cornfedgroove
Well-known member
Ok, I've done the search and came up empty, and as long as I've been here I dont recall this topic. I'm sure its been done.
I find myself contemplating tone bars...I cant say that I understand their purpose. I've done a little google searching but its always forums talking about the "hows" rather than the "whys". I'm just looking for some tone bar theory. Here's what got me thinking:
I made that mandolin and it seemed to have resonated almost "too much". You figure 8 strings crushing a bridge into a small cigar box lid...makes sense. Granted, it was better than a $100 mandolin (brings me little satisfaction since they are crap)...it was not better than a $500. I need to rein in and focus the resonation a bit, to clean it up...I had considered dampening it somehow, then it hit me that THAT might be what tone bars kinda do. Help me out and throw me some basic 'what and why' for tone bars. Am I off base?
I find myself contemplating tone bars...I cant say that I understand their purpose. I've done a little google searching but its always forums talking about the "hows" rather than the "whys". I'm just looking for some tone bar theory. Here's what got me thinking:
I made that mandolin and it seemed to have resonated almost "too much". You figure 8 strings crushing a bridge into a small cigar box lid...makes sense. Granted, it was better than a $100 mandolin (brings me little satisfaction since they are crap)...it was not better than a $500. I need to rein in and focus the resonation a bit, to clean it up...I had considered dampening it somehow, then it hit me that THAT might be what tone bars kinda do. Help me out and throw me some basic 'what and why' for tone bars. Am I off base?