Sweetwater Sound: How to Achieve a Classic Blues Guitar Tone

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Blues players strive for years to achieve a signature tone. Sweetwater Web Programmer Tom Castonzo reveals one approach using a Strat and two distortion pedals.

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[Tbonetardis]

Great gear can be the icing on the cake, but real tone comes from your taste, phrasing and finger-placement. You don't need expensive or custom kit to get this, just a lot of listening and practice!

[Vermillion2176]

The guy is a video sales guy for Sweetwater Sound. What do you expect him to do show up with an old Kay flattop missing two strings and play a three string blues lick , while tappin his foot on a cardboard box.

This is his job. You might learn something watching it, and if not that handy little mouse thingie hanging out of your computer can easily direct you somewhere else.

Ron

[o0SpeedKeed0o]

This was just a commercial...lol not what I expected..

[seancloonan22]

....Woody



[jude924]

Tre-mow low????

[tight384]

the boss tuner cause it brings out a really woody tone

[Danthehorse]

@slpplexi1969 Yep, tone is in the gear, technique and phrasing in the fingers.

[Wizmar]

@Tbonetardis Obviously they're trying to sell you on the idea you need pro rig to get a respectable sound.

[Tbonetardis]

@slpplexi1969 - I know most of a player's 'tone' comes from the fingers and I've learnt this through experience. It's taken me a great many years to understand the difference between sound and tone. Of course good gear can help create a certain sound, but no 2 guitarists can create exactly the same 'tone' even playing through identical gear.... :o)

[TimBirkenholz]

@slpplexi1969 i know, but he's using both the middle and bridge pickup. You can roll down the tone knob. And at the end he's using the neck pick up. You can roll down the tone knob

[slpplexi1969]

@TimBirkenholz Strats bridge pickups don't have a tone knob. Only the neck and middle.