Sixstring
Legend!
So I got into the dreaded "tone is in your fingers" debate the other day with a fellow guitar player. Good lord how this can it be such a divided issue.
I'm of the camp that tone is primarily a function of EQ and not so much your hands, though I will admit how you play (technique or style) can affect tone to a degree!
We went back and forth with the same examples of if Eddie plays through a gorilla amp bla bla bla, for a few minutes on the subject to which I finished off with ok so let's take out all the bass and midrange in your amp and let's see how the tone in your fingers will make your guitar cut better in a mix? to which I got a blank stare with a change of subject!
I just smiled and said that tone is just an over generalized use of the word in the guitar world and the person that came up with the term probably had a little too much to smoke.
I'm of the camp that tone is primarily a function of EQ and not so much your hands, though I will admit how you play (technique or style) can affect tone to a degree!
We went back and forth with the same examples of if Eddie plays through a gorilla amp bla bla bla, for a few minutes on the subject to which I finished off with ok so let's take out all the bass and midrange in your amp and let's see how the tone in your fingers will make your guitar cut better in a mix? to which I got a blank stare with a change of subject!
I just smiled and said that tone is just an over generalized use of the word in the guitar world and the person that came up with the term probably had a little too much to smoke.