Re: 80s Hard Rock/glam Metal Tone
My opinion on 80s hard rock bands sounding mostly the same?
Gear-wise I can definitely say there was a lot of similarities... back then it wasn't like today with
50 billion different distortion stomps (to say nothing of the other stomp categories). They were
limited with their gear options (I know - I played in the 80s).
However (and here it is again), these guitarists' (Lynch, DeMartini, Campbell etc) own unique style of playing coupled with some variances in gear
and most importantly, the studio guys doing their thing - put their own signatures on the tones.
So, one could say in a very very generalized way, "their tones are similar" as far as being hi-gain, hot-humbucker Marshallesque, but that's where
the similarities end.
My opinion on 80s hard rock bands sounding mostly the same?
Gear-wise I can definitely say there was a lot of similarities... back then it wasn't like today with
50 billion different distortion stomps (to say nothing of the other stomp categories). They were
limited with their gear options (I know - I played in the 80s).
However (and here it is again), these guitarists' (Lynch, DeMartini, Campbell etc) own unique style of playing coupled with some variances in gear
and most importantly, the studio guys doing their thing - put their own signatures on the tones.
So, one could say in a very very generalized way, "their tones are similar" as far as being hi-gain, hot-humbucker Marshallesque, but that's where
the similarities end.
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