Ok well checking in this morning it seems the Game of Toanz seems to have kind of blown up a little bit.
Really, I just wanted to steer the conversation into a playing/demonstrative/tonal direction, and have some harmless testosteroney fun with it. Headache has the right idea with his video submission, and I can safely predict say that is going to rocket him up like a bullet when I re-evaluate and re-score everyone this weekend, it might place him in position to challenge inside top 12
Remember where tone lives, fellas. And how best to extract and wield it. Sure, some of it is your precious signal chain, maybe up to 50%, the rest? You need to focus, reach down and, pull it out of.... of... somewhere.
Iron1, needs mention here. He's finally broke the top 25 with that Red Winter thing. Particularly the first twenty seconds or so, then all the rest? Well the drums were good but all that heavy production just buried what sounded like a First Act guitar , but I think you're on the right track.
LiveEvil has fortified his position, Guitar Weasel jumps into the fray guns blazing, and slays off a few who were blocking him. He's about ready to pass the gator coyote dude, at least until mr. Wilddoglizard guy resolders his shorting-out guitar cords and lays something new down, that isn't doo-wop type stuff.
Speaking of which... Regarding the ambitios current Tone Gauntlet Challenge for Number 4 position (he dared not take on eSGEe in number 5), I'm hearing a lot of canned stuff from yesteryear.
Brothers and Others, your tone is today. You cannot rest on your laurels from tonal days gone by when you were still young and angry. Your tone has changed since then, and cannot be judged as Current Tone.
Don't dredge up your tonal past and try to pass it off as how you sound right now. Real and True tone is NOW and Fresh, and the TTR community wants to hear it, so they may pass judgement upon you. A little nasty beak-chirping ain't gonna hurt you one bit either. The Game of Toanz is more than making strings oscillate, it's about making the other guy vibrate with fear, anger and envy, as you destroy his ego and claim your place in the Grand Hall of Toanz