Gamedojo
Power User
You're overestimating my audience.
LOL! THIS!
I still remember a rather professional player giving me advice on playing live early in my career on stage. "If you fuck up, don't show it on stage, no one listening knows or cares but they will know AND care if you act like you messed up on stage"
Audiences, ESPECIALLY PLAYING COVER MUSIC, hear VERY little detail when hearing a band. They are usually hearing the recorded tune in their head while they listen.
Not to mention, about 99.99999% of all people in an audience are only hearing/listening to the vocals.
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With that said, our strive for better and better sounding Modeling tones isn't about the audience. Never really was. Its about how we feel about our tone and how fun it is to play with great tones. It comes down to expressing ourselves, and the better we sound to ourselves, the easier this is.