Tone is in your hands, not amp!!!!!!!!
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i think what steve vai meant is that tone starts from your finger.
a good amp and instrument is one that allows the tone that starts from your fingers to reach the audience.
it's like, good equipment allows you to control every aspect of your tone with the fingers, but you still have to control it, amps don't do that job for you.
Anyway, his definition of tone was pretty vague, he just meant how you sound. The same way a flat singer is a bad singer, a guitarist who fails to be in rhythm is considered a bad guitarist even if he gets all the notes right.
he said you can't hit the same note the same way twice, which is true. If you feed the same guitar signal into an amp, it'd give you the same sound everytime. But it's our human nuances that makes a live performance worth it.
a good amp and instrument is one that allows the tone that starts from your fingers to reach the audience.
it's like, good equipment allows you to control every aspect of your tone with the fingers, but you still have to control it, amps don't do that job for you.
Anyway, his definition of tone was pretty vague, he just meant how you sound. The same way a flat singer is a bad singer, a guitarist who fails to be in rhythm is considered a bad guitarist even if he gets all the notes right.
he said you can't hit the same note the same way twice, which is true. If you feed the same guitar signal into an amp, it'd give you the same sound everytime. But it's our human nuances that makes a live performance worth it.
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