Did you listen to the clip? If you can’t change the sound of your guitar that dramatically, on demand, mid phrase, with your technique, no need to wonder what a tube amp might bring to the table.
What a stab!!
There is no palm mute going on?
He's changing pick angle slightly which affects the tone, but look at his fretting hand moving forward - backward (on the fret - behind the fret).
To me, it is definitely not note choice. It is how a person attacks the strings and the dynamics they play with. It also involves left hand technique and how they use vibrato and how the hand frets the strings. Some people have a thinner sound to their playing and someone else can play the same guitar and rig and sound much fatter. I have seen this a lot when getting up on stage and playing other people's guitars at gigs and letting others come up and play my stuff. It really is about technique. Note choice is about knowledge and selection. That has a sound but not necessarily a tone.
I agree 100%
When guitarist talk about "toan is in the fingers" and then you ask them to lower bass and treble and increase mids with nothing but fretting fingers they get angry and explanations start to roll in.
The timestamp that I get when I click on it is 7:54. He is playing an open string. So, uh, yeah.
You're 100% correct and I'm wrong. I saw his left hand doing what looks like exactly the movement you do for con sordino and didn't think any more of it.
(and the hand, and arm, and shoulder). And of course, it's not the only thing that impacts tone. But the only music I can think where it isn't a very important part of the tone...is not music that moves me much.
