You’re right, my mistake. I forgot yall are more obsessed with owning gear than making good music.
Do you think that the only good painters use entry level sets of paint bought from Walmart, great novelists only write on Arby’s takeout bags, and dancers only train on uneven terrain where half of them break their ankles?
To me it’s a sign of love of your art to love related arts too. The love of tone is a love of a specific part of audio engineering, a niche within a niche. Are audio engineers by default soulless assholes who try to destroy the real art, playing well written guitar parts well? Any love of gear to me is audio engineering, which is very much an art.
Playing guitar well is its own art, and writing guitar parts well is its own. Some of us are only good at some of these things, some at all, and some at none, but pretty much everyone here loves all of these arts to one degree or another.
But make no mistake, what we are all talking about here is this audio engineering part. As was mentioned, parts of this forum deal with theory, practice, writing and so forth, and it’s fine if all you care about is stuff other than tone, but I’ll tell you from my perspective there’s nothing better to my ears than someone who expresses well written music with a fine tuned technique artfully, and, the point of the love of gear, a soulful tone.
