Template:Guitar tone factors

How important tonewood is in the grand scheme of things
Factor Considerations
The player Attack
Picking style (pick or fingers)
Type of pick
Right-hand dampening
Left-hand vibrato
Instrument Fixed or floating bridge
Tremolo type
Glued or bolted neck
Nut composition
Bridge composition
String gauge
String age
Electronics Potentiometers
Capacitors
Resistors
Pickups: Single-coil/P90/humbucking[1]
Cavity shielding
Length of cable to the amplifier
Stomp-boxes Distortion
Compression
Modulation
Delay
Reverb
Equalisation
Amplification Type: Tube/transisitor/digitial
Class: Class A/B/A-B
Power: 15w-100w
Preamp settings
Power amp settings
Tone settings
Speaker cabinet Open- or closed-back
Speaker size
Speaker configuration
Post-amp signal processing Compression
Delay
Reverb
Equalisation
Public address system Mixing
Foldback
Volume
The band What instruments
What they play
How loud they play
Position relative to guitar amp
Room Size
Acoustic properties
Natural reverberation
How many people are in it
Ambient noise
  1. for the love of all that is holy let us not get onto the topic of polepiece construction and ageing of copper wire