Common mistake #1:
The Reverb is obvious

My opinion:
If your non-playing spouse can tell the reverb is on, its too strong; set it on 1 or 2--that's enough. Exceptions: when Reverb is "the effect": surf music, ambient/new age,...

Any other tone mistakes you've seen "in action?"

all am matter of opinion, it all depends on if you are going for that effect. like for a nice slow soft intro or long tail off. there is a Kings of Leon song " cold Desert" that is quite nice with tones of guitar re-verb.
to me the biggest tone mistake made today is to much Excessive squealing gain. no tone there just buzzz chug chug buzz but if that's the sound you want than its useful.

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Mistaking OD/distortion for tone.

Bablooga nails it ....

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

+2

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......it's a topsy-turvy world when noses run and feet smell...

+3.

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Gary

that's kinda what I said just not put so simply

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I'm a repeat offender of the reverb rule as stated here. I just love it.

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Like all f/x reverb has its place.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

In my opinion, the more reverb the better. I also rarely play without delay activated.

Signed,

The Edge.

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'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

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+1

I have a few friends that don't know their amp has a clean channel.

Turning everything to ten then complaining the pickups sound muddy.

Cutting the mids way back on you amp. You'll never cut a mix like that. Metal guys are the biggest offenders.

Using way too many effects.

Using way too many effects together all the time.

Not utilizing the tone and volume controls on your guitar.

Thinking a Wah pedal sounds great in every song.

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Don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang! You know, when and were appropriate. Which is "almost always" for some of us. I'd say having a piercing treble is the worst tone mistake, the difference between being heard and being hurtful.

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I'm twanged if I do, twanged if I don't