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I thought you would have got it, Mark, rather than
making a false association from my original post. Read my last post. What
I am saying and what you say below are entirely different discussions. Don't
jump to an artistic related conclusion simply because I want to have a focused
discussion on mechanics. My orginal point stands and has nothing to do
with taste or artisitic merit. One does not necessarily follow to the
other. This was not a point about tone, artistic merit, etc.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
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??
:-)))
Mark
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