General Tone Tips

[Marinblues]

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If you have a tube amp, let it warm up.

[Guitarist]

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A GOOD guitarist can make anything sound GOOD.

[IcedEarth112]

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hahaha gotta love the stupid replies you give everything

but yeah im still down with the sticky idea, hehe, anyone?

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Tone is over-rated! A good musician can make a toy guitar sing.

[big_black]

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Don't Be Afraid To Use Your Tone Knob!

[IcedEarth112]

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this topic should be sticky... that way all the new peopl can read it too, its quite helpful

[bungalowbill]

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If you pick hard on a tube amp it will "dirty up", if you do it on a transistor amp it might get louder. If you roll back your volume on a dirty tube amp it will "clean up", or in other words tube amps have the correct "feel".

In the immortal words of Cub Koda....." Never give a roadie anything of value, I have a box of toothpicks at home that use to be a Les Paul."

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ALWAYS TUNE YOUR TIMPANI!!!

[Animal]

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-NEVER SCOOP YOUR MIDS!!!

That's only dependent on the type of gear a person has.

[Imp]

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the bridge pickup is a fickle freind. the other pickups are just as useful!

something that sounds wicked at bedroom levels probably wont at gig levels. scooped mids being the number 1 culprit

[Rotten Guitar String]

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-NEVER SCOOP YOUR MIDS!!!

-For an amp to have twice the volume, it needs 10x the wattage (eg. a 50w amp will be twice as loud as a 5w)

-Single-coils buzz (unless they're noiseless ones) and have a thinner sound

-Humbuckers buck the hum (no buzz) and have a big fat tone

[Rainmaker]

Little pearls of wisdom tone wisdom that you might want to share with others.

I'm going to post a few obvious ones for beginners, you continue on and get into the better stuff.

• Because the high and low frequencies are dominated by other instruments in a band, you should fill the mid frequencies for best cut.

• Tube amps generally sound louder and better than Solid State amps.Single coils are good for clean, with chimey, bell-like tones.

• Humbuckers, on the other hand, is the raunchier, crunchier pickup.

• Marshalls give you British tones with it's EL-34 tubes, Mesa gives you American tones with it's 6l6 tubes

Many of these statements happen to be generalizations but if you guys jump in and post your own we could all learn a little something. Thanks!