I just went to a lecture where the lecturer was explaining a way to measure the response of a accoustic guitar with an exciter on the bridge and a method called the exponential sine sweep method.

He was suggesting that you could measure and then replicate a guitars response onto another guitar and using this you could make far more accurate replicas. This could be used to preserve the sounds of old famous guitars.

My question to this community is would consider buying a guitar based on a graph of its frequency response and how that compared to other guitars? Is this valuable research?

  • GNome013
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    11 year ago

    Not necessarily valuable in practice. Much of your town will come from technique/string choice and a sign wave sweep won’t account for that. Also does not take into account recording/micing techniques .

    • @IndependentRangerOP
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      21 year ago

      Agreed. For me this research was cool, but even he acknowledged it didn’t take into account a lot of variables

      • GNome013
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        11 year ago

        Yeah interesting for sure.