How would this SVR song sound played with a (relative) cheap guitar?

[JasonE]

I actually wanted to avoid watching him so he doesn’t get more attention. Better for everyone.

Wonder how long Tom will make YouTube videos. At some point it might just stop.

I hope he doesn't let this dude drive him away from making videos. I know how one person can drive you to just walk away. I just came back recently from walking away from all forums mid last year due to one freaking troll. I figured it was better to walk away than to get myself banned from a couple of places due to fighting with the jerk. He finally got himself removed from the places where I was hanging. I checked in and saw he got deleted so I resurfaced. I don't think I will let someone get me to that point again.

 

[PLX]

I hope he doesn't let this dude drive him away from making videos. I know how one person can drive you to just walk away. I just came back recently from walking away from all forums mid last year due to one freaking troll. I figured it was better to walk away than to get myself banned from a couple of places due to fighting with the jerk. He finally got himself removed from the places where I was hanging. I checked in and saw he got deleted so I resurfaced. I don't think I will let someone get me to that point again.

People on these sites with 20 guitars and 12 amps and still can't play, tend to get a bit angry & troll-ish.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

I hope he doesn't let this dude drive him away from making videos. I know how one person can drive you to just walk away. I just came back recently from walking away from all forums mid last year due to one freaking troll. I figured it was better to walk away than to get myself banned from a couple of places due to fighting with the jerk. He finally got himself removed from the places where I was hanging. I checked in and saw he got deleted so I resurfaced. I don't think I will let someone get me to that point again.

That. And it might be a nice side income for Tom but probably not enough to keep it if it becomes a burden.

I also decided to just really go away from TheGearPage. My personality and the culture there just clashes.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

People on these sites with 20 guitars and 12 amps and still can't play, tend to get a bit angry & troll-ish.

They should have spend their money on guitar lessons.

I think anybody can become good at guitar as long as you are willing to put in the time.

 

[PLX]

I think anybody can become good at guitar as long as you are willing to put in the time.

They'd rather waste all their time cyber-circle-jerking on teh Internets.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

They'd rather waste all their time cyber-circle-jerking on teh Internets.

Yeah.

My time spend online is most when my kids are playing and I am bit “stuck” in the living room because we can’t just leave them alone.

Maybe i should just get the acoustic n for those moments.

I think everybody is capable of carving out more time for playing.

Sometimes I wonder from a dopamine perspective if people just buy new gear so it gives them that spike instead of getting the dopamine way slower from the slow process of getting better.

 

[Sascha Franck]

There's nothing subtle about Sascha.

There's a lot subtle about Sascha. But nobody round these parts would need to know.

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Anyhow, on a serious note, @mercifulfuzziness (and yes, I actually tried to be more subtle so far): If you continue like this, you will very likely never improve on your playing. And as a result, your "toanz" won't improve, either, because even if people like to make fun of it, much of it actually is in the fingers, especially with those players you seem to like, such as SRV or Sayce.
From what you're telling, you don't have all that much time and you're not that experienced yet. Absolutely fine, really. But in the time you have, given your activity on this very forum, you seem to be endlessly thinking about whatever minute details related to guitar tone.

The stuff you own is around 76873 times better than what many, many of us here had in our formative years. If you can't get decent results out of it, it's not the equipment.
No, you don't need a "more dynamic" modeler than the HX Stomp, it's absolutely sufficient. No, you don't need a QC, either. No, you don't need gazillions of IR packs, the HX cabs are great (and you have gotten plenty of guidance to use them properly already). No, you don't need new pickups until you can very exactly pinpoint to the reason why you would need them.

What you need to do is, well, see FZ's album title.
Then record some small bits and post them here in case you want tips regarding your playing and sound. There's some great players and tasty sound experts round these parts, they will more than happily help you out. But nobody can help you out with these tons of non-issues coming out of the blue.

Ok, guess that was it for now. I'm terribly sorry in case this comes across harsh, it's defenitely not meant to be. Just honest. And fwiw, I'm speaking out of experience (both my own and from plenty of students).

 

[DrewJD82]

Sometimes I wonder from a dopamine perspective if people just buy new gear so it gives them that spike instead of getting the dopamine way slower from the slow process of getting better.

