Tone Seekers - Your Personal Best Tone
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The best tone I've never owned was a Charvel So Cal straight into a multi watt Dual Rec at the Rock Shop. Was also a big fan of a Blackout loaded Charvel DS into the Orange TH30 via a Cathedral reverb.
Favourite fun tone was an octave down preset on the Line 6 HD100 head I had. Sounded huuuuge.
Favourite fun tone was an octave down preset on the Line 6 HD100 head I had. Sounded huuuuge.
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I have a 1974x kit in my garage that I need to get around to wiring up. Thanks for the reminder...jimi wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:27 pm I was very happy with my tone yesterday... My LP standard, neck pickup (Burstbucker Pros), Boss OD1x for a bit of extra gain and grit, and into RobRoyMcCoy's special little Bellbird. soft and squishy, sustain for days. Good tone = a great jam.
The other one that sticks in my mind is ES-335 (57 classics) into a 1974x, volume around 2, so a bit of crunch happening, with a little bit of extra drive from a klon clone (Bondi Sick As). Thick and compressed, edge of breakup and endless sustain. Definitely my happy place.
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I think I’m happiest with my current setup:
‘67 Gretsch 6120 -> Surfy Bear Spring Reverb -> Bogner Duende
I’ve had some great tones over the years though-
Robin Savoy -> Greenstone Bellverb 5 was pretty epic
Radian Paulownia Tele -> Custom Tremolux built by Ryan was another winning combo. I’m currently getting reacquainted with that amp and am loving it paired with my Gretsch too.
‘67 Gretsch 6120 -> Surfy Bear Spring Reverb -> Bogner Duende
I’ve had some great tones over the years though-
Robin Savoy -> Greenstone Bellverb 5 was pretty epic
Radian Paulownia Tele -> Custom Tremolux built by Ryan was another winning combo. I’m currently getting reacquainted with that amp and am loving it paired with my Gretsch too.
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Les Paul into 65 Tupelo
Gretsch into Princeton
Those two sounds are really all I need. The rest is just nerdy experimentation.
Gretsch into Princeton
Those two sounds are really all I need. The rest is just nerdy experimentation.
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Just recent, 52 AVRI tele to revival trem to Boss Katana.
Small amount of delay and reverb on amps Clean setting with Revival Trem set cleanish with trem pulsing away.
I hear bell chimes on the open chords. Very piano like when I play cleanly and don’t get my ham fists in the way.
Small amount of delay and reverb on amps Clean setting with Revival Trem set cleanish with trem pulsing away.
I hear bell chimes on the open chords. Very piano like when I play cleanly and don’t get my ham fists in the way.
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Apart from synths, I wonder if guitar is the instrument with most variation in tones? Some tones that other people chase I can either dislike, think it’s ok for them but not me.
I would guess most other instruments have a much narrower range of tones?
And another thing, electric tones are much more group dependent, so some tones that sound good in isolation don’t work in a band, and some great band tones sound weird isolated.
I would guess most other instruments have a much narrower range of tones?
And another thing, electric tones are much more group dependent, so some tones that sound good in isolation don’t work in a band, and some great band tones sound weird isolated.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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So much this!
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I was/am a big fan of the Scorpions especially the sound of their big 80s stuff, saw them live a few times and they were just as good as on record.
Then I heard Matthias Jabs isolated tones on a rig rundown or deep dive into his live stuff and it's horrible, so trebbly etc. obviously it's just so the lead work sits perfectly above the rhythm bed, but man I wouldn't want that tone when I'm playing on my own! (actually I'd probably take it to be honest )
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Interesting thought... I think you might be right - I don't think there is another instrument that has evolved as many different sounds while maintaining the same basic form (drummers might argue? But 'drums' are like a mini-ensemble, right?)
I'm not sure if that is anything to do with the nature of the instrument as opposed to cultural timing? Guitar's popularity coincided with electrification, and I'd dare say guitarists exploited early electrification more effectively than other instruments (it needed it more for one thing). I could imagine that if electric fiddling had really taken off, violins might have evolved a similarly wide palette of tones?
By the time we get to the digital age, the instrument itself matters less - anything can sound like anything...
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It's true, you can even make your Tesla sound like farts.Darth Sabbathi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:13 pmInteresting thought... I think you might be right - I don't think there is another instrument that has evolved as many different sounds while maintaining the same basic form (drummers might argue? But 'drums' are like a mini-ensemble, right?)
I'm not sure if that is anything to do with the nature of the instrument as opposed to cultural timing? Guitar's popularity coincided with electrification, and I'd dare say guitarists exploited early electrification more effectively than other instruments (it needed it more for one thing). I could imagine that if electric fiddling had really taken off, violins might have evolved a similarly wide palette of tones?
By the time we get to the digital age, the instrument itself matters less - anything can sound like anything...
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Aye, t'was glorious!
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Chromes strings with Medium action
Soft hands plucking close to the fingerboard
Diamond Bass Compressor
Sadowsky Preamp
MusicMan Stingray Fretless
Soft hands plucking close to the fingerboard
Diamond Bass Compressor
Sadowsky Preamp
MusicMan Stingray Fretless
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