Put a Strat-style pickup on an SG, or coil-split an SG’s humbucker, and it will sound like an SG with a single-coil pickup, not anything very close to a Fender Stratocaster. Since Gibson largely uses the 24.75" (actually closer to 24.6") and Fender 25.5", we tend to associate these “sounds” with those classic makers. The inherent tonal character of different scale lengths is the main reason that it’s very difficult to “fake” one major maker’s tone with the guitar of another. CHARACTERISTICS OF SCALE LENGTH CANNOT BE TRICKED OR CHEATED Hear all those harmonics popping out? These occur all over your strings, and even when you fret a note they chime in to make up its more complex voice. Try playing one such harmonic on the low- E string at the 5th fret, but instead of just letting it ring, run your finger down slowly from there while picking steadily, still just touching the string lightly.
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