gringopig's guitar quiz: can you ID the guitars?

3 years ago
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I have a suspicion that, when it comes to guitars, we listen with our eyes and not our ears so much.
I always thought it odd that as soon as someone picks up a Fender offset for example, suddenly they are playing all the rinky dinky surfing tunes and when a Les Paul is played it's invariably some 'searing' southern rockâ„¢.

The thing is, you could play jazz on an Explorer, hard rock with a Byrdland (and yes, it's been done) and country with a Jazzmaster (and again, done). It isn't a given that one guitar must play one type of music and nothing else...

So I have stripped it all down. We have 8 guitars. We have one amplifier - a Fender Twin Reverb set to 5 on input 1 of the vibrato channel, a cable and 2 microphones. Each guitar is played without any change to settings and with all volumes and tones set to maximum. A touch of reverb from the amp but no processing or compression was added.

I play one section of chords and go through the pickups from neck to bridge in order for all 8 instruments and then do the same again for a single line phrase. The mathematically inclined will note some anomalies as a head start. There is a random slideshow of all of the guitars too but don't be fooled; it was randomly generated by the encoding program!

Guitars used were:

1. Gibson ES 335
2. Fender Jazzmaster
3. Gibson Les Paul
4. Gretsch
5. SC Relics T-Style
6. Gibson Les Paul Junior
7. Fender Stratocaster
8. Fender Jaguar

The sound samples run from A to H. Match them up with the numbers above as for example:
1 is D etc

Let's see if can rise to the challenge. Answers below in the comments section please!

Visit my website at https://www.gringopig.com/ for more about the test and to submit answers on my website!

I'll have to make a cheat sheet up as you will see it's pretty tricky I think.

Test starts at 01:35

00:00 Intro
00:10 Guitars played listed by number
01:30 Chord Phrase
01:36 Guitar A
02:41 Guitar B
03:44 Guitar C
04:44 Guitar D
06:23 Guitar E
06:45 Guitar F (Note that one pickup combination I used an overdriven version at 07:50 by mistake)
08:11 Guitar G
10:38 Guitar H
11:43 Single note phrase
11:46 Guitar A
12:20 Guitar B
12:54 Guitar C
13:28 Guitar D
14:21 Guitar E
14:33 Guitar F
15:06 Guitar G
16:09 Guitar H

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