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Topic: Why so much distortion when demonstrating gear? |
Len Amaral
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Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 28 Nov 2017 7:39 pm |
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| I like to surf gear demos for guitars, amps and effect pedals. Very few demos are clean letting you hear the natural sound of the guitar or amp. Just crank the gain with a hornets nest of distortion. The only enjoyable demos are with jazz and acoustic guitars. Tonight I was trying to find a demo on the TC Electronics Mimic doubling pedal. Every demo was nasty distortion, even on the TC website. I guess this is the futureš³ |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 6:35 am
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| It sounds much the same live, at Guitar Center. |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 6:38 am
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| Yes Charlie, another pet peeve of mine is GC and the noise level people testing gear. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 9:30 am
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Most likely gearing the demos more towards rockers. Bugs me to.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 9:34 am
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It would be nice if a steel guitar could be used to demo the same effects, but again, we are too small of a market.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 12:23 pm
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| It would be nice if a steel guitar could be used to demo the same effects, but again, we are too small of a market. |
Much too small, Richard..  |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2017 1:09 pm
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A lot of distortion hides bad playing quite effectively.  |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2017 9:09 am
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And if they do demonstrate a "clean" sound, it's really just a "less distorted" sound.
It really is too bad, since so many amps do clean and overdriven so well now. My Mesa Boogie has one of the best clean sounds ever made, but nobody thinks about that when they hear the name.
To my ears, overdrive and distortion makes bad playing sound even worse. |
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Frank Welsh
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Upstate New York, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2017 1:49 pm
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In my area it's impossible to get some of the younger guitar players to even try playing without distortion. They repeatedly call a clean sounding electric guitar "old fashioned" style even if it is being used for jazz or classic rock and a clean or mostly clean sound is called for.
In a local music store a 17 year old came up to me while I was noodling on a jazz guitar with some chord melodies and he said "You're playing melody on that guitar...I didn't know melodies could be played on guitar."
I believe he thought only heavily distorted "licks" could be played on guitar.
The generation gap is pretty wide around here for sure. |
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Allan Haley
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 3 Dec 2017 2:24 pm
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| Exactly, Erv. Volume and distortion hides crappy playing. I know this from experience. |
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Tony Glassman
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The Great Northwest
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Posted 3 Dec 2017 2:33 pm
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| A lot of distortion hides bad playing quite effectively. : |
Then I better go purchase some distortion. |
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