Tone in fingers

Dave_Mc · September 2013

ICBM said:

This is also one of those things that's both true and not true. Obviously, you won't make a Fender Twin sound like a Dual Rectifier with any guitar - although you can get closer than you might think if you're prepared to risk hearing damage and just crank the thing to the max - but it's amazing how the tone of the guitar can still be heard even through massive amounts of distortion if you actually listen to the *tone* not the sound... I demonstrated this to someone the other day with a Rickenbacker and a Boss Metal Zone pedal - with the gain dimed and the EQ set to "teenage bedroom metal", you could quite clearly still hear the chime of the Rick and it was obviously different from a generic humbucker guitar which I compared it to. They did both sound like a Boss Metal Zone though .

Agreed.

I think the big problem is there's a fine line between simplifying explanations to make them easier to understand, and oversimplifying.

Also a lot of the "tone is mostly in the amp" thing has possibly arisen because so many guitarists seem to ignore the amp, and it's sort of a backlash against that.

randomhandclaps said:

Dave_Mc said:

A minor? A5 surely? )

Nice work CBBC >:D<
Precisely! Mind you, having heard his stuff A5 probably was stretching his chordal knowledge.

Yeah he does seem to play a lot of lead

) The bigger problem, though, is how no-one at CBBC checked it before making the video. It's a pretty easy thing to check.