Same specs R9 different sound

[Dorrus]

I swapped the Burstbuckers in My 2007 R9 for WCR pickups because the sound with the stock pickups where too harsh - treble and thin to my taste. The WCR's were a very good solution.
Last week I bought me a used 2010 R9, all original and again with burstbucker 1 and 2 pickups. But this les paul doen't need a pickup swap, the sound is huge fat and balanced with the stock burstbuckers.
I know from experience that one tree is nothing like the other, and that there can be differences in the same guitar type, but I did not expect that the difference could be so big ?
Is it possible that the 2007 burstbuckers are not the same as the 2010 ones?

 

[Tim Plains]

Guitars are made out of wood, wood varies.

 

[Señor Verde]

My R8 and R7 sound very different from each other, enough so that I have completely different pickups in each to get them sounding a bit more similar. It can be fun and frustrating.

 

[bluesky636]

My R8 and R7 sound very different from each other, enough so that I have completely different pickups in each to get them sounding a bit more similar. It can be fun and frustrating.

Why would you want two different guitars to sound similar. It is highly unlikely that vintage 57s and 58s sounded similar so why shouldn't an R7 and R8 sound different from each other?

 

[Wizard1183]

Why would you want two different guitars to sound similar. It is highly unlikely that vintage 57s and 58s sounded similar so why shouldn't an R7 and R8 sound different from each other?

they sound very similar. But no 2 guitars sound the same.

 

[bluesky636]

they sound very similar. But no 2 guitars sound the same.

My question was directed at Senor Verde.

 

[Dorrus]

Why would you want two different guitars to sound similar. It is highly unlikely that vintage 57s and 58s sounded similar so why shouldn't an R7 and R8 sound different from each other?

Obviously, the wood of one guitar is not that of another. But the fact that two guitars with the same specifications and the same type of wood can differ so much in tone surprised me. For that reason I wondered whether there might be a difference not only due to the wood, but due to differences in the burstbuckers of different years.
I leave one guitar at home and the other in the rehearsal room so that I can also go to rehearsals by motorcycle

 

[c_wester]

I have had Les Pauls that sounded vildly differently.
The neck wood is a frequenzy filter and grown.
They all sound different.

 

[Standard Magic]

Are you able to upload audio examples? I'd be interested to hear, it's an interesting topic.

 

[c_wester]

Are you able to upload audio examples? I'd be interested to hear, it's an interesting topic.

It is also a feel thing. You really should experience it yourself.

I had a R7 that sounded like a great 50s Les Paul.
It was angry woody with all the harmonics you could wish for.
But the 12 fret on the Gstring was dead.

And also somewhat after the 12 fret.
And I can adjust a guitar.

Sold it when my OCD took over.
But that thing sounded like a Demon high on Owsley`s finest with a attitude.

 

[Dorrus]

Are you able to upload audio examples? I'd be interested to hear, it's an interesting topic.

No, not in a easy way, I swapped the burstbuckers in my 2007 R9 for wcr Godwoods and sold the stock pickups. My 2010 is all original and the sound is oke, ( except for some flubby low) end and I want to keep it that way, without soldering or something

 

[1allspub]

Every guitar is unique. No two sound the exact same, and many are significantly different… even if built in the same year with the same specs.

 

[jb_abides]

Every guitar is unique. No two sound the exact same, and many are significantly different… even if built in the same year with the same specs.

+1

Black blood of the earth!

 

[Subliminal lanimilbuS]

I swapped the Burstbuckers in My 2007 R9 for WCR pickups because the sound with the stock pickups where too harsh - treble and thin to my taste. The WCR's were a very good solution.
Last week I bought me a used 2010 R9, all original and again with burstbucker 1 and 2 pickups. But this les paul doen't need a pickup swap, the sound is huge fat and balanced with the stock burstbuckers.
I know from experience that one tree is nothing like the other, and that there can be differences in the same guitar type, but I did not expect that the difference could be so big ?
Is it possible that the 2007 burstbuckers are not the same as the 2010 ones?

Could be a timeline or batch pickup thing. I have a 2011 that the stock burstbuckers sound great in. Have had other year guitars that I didn't like the stock pickups in. I even tried one of those pickups in another guitar with the same results.