Well, lets see,,,, there has been discussion about internal damping charachteristics, plate ring, differences between hard /soft -- sharp / round -- thin / wide termination points.... to name a view of the issues that have been thrown around. What gets me is that absolutly none of the factories are willing to give you any real hard data about the different types of plates.. Fred Sturm wrote: > jolly roger wrote: > > Acoustically it may be noted that > > companies using the V Pro process, will also sand cast the plates of their > > premium models. Draw you own conclusions. > > > > Roger. > > Roger, > This really puzzles me. As far as I can see, the only acoustic function > of a plate is to provide good termination where there is a capo (leaving > aside design considerations like angles of deflection). Other than that, > it's function is purely structural. I can't see where minor changes in > composition would have an acoustic affect on anything other than > termination. Do you? Might the reason they sand cast premium models be > the fact they don't need enough of them to be worth the enormous set up > expense for v pro? (My understanding is v pro is less expensive > somewhat, but only with high volumes.) > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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