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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:54 am
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Take your amp and play the notes b e f g a g clean. Now if it's solid state push in the overdrive button like even cheap amps have (I've got one myself) or if it's a tube dial up the gain using the volume knob to juice the preamp tubes. Now play the same thing. The notes haven't changed. You're still playing those notes. The tone has changed. Apologies to Fender, Kinman on his website does a great job of explaining what tone is. He's got charts and stuff. Like, you play the note on one pickup, like a single coil on an alder Strat, and it's complex with its own characteristic variations in the sound. You play the note on a humbucker on a mahogany guitar, and the characteristics of the sound on the charts are totally different. Kinman did a lot of research to try to create vintage sound in hum-cancelling pickups. Personally, I prefer Custom Shop real single coils with the hum cancelling mid pickup for the real sound. That's what I've got. Kinman's site is educational though.

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Post subject: Re: Question about tone
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:00 am
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RudyH wrote:
I checked a bunch of back issues of "Guitar Player" magazine out at the library and there is one thread that runs through them like a mantra: "tone". Phrases are like "after the repair my tone changed", "this piece of equipment gives me my distinct tone".

What is tone, as it applies to its popular usage among guitar players? Why is there such a mania about it?

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One of my favorite topics and a most propitious time for this question to have been posted. Assigned reading is to be the June 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine.

Form your own opinions and share them here if you care to. The 'feedback' will be interesting.

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 10:14 am
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And tone has flavour as well.

Just as five people can eat the same dish at the same restaurant in the same hour, some might well wildly like / actively dislike / savour / get indigestion from / be ambivalent to it...

...so with fave tone? How be dat happen?

Different genetic / acquired settings on our 'tone taste buds'?


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