I've had enough - gear trading stops here!

[Philly Q]

Some people(including me) should just stop wasting time, discussing gear and trading our fortune away. We should just practice more.. Alot more. Instead of just sitting here doing nothing but discussing "tone"

You're 100% right.  But I'm far too set in my ways to do that now, unfortunately....  :|

Anyway, it's fun shooting the sh!t on here.  :P

[AndyR]

To some degree you wear the suit. I always feel it is not only easy to see if the suit fits properly - quite a lot of people wear suits that I feel don't suit their frame - but also if the person is comfortable wearing it or not. It's often a question of whether you wear the suit or the suit wears you.

WHOA!

Deeeep dude, deeep.

:lol:

But Alex is right

I don't wear suits much at the moment, but I used to wear them a lot (and I quite miss them sometimes).

I'm definitely in the "wear the suit" rather than the "suit wears you" category. I realised this years ago at weddings. I'd show up in one of my somewhat "lived-in" work suits, but I'd still look smoother than most of my peers who'd be fidgeting and looking uncomfortable.

Funnily enough, I do believe that some of the "deep thinking" about suit-wearing could also apply to guitar tone (or anything else!):

"To some degree you play the tone. I always feel it is not only easy to see if the tone fits properly - quite a lot of people use tones that I feel don't suit their playing - but also if the person is comfortable playing it or not. It's often a question of whether you play the tone or the tone plays you."

:lol:

[Alex]

Incredibly we've found philosophical parallels between wearing suits and playing guitars. Now THAT is deep!  :D

[Ian Price]

This reminds me of that quote from the matrix. In guitar terms it would be something like this:

Guitar boy: Do not try and play the guitar. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Guitar boy: There is no guitar.
Neo: There is no guitar?
Guitar boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the guitar that plays, it is only yourself.

[FELINEGUITARS]

You should accidentally buy some mic preamps to go with those SM57s

GAS wise I really want some Peter Jones signature socks

Or get a set of Nolly Signature socks!

http://www.socksrule.com/proddetail.asp?prod=AdamNollyGetgood



Apparently they go up to (size)11

[JDC]

Are they a calibrated set? :D

[Madsakre]

Are they a calibrated set? :D

yeah. one for the bridge of your nose, and one for your neck..


hurr

[JDC]

Bought myself some socks that look just like Ewan McGregor's today :D

[HTH AMPS]

Some people(including me) should just stop wasting time, discussing gear and trading our fortune away. We should just practice more.. Alot more. Instead of just sitting here doing nothing but discussing "tone"

You're 100% right.  But I'm far too set in my ways to do that now, unfortunately....  :|

Anyway, it's fun shooting the sh!t on here.  :P

Practising is a fair comment, but discussing guitar-related stuff here is also fun and educational. 

[Twinfan]

Indeed - it's always good to learn from others.  A lot of the greats did just that  ;)

[Ian Price]

Didn't Clapton slow down records when he started so he could figure out riffs 'the hard way'. I'm sure I read that somewhere. Maybe it's because it is too easy to find stuff in modern times that makes me lazy enough to not learn as much as I could do. Sounds odd but there must b one truth in it (or am I making more excuses for myself  :D )

[Philly Q]

Didn't Clapton slow down records when he started so he could figure out riffs 'the hard way'. I'm sure I read that somewhere.

I don't know about Clapton specifically, but I've read many interviews with older guitarists where they talked about doing just that.  It was quite convenient that record players could run at 78, 45 and 33 rpm!  We even had a player which had a 16 rpm option, but I've never actually seen a 16 rpm record!   :lol:

[Twinfan]

Yep, the 45rpm to 33rpm thing was the done thing before tabs and YouTube videos!

To get slightly back on topic(!), I've found myself really inspired by the Phil X gig Ian and I went to.  You can go so much tonal variety from one guitar an overdrive pedal and a decent amp - volume/tone controls and picking weight and position can make such a difference.

I'm going to have to do a gig with a really, really basic setup sometime just to see how it sounds....

[38thBeatle]

Well Dave, first song in last night ( at a wedding reception- which was great because it was a mature couple and the groom being a muso) I lost my pedals and quickly unplugged and went straight into my amp. I managed to get through the first set perfectly well and enjoyed the experience. Not a first for me admittedly and I am not as good as Phil X but you can get a lot out of a Tele/Laney VC30. I almost didn't bother sorting things out for the second set- bearing in mind I normally use eq, Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde, T Trex Tremster and Visual Sound H20 (not necessarily in that order). Back to basics is very satisfying.

[Ian Price]

I'm leaning towards a simple set up now. Since I have started using my amp again (only in the last week!) I haven't bothered hooking all (well, 3!!) of my pedals up. It has been refreshingly great to just get a nice crunchy tone with the guitar at 3/4 volume and then add more gain just using a combination of volume adjustment and picking hand heaviness.

Although JF is my main guitar inspiration I can't really be bothered (and can't yet afford) to have such a complex set up.

Now, where's that moogerfooger mf105  :lol: