Part I Cover and Tribute Bands
As 6.0 nears I wanted to give my thoughts (ramblings) and talk to my colleague Cover/Worship/Tribute band players.
The Skinny
TONE MATCHING
The Tone matching feature is going to be a powerful tool. No doubt. To have that exact tone is freakin cool, but will it work live?
Yes, but you will always have to take in account several factors that effect us all; Guitar-Pickups-fingers etc.
For cover players you will also have to think about P.A - Room - Audience.
and most importantly, you have to ask yourself a question about the Original Tone - Did it suck? Yes? I would stear clear....... garbage in garbage out.
My new personal tone matching rule is easy;
Is the original that good to me? If so then Match the tone (Amp and Tone Match Block)
and THEN mess with the effects (if any) later, keep it bare bones and simple.
THE AMPS
As I was jamming on one particular "Tone Matched" cover , my personal preferences started kicking in, I found myself tweaking (not much mind you) away from the original tone. Why? The Amps have taken another step up and since I have the attention span of cat trapped in a yarn factory, I humbly proclaim (in my man-cave) that my tone is better. YEMV (E= Ears)
Your (6.0) tone choices are astounding so be prepared again with this one main question "Shall I Tone Matcheth? Or not-eth?"
Another tune I have been working on I found a happy middle with the updated amps. I can still maintain an "authentic tone". Very close for not being "tone matched", but absolutely worked live and I love it.
PSYCHE
Right now I am playing more amps in v6 that I really havent played before before. HiWatt!! OMG!!!!!!!! KILLER TONE!!
The Recto+ HBE+CarolAnn have been my main amps for a while. Even more awesome now....
Final Thoughts
Creativity has been sparked with more jammin than before. V.6 is baby batter firmware dudes!!! Make some Patches!!
QUESTIONS? To my fellow Cover/Tribute dudes (& worship dudes)
TONE MATCHING -Will you use this feature live? If you could tone match every tune you play to the original, would you?
If you have some "dialed in" tones that are close enough or better, what has been audience reaction?
If you walked in to your regular gig with v.6 and most of your setlist tone matched, what do you think the audience reaction will be?
Out for now
B
As 6.0 nears I wanted to give my thoughts (ramblings) and talk to my colleague Cover/Worship/Tribute band players.
The Skinny
TONE MATCHING
The Tone matching feature is going to be a powerful tool. No doubt. To have that exact tone is freakin cool, but will it work live?
Yes, but you will always have to take in account several factors that effect us all; Guitar-Pickups-fingers etc.
For cover players you will also have to think about P.A - Room - Audience.
and most importantly, you have to ask yourself a question about the Original Tone - Did it suck? Yes? I would stear clear....... garbage in garbage out.
My new personal tone matching rule is easy;
Is the original that good to me? If so then Match the tone (Amp and Tone Match Block)
and THEN mess with the effects (if any) later, keep it bare bones and simple.
THE AMPS
As I was jamming on one particular "Tone Matched" cover , my personal preferences started kicking in, I found myself tweaking (not much mind you) away from the original tone. Why? The Amps have taken another step up and since I have the attention span of cat trapped in a yarn factory, I humbly proclaim (in my man-cave) that my tone is better. YEMV (E= Ears)
Your (6.0) tone choices are astounding so be prepared again with this one main question "Shall I Tone Matcheth? Or not-eth?"
Another tune I have been working on I found a happy middle with the updated amps. I can still maintain an "authentic tone". Very close for not being "tone matched", but absolutely worked live and I love it.
PSYCHE
Right now I am playing more amps in v6 that I really havent played before before. HiWatt!! OMG!!!!!!!! KILLER TONE!!
The Recto+ HBE+CarolAnn have been my main amps for a while. Even more awesome now....
Final Thoughts
Creativity has been sparked with more jammin than before. V.6 is baby batter firmware dudes!!! Make some Patches!!
QUESTIONS? To my fellow Cover/Tribute dudes (& worship dudes)
TONE MATCHING -Will you use this feature live? If you could tone match every tune you play to the original, would you?
If you have some "dialed in" tones that are close enough or better, what has been audience reaction?
If you walked in to your regular gig with v.6 and most of your setlist tone matched, what do you think the audience reaction will be?
Out for now
B
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