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Post by Austin on Sept 15, 2013 5:16:16 GMT
What is it with modern rock bands and the curse of the Generic Guitar Tone. I swear every single band that has started in the 2000's, excluding a few select bands, has the same guitar tone? Is it lack of creativity?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2013 11:11:36 GMT
It's what sells. Plus, most non-guitarist don't give two shits about a 'good' guitar tone.
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Post by SirTrashBeard on Sept 15, 2013 15:41:03 GMT
There's three amps bands like you speak of are using. A Dual Rectifier, a 5150, or a JCM 900. That narrows down the sounds you can get. Then even more so by using the same extreme V EQ settings of cutting out all the damn mids. And then the producers don't help by further exaggerating that by compressing the whole mix to oblivion and using the same mic placements for every band they record.
And it's just a lack of creative vision.
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Post by Samb1011 on Sept 15, 2013 17:03:32 GMT
Well most modern bands don't have the luxury of having a ground breaking sound they can have. Most tones have been used so they revert back to the basic BS that sells CDs
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Post by fillmorenyc on Sept 16, 2013 11:18:35 GMT
There's three amps bands like you speak of are using. A Dual Rectifier, a 5150, or a JCM 900. That narrows down the sounds you can get. Then even more so by using the same extreme V EQ settings of cutting out all the damn mids. And then the producers don't help by further exaggerating that by compressing the whole mix to oblivion and using the same mic placements for every band they record. And it's just a lack of creative vision. Yep... ^^thats^^ it. One of the bigger reasons for that is also availability. If the amp goes out, a run to any Sam Ash or GC will have a replacement amp, and therefore a replacement (generic) tone. In a performance environment, I've always felt that was the same reason you see so many Ibanez solidbodies, or Takamine acoustics... they get the job done well enough, and are available all over the world should a player lose/break/give away one. |
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Post by knucklebut on Sept 10, 2014 17:29:42 GMT
Guitarists need to remember TONE is derived from your fingers...I would think you would buy the amp that is in tha ballpark of what yer looking for...it's NOT the amps fault if yer TONE sucks....PRACTICE ....when I grew up I was POOR... I could not even afford a amp of any kind...my first good guitar was a PROTO type the paul..1976 if I remember correctly...and at..just over a $1.00 an hour AND buying on payments..took a long time to own it..point is... I propped my guitars headstock up agonist the 60's wall panel...BAM...TONE I thought I was the shit...just a thought for you young guitar players.
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