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Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:34 pm
by sevenSHARPnine
People are always looking for "good tone". I understand using the word to describe a type of sound, like a jazz tone or whateverthefuck. Or like "how do I get a solid rock tone?" Yeah I get that, even though it still bugs me.
But when people say "OH MAN THAT GUITAR/AMP/PEDAL/FRET WIRE/OUTPUT JACK HAS TONE!!....
FUCK YOU.
Everything has some sort of tone you dipshit, weather it's fucking church bells or the sound of me dropping a television on your head from a 4th story balcony. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SAY "WOW THAT SOUNDS GOOD"?!
Just so ya'll know, this is the result of me having to listen to a half-wit toolbag poser guitar player spew and babble fountains of crap all day. I intentionally refrain from calling him a musician.
I love all of you so much.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:38 pm
by Doodahman1969
FUN FACT TO CHEER U UP: Keith Richards has a speedboat he bought in 1971 while living on the French Riviera and recording Exile on Main Street. He named the boat Mandrax, an anagram of its original name, saying: "It was irresistible to call it that.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 11:53 pm
by Christopher
"tone" is a way for old grumpy dudes with ED to justify spending all of their disposable income on boutique gear
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:06 am
by ashdown
tone is whenever the sounds coming out of my amp give me a semi
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:40 am
by theavondon
ashdown wrote:tone is whenever the sounds coming out of my amp give me a semi
So, everything really loud is tone? Cool, I can agree to that.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:42 am
by sevenSHARPnine
theavondon wrote:ashdown wrote:tone is whenever the sounds coming out of my amp give me a semi
So, everything really loud is tone? Cool, I can agree to that.
Yeah I'm down with that.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:02 am
by Mudfuzz
Tone is a sound you like. Shitty tone is one you don't. All is subjective, all is personal, all is whateverness.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:04 am
by Achtane
Those fragile upper harmonics...the bluesy sound that gives suburban road warriors boners...the weight of your body so crushing your legs cannot possibly support it without the addition of hydraulics...
This can only be the TOAN OF A DAMBL
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:06 am
by madmax1012
in the words of SPACERITUAL.
"its not like tone is this really rare substance that you have to pay eskimoes to dig out of beluga whale shit at the bottom of the ocean."
genius. pure and utter genius.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:08 am
by dubkitty
if i just TOLD you it would be cheating.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:09 am
by colin
Tone is the sound of money going down the toilet.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:10 am
by sevenSHARPnine
TAG KNOWS TONE.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:13 am
by dubkitty
tone is the sound of one hand clapping.
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 1:16 am
by madmax1012
DAMBL ND KLON.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK4I-NmeXS4[/youtube]
Re: Can anybody actually tell me what "tone" is?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 2:18 am
by devnulljp
sevenSHARPnine wrote:TAG KNOWS TONE.
This is Tag, he knows Tone
(So did Miles though.)
Miles wrote:I've practiced my tone for almost 50 years, and if I can't hear my tone, I can't play. If I can't play, then I won't get paid. If I don't get paid, then I lose the house, you know?
It's like a chain reaction. If I lose my tone, I can't fuck, can't make love, can't do nothin'. I'll just walk into the ocean and die, if I lose my tone.