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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:01 pm
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guitarvulture wrote:
In my opinion, the more pedals you add, the lousier the tone. All the effects take away from the pure tube sound.



i guess david gilmour's tone really sucks huh?

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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:35 pm
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Nevin1985 wrote:
My biggest mistake early on was thinking that bigger was better. You can get an awesome tone out of a small amp (and sometimes better) than a big cranked stack.

What you really need to do is listen to what your amp sounds like at the microphone level. Your big amp might sound good from across the room, but if you listen to it at mic level it is not the same. Hard to explain.

If you like classic rock and blues you pretty much need a cranked tube amp. Solid state is great for cleans and amazing for certain types of music. If I was a funk player I wouldn't mind having a solid state. Or jazz, some jazz.



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i did fantastic with my tone in the 80's. my amp of choice was a peavey bandit SS.
that was a solidstate amp made for hard rock and metal i swear it. my tone was amazing IMO. i even had my carvin tube stacks and still liked my bandits. they worked for me ya know. thing is, i wasnt after a tube tone. i wanted raunch and my bandits allowed me that.

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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:46 pm
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way cool jr wrote:
i guess david gilmour's tone really sucks huh?


Order me drawn and quartered if you like but DG's tone always sounds over-processed and artificially-enhanced to me.

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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:49 pm
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way cool jr wrote:
i guess david gilmour's tone really sucks huh?


Order me drawn and quartered if you like but DG's tone always sounds over-processed and artificially-enhanced to me.

JMO

Arjay


+1...just can't beat a good maple neck strat and a tweed champ for that Clapton Layla tone...now if I could just get the playing part down :lol:

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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 7:41 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
way cool jr wrote:
i guess david gilmour's tone really sucks huh?


Order me drawn and quartered if you like but DG's tone always sounds over-processed and artificially-enhanced to me.

JMO

Arjay



i'll meet you half way my friend and say i think it depends on the song. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: In search of the right tone...
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 3:00 am
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i aint that big on tone. all i want is a real twangy raw sound.

kinda like steve albini's shellac era tone, but not excatly that.

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