Tone Is In Your Fingers

So this video started with me procrastinating videos I should be posting. I had been lent about 8 overdrive pedals and a different switching system for demo. I had my Boss es-5 video that I have been thinking about doing for about 6 months and I have been working on a 5 easy pentatonic licks that will make you shred video.

Every time I sat down to make one of those videos something just went wrong and I ended up scrapping it. Perhaps it just because I’m trying to raise my quality and i’m starting to get picky, but more likely they just weren’t inspiring for me at that moment.

So here’s a little about this video. The idea was simple have the same backing track and try to solo over it 3 times with 3 different guitars. I wasn’t intending to play the same thing each time, just something similar and let the guitars influence my playing. I was surprised how they sounded in the mix. Yes, I could hear what I had always thought about the differences in the guitars, but I was stunned by the cross over of tones and how similar I sounded once in a mix. It wasn’t like I suddenly sounded like a different player, I just had a very subtly different flavour to my playing. All and all it was a good experience.

Things I noticed

The pickup output of the PRS and G&L are almost the same.

The PRS is by far the darkest guitar on the neck

When I play the strat or tele, I play a lot more frenetic, The PRS I bask in the glory of the tone. I think this has something to do with the sustain, but might be to do with players I listen to how play humbucker vs single coils. E.G BB vs Stevie Ray

Oh well, until next time NB out…