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Yes, I understand where you are coming from, and
they seem like valid points. Though the points I made still stand
true to my own evolution as a guitarist. High gain generated an elusion of
technicality that could not be re-produced with clean tone, regardless
of who it touched, whether it was miced, or any of the separate skills
required to play the electric with high gain (which I fully understand,
having played the electric for almost 30 years). And I am sure I can sit down
with 10 young bucks walking on the streat who play screamin' licks on the
electric, and test my theory with a clean tone.
/K
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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.
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