Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Wolf notes, midi

A bit of context to better understanding wolf tones. Building a guitar lighter, including reducing bracing on the top, but we have found elsewhere as well, makes a guitar more resonant. Blackbird's Modus Operandi is to maximize resonance (which would be our tagline if it didn't sound so nerdy). So we recently lightened the bracing on the Super OM to make it even louder and bring out the bass and mid-frequencies. I am very pleased with the result. This re-bracing and overall increase in resonance also brought out the natural resonant frequencies of the guitar itself. When I play the loudest one, A sharp, it resonants sympathetically with the primary resonant frequency of the guitar (also a sharp)- this is the wolf note. This 'artificially' enhances the resonance of that notes and makes it louder. This is nothing major and in fancy, lightly built boutique guitars, is considered to add character. I can however throw off tracking a hair.

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