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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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.
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