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What Tone Do You Strive For?
62strat
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WNOw all of us musicians (excluding me, i consider myself a guitarist) havent quite achieved musician status..anyways, what do you all strive for with tone? who? what kind? what do you do to get there? you obsessed as i? does it change every day, discuss...or entertain me!
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hmm.. i generally want something that helps my lead cut through and then a sound that helps get it warm during rhythm parts... i've had a hard time with my jazzy wah sound but that's more a combination problem with my amp and shitty pedal...
so i dunno if that touches on tone etc... but it's the furthest i've thought about it...
I'm currently out of a job, once i do find one i'll be shopping for a new guitar and wah pedal to complement my Fender Deluxe amp... i'm moving away from the Boss ME-30 multi-effects.. it's sucking a fair bit!
tone = sound for me... i think we are all continually searching for that right sound for our soul-playin!
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That's when people were saying "clapton is god"
listen to the studio version of 'hallelujah'.
i used to have a mesa blue angel beside my fender deluxe reverb. kind of a mini scale version of buckley's trem-o-verbs and fender heads.
i live in the neck pickup of my telecaster.
the rest of my thing is greg keelor from blue rodeo. i love his tone.
i also like gary louris' (jayhawks) sound. pretty much just an SG into a fuzzface into a deluxe reverb.
not that i can replicate any of these sounds, but i like them.
This week, fingers on acoustic guitar strings. Still my favorite.
Last week, Tube glowing, window popping, mesa boogie on 7.5, coming from a humbucking bridge pickup. Oh so fun!
Dan-alive and exhausted, I love my fender deluxe. Such a great amp. I love a strat or a g&l legacy-like affair through that one, but every guitar sounds so great in that. I usually play out with that and my little Boogie together.
Man am I going to get reamed on this one, but I have to know why "Clapton.
Does Clapton have his "own" tone? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely worship Clapton because he makes me pull out my bass and jam along. Its like being there, especially when I listen to him unplugged. Yet I get that same feeling when I listen to Bonnie Rait and blues done before him.
That being said, I still do not fine his tone or style "his".
No reaming here, it's ok
well, the reason I like that particular tone, is that it's just Pure,,,,for lack of any better words, "Magic" to me,,,,,, hm. . He is probably the first one to crank the amp up like that and just rip with his guitar and amp and nothing else. That amp said on the back " caution, turn down volume if distortion occurs". That was pre Hendrix and Jimmy Page and Cream and all. All the sudden, everyone scrambled for Marshall amps . It's not organic like acoustic, but I love playing like that with no effects, challenging the tubes and getting overtones.
Then paying for new tubes : (
I don't think he owns the tone, he just used it to kick up rock guitar a notch.
Ahem, Maybe it's just cause I remember it when the album came out.
His tone changed to fit the place and music he was playing later on. AAAAhhhhhh whaaado I know.
I love Bonnie Raitts tone. Funny you mentioned that!
I'm thinking tone as by actual sound of the instrument. Maybe you're thinking the general feeling of the music ?
Now,,,,,,,,,,,, I really really really really have to go!
Chameleon, excellant analogy of Clapton's works. He's in there, it just gets lost sometimes, maybe that is what make him standout among his peers.
Pulls the dragger out of your heart and puts on a Coldplay song.
I, too, was referring to the actual quality of the sound of his guitar. The feel of the music in general makes me pick up my bass and play along.
Go where you have to go. This is, hopefully, always tomorrow.
But his skills does not permit him to be a sideman. Therefore, in that aspect when you say "his" it opens the door of "really".
I do agree with rob that Clapton did take blues to a whole different level and made it into acceptable rock. He just makes it hard to find him in his music, or I should say "his" tone.
Yeah, I remember that now
Some people say yes, some people say no. Oh so long ago, and the drugs were great back then. The people that say yes seem to always be the ones who sell the clones . I've got one of those old rangemasters. Man, if I tried to play on that record, They would've kicked me out for two reasons,
1. cause I suck
2. that pedal is the noisiest thing I own! Someone said he pulled the thing out because of the noise.
Maybe he didn't pull it out and that's why he turned up the amp! and the tone was born!
The old Rangemasters used germanium transistors too if you get off just a little it makes all kinds of noise. But if you get a really good one or a really good fuzz face they make this magical tone (when combined with obvious unreal guitar talent Hendrix/Clapton etc.) Talent I will most likely never possess.
Either way there are so many tones I strive for. I love so many sounds.
One of my favorites is the sound of an amps power tubes being over driven like so many of the old blues greats have done. Think of SRV or more specifically the Allman Brothers, more recently older Black Crows.
Basically I like hundreds of different tones but as of now I just have my cute little Orange and it is a lovely example of what Class A british amps are supposed to sound like.
I'm really hoping some day to also get a classic middle 60's Fender Amp or Late 50's Tweed.
I still have some of those old pedals, it's weird, because they literally work one day, sound different the next. And I think I have 3 or 4 old fuzzfaces none of them sound the same!
I've got this great "selmer" treble 'n bass amp from the 50's with simulated crocodile skin. It has the same general circuitry as the old marshalls and fender bassmans ( bassmen?). I'll tell you, that thing is the greatest , and if you look for them you can pick'm up fairly reasonably compared to 65 fenders. they're 50 watts though. That thing is actually like the old bluesbreakers sound. ( Only when Eric Clapton is over for a couple of beers and playing it though. ) yeah, right!