Rosewood v. Maple Fretboards

In your opinion, which one looks better? Is one more comfortable?

I like maple just because I only have rosewood gear. My rosewood fretboards are all nice, dark pieces though. Wood grain is very nice.

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purely cosmetic question, man.

The correct answer is Ebony.

actually, that is true. ebony fretboards are really nice but a lot of the guitars that come with them are too... metal-y.

Custom is King. Don't let someone else dictate what product you get. In the least, find a model that the company cared enough about to install higher end parts and woods.

i personally don't feel it makes a difference tone wise maybe to some people with super human hearing, but to me its cosmetic

i love the look of a rosewood board because i really dig fenders 60's style so anything except black or blonde for me should get rosewood fretboard and for basses, p bass=maple, jazz bass=rosewood unless said jazz bass is the american elite in mystic black with a block inlay maple neck then, id do a lot of things to get that bass but i can't justify 2000 dollars on a bass when when I'm not even in a band and just play jam sessions and at church

Ahhh but blake, when you worship God, you should give him your best. We don't want any Cain's up in heeyuh! I think your best would be an American Elite ;)

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You want to say a lot of things right now, but you don't want to go on a rant and explode on people, eh?

lol, I'm thinking a used mim jazz bass sounds pretty good

I've seen a few ash deluxe going for under 400

if i wind up playing bass in a band then ill get one, its almost perfect i just wish it was only passive vs passive active, idk why i just don't care for active pick ups the music i play and listen to doesn't really need the added sustain of them

unless you are me and you can afford a stable of a dozen first rate guitars? its a non-issue

even at my level of guitar acquisition I cannot generalize... I own rosewood, finished maple, kingwood, and ebony across my collection and theres no generalized tone even unplugged, Every other factor has more tonal impact.

I have always enjoyed active over passive, but recently I have had to use my Carvin, which is active/passive, but has a fried active preamp, making it passive. At church, the boards cannot handle the boost from a high end active preamp while playing through my board. It's just too powerful. This last Sunday, the sound guys were going nuts because they couldn't figure out how to turn me down in the house PA. They said they had me all the way down but I was still concert level. They ended up tuning out all the signal they could and it ended up making my bass nearly not there.

we've been making improvements to our sound system and our bassist is running a lakeland skyline 44-01 ad it sounds amazing just not my flavor but we've never had that issue ours is more getting our eq in the monitors down

All of these horror stories of musicians playing in church bands. I am not trying to start a fight here and am NOT making this at all about religion and WILL NOT tolerate attempts to make this a religious conversation. I know you have beliefs... good for you, proud of you and glad you made that decision, but a church band is there because the church need Background music. Start a band. Play to be heard. Churches may as well run a karaoke track for the amount they appreciate a band. Sure, I know, you do it for love etc etc, but playing music is one of the greater creatives. You should be able to write and express yourself, talk to and with your audience and have them come to venues and see you play. Ever broken a sweat at a regular church gig? Ever had someone scream out a request or had a crowd cheer after a song you wrote? Way off OP, just sad hearing all these stories of people buying gear with the intention of it being played so low that it is barely heard, with sound guys complaining when it is.

Haha, my sound guy means well, but he can act like a complete ass when there's no reason to be. Anytime something goes wrong, he's pretty quick to blame someone and get angry before he has all the facts. Hell, he got pissed when someone put a case close to a rack monitor, saying it "broke the cables" or something like that. None of the cables are broken, though.

He's also really odd in mixing... He has the lead guitarist ridiculously loud and the rhythm guitarist almost dead quiet. Acoustic is usually sitting a bit small in the mix if it's a good day. What I'm amazed about is that he has the first piano at a good level and the second piano (usually strings) incredibly loud. So much so that it's annoying as hell when it's quiet. I swear, if I learn piano and I get placed as second piano, I plan on using the volume knob that keyboard has. Bass is always perfect, though. Super rumbly, very good. Everything else is good.

I'm pretty sure he hates everyone, though. Everyone in the band is slowly noticing this too, but we can't really do much.

+1 Terry

Haha, my sound guy means well, but he can act like a complete ass when there's no reason to be. Anytime something goes wrong, he's pretty quick to blame someone and get angry before he has all the facts. Hell, he got pissed when someone put a case close to a rack monitor, saying it "broke the cables" or something like that. None of the cables are broken, though.

hows jesus feel about his baditude? I've worked 6 figure and higher sessions where time is money and seen no attitude in similar situations, there was no attitude when shit went bad on th warped tour when I was a monitor mixer.... your sound guy is not a Christian... or a human. I'm gonna fight him... but I'll let him live... and I'll fix your FOH! but I make 35 USD an hour just to get started. If you're goodat something never do it for free!

his problem is napoleon syndrome. he doesn't know what the fuck he;s doing and doesn't want to own up to it, but its easier to give you all shit an maintain the image of his mixerliness in his mind than works with you guys and own up to being an amateur and a dick!.... aparently god is not reaching out to him to help him be a bigger person in the grand JC tradition.... because god.... well whatever.

For fuck's sake, yes, please.

sad hearing all these stories of people buying gear with the intention of it being played so low that it is barely heard, with sound guys complaining when it is.

THIS

Okay, let me explain something that I think might be the reason for this: Many P&W musicians preach humility when going on the stage. I think it's one of many great things that should be taught even to any musician in general. It's fun to go up and shred it out, but don't forget that you have an audience too.

That being said, I think my sound guy thinks he's the only audience.

I've never met a P&W soundman with humility They all think they're a miniature god. And I used to moderate prosoundweb, praise and worship HQ!

serve the music and the people who make the music and you serve the bulk of the congregation and god.... if he exists or wahtever

All of these horror stories of musicians playing in church bands. I am not trying to start a fight here and am NOT making this at all about religion and WILL NOT tolerate attempts to make this a religious conversation. I know you have beliefs... good for you, proud of you and glad you made that decision, but a church band is there because the church need Background music. Start a band. Play to be heard. Churches may as well run a karaoke track for the amount they appreciate a band. Sure, I know, you do it for love etc etc, but playing music is one of the greater creatives. You should be able to write and express yourself, talk to and with your audience and have them come to venues and see you play. Ever broken a sweat at a regular church gig? Ever had someone scream out a request or had a crowd cheer after a song you wrote? Way off OP, just sad hearing all these stories of people buying gear with the intention of it being played so low that it is barely heard, with sound guys complaining when it is.

A worship band is their to worship their God and to lead worship for the whole church body. When we need background music, after or before services, we do play a track through the PA.

At our church, we DO write our own material often. Generally out of each service, we get four songs played and one of them is an original. We also talk to and pray with our audience. A lot of modern churches do this.

We also get requests, but not usually while we play. People ask us to play songs they've heard off the radio more often because they know we will play our originals each service anyway. Generally, the song selection is also tied with what the message/preaching/sermon/whatever is for the day. For example, we have a few original songs written based on the book of Joshua. When the pastor is going through this book, we will play these originals more so because it helps link the worship service to the rest of the services.

You seemed to get really defensive over the mentioning of how people are gigging. We weren't sharing our beliefs in the slightest. This reaction was a bit much. If you replaced the word church with bar, it would not have changed the content at all. :/