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About the sound
This page is a one to one voice comparison of our chrome woodentop and a '98 Les Paul '59 reissue. All samples were captured using the same electronics. Specifically, a Duncan Model '59 wired to a 500k volume pot, a 500k tone pot, a capacitor and switch in the usual fashion. The pickup was placed 2 and 1/2" from the bridge for each. All of this was connected directly to the mixing board by a 10' cable. The strings were new sets of 10 gage DR's. The results show graphically and audibly the difference between the wood of the Paul and the aluminum of the Bergeron.
In the illustrations below, the upper graph shows the Bergeron Aluminum, and the lower graph shows the Les Paul. The first peak from the left is the fundamental note. The second is the octave above it. The third peak from the left is the fifth above the octave. In the case of D, this will be A. The fourth peak is the second octave, and so on. As you can see, the Bergeron is louder at all of the higher harmonics.
What all of this means is that the Bergeron aluminum neck is being driven into sympathetic resonance with the string much more readily than the wooden neck. The result is that the timbre of the Bergeron's voice is louder and more spread out over the audible spectrum making it sound unmistakably bigger, clearer, and more well defined.
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