Re: distortion, overdrive,fuzz,crunch,special sauce, secret goo

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Maybe, but it'd probably also sound not so impressive if you'd mic'ed the guitar and not recorded the amp--but that's not the context it was created in nor intended to be consumed.  Listeners (other than other guitarists...) don't really care how difficult it was for you to make the sound, just that it touches them.

People who can really well with a clean tone are often lost in a high-gain situation too.  Learning to control a high-gain guitar rig takes work, it's a different, but related technique to playing undistorted guitar.

TH

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Krispen Hartung <info@krispenhartung.com> wrote:

It did not take me long to realize that, given any prior, rippin' solo I had done using high gain and distortion, during my fusion/hard rock/progressive rock days, if I had tried to articulate the same or similar solo using a clean tone, it sounded like crap, sloppy, etc. I realized how much I was relying gain to play fast and still sound good.