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2) Exceptions to the rule.
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Volume IS tone. Ask Eddie Van Halen.
Or Ted Nugent.
On second thoughts, perhaps best not to ask Ted.
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1. Great technique - Most importantly in-tune bending, and vocal like vibrato.
2. Playing interesting notes/rhythms - The guitarists I think of as having great tone, often have something of a swing to their playing.
Sausage fingers
6 strings on a 7 string fret board
Single coil in a humbucker rout
Simples ... :-S
2: good (suitable) gear
So yeah basically anything anyone can say about guitar playing is covered by those two options.
IMHO, nice guitars and amps 'nuance' your tone but the core of what you sound like comes from the hands.
I have told this story before but I know someone who attended the NAMM show many years ago when Gibson launched their (solid state) Lab Series amps.
They had B B King, Robben Ford and Larry Carlton on the stand, handing a brand new, stock 335 to each other, plugged into the Lab Series, playing over a twelve-bar backing.
The way he tells it, is that without adjusting the amp in any way, each sounded exactly like themselves when playing the same guitar.
2. Klon
If you ain't got the above two pieces of kit in your arsenal then you are but a tone-pretender. Internet FACT!
IMHO, nice guitars and amps 'nuance' your tone but the core of what you sound like comes from the hands.
I have told this story before but I know someone who attended the NAMM show many years ago when Gibson launched their (solid state) Lab Series amps.
They had B B King, Robben Ford and Larry Carlton on the stand, handing a brand new, stock 335 to each other, plugged into the Lab Series, playing over a twelve-bar backing.
The way he tells it, is that without adjusting the amp in any way, each sounded exactly like themselves when playing the same guitar.
You *could* say that is more technique. What if they all strummed the same chord in the same fashion on different guitars?