Overthinking your tone each time you start to play at home..

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Who is this way?

Every time I sit to play, I start seeing if I can twist knobs or try something different to better the tone that I had yesterday.

After a bit (approx 10 minutes) I stop twiddling and I just play.
I just wish I wouldn't bother with all that tweaking at the beginning. It's pretty obsessive/compulsive no? Or is it normal? :lol: :LOL:
 
I usually go:
Hey that sounds great! Let me make it better?! OOpps I fucked it up! Meh I'll just play.
 
I think it's rather normal. No matter how good a dialed up tone can sound to your ears, it's only natural to search for other tones after playing for a while. Someone could say, "OMG, I just dialed in the most epic tone ever!"....only to later get bored with it and start thinking of other ways to shape it. Just imagine hearing the most perfect tone you ever heard before from an artist's recording and being able to duplicate it and just loving it....but, not being able to ever change it. Within days (or even hours), you'd start to grown increasingly tired of it and want some type of change. I think it's just human nature.
 
I never have GAS once I am actually out playing.

When just sitting at home, I dream up the most ridiculous rigs, and the most ridiculous ways to raise the money for it.
 
I try to not think at all but sometimes I forget and think by accident.
 
Yeah, sometimes. It all depends why I'm picking up the guitar in the first place.
Practicing = not much tweaking.
recording = Tweak central !
 
i can relate =0 but i've forced myself to try and keep same settings unless i change guitar, lose too much time otherwise

i took some pictures of my settings, but i tend to try and dial in the same kind of tone at home anyhow, regardless of what it is i'm trying to play
 
Every time I fire up an amp my brain almost automatically listens for some frequency that I don't like on that particular day and then haunts me with it until I am done for the day. It's usually somewhere in the highs but sometimes in the low mids. Drives me crazy.
 
Set it and forget it at least for a month. I log all my settings so I can compare different sounds I like. I definately do not like tweaking. One of the reason I love my PT100 because it does not have a bunch of toggle switches that FU your mind with so many options. So my tweaking is minimal. :thumbsup:
 
I'm not the only one. :rock:

When I'm playing out live, all I touch is the volume and it's great...but at home I become this 'evil tweaky scientist'

Problem is it isn't just the amp, it's actually more the pedals in front I keep tweaking and the Nova Sustem in the amp's effects loop. Sounds good but the reverb is a little long and the delay is a bit bright...there, that's great!....

next day...

The reverb could be a little louder on my solo patch, the delay is kinda bassy now, I'm just gonna dial in a bit more gain on the RC Booster...oh...now it's kinda mushy... :doh: :lol: :LOL:
 
My stuff is always mic'd up and coming thru studio monitors....using old Marshalls what is there to tweak, not like the knobs really do anything. :)
 
psychodave":cuce5ehv said:
Haha. Depends on my mood. For the most part I just turn it on and play...kinda like set it and forget it. If I tweak, I usually set aside time to focus on the new sound. :) Tweaking is fun though :rock:
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^^^This^^^
 
Vrad":3uy6m7zl said:
I usually go:
Hey that sounds great! Let me make it better?! OOpps I fucked it up! Meh I'll just play.
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Pretty much this. Typically I end up with the knobs close to/exactly where they were at the beginning.

But ya-I spend WAY TOO much time tweaking knobs. :doh:
 
Depends of my moods.... but most of the time I end up coming back where I was..
 
i honestly cant remember the last time i just played an amp without tweaking it. i think i spend more time searching for tone than i do playing to be honest
 
mts modules have put me in tone war mode for a few years now. Sometimes I sell a bunch off just to stop me from tweaking and switching tones so much!
 
thank god i dont do that... lol, i would drive myself crazy. i mess around with knobs about once a week a for a few minutes at most.

i find that throughout my recordings my tone does get better that way.

i am more of the set it and forget it type.
 
Mailman1971":rwtef0ja said:
stefvorcide":rwtef0ja said:
Depends of my moods.... but most of the time I end up coming back where I was..
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+100 on this...... :yes:
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Yeah but you change amp more than you turn the knobs :lol: :LOL: :D :D :D :D
 
On the MK V, I am forever fiddling with channel 2. I'll get satisfied with a tone, shut down, and the next day it doesn't sound all that great to me.

I guess 1 channel out of 3 isn't bad :)

When I played acoustic drums way back, I was always changing my kit up, moving cymbals, adjusting angles and heights, etc. I don't think anything ever stayed the same for more than a week. It got pretty absurd.
 
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