Guitar and music people can you guys try eli5 tone or just really how to get a Deftones tone because I’ve been learning my own summer I dont really get what I’m doing wrong(?) Nor do I understand like what I’m doing right either because I’ve just been hearing people like literally use gibberish to explain knobs and stuff I just need a straightforward like answer answer and not a historic depiction of what I should be doing with the knobs and my amp and etc.
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…. You generally need certain gear to ‘nail’ certain sounds.
Have a look what gear the deftones guitar player uses on UberProAudio.
Check what tuning the song is in, as well.
You can scoop the mids on your current amp, and turn the treble and bass up to 6 or 7.
Then turn the distortion up to about 8.
If you want to have an specific guitar tone then it helps to know what is the rig the guitarist of that band had. What distortion he used, did he use some reverb, delay, chorus maybe, etc. Also the amplifier or the cabinet helps to it. Anyways maybe you don’t have the money to buy the specific stuff he had but you can make an idea just looking what effects he used and try to find pedals with similar sonic characteristics.
Guitar tone is basically the sum of the guitar itself, pedals and the amplifier or cabinet.
Guitar tone is _complex_.
To give you a quick ELI5, you could say reproducing a guitar tone is the same principle as trying to reproduce a food recipe from scratch. The closest you want to get to the original flavor/texture, the more energy and trial-and-error you’ll need.
To illustrate, people can go to extreme lengths to get the same guitar tone as one heard on records.
For instance, [that guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJmAj6KoeyY) to reproduce the sound of the Beatles’ *Let It Be* guitar solo had to deal with:
– Guitar model (Epiphone Casino), including knob settings;
– Amplifier model (Fender Twin Reverb), including settings (bass, treble, reverb, …);
– Fuzz pedal;
– Microphone (Neumann U67), including position relative to the amplifier;
– Pre-amplification settings;
– Equalization curve.
But to get back to the original food analogy, you don’t have to try to copy the Big Mac — you can instead come up with a burger that’s closer to what you like, and if it means a different brand of pickles, so what.
If you want to mimic guitar tones the easiest/cheapest way is to plug your guitar into your computer and use a tone modeller (some free ones out there). Downside is that your tied to a computer and have to buy an audio interface.
If you want to do this through an amp you could get a tone modelling pedal, but these can be expensive. One I use is the amplitude tonex.
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