Glassy Clean Test

[unix-guy]

To me this has always been the litmus test of glassy cleans:

Satch definitely had his own thing going for cleans (and other) guitar tones on that album. I like listening to it, but would never use those clean tones myself.

I guess there are many definitions of "glassy" clean tones. I prefer mine a bit more "rounded" (like a tube) vs sharp (like a glass pane).

But that is one of my all time favorite albums.

 

[Admin M@]

Thats GOTTA be a Rockman.

 

[ChristThePhone]

Sounds to me like DI, compressor, and EQ. Similar to what Vai did back then.

 

[unix-guy]

Thats GOTTA be a Rockman.

The clean? I don't remember my Rockman sounding anything like that... But that was also a long time ago, in a land with far less taste and experience

 

[GM Arts]

Interesting how when we use words like "glassy", "air", "spanky", etc to describe tone, how they mean different things to different people. The glassy tones is this thread have a fast, hard attack with little sustain. To me, "glassy" means "chimey" with lots of sustain, but even that description will mean different things to different people