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With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
To me its wide open pushed amp, where the top end starts to roll off and sound sweeter, and when you hit a string you can see the harmonics coming out of the speaker like little butterflies.....
The bassist Guy Pratt once said a difficulty when recording sessions was being asked things like 'can you make your sound more zooshy?' His response was 'yeah, hang on, I'll turn up the zoosh knob'. I'm paraphrasing, it was a number of years ago I read it, but that was the gist.
Thing is, Pratt was talking about singers asking him things like this - you would expect a bit of leeway for a musician who didn't play an amplified instrument and have to spend hours tweaking knobs to get their tone. As for the rest of us, dunno - maybe we should produce a 'guitarist's thesaurus'.
Dirt - distortion
Chewy - compression
Unforgiving - an amplifier that I'm not used to
Bit of hair - ...I'm lost on this one. I think it's one down from 'dirt' and one up from 'chewy'.
A tone you can squash into, not harsh and hard.
This.
I too find it very difficult to describe a guitar sound using words that are not in the slightest bit germane to the job.
Having said that, I forget where I saw it but someone described a sound as 'having that umlaut' you need for full bore metal. And I knew exactly what he meant.
Could have been this...
In which case I may have slightly exaggerated the bore of the metal in question...
The problem as stated before is that nobody can agree what the terms mean. Case in point that Burn clip is very distorted but described as cleanish.. So if we can't agree on what overdrive means any term using food, bath accessories or redemption isn't going to be effective.