Members pink freud Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 i'm wierd. i play "cleaner" when playing clean. its only when i add gain do i get all sorts of string interference and noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WillShrdForFood Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 gaInE is tEH sUxx0RZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sled Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 yeah... uh wait no... well maybe... after further thought nope... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LaXu Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 You should be able to play the same things with a clean and a high gain sound. Of course they won't sound the same but the motions are exactly the same. Yet there are many players who become complete hacks when faced with a clean tone. I was one of those players. Then I played lower gain, non-compressed amps for a few years and I no longer have that problem. Lots of players feel they can't get enough sustain if they're not using a high gain setting and in my experience that is another sign of poor technique. Been there myself and it is just another obstacle I had to overcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kyle DiSanto Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 All I know.... Is that When I made the switch to play my acuostic guitar everyday, last year....since then, My feel has become much more developed. Without all the gain and effects, you gotta generate all that cool stuff yourself. Switching over to an electric now a days is niice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cobrahead1030 Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Originally posted by ROTINPAIN All I know....Is that When I made the switch to play my acuostic guitar everyday, last year....since then, My feel has become much more developed.Without all the gain and effects, you gotta generate all that cool stuff yourself.Switching over to an electric now a days is niice! it's good if you can work on both like that...each type of playing will bring things out in you technique-wise that you wouldn't have gotten from the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matter-Eater Lad Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 If you can't hear you own mistakes with a bunch of gain then you don't know how to listen to yourself in an objective way. Sure players can kid themselves with it, but don't blame the gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fuzzboy Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Playing with a good amount of gain will teach you to mute correctly. Right hand muting is a huge part of dynamics that is taken for granted. I am teaching my son to play right now and getting him to understand the muting concept is the hardest part. Having said that, everyone should be able to turn the gain off and play something musical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnny Z Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 With more than 5000 chords and variations of them only about 100 even sound musical with very much distortion, sure you can use barr chords and power chords all over the place with tons of distortion but try playing jazz chords or a finger picking passage in something like clasical or country and it won't come out very well. Distortion has it's place in music and some people use it well, most are just wankers who don't really know anything else. That's why they worry about things like how much tube gain they can get out of a JJ vs an EH or a Groove Tube and how much overdrive they can get, and think everything else sounds whimpy and like crap. That's because these guys are limited in their playing skills and knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StringBreaker Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Originally posted by Random Hero No there isn't. Shut the {censored} up, you {censored}ing n00b. Kick his ass Seabass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members leadfootdriver Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.