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I only wonder why Mayer didn't swing his guitar on his back when he grabbed the other one.
Take 3 players and get them to play the same acoustic guitar and they will get (perhaps slightly, perhaps very) different tones. I see this all the time in bluegrass and old time picking sessions. So in principle tone certainly CAN be in the fingers (or more accurately in the technique and physical interface between player and instrument...it's more than just the fingers), but when you have a signal chain at play, how much real world difference that can make is a different matter.
In the example it looks like he plays two Strats though the same signal chain so it shouldn't be any surprise that the sound is much the same. After all, to some extent all guitars sound similar (ie they don't sound like a pipe organ or a tambourine).
Exactly! An LP and a Strat and [insert third guitar] do sound different to me, but they sound like different guitars. They are more alike than they are different.
Personally I separate it into player tone and gear tone (and even that's probably an oversimplification).
The other thing is, some things are only really apparent to the player- for example, I might struggle more to play something on one guitar than on another, but unless I'm struggling so bad that I can't play it, the audience won't notice that I need to lie down ) EDIT: ^ ninja'd
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Sporky's points are compelling. If we take 100 guitars and line them up on a tone spectrum (by ear) we all know that the MasterBuilt Custom Shop Strat will be occupying the same space as the Squire Stratocaster. But that does not mean that a pickup change in a Les Paul is pointless even if they both low output PAF types. The differences may only be noticable at certain amp settings, at particular sweet spots, with particular playing techniques. In other words they would only be noticed by the player who would need to be an Obsessive who is Concentrating.
I am an Obsessive. And I am Concentrating.
This statement is both as valid and as invalid as tone being in the fingers...
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