Tuesday Aug 9th

[Big Mike]

Well, since no one signed up....

Okay, Spaghetti and meatballs from the corner deli. Delicious!!!!


Topic:

What drives you in your tone search.
Is it that, you're still looking for the elusive *it* tone, are you just enjoying the ride of stuff in and out, and playing all sorts of guitars and/or amps, or are you completely happy, but can't help adding other toys for the sheer fun of it?

I fall into the third catagory. I'm COMPLETELY happy with my rig. Tone is right where I want it. Great speakers I've effected everything in my chain from the guitar, right down to the speaker cab for maximum "make Mike happy" tone and I've achieved it.

BUT....I have guitars on order...I lust for more and different guitars and amps. For the sheer fun of having different stuff to play around the house. Gig's are always the same my #1 guitar and rig.

How bout you? Where do you fit in this crazy merry-go-round?

[johnreardon]

Crackers, grapes, cheese and a glass of milk. Wife has me on a health kick today.

I can honestly say that nothing drives me in a tone search, because I don't have one. I try to keep things simple, plugging straight into one of my amps and after I adjust the controls for the acoustics, I play. To me that is not a tone search it's just like making yourself comfortable, adjusting mirrors etc before you drive a car.

As for getting new equipment, I'm in 'it's a new toy category'. I tend to rotate my guitars and amps when I go playing so don't really have No 1 stuff. I usually end up sounding the blo*dy same whatever stuff I take out, so all of my stuff are No1's. It must be my fingers ;)

[irwcustom]

I have to admit, I was a pig today. I had breakfast, then 9's - yesterdays chicken sarnie, 4 cheese sarnies, then went home for 3 (hairless) bacon sarnies, crispsand an apple. 8 sandwiches in all. Laid a homemade chicken curry on top of it tonight.

I'm happy with my tone, but some guitars can produce tones that others can't. I like the clean tone of my 65 twin, but I like the distorted tone of a Boogie. Dual amp set ups are great I'm playing around with that. Heavy, but great - no compromising. I tend to keep my gear - I don't tend to get rid of it. I've even still got my first guitar ..and it's absolutely crap! I think of some guitars as investments - investments that you can play. I've only ever sold one guitar in my life.

[Aldwyn]

Bratwerst on a role with some spicy Bar-B-Que sauce.

All three.

Peace,
Aldwyn

[ROB OWENS]

Simple rushed lunch...Pork loin with mustard on white. Mars bar and cuppa tea...


Tone wise...I just LOVE the Fender clean tone...bit of reverb..touch of compression maybe mmmmm..and a Strat to get it all going.

Fender O/D is fine and bluesy, usually perked up with my Route 66 pedal. But do like the Marshall O/D.
Looking into getting a VOX tonelab...haven't had anything to 'play' with for ages.

[TRandy16]

I love all of my gear...I love my tone...and I don't need to buy anything else...not now, not ever.







































<well...at least until I find that Shell Pink Fender 60's Strat...and a Fuchs 20 watt head to go along with my 50 watt Fuchs head...and I still need two more Tone Tubby 12" speakers>

[kingsleyd]

Turkey, avocado, sprouts, and herb mayo on 6-grain bread; Cape Cod potato chips; limeade on the rocks.

I just like whatever sounds good to my ears, which could be pretty much anything and is never set in stone. I'm not sure I'm ever 100% happy, though, and I've pretty much given up trying to get to that place. I guess that puts me in Category 2.

For the most part, good old Fender amps are what sound most like "me" to me, although I like my Budda too. As for guitars, more is always better. As long as I have my chambered swamp ash Klein I'll be OK, and the Modern Eagle seems pretty indispensable too but until I've had it a few years I'll not pass judgement. I do like "playing the field" -- bought a relic Nocaster (Cunetto era, to go with my Strat) last weekend and I've been having a lot of fun with that. Through my '63 Vibrolux it has that classic Danny Gatton squawk. :D

[jas]

I had a hot dog without a roll with some good mustard on it. I love mustard (spicy, never sweet) and would just as soon just eat the mustard if that were somehow socially or gastronomically acceptable.

The tones I chase come from songs that I like. My litmus test for a great sounding electric is if I can reproduce the sound of the guitars in "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" where it goes "She's well acquainted <zzzzaappp>...". That Zap is the ideal electric rhythm guitar sound to me. I'm happy if I can get a certain Richard Thompson tone, a certain Ry Cooder tone.

It never happens, though. It always sounds exactly like me.

-John

[Zilmo]

Little early for lunch. Still working on my first cupajoe.

[gretsch63]

A pepsi,small piece of crumbcake and my pain pills (herniated disc in my lower back)too many hours with a les paul hanging from my shoulder...........



TONE IS A THING I THINK YOU CAN CHASE FOR A LIFETIME,JUST AS WE CHANGE,LIFESTYLES,HAIRSTYLES,our minds,the type of music is our favorite at the time,we change in our heads what is the tone we REALLY like.WHEN YOU HIT "THE ZONE"(you guys know what I mean) when your playing,THAT IS "THE TONE".....then play on............:cool:

[ROB OWENS]

I had a hot dog without a roll with some good mustard on it. I love mustard (spicy, never sweet) and would just as soon just eat the mustard if that were somehow socially or gastronomically acceptable.
-JohnHa..I missed lunch to-day (wed), but JUST had, funnily enough, a pork loin 'sarnie' with a MOUND of DIJON mustard on it. WOW fabulous.
Just love mustard...well the mushy stuff...not so keen on the whole grain ones.
Cuppa char next.