[the_local_host]

If you ever get the chance, try putting together a strat with one of those cheap paulownia bodies and compare it to.. well, anything else that is exactly the same except for the body material. To me, the difference is glaring; the paulownia is so treble-heavy it's intolerable.

[jolux]

By what principle does it make it more treble-heavy? This is the part that I haven't had explained to me and I don't understand it. I have a basswood Mustang and it sounds fine with decent humbuckers in it.

[2muchcoffeeman]

Is it as simple as that though?

Ideally you’d have the same care put into making the “cheap” body. So that we can isolate the difference to just the material.