Have no fear, check out Django Reinhardt.OMG!
I have wimpy hands!
I'm doomed!
I remember watching a Leon vid where he was tweaking a recto model.
I used a PRS SC 250 and followed his tweaks (not his notes ;-)). It sounded very close.
With a same preset, different guitars give different results.
And sorry, I've never bought or experienced the notion that the "tone", using the same rig and settings, changes when played by different players. Joe Schmoe and John Petrucci playing an open E chord, simple rhythm progression or riff would sound tonally different? Don't think so. Lack of proficiency, technique and control of the instrument compared to someone like John Petrucci would be quite evident but saying that somehow the tone changes, is "in the fingers", doesn't even make sense. If that were true, there would be no value in watching videos or listening to clips by endorsed players when researching gear because it would never sound the same when we used it.
Not what I'm saying. Using your analogy of the crap strat through a Marshall on ten, if both you and EVH played through it, you would both sound the same. Your level of expertise will determine if what you play actually sounds good but the core tone would be the same.If what you say were true, then I could assemble myself a crap strat, and play it through a Marshall on ten and sound like EVH right away.
Both electric guitars and tube amps are "interactive". They don't need to "recognize and adjust", they just respond differently to different stimuli.By that definition, an inanimate object is able to recognize and adjust to the input its given.
Not what I'm saying. Using your analogy of the crap strat through a Marshall on ten, if both you and EVH played through it, you would both sound the same. Your level of expertise will determine if what you play actually sounds good but the core tone would be the same.
It seems that musicality or proficiency on the instrument is part of most of your definitions of tone, not simply the sound generated by the gear. By that definition, an inanimate object is able to recognize and adjust to the input its given.
hmm. an inanimate object is inanimate. that doesn't mean it can't have qualities that are variable depending on how you interact with it.an inanimate object is able to recognize and adjust to the input its given.
Yeah I wouldn't include Pantera either. Nor the Awake album by Dream Theater.Probably not James Hetfield in the 80s though