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Robert Herndon said:
I'll admit it's subtle, but watching the waveform change was an eye opener.
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I try not to hear with my eyes, if you know what I mean. I even thought one time about removing the markers from the knobs on my amp for that reason - when I am trying to dial in a sound sometimes I will fret or pick differently and get a false positive, y'know. Not saying that's true of anyone else, but sometimes we see and hear what we want and I tend to be really guilty of it myself. When I set my amp as "blind" as possible I am usually surprised by the settings...usually it's be the bass basically off and treble very high, with the mids in, well, the middle.
 
I put together a strat a year ago and am quite happy with how it turned out, it feels good and it sounds good. It can't hold a candle played back to back witj my 1977 stratocaster though. It's fairly dark sounding and I've tried it with a set of vintage voiced alnico V single coils and a set of alnico V lipstick single coils. Dark sounding with both.

I will change the electronics in it, the stuff that's in there now was cannibalized from a Vintage V6 and the pots are pretty bad, too loose and a bit of a ketchup effect.

Pretty happy with the finish though.

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Astral Traveler said:
I put together a strat a year ago and am quite happy with how it turned out, it feels good and it sounds good. It can't hold a candle played back to back witj my 1977 stratocaster though. It's fairly dark sounding and I've tried it with a set of vintage voiced alnico V single coils and a set of alnico V lipstick single coils. Dark sounding with both.

I will change the electronics in it, the stuff that's in there now was cannibalized from a Vintage V6 and the pots are pretty bad, too loose and a bit of a ketchup effect.

Pretty happy with the finish though.

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We had a squire with a similar finish as the one on the right, I had put a dimarzio super distortion in the bridge, but my grandson gave it away 16382DD1-D57C-4D7C-8D08-2B8B54090EC4.jpeg
 
gball said:
I try not to hear with my eyes, if you know what I mean. I even thought one time about removing the markers from the knobs on my amp for that reason - when I am trying to dial in a sound sometimes I will fret or pick differently and get a false positive, y'know. Not saying that's true of anyone else, but sometimes we see and hear what we want and I tend to be really guilty of it myself. When I set my amp as "blind" as possible I am usually surprised by the settings...usually it's be the bass basically off and treble very high, with the mids in, well, the middle.
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In my case, I needed to be able to switch guitars mid-set without moving my EQ's or volume levels, and this accomplished that.

I know that nobody would hear the subtlties in a live mix, but the ability to switch guitars - literally in mid song - and never have to tweak the knobs is something I consider absolutely necessary.

I can switch between 2 Les Paul's, a Schecter, a Jackson and a Hot Rod Strat and never touch the amp.

For me and how I play, that ability is a must-have.
 
Robert Herndon said:
In my case, I needed to be able to switch guitars mid-set without moving my EQ's or volume levels, and this accomplished that.

I know that nobody would hear the subtlties in a live mix, but the ability to switch guitars - literally in mid song - and never have to tweak the knobs is something I consider absolutely necessary.

I can switch between 2 Les Paul's, a Schecter, a Jackson and a Hot Rod Strat and never touch the amp.

For me and how I play, that ability is a must-have.
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That's a nice trick if you can pull it off, so kudos to you. I'm an obsessive knob turner - even when I used to still gig, I'd be constantly changing things through the first few songs to get dialed in. It never sounds the same in a room full of people as it does during the soundcheck with nobody in there. Like I was saying, if I am playing with the band the baseline is generally bass on zero, not interested in trying to compete with the bass player and it gives me a ton of extra headroom, and then find the sweet spot for the high end, which is usually turned up more than I would have thought. But I ride the guitar volumes and tones a lot, so having the extra high end is useful for dynamics.
 
@gball - I also think that many might consider my "signature tone" probably very rudimentary and, as such, very easy to duplicate. When compared to someone like John Mayer, his tones are much more complex, but I am the jackhammer to Mayer's jelwer's hammer.

I could trade places with Joe Bonamassa tomorrow and be depressed by the genre of music he plays. The money wouldn't be enough to pay me to play that stuff, although it takes considerable talent to do it well.

