the same. What’s the difference?
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In colloquial usage, many words are used subjectively to mean whatever you want them to mean.
In science, words have very specific definitions. Resonance and sustain are examples of that. They refer to entirely different phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustain
If you are using your palm to mute strings, it sounds like you are looking for a guitar with little sustain, quick decay. A "punchy" - which means whatever you want it to - sound could be one with a quick onset. Together, you are describing a guitar with "immediacy" of sound (fast onset transient) whose sound is of short duration (decays quickly). Trying to find a specific sound that you hear in your head based upon other people's subjective use of words to describe what they hear isn't likely to be very successful.