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Apr 15 2021, 08:21 AM
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It ain't the gear.
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Apr 15 2021, 08:44 AM
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It's a reality check for sure. How many times, until you realised, buying the same guitar as Satch or Vai isn't going to make your a better player, buying that EVH amp isn't going to make you a better player, buying Pettrucci's sig picks, isn't going to make you a better player. None of them are even going to make you sound much like them.
I know I've had loads of gear and I think subconsciously I thought it would help me sound better and maybe ludicrously thought I would play better but that's where a lot of students get there fair share of disappointment. Then you get the kids down the street with one guitar and a practise amp and he sounds incredible. If you play well through any guitar and amp that's hand decent you will sound great. All the extra gear is the herbs and spices that take a basic soup to a sophisticated casserole, or the icing on the cake. If you can afford that signature guitar then get it, if you can't, don't worry about it, just what you've got. A £10 drill will put a hole in the wall the same as a £100 drill. Okay I'm oversimplifying it but you get my drift. Stay safe This post has been edited by Phil66: Apr 15 2021, 09:01 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE  “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 15 2021, 03:09 PM
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There are many interesting points here. Gear is not important to learn to play guitar and you don't became a better musician if you get the newest guitar, amp or modeler.
However, in a profesional context, there is some basic gear that is necessary in order to get aceptable results. In his example, he talks about an album which guitars sound totally killer and that was recorded only using Kemper... Be sure that he wouldn't like guitar sound that much if the guitar would have been recorded using the first Pod or Pandoras modelers... or using my first Digitech RP6.  They used the most innovative piece of gear of the last 15 years!! Not a fair example at all. You could get amazing results using just plugins for a Metalcore album nowadays... but saying that gear is not important is not totally true. Gear is the tool that a musician and sound engineer use to make music/albums. On the other hand, our focus should be on getting better and thinking on getting the best with what we have. Experimenting, practicing, trying to understand the devices that we use is part of the learning process. This post has been edited by Gabriel Leopardi: Apr 16 2021, 03:55 AM -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 15 2021, 04:48 PM
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As Gab notes, there's two sides to this.
I do agree that you don't need high end gear to learn to play or to make some decent demos at home. In fact I mention constantly that this is IMO the desirable way to do it when you're learning. If you can get decent results with minimal gear of medium to low quality then you'll be better prepared and qualified to handle the high-end stuff and achieve better results. Having said that, some of the "You Don't Need Good Gear" blogs and vids (not this particular Fluff vid) also remind me of the "Billie Eilish got 5 Grammys for a record she made in her bedroom" thing. Which yes, is true if you're just talking about the actual originally recorded tracks but you need to also understand that 1) she comes from a well connected Hollywood family, 2) her brother is a mixer/producer, 3) she had record company backing early on and 4) it was 'finished' (mixed/mastered) in a very real and high-end recording/mastering studio and god only knows what they ended up really doing to it. I'm not hating on any of this. Thousands of great records have been in people's houses and apartments since the dawn of recording. Most of the Blue Note jazz catalog was recorded in a house - Rudy Van Gelder's So also what Gab says. Unless your songwriting is at the level of a Stevie Wonder or Paul McCartney, you're gonna need more than a POD and a Squier Affinity into Garageband via a Scarlett Solo. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Apr 15 2021, 05:26 PM
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To keep in mind cheap guitars come with horrid setup most often, and likely fixing them all if given to a luthier may be as expensive as the guitar itself
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