Seriously, no joke.

[Demanic]

What is the fascination with, how shall I put it, smooth, creamy, round, buttery, thick tones?
I mean, I just don't get it. Jangly, twangy, cutting, percussive, raunchy, sizzling, searing.
That I get.
What is it that I'm missing?

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[Mincer]

It is just a different sound. I don't like everything being the same. One of the joys of playing guitar is that guitarists like vastly different things. It would suck if we were just an echo chamber reinforcing what we all commonly like. Then we might as well be a bunch of Russian ballet instructors.

 

[ICTGoober]

You are missing that it's a big world, and lots of tastes and tolerances. I like variety, don't you? It's like a big buffet of sound, and not everyone just wants to eat pepperoni pizza. Or else you're just rigid in your thinking and enjoy limits within certain limits.

 

[AlexR]

Do you think that you are required to get other people's likes......or that other people can only like the things you do??


Just take it as an instructional on the wide variety of life, and your very small part in it.

 

[Demanic]

It is just a different sound. I don't like everything being the same. One of the joys of playing guitar is that guitarists like vastly different things. It would suck if we were just an echo chamber reinforcing what we all commonly like. Then we might as well be a bunch of Russian ballet instructors.

Well, ballet is quite an undertaking. I can't even imagine the discipline necessary. And I studied classical guitar when I was a kid.

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[Demanic]

You are missing that it's a big world, and lots of tastes and tolerances. I like variety, don't you? It's like a big buffet of sound, and not everyone just wants to eat pepperoni pizza. Or else you're just rigid in your thinking and enjoy limits within certain limits.

Haven't you ever seen me post that "if everyone did the same thing, life would be intolerably boring".
I'm literally trying to understand what appeal is.

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[Demanic]

Do you think that you are required to get other people's likes......or that other people can only like the things you do??


Just take it as an instructional on the wide variety of life, and your very small part in it.

I'm not required. I just want to understand.
And I have never required anyone to like what I want. Why would I? How would that help me?

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[Clint 55]

What is the fascination with, how shall I put it, smooth, creamy, round, buttery, thick tones?

I recently converted 5 of my 6 guitars to just that lmao. Jangly, twangy, cutting, percussive, raunchy, sizzling, searing <-- Tired of all that. I'm only gonna focus on jazz because I'm a jazzer. You don't like the fat tones because you're a metalhead. However, my guitars have 2 neck pickups with the option to blend each other in in series. So I can choose between bitey, fat, or in between, and I'm not locked into only 1 sound.

 

[Demanic]

I recently converted 5 of my 6 guitars to just that lmao. Jangly, twangy, cutting, percussive, raunchy, sizzling, searing <-- Tired of all that. I'm only gonna focus on jazz because I'm a jazzer. You don't like the fat tones because you're a metalhead. However, my guitars have 2 neck pickups with the option to blend each other in in series. So I can choose between bitey, fat, or in between, and I'm not locked into only 1 sound.

Careful, right down the rabbit hole you may go

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[Clint 55]

Mud hole? Slimy? My home this is!

 

[Artie]

I gotta admit, it's my favorite sound. But it does depend on what I'm playing. It is fun to turn on the dirt too. But primarily, I love when I can find a pup with that sweet, harmonically rich complexity to let the pup do the work.

Wes Montgomery is probably my main favorite guitarist.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

I recently converted 5 of my 6 guitars to just that lmao. Jangly, twangy, cutting, percussive, raunchy, sizzling, searing <-- Tired of all that. I'm only gonna focus on jazz because I'm a jazzer. You don't like the fat tones because you're a metalhead. However, my guitars have 2 neck pickups with the option to blend each other in in series. So I can choose between bitey, fat, or in between, and I'm not locked into only 1 sound.

Screw you, metal players DO play with fat tones. For starters, listen to the solo on 'Sanitarium'. And I haven't played solos with bridge pickup for like forever.

By the way, I really love how you present yourself as 'high almighty' cause you are a 'jazzer', and we are just your humble metalhead servants. Noice...lol....

 

[Lewguitar]

I love jangle and twang! I play a lot of acoustic guitar too.

Love the jangley sounds of bands like the Who, Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, the Byrds, Tom Petty, etc.

Those bands all combine acoustic and electric sounds.

A lot of jazz and a lot of classical bores the heck out of me.

And a lot of it I love.

I could say the same thing about every style...including blues and rock.

But I don't like being pummeled by loud, metallic, raunchy, sizzling sound.

My ears don't like it either. It's destructive to them. And over time, it's been proven to be destructive to the ears of the people making that sound too.

 

[weepingminotaur]

I like all kinds of sounds, but all other things being equal, I admit I do tend more toward cutting / bite / sizzle rather than fat / round / smooth. Having said that, things are rarely equal. If we're talking metal or rock rhythm, I need bite and cut. Metal or rock solo could be either depending on what type of solo it is. Blues and funk, for sure I need the bite. But for a lot of pop and obviously jazz, I want to skew more to the warm, round, and mellow tones.

I don't, by the way, think there is anything intrinsically wrong with any tone, or that tone magically represents an age bracket. What one person finds angsty and juvenile, another might find refreshing and incisive. What one person finds mellow and mature, another might find complacent, bland, and sterile.

To the OP's question -- and I took it to be a legitimate question, not a form of judgment -- I gravitate to warm / round / mellow tones when I'm melancholy, or contemplative. I'll never go full Jim Hall, but the smoothness of that type of tone -- its enveloping quality, the way you can lose yourself or be wrapped in sound like velvet -- is certainly appealing to me in the right mood.

 

[Demanic]

Thanks for the replies. It is a legitimate question. I have been reading people's comments for years and I am trying to understand the appeal of something that I personally don't usually like. Some of it has to do with hearing, but even when I was a kid, I preferred bright with a lot of attack. One of my favorite guitarists growing up was Andy Summers. I loved that bright clean guitar sound dripping with chorus.

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[Artie]

One of my favorite guitarists growing up was Andy Summers. I loved that bright clean guitar sound dripping with chorus.

Me too. I always saw him as a young man. But dang, if he isn't a decade older than me. Love his licks.

 

[Mincer]

There is lotsa sounds I like. it really depends on the part. I tend to like mids more than anything for my own music, but I don't do the 'buttery blues soloing' thing, though.

 

[Artie]

. . . but I don't do the 'buttery blues soloing' thing, though.

Maybe I need to come down to Tampa and take lessons. "Cause that's about all I do.

It was late in life that I really started to appreciate AC/DC. In fact, I think it was the "Iron Man" soundtrack that revitalized my interest in that basic, grindy rock-'n-roll.

 

[solspirit]

I can't speak for anyone else but for me it's a change in taste and just mellowing with age.

 

[Mincer]

Maybe I need to come down to Tampa and take lessons. "Cause that's about all I do.

It was late in life that I really started to appreciate AC/DC. In fact, I think it was the "Iron Man" soundtrack that revitalized my interest in that basic, grindy rock-'n-roll.

Well, there is nothing wrong with that. I love listening to it, but it isn't something I personally play. My playing is more like the buttery version of John McLaughlin- lots of faster scales stuff, picking every note, with melodies in there.