• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: a question for specialists + CONCERT LOVERS

You know I love your tips and answers.
SITUATION 1 =
- A very POWERFUL AMP strong and loud enough to play for 10.000 people.
- Of course EFFECT processors, "let your guitar scream baby"
- TURN VOLUME HIGH

Are we able to hear in THIS CONDITION the difference between a FENDER MIM versus a MIA?
Same for GIBSON versus EPIPHONE (like SLASH, ZAKK WYLDE GIBSONS vs EPIPHONES)

What will be the answer. I know BOOT that this is an unusual situation, because 99% plays at home, or remain in a rehearsal state, OR a gig in bars, in front of a few hundreds of people.

SITUATION 2 =
- AMP + GUITAR, even loud NO EFFECTS, a clean sound.

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  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: a question for specialists + CONCERT LOVERS

When a guitar is distorted the 'bad' parts of the string vibration/pickups make for bad distortion. A good guitar distorted will make nice sounding harmonics with a valve amp. Of course a punk band might want a nasty ear-splitting sound.

However I reckon there's alot of patriotic huff and puff expressed on MIM versus MIA. Truth is there are good and bad in both. If you have the time and the ear you can save $$$ by looking through the racks of MIM (Squiers even!) to find a superior instrument. Likewise you could buy MIA online only to get the Friday afternoon guitar.

Moral: choose at the store on what you can feel and hear.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: a question for specialists + CONCERT LOVERS

I'm reminded of a Gibson collector in last month's G&B magazine who has dozens of Les Pauls. He bought two models from a recent range (so quality control factor is strong and ageing/abuse factor low) yet they sounded so different he christened them 'creamer' and 'screamer'.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'