Hahahhaha you don’t need to wonder, this DEFINITELY occurs. The majority of us probably stumble into it at some point over the years. Hell, whenever I have a shitty day at work I’ll find myself browsing Marketplace or Craigslist when I get home.

You’ll figure out your own pitfalls as time goes on. There’s multiple things that pop up in this vein, another big one is getting the desire to learn a song and then once you learn the main riff or lick, you throw in the towel and never actually learn the song. I’m majorly guilty of this, like last year when I started learning “Cliffs Of Dover (for real this time)”, got most of the intro and then lost the desire to keep at it.

I try to get my dopamine reward from writing/recording and finishing songs, but it can be tough to maintain the momentum. Definitely a reason I enjoy having the Do Something challenge here, they generally keep me focused to bang something out in a week instead of allowing myself to labor over it for months and when I work fast I can keep the dopamine drip going.

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

There's a lot subtle about Sascha. But nobody round these parts would need to know.

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Anyhow, on a serious note, @mercifulfuzziness (and yes, I actually tried to be more subtle so far): If you continue like this, you will very likely never improve on your playing. And as a result, your "toanz" won't improve, either, because even if people like to make fun of it, much of it actually is in the fingers, especially with those players you seem to like, such as SRV or Sayce.
From what you're telling, you don't have all that much time and you're not that experienced yet. Absolutely fine, really. But in the time you have, given your activity on this very forum, you seem to be endlessly thinking about whatever minute details related to guitar tone.

The stuff you own is around 76873 times better than what many, many of us here had in our formative years. If you can't get decent results out of it, it's not the equipment.
No, you don't need a "more dynamic" modeler than the HX Stomp, it's absolutely sufficient. No, you don't need a QC, either. No, you don't need gazillions of IR packs, the HX cabs are great (and you have gotten plenty of guidance to use them properly already). No, you don't need new pickups until you can very exactly pinpoint to the reason why you would need them.

What you need to do is, well, see FZ's album title.
Then record some small bits and post them here in case you want tips regarding your playing and sound. There's some great players and tasty sound experts round these parts, they will more than happily help you out. But nobody can help you out with these tons of non-issues coming out of the blue.

Ok, guess that was it for now. I'm terribly sorry in case this comes across harsh, it's defenitely not meant to be. Just honest. And fwiw, I'm speaking out of experience (both my own and from plenty of students).

@Sascha Franck

It’s not harsh. And it’s appreciated. But you have a skewed idea how I spend my time. My practice time is 100% my practice time.

My questions are often a “I am in line waiting for something at the grocery store and this is what I’ve been thinking about walking to that that grocery store”

Edit: I have read it a couple of times now and really, it’s such a nice thing to do. That you’ve taking the time to give me such feedback. For somebody you don’t event know. You must be a really involved teacher. And I don’t mean this cynical. The internet can be super cynical so it’s easy to read this cynical maybe.

Can you perhaps explain me one thing? How is all I hear with these guys that the tone is in the fingers? The fullness of the sound, the breaking up of things.. where is that line drawn?

 

[Tito83]

@Sascha Franck

It’s not harsh. And it’s appreciated. But you have a skewed idea how I spend my time. My practice time is 100% my practice time.

My questions are often a “I am in line waiting for something at the grocery store and this is what I’ve been thinking about walking to that that grocery store”

Edit: I have read it a couple of times now and really, it’s such a nice thing to do. That you’ve taking the time to give me such feedback. For somebody you don’t event know. You must be a really involved teacher. And I don’t mean this cynical. The internet can be super cynical so it’s easy to read this cynical maybe.

Can you perhaps explain me one thing? How is all I hear with these guys that the tone is in the fingers? The fullness of the sound, the breaking up of things.. where is that line drawn?

I can't paint or draw for shit. You can give me the best brushes, paints and what not, I would still suck. You can give a school pencil to a great artist and something beautiful would still come out. Give it great tools and the artist would have more room to create - but in no way the tools make up for the talent, or lack thereof.

Stretching the metaphor a little bit, try to imagine doing a cover like copying a paint or doing a portrait. If you can't draw, it won't matter how close the color pallet you have at hand is, how every brush could copy every texture, it just won't matter. An skilled painter will make something beautiful with the simplest tool - even making tasteful changes to compensate for the limitations of the tool at hand.

Hope I'm making myself clear in pointing out the tools absolutely matter... If you have the skills to take advantage of them.