Interesting... Someone else playing Bonamassas rig...

[kasperjensen]

Interesting. I know the sound quality isn't very good, but I find the difference is still quite apparent.

I like the little Eric Clapton anecdote.

 

[kasperjensen]

As an observational side note...

When I play live with the blues band in my sig, both guitarists are using the exact same Fender HRD, and usually very similar Strats. I noticed that we still sound very different.

Not to start beating the deceased horse, but I found it quite liberating in a way. I love gear just as much as the next guy, but lately my mind seems to be prioritizing it less and less, whereas before it was pretty much all I could think about.

Shit, I have even started practicing and rather than blaming it on the gear, I slow it down, work on it, and then suddenly I can play it.

I would dearly love to stay in that frame of mind. But that YJM Marshall has got me... Ooooh here we go again.

 

[shreder75]

goes back to that old Ted Nugent/VH story where uncle teddy played through Eddie's rig and sounded like himself, not EVH....does have a lot to do with it...you can have tone similar to someone, but if you can't cop their style and nuances you're not gonna sound like them

 

[MrDan666]

Oh yeah, two players through the exact same rig will sound different for sure...

I really became aware of that when i played through Angus Neal's rig (flyangus from this forum). He was playing through it and he has this total EVH vibe in his playing, and he tends to sound like that no matter what rig he's using. As soon as he passed me his guitar and i started playing, it sounded totally different.

I then hooked him up to my rig, and same thing happened. His tone was there.. and as soon as he passed me the guitar, it totally changed.

Many things affect the tone, but I put a lot of it down to the player's pick attack. Obviously many other factors come into play, but i think the pick attack is one of the main things that sets us all apart.

 

[kasperjensen]

Oh yeah, two players through the exact same rig will sound different for sure...

I really became aware of that when i played through Angus Neal's rig (flyangus from this forum). He was playing through it and he has this total EVH vibe in his playing, and he tends to sound like that no matter what rig he's using. As soon as he passed me his guitar and i started playing, it sounded totally different.

I then hooked him up to my rig, and same thing happened. His tone was there.. and as soon as he passed me the guitar, it totally changed.

Many things affect the tone, but I put a lot of it down to the player's pick attack. Obviously many other factors come into play, but i think the pick attack is one of the main things that sets us all apart.

Yeah the attack definitely has to have something to do with it.

I can tell you as much as I have played Steve Vai's Original Evo... Nothing magical about it whatsoever. Sure, it was well set up, but it wasn't a sort of eye opening experience. I can tell you with certainty that Vai can play those licks because he is good. End of.

 

[nikki-k]

For me, gear has always been about feel and inspiration. If I can tweak something a little (guitar, bass, amp, pedal, whatever), and it feels like "part of me," and/or inspires me (pedals, rack gear, etc especially), I keep it around. When I hear someone else playing something that piques my interest, I might try it out, simply to discover if it will feel good or inspire me further. I have never thought that if I had gear someone else plays that it would allow me to "sound like them." I would hate to sound like someone else. Level of expertise/knowledge? Hehehehe.. different story...

 

[thegame]

With my eyes closed it sounds like two guys with different styles playing through the same rig.

 

[thegame]

goes back to that old Ted Nugent/VH story where uncle teddy played through Eddie's rig and sounded like himself, not EVH....does have a lot to do with it...you can have tone similar to someone, but if you can't cop their style and nuances you're not gonna sound like them

I'll bet Ted sounded like Ted through a Marshall, not like his usual (at the time) Fender amp tone. No one ever mentions if Ted used his hollowbody Gibson through EVH's rig.

EVH sounds one way playing that raw biting Marshall tone. He thoroughly sounds another way through the buzzy, washed out, can of bees that is the 5150/Eventide setup.