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Are you a fan of electric guitars? Do you get excited when you plug your guitar to the guitar amp and start playing those power chords or solos? If yes, please read on. Good, dependable guitar amps and correct settings of the various pots and knobs, can be the secret to achieving the ideal sound you want to produce with your guitar, but more on that in a moment.
Good old tube guitar amps are probably the best choice if you want no compromise with warm, powerful and natural electric sound. Tubes give this traditional "full" flavor. There's no substitute, let's face it. And you don't have to be traditional at all. The quality and richness of sound and harmonics from such a guitar amplifier can become progressive and original, too! Combine it with the latest digital effect box, if you want to. So if you want quality, go for standard, good-old tube- guitar amps.
Of course, practicing in your room doesn't require one of those big loud boxes. (It doesn't require an amplifier at all, but, to tell you the truth, I never practice on my guitar without making a lot of noise!) But you can use a small, ordinary, transistor amplifier, and you'll be fine.
Now, here's a trick to adjusting correctly the knobs and pots on those guitar amps and even on guitars so that you can be heard. This is something that is very important. It has to do with sound waves' behavior, and physics, so pay close attention: You will set the bass-medium-treble controls of your guitar amp on such a position, so as to distinguish your guitar sound, and separate it from the other instruments of the band. Simply put, you're not the bass guitar, so why do you want to sound like the bass guitar? Try to approach the tone, the timbre and the general quality of sound of the bass guitar, and you'll get eaten up. Nobody will be able to hear a thing. Sound gets mixed and destroyed, cancelled. The sound of the guitar, approaching the sound of the bass guitar in tone quality, timbre or pitch, will mess up sound and cancel out both instruments. Why is that? When two sources of sound, one near the other, produce sound waves of the same pitch, tone quality or timbre, they cancel out each other and you get no sound at all in the middle. This is a phenomenon called proportional sound and any good sound engineer knows about it. So next time you wander why your guitar cannot be heard in the band, no matter how loud the volume, try this: separate your sound by, (1) adjusting the controls on your guitar amplifier to make an easily distinguishable tone or timbre in relationship to the other instruments, (2) try to switch the knob to another pickup position to get a different sound, or (3) try to play on a different (usually higher) pitch, which simply means instead of playing for example an open 5th string A, try to play it on the 4th or 3rd string, move it an octave higher, in other words.
So there's no reason to destroy guitar amps by increasing their volume up, up, up, up to 10 all the time, to be heard. Save them!
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