swervedriver wrote:This should help: http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/scale ... explained/
guitarnoise.com wrote:All this falls into the category of “tone.” Why doesn’t a PRS Custom 22 sound exactly like a Les Paul? They both incorporate dual humbuckers and a solid body, so they should sound the same, right? However, the PRS has a longer scale length and, therefore, a tighter, somewhat brighter, sound. Shorter scale guitars, though, tout that beautiful buttery tone which make Les Pauls and Jazz boxes such invaluable tools.
This guy's able to hear the quarter-inch difference in scale? Wow, respect.
Anecdata time: I own two, according to common knowledge, very different sounding guitars. One's 24,75" mahogany lespauly thing with a fixed bridge and a second, 25,5" alder superstrat one. Out of curiosity recorded one next to the other to find these striking differences. And, well, only ones I've found were in the signal strength - superstrat one has the hotter pickups, which was audible while using clean tone, but completely un-recognizable with littlest bit of overdrive. Aside of that, they were sounding the same to me. Sure I was using digital ampsims, but somehow I doubt the situation's very different with real amps.
(also, playing guitar gives you cancer)





