Guitarists- Concrete rhythm sound or dabble?
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I think at this stage in my learning about tone and tweaking (and I feel many many people are at a similar stage, even if they don't want to admit it 
), the best thing to do is to get one thing, stick with it, and do the absolute best one can getting it to sound as good as possible, rather than just constantly jumping from setup to setup. Granted, I've been through a couple of amps and cabs, but I really made a valiant effort to work with each one, and now I am in absolute ecstasy with my current setup!
What do you mean by "pres", though? Like guitar pres? Do you run them into a power amp/cab, or into a computer with some sort of power amp/cab simulation?
), the best thing to do is to get one thing, stick with it, and do the absolute best one can getting it to sound as good as possible, rather than just constantly jumping from setup to setup. Granted, I've been through a couple of amps and cabs, but I really made a valiant effort to work with each one, and now I am in absolute ecstasy with my current setup!What do you mean by "pres", though? Like guitar pres? Do you run them into a power amp/cab, or into a computer with some sort of power amp/cab simulation?
MT01
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Fox Mulder
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I'm pretty much at the stage of learning about tone and tweaking. I feel that the biggest mistake people make is not making up their minds about what they really want, and just going through random gear in hopes of finding 'that magic tone'. It's important to make up an image of the tone that you want mentally and work on from their and/or use reference material. If you're an old school guy, you shouldn't bother about plugging in a tubescreamer in front of your amp, and hence the all-mighty chug, and vice versa. Or I could be totally underestimating the tubescreamer by saying this, and not really understanding what it's really capable of - As I said before, I'm still learning.
+1 to what Marcus pointed out. Stick to what you have and work on from there. I know many people who are simply frustrated with their tonal sense just cause they have a tendency of finding faults. Ponder upon this. It's human nature for that to happen. Once you keep on convincing yourself that you're yet to find 'that magic tone', the universe says 'your wish is my command' and thus, you're unsatisfied. I'm sure we've all heard super-expensive productions in which we aren't happy with the guitar tone. In my case, I downright hate the Clayman tone. So yeh, don't try to find faults - and I'm sure you wouldn't find any unless there's some major goof-up. Work from an audience's point of view, not from a producer's point of view. You won't regret it.
Okay, I'll cut the crap.
+1 to what Marcus pointed out. Stick to what you have and work on from there. I know many people who are simply frustrated with their tonal sense just cause they have a tendency of finding faults. Ponder upon this. It's human nature for that to happen. Once you keep on convincing yourself that you're yet to find 'that magic tone', the universe says 'your wish is my command' and thus, you're unsatisfied. I'm sure we've all heard super-expensive productions in which we aren't happy with the guitar tone. In my case, I downright hate the Clayman tone. So yeh, don't try to find faults - and I'm sure you wouldn't find any unless there's some major goof-up. Work from an audience's point of view, not from a producer's point of view. You won't regret it.
Okay, I'll cut the crap.
AdamWathan
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I look for the same tone in every amp I've ever used... I did a shootout of clips with my 5150 and Recto and they sounded almost identical, haha... I know what sound I hear in my head, never changes.
