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no one ever seems to discuss what they are going to do when they finally have found THE tone. So i was wondering what you guys would do?? start writing music? jerk off? crack open a cool one? play some golf? spart up a spliff?? start playing drums??

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For me, there can never be "The Tone". It's much too fun to experiment with other stuff. Got into a country picking mode last summer and had a blast playing compressed chicken picking stuff. Loves me some fat jazz tones at times. Nothing like fat echo laden Gilmour licks as well. All kinds of good tones to inspire different levels of your creative mind out there.

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gape/a2m/murder/suicide

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enjoy for a week and continue the search....

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Try and make it better.

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I've already found mine, what I do is gig, so that everyone else can hear it.

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I dont think there is THE tone, there is only a tone that works for you, but that is every changing. I cna listen to 100 cds and fall in love with the tone on nearly all of them. Unless I can create each of those I will keep looking.
David Gilmour has THE PERFECT tone, but as amazing as it would be to have to myself, it would be the same with out him playing it...

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no one ever seems to discuss what they are going to do when they finally have found THE tone. So i was wondering what you guys would do?? what the fuck are we supposed to do ? :confused:

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what the fuck are we supposed to do ? :confused: record it, then realize it doesnt sound the same so you tweak it until it sounds that way on the recording, then you lose it because you had to change it for the recording an you didnt write down the settings.

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I've also sort of done away with the philosophy of "that one tone you look for all your life and sell your first born for."
There are TONS of great tones out there, and my philosophy now is that the best tone is the one that's most appropriate to the current application. And besides, most of the super amazing tones you hear are the result of mostly studio magic anyway, coming from clever mic positioning and post eq tweaks. I've never played an amp that sounds the same in a room as it does on tape. For example, the Powerball, to me, is an amp unequaled in getting awesome, full, wide open metal tones at bedroom / tv / slightly louder volume. However, when done right, I've never heard a better recorded metal tone than what the right combo of mics, post eq, and a 5150 can produce. However, these two amps are not interchangeable. The 5150 sounds like shit when you're standing in front of it, and the Powerball seems to hate recordings, and sounds a little hollow and maybe even a little solid-state on tape. It's all about application. Also, a good tone is about 40-60% good guitar player anyway (depending on genre, hehe). Guy A might sound fantastic through rig A while guy B might sound like he's strangling cats through it, and vice versa with Guy B's rig.
That said, when on rare occasion I do find a fantastic tone that really inspires me and I'm happy with, I flip the fuck out and obsess over how awesome it is for a while, then I get inspired and start playing the fuck out of it.

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Well, if I was dimebag11 I would trade it off and get something else.

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Realize I'm really not into that kind of music anymore, then sell it. Then realize I really am into that kind of music six months later, and try to find it again, only to do it completely different than I did the first time. Because I must have been wrong the first time. Then, discover I was right the first time, and get all that old gear back. Only to find out I'm really not into that kind of music anymore...

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record it, then realize it doesnt sound the same so you tweak it until it sounds that way on the recording, then you lose it because you had to change it for the recording an you didnt write down the settings. :oh

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Realize I'm really not into that kind of music anymore, then sell it. Then realize I really am into that kind of music six months later, and try to find it again, only to do it completely different than I did the first time. Because I must have been wrong the first time. Then, discover I was right the first time, and get all that old gear back. Only to find out I'm really not into that kind of music anymore... :thu:

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theres always so much different kinds of tones. Once you get the tone you like and think wow this is it this is bad ass... you've heard that tone a thousand times and are going to want something else. I don't know what it was but I remember when I had the classic 5150... one of the first ones block letter... Ibanez SZ at the time. I remember playing with my band and having my tone so perfect. I tweaked it all day and I remember we practiced day before thanksgiving and that was the most perfect tone I had ever heard from me or any other bands I have heard live. For some reason that doesn't happen with my 6505. And I dig the tone of my bugera more which people always slam me for. I just got sick of that screaching 6505 tone. Although I wish I could go back to however that 5150 was.

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Realize next month it sucks when everyone on HCAF tells me so when the new flavor of the month comes out...
:poke:

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I'd shit on my own balls and maybe even yours.

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Rape and Pillage..

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meh.. who cares what 'that' tone is? there's too much music to worry about writing to get too obsessed with 'the perfect one'.. besides-- soundmen are always going to ruin it anyhow, and it's gonna sound different in the studio in front of a mic or three.. so get it serviceable and run with it..

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Realize next month it sucks when everyone on HCAF tells me so when the new flavor of the month comes out...
:poke: :love:
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