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gball said:
That's a nice trick if you can pull it off, so kudos to you. I'm an obsessive knob turner - even when I used to still gig, I'd be constantly changing things through the first few songs to get dialed in. It never sounds the same in a room full of people as it does during the soundcheck with nobody in there. Like I was saying, if I am playing with the band the baseline is generally bass on zero, not interested in trying to compete with the bass player and it gives me a ton of extra headroom, and then find the sweet spot for the high end, which is usually turned up more than I would have thought. But I ride the guitar volumes and tones a lot, so having the extra high end is useful for dynamics.
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I have discovered that when I don't have to think about anything other than my performance, I play better and with greater accuracy.

I literally headbang like Angus Young while playing "Hard Day's Night," because I am in the zone. I'm not thinking about my tone because I'm playing balls-out with everything maxed, so my entire focus is on the quality of the show I am putting on...same with slinging my Stratocaster around my head...its more about being a showman than an articulate player.

I'm not a "cool looking" guy. In fact, I would say that almost every guitar player I know looks cooler than me, so I rely on the tricks and stage antics.

We are constantly re-booked at venues because of my wild antics...but for me to be able to let myself go into that zone, I need to KNOW that my tone is solid and I gotta be able to hear myself...
 
Robert Herndon said:
@gball - I also think that many might consider my "signature tone" probably very rudimentary and, as such, very easy to duplicate. When compared to someone like John Mayer, his tones are much more complex, but I am the jackhammer to Mayer's jelwer's hammer.

I could trade places with Joe Bonamassa tomorrow and be depressed by the genre of music he plays. The money wouldn't be enough to pay me to play that stuff, although it takes considerable talent to do it well.

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Totally get what you are saying. I definitely don't go tone-chasing. A guy like John Mayer does what he does well but I have no desire to make those kinds of sounds - far too polite for me, I'd rather put a Fuzzface in front of a dimed Marshall, if you know what I mean.

As for Bonamassa, I respect the hell out of his abilities, but I get the same feeling when it comes to his usual white-guy blooze thing: boring as hell and we've all heard it 2 million times. I sure wouldn't mind having his Black Country Communion gig though, that's some serious hard rock there.
 
gball said:
Totally get what you are saying. I definitely don't go tone-chasing. A guy like John Mayer does what he does well but I have no desire to make those kinds of sounds - far too polite for me, I'd rather put a Fuzzface in front of a dimed Marshall, if you know what I mean.

As for Bonamassa, I respect the hell out of his abilities, but I get the same feeling when it comes to his usual white-guy blooze thing: boring as hell and we've all heard it 2 million times. I sure wouldn't mind having his Black Country Communion gig though, that's some serious hard rock there.
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Absolutely!!!!!
 
Robert Herndon said:
I have discovered that when I don't have to think about anything other than my performance, I play better and with greater accuracy.

I literally headbang like Angus Young while playing "Hard Day's Night," because I am in the zone. I'm not thinking about my tone because I'm playing balls-out with everything maxed, so my entire focus is on the quality of the show I am putting on...same with slinging my Stratocaster around my head...its more about being a showman than an articulate player.

I'm not a "cool looking" guy. In fact, I would say that almost every guitar player I know looks cooler than me, so I rely on the tricks and stage antics.

We are constantly re-booked at venues because of my wild antics...but for me to be able to let myself go into that zone, I need to KNOW that my tone is solid and I gotta be able to hear myself...
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I think I'm just too sensitive to the fact that things sound different day-to-day, room-to-room and if I'm not hearing what I need to hear coming out of the speakers/monitors then I can't get in the zone. I mean, the humidity can make things sound different from one day to the next and tube amps can be fickle anyway.
 
gball said:
I think I'm just too sensitive to the fact that things sound different day-to-day, room-to-room and if I'm not hearing what I need to hear coming out of the speakers/monitors then I can't get in the zone. I mean, the humidity can make things sound different from one day to the next and tube amps can be fickle anyway.
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That puzzles me because I never hear a difference on the stage. Maybe it's because I'm a Neanderthal. I literally haven't changed my EQ settings more than twice in 6 months.
 
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