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Old 09-30-2023, 04:31 PM
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Default What percentage humidity do your guitars sound best?

For me, it’s definitely below the recommended percentage, but I like to live on the edge. What do you prefer?
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Old 09-30-2023, 04:38 PM
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39% RH........
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Old 09-30-2023, 04:58 PM
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For me, it’s definitely below the recommended percentage, but I like to live on the edge. What do you prefer?
Hi Pdubs
I like 35%-40% (where they sound 'best') to me while playing them.




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I rotate the Ramuda thru a Amercan Music Furniture cabinet that I keep at 40-45% Rh.. When not in the Cabinet my guitars live in a 50% AC controlled house . ALL of them seem to me to be at there best at 40-45 %.
But they REALLY ring at 40%.
When winter cold fronts come thru Southwest Florida at 30% RH.... I start to record the miracle sonics.
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I tend to like the sound of mine best around 35% RH, give or take a little either way.
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Old 09-30-2023, 05:54 PM
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35% is a beautiful place for a guitar tonally!
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Old 09-30-2023, 06:42 PM
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My Wingert guitars sound best between 35-40% and my Kramers sound best between 45-50%. But, we are really talking small differences as the guitars sound wonderful pretty much all of the time.
I took one of my rosewood Wingerts to North Carolina in the summer with no air conditioning and inside RE between 90 and 100 the entire week that I was there. I was able to keep my case humidity at about 57-59% but I did notice the tubby sound setting in by week’s end.
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Old 10-01-2023, 05:36 AM
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I cannot tell any tonal difference associated with humidity. That said, when the air begins to dry, out come the humidifiers.
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I wonder if folks like, oh I dunno, Tommy E, Bryan Sutton, David Grier, Molly, etc. lie awake at night on this topic...
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Old 10-01-2023, 06:31 AM
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Yes, guitars sound best right before they crack!
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I don't know, it isn't anything I've ever even thought about.
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I honestly haven't observed any correlation, but if there is, it is trumped by the simple fact that my guitars sound best when I am tuned into them and playing to their strengths.
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They only tend to sound dead at high 60s in south UK
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No idea, it's not really something I've ever investigated the interior of my navel over.
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