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

["mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

 Mikkoz <biffoz@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes,
we all choose a voice with which to speak.  What I really find
bothersome here is the incessant emphasis of mechanics over art, and
single-minded effort to get us all to fall in line. 

I agree entirely, one of the reasons that I have not been able to contribute to this thread untill Ricks (inspiring) "clean-up and sweep" mail, is the notion of many in this thread (or percieved notion) that there is a correct (or incorrect way) way to play a guitar! Whats all this talk of technique? Whats all this talk of tone? Blimey if you WANT to shred, you just CANT do it on a pedal steel with no distortion!!! If you WANT TO sound like Jesus and Mary Chain, whats the point of testing your skill by changing to the clean channel? If you PLAY undistorted jazz, with complicated 6thSUS DIM chords.. er... well you get the point.

I do find the occasional thread about guitar tone and skillful playing an eyeopener, coming as I do from (what sometime seems to be) a completely diferent mind-set, but I hope LD is still the forum for discussing feedback loops (just discovered the devi ever distortions - http://www.deviever.com/fx/ Talking of LOOPING - and TONE SUCKING -  what about this WONDERFUL thing--- http://www.deviever.com/fx/eyeofgod/index.html )

oh and...

 andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

Art Simon wrote:

The harmonic content of a distorted sound is vastly more complex than
a clean one.

 

the evidence for that being????

Um... hehe... yep... Andys sarkily true of course... the more distorted a waveform gets, the more like a regular square wave one gets, therefore a distortion is in actual fact... a CLEANER waveform that undistorted!!! ???

Infact.. MY favorite distortion, is to use a Blacet Modular synth module called the Frequency divider, it is infact a binary counter that tracks an imput... outputs a squarewave, in various octaves and 5ths.. NASTY!!! but very very NICE!!!

Tone??? What tone??


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