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Guitar Tones -  Equal to Your Music?

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Posted by: Source Audio | Posted in: Music Reviews,

The other day I decided to listen to a number of recordings I have made within the past few years, which I have been pretty happy about.

I used 2 studios, including my home studio, and used high quality gear (guitars, amps, amp simulators. computer software and hardware), which like most musicians, I keep changing anyway ;). But, when listening to the cd's I burned, I was quite disappointed with a number of the guitar sounds. And, to a guitarist, having a lifeless and uninspiring tone is like a model with the measles.

No sonic "make up" could help my recorded tone: I knew that I had to re-record many of these parts, which I had thought to be invinceable. However, the positive side to this endeavor was to see how much better I could do - as I had to do as best as I could to "kick it up a notch".

First off, I thought I would try a radically different tone for an electric guitar part, playing the main melody of the tune with a good amount of distortion. I decided to try the Hot Hand set to "strum" on the Motion control, and to "Low Pass" on the Effect control. This added a subtle vocal flavor to each picked note, which made the part the best it had ever sounded.

Funnily enough, I found that the "vocal" phrasing made me phrase in a much more musical manner, and I actually played many fewer notes on this "new and improved" version of my old standby tune - which ironically, I had thought was going to not need as drastic an editing job.

The question we all need to ask ourselves is: "What would we change tone-wise about our music?" This might be the exact question we need to answer if we want to challenge ourselves to be the best musicians we can.

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