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When you play you feel stuff and consequently all your attention is divied-up elsewhere.
A bit like when you're cooking, you don't smell/taste the same as if you walked in and it on the plate.
Sometimes it's depressing as it shows up my lack of skill ;-)
I think having someone else play your gear is nice though, it makes me think and reflect on my playing and gives me new ideas
This is so common in the Home Recording scene. 1000s of posts a year in just the two forums I infest are to do with "why can't I capture THE sound I hear when I am playing?"
Guitarists call it "feel" . As a non-guitarists I call it a "real time feedback loop"!
Dave.
Before I realised this I made a few errors - several times people have come to my house to buy & collect guitars and as they are trying them out I'm left wondering why I'm letting such a beautiful sounding instrument go (@eqlsql )
Tone is in the gear...period. Skill is in the fingers that gets the best out of that tone. If you don't believe me try playing a stock strat through a Fender Blackface and then try using your fingers to make it sound like a Les Paul through a cranked Marshall JCM800 with an SD1 or tube-screamer!
I think a lot of it is psychosomatic, trying to justify spending more money on ourselves.
I recently guested on my friends album using his gear. I still sounded like me, and nothing like him!!
A few years ago now I was doing some recording in pro tools with another band. I'd played the song, but there was one lick that the bass player wanted to show me, he took the guitar off me and continued recording.
Sma eguitar, same everything, he sounded differnet and even the waveform on the screen looked different on his part.
So does letting the plectrum (assuming you use one) flap about more.
Just by playing harder or softer you can change the sound.
I love hearing my stuff played by someone else
Recently this stopped me selling a wonderful, rare guitar - just because I was being an idiot and approaching it like I looked at my other guitars.
Hearing someone else play it, made me realise just what it could sound like without my prejudices - and I appreciate the guitar much more