LOVE That 80's Guitar Tone...

[LightWingStudios]

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[toomanycats]

Wow, that sort of sent me down a rabbit hole. I found myself watching this R.J. Ronquillo video about 80s clean, over processed guitar tone. Very interesting and informative.

Watching these videos made me realize that while on the one hand I absolutely hated the application of that sound on things like Richard Marx and Michael Bolton, I loved it on a lot of other stuff. For example, I love the clean, processed tones on Steve Perry's Street Talk (Michael Landau), Robert Plant's Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments (Robbie Blunt), Journey's Frontiers and Raised on the Radio (Schon), Bryan Ferry's Bête Noire (Neil Hubbard). I also hear that sound all over 80s records by Tear for Fears, Mr Mister, The Fixx, and Prince. It was to 80s radio rock what fuzz tone was to the late 60s rock.

[LightWingStudios]

Wow, that sort of sent me down a rabbit hole. I found myself watching this R.J. Ronquillo video about 80s clean, over processed guitar tone. Very interesting and informative.

Watching these videos made me realize that while on the one hand I absolutely hated the application of that sound on things like Richard Marx and Michael Bolton, I loved it on a lot of other stuff. For example, I love the clean, processed tones on Steve Perry's Street Talk (Michael Landau), Robert Plant's Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments (Robbie Blunt), Journey's Frontiers and Raised on the Radio (Schon), Bryan Ferry's Bête Noire (Neil Hubbard). I also hear that sound all over 80s records by Tear for Fears, Mr Mister, The Fixx, and Prince. It was to 80s radio rock was fuzz tone was to the late 60s.

VERY CLOSE...but...NO BANANA! You can get REALLY close with Amplitude 4 and the Fulltone Collection but you still won't have a Wet-Dry-Wet signal chain. That said, Amplitude 5 is due in a few weeks and THAT will give you the signal chain you're seeking. He misses the point of why these guys built these racks...so they could get the SAME TONE when they went out LIVE and on the road. For MODERN LIVE situations, you'll be able to get that HUGE TONE running off a laptop with the Standalone version outputted to an interface which then goes to the House PA AND your Monitors. NO AMPS NEEDED!!!! Farking Awesome!

[toomanycats]

Wow, that sort of sent me down a rabbit hole. I found myself watching this R.J. Ronquillo video about 80s clean, over processed guitar tone. Very interesting and informative.

Watching these videos made me realize that while on the one hand I absolutely hated the application of that sound on things like Richard Marx and Michael Bolton, I loved it on a lot of other stuff. For example, I love the clean, processed tones on Steve Perry's Street Talk (Michael Landau), Robert Plant's Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments (Robbie Blunt), Journey's Frontiers and Raised on the Radio (Schon), Bryan Ferry's Bête Noire (Neil Hubbard). I also hear that sound all over 80s records by Tear for Fears, Mr Mister, The Fixx, and Prince. It was to 80s radio rock was fuzz tone was to the late 60s.

He misses the point of why these guys built these racks...so they could get the SAME TONE when they went out LIVE and on the road.

A little further into the video he makes this exact point.

But I wholeheartedly agree with the point you're making with this thread, which is that we're living in a time in which for pennies on the dollar guitarists can produce tones that would have cost major bucks in decades past. Still trying to figure out why with such powerful creative tools at our disposal the music today comparatively sucks.

[LightWingStudios]

>A little further into the video he makes this exact point. But I wholeheartedly agree with the point you're making with this thread, which is that we're living in a time in which for pennies on the dollar guitarists can produce tones that would have cost major bucks in decades past. Still trying to figure out why with such powerful creative tools at our disposal the music today comparatively sucks. <<

1) The SONGWRITING sucks. Using PRE-RECORDED Loops and Samples is not SONGWRITING.
2) The SKILLS of the "musicians" suck. Stealing/Using Loops and Samples are not SKILLS. It's lazy ass and theft.
3) Times change and not necessarily to OUR taste. (We're getting old)
4) The ONLY way to make money up until Dec. 2019 was TOURING. Apple and their evil offspring saw to that.
5) COVID-19 KILLED #4.

Just my own observations so take it with a swig of arsenic.

[eicca]

Steve Lukather has used some wicked iterations of that tone throughout the years. The stuff he's doing currently with his Bogner heads and custom tone shaping pedal is really something special.

The Fixx also came to mind while watching those videos. Jamie West-Oram really has some special sauce in the way he approaches his playing and the tone ties it all together.