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digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:30 pm

Jafo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:40 pm Far better to have a small tone and great songs than great tone and lousy songs!

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:02 am

CapnLockheed wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:02 pm Just another pointless thread that begs the ultimate unanswerable question....."What constitutes a good guitar tone." One man's trash.....

The thread is meant to be about sharing YOUR opinion. Not absolute fact. Just what are some songs you otherwise really like, but find the guitar tones terrible on. You could think a tone a trash and someone else can think it's great. That's ok. It's really more about the dichotomy of how we can really love a song and find one of the guitar tones quite bad at the same time.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:53 am

About half of all B.B. King records.
The man can play, but his amp settings sucked. I blame it on endorsements...

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:37 pm

BertKoor wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:53 am About half of all B.B. King records.
The man can play, but his amp settings sucked. I blame it on endorsements...

Solid state amps are fine for country and jazz. Not Blues

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:48 pm

tapper mike wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:37 pm
BertKoor wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:53 am About half of all B.B. King records.
The man can play, but his amp settings sucked. I blame it on endorsements...
Solid state amps are fine for country and jazz. Not Blues

But the endorsements were paid in green

Does this make a difference ?

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:42 am

Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera, 1991 (same as Metallica Black Album), great songs but weak guitar sound...

jyty · Post by **jyty** » Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:09 pm

Well I actually listened to some The Beatles masters on Tidal, and for some strange reason for a second I focused in guitars only... and the sound really was not that great (those early crappy distortions), can’t exactly remember the song right now... but as a whole the song was still magical!

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:11 pm

jyty wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:09 pm Well I actually listened to some The Beatles masters on Tidal, and for some strange reason for a second I focused in guitars only... and the sound really was not that great (those early crappy distortions), can’t exactly remember the song right now... but as a whole the song was still magical!

As a huge Beatles fan they didn't have great guitar tones IMO. Not until maybe the Abbey Road album at least where suddenly they sounded great. But they're still great guitar songs and riffs. Tone isn't important when the songwriting, performances and arrangements are that good.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:25 pm

the all you need is love tone is great, just doesn't fit that song.
similar sound works great for mudhoney on touch me im sick.

Melkor · Post by **Melkor** » Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:29 pm

Billy Joel - A Matter of Trust

Sounds like a Rockman recorded direct to cassette... probably was!

resynthesis · Post by **resynthesis** » Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:59 pm

Edwyn Collins - Never met a girl solo. Used to hate it but it's grown on me. B&M Champion FTW

Melkor · Post by **Melkor** » Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:54 pm

resynthesis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:59 pm Edwyn Collins - Never met a girl solo. Used to hate it but it's grown on me. B&M Champion FTW

A very particular tone... Fuzz intrigues me greatly.

I normally hate fuzz, but in this song it works really well. All the other instrumentation is really light and smooth, so when the grinding fuzz kicks in, it just works.

Daimonicon · Post by **Daimonicon** » Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:59 am

Horrible guitar tone but a great song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbFydtLF-Y
As a quite well known metal producer said guitar tone doesn't matter that much as you think. And he's right. You can get away with a crap guitar tone on a great song. But if it's a crap song with a crap guitar tone ppl will not be forgiving.

Daimonicon · Post by **Daimonicon** » Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:05 am

So fizzy it hurts the ears. Any guitarist today that want to use a guitar tone like this would slapped be hard on his fingers from the rest of the band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0dMw6O ... sDg65hUTbG

Local Man · Post by **Local Man** » Sun Dec 06, 2020 1:44 am

Petition to rename the first page of this thread “A Journey Through the Land of Dogshit Opinions: Guitar Tone Edition."

Crap Guitar Sounds on Great Songs