Guitar and Amp, How to sound like anyone (the basics) - Part 1

I understand player needs to want a certain sound like "someone", but in the long run it's far more important to find your sound

I have been playing guitar for 50+ years and whether you're a beginner, intermediate or professional good information is always valid. I think you explained it very well.

Understanding how to set up instrument tones with any gears is a super valuable lesson.

The component that affects tone the absolute most, even more than the guitar and pickups, is the speaker. It’s just that barely anyone ever gets to do a comparison between different speakers, so no one realizes.

Great vid. And I dig your style. Subbed! Looking forward to some more content from you. Rock on, and all the best!

This is great, thanks. Covering the bascis for me and how they work together, apprecaited!

It's good to know how your Amp works. So you can get the sounds you need. Thanks !

Great video.

You want to sound like another guitarist simple. Learn their licks and learn them phrase by phrase, every little accent of that guitarists language. A lot of people say they play cover songs note for note and... They don't. Being close isn't enough. Once you have that part down dialing in a tone is easy...

Great video Rizla 🎸

This is a great video. Thank You

That’s really interesting mate. And you’re becoming good at this youtubing thing.

Great discussion, and I love that you focussed on the basics of what is a subjective black hole. 100% agree on starting with getting the gain right and working with your pickups and volume. The only thing I'd add is that you can sound good with any gear, one just needs to be prepared to invest the time it takes to experiment with and learn the nuances of said gear.

Great advice...

Personally the best thing I ever did gear wise after years of tone hunting and doing alot of wild stuff... I got rid of nearly all my amps and guitars, then .. I got both a Fender and a Marshall flavor SANSAMPS, a Nashville S-S-S Tele, and few really good pedals (Xotic EP boost, Klon Clone - Soul Food, TC Electronics Plethora, Xotic Super Clean, Clyde Wha, and a Fuzz Face. With that combination I can consistently get great tone across multiple genres. I no longer have any desire to get any new gear and am in a VERY happy place. I favor classic rock, R&B, and texas blues type tones mind you. Highly, highly, recommend sansamps - I actually prefer them over real tube amps. And speakers you are outputting to matter GREATLY - very often that is all that is missing.

I'm jamming a bugera V5 with a couple modifications. This tiny awesome amp makes any other guitar sound just like mine. Hint hint. Look up the 2 simple modifications. Simple stuff

graphic equalizer Or wha pedal. You choose.

If you are running your pedals thru the clean channel does it matter if you use a tube amp or not

Great explanation new subscriber

1 thing most ppl dont think about is the sound board eq makes, or whether the signal went through any outboard gear like compressors or preamps etc, not to mention the sound layering adds as well as the sound the tape machine adds, the eqing during mixing and mastering etc. Ppl waste so much time and money on buying crap chasing a tone that they couldve gotten years ago, they just dont know or realize how the tone is shaped not to mention to anyone whos never recorded, an amp tone that sounds amazing in the room to you may sound like shit or not fit in with the band or recording. Its all a piece of the puzzle, get close with using the right guitar/pickups and amp and the most important part CAB/IR. In my experience, which is high gain, cabs make the most drastic differences.