Members mbengs1 Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 No real amps, pedals, etc, just multi.fx. would the guitar world be a different place? i think the great players would still shine in those circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Not sure quite where you are going with "No real amps" ?? but here's my stab at the question, sorry if I misunderstand.The electric guitar is to the guitar what the synthesizer is to the piano. Basically same fretboard interface but is a completely different animal.A Piano just is but there are Rhodes, Korg, Hammond and Church organs which lose that connection after the keyboard. They are different instruments. So it is with electric guitar.I think is was an "electrified acoustic" for about 8 minutes after its invention then it became 100 different things in the hands of 100 different people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Do you mean no tube amps or pedals? If so, multi-fx's have got to the point of being competitive so it's a non issue. Regardless, a real player will always shine no matter what interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tall Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Well the 9V battery market would drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 I don't really get the premise here. We'd lose some well known (and well loved) sounds without certain amps and pedals but overall, pretty much nothing changes. Which guitarists' main contributions to music depended on any of these things? Apologies if I missed the point - as I said, I don't really get the premise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Mark knopfler has recorded and performed live with many different instruments and amp rigs. He always sounds like Mark Knopfler, even on an acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 I don't really get the premise here. We'd lose some well known (and well loved) sounds without certain amps and pedals but overall, pretty much nothing changes. Which guitarists' main contributions to music depended on any of these things? Apologies if I missed the point - as I said, I don't really get the premise It would be like going from vinyl to mp3. Sort of , kind of ,mostly the same but just something missing. Sure there would be talented people who would excel in this but we would loose what we once loved. It's called change, embrace change and move on or resist change (like me ) and get left behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members speakerjones Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 It is kind of a strange premise. If tube amps and individual pedals had never existed, the multi-fx devices would have nothing to model their sounds after. Early PA systems would not have supported loud blaring guitars going through them. The technology would not have been in place for the early pioneers of rock guitar to push the boundaries of the instrument. So would we not have had electrified guitar until the late 70's (or whenever the first multi-fx came about)? I'd say that would have changed the game. If, on the other hand, you went with the idea that individual pedals and tube amps were to disappear today, I'd say you'd have a lot of pissed off guitar players on your hands. Sure great players would still play great, and probably sound just fine. Still, part of the journey in being an electric guitar player is putting together that rig that gives you the sound that's in your head. The amp and (for some) pedalboard are not just appliances, but part of the whole instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 The above said I have spent the last six month intentionally practicing with a clean mono amp and no reverb.It has stopped me getting sloppy and when I do plug into a full kit now it feels like a universe opening up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Yup. No practice like clean practice for technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floyd Rosenbomb Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 What if all the hot women of the world wanted to have my baby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 What if all the hot women of the world wanted to have my baby? Then you would wake up and discovere that it was just a dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floyd Rosenbomb Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Then you would wake up and discovere that it was just a dream This then is the correct answer for the OP. /thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 Not quite, Chordite legal services are here with a sheaf of paternity suits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 This then is the correct answer for the OP. /thread. Not necessarily,teechnologhy has forced me to make changes in other areas of life that I had sworn never to change. I once swore I would always use cash but now I've adapted to plastic so completely that the "new money" looks strange to me. I once loved getting my hands dirty hopping up cars and swore I always would . But now we just plug in a laptop change a few codes and it's done. New technology can force change whether we like it or not. It's not so hard to imagine a day when it's no longer practicle for anyone to manufacture vacuum tubes.at least not affordably priced .The enviro-nazis may determine that vacuum tubes use too much electricity and ban the sale,as they have been doing with incadecent light bulbs. Who knows ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted August 24, 2014 Members Share Posted August 24, 2014 I went all digital in 1997, but I bought some VHT ( Fryette) Valvulators to give my ones and zeros ( Digitech RP-1 and RP-12) some analog warmth and now it has stomp box / organic tube tone.My Digitech 2112 guitar effects processor has two 12AX7 tubes to bring my tone to life. With my Control One pedal board , I enjoy 100 different amp simulation of all my favorite amps, for any particular style on music I'm playing. Tubes will always be in a guitarists arsenal !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted August 25, 2014 Members Share Posted August 25, 2014 I have 3 words for this thread: Axe F X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbengs1 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2014 I mean only cheap multi effects. nothing above $700 lol I use really cheap multi effects and i'm satisfied with it. but my tone isnt that great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted August 25, 2014 Members Share Posted August 25, 2014 You can always get a 31 band eq, parametric eq, a sonic maximizer and noise reduction units to improve your sound .... even on a shoe string budget. It's all about knowing where to apply those aforementioned devices is the key to getting a good world class sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steve_man Posted August 26, 2014 Members Share Posted August 26, 2014 I'll keep my POD HD500... does everything I need it to do, and is a LOT easier to carry around than my old amps. Tube amps are cool, but I can live without them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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