The finish on a solid body guitar makes no difference at all in it's sound. It's there to protect the wood and make it look pretty. Nothing more. But I wouldn't call those who buy into the nitro myth idiots. Just eager to be misguided.
Very cool video by the way. The coil tap - coil split - series - parallel comments arn't all that accurate. Ok it's not accurate at all and adding a coil tap to a pickup dosn't change its sound at all when not activated. All you're doing is changing the ground point on the pickup from one point of the coil to another. When not engaged the electrons don't know it's there. Oh, and those Planet Waves tuners are not from 1982 but I can live with that.
I didn't know there was a Victory guitar. Knew about the basses.
Sounds awsome. Great playing and great sounding guitar.
I think that a heavily applied finish can definitely affect the tone (ie, dipped in paint Strats of the 80's) of a solid body guitar. It affects how the wood would resonate so it has an effect. As far as type then I would say not so much. The argument for Nitro is that it allows the wood to "Breathe" (read, dry out more evenly over time affecting tone).
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I think that a heavily applied finish can definitely affect the tone (ie, dipped in paint Strats of the 80's) of a solid body guitar. It affects how the wood would resonate so it has an effect. As far as type then I would say not so much. The argument for Nitro is that it allows the wood to "Breathe" (read, dry out more evenly over time affecting tone).