Rant I posted on the HCFX forum, regarding textural guitar

[metalmariachi]

Because we can?

So far nobody has said that something or other is bad, just that they don’t care for it.
And we have nicely stated what we like.
That being said , I have enough fuzz pedals to blow up a Pinto without going past 3.

MM

[CBGB]

I pretty much agree with Roseweave... I live a few minutes walk away from Guitar Center and, well, apparently there's only three schools of guitar playing: shred, SRV, and (if you're lucky) George Benson. You'd think there should be five million other ways to play, but no - guitar is the shittest most conservative instrument of all time.

That said, I've seen enough "experimental" noisicians to know how dull that can be too...

[htsamurai]

Because we can?

So far nobody has said that something or other is bad, just that they don’t care for it.
And we have nicely stated what we like.
That being said , I have enough fuzz pedals to blow up a Pinto without going past 3.

MM

MM you wanna fight? ill take you man, ill take you

[Nychthemeron]

i like fuzzy textures

agreed.

also huge delays + modulation =

[smile_man]

That said, I've seen enough "experimental" noisicians to know how dull that can be too...

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[deadbeatriot]

i was in gc playing around with some of the fuzzes they had over there, and some douchey kid walked past and whispered loudly, 'man that guy is fucking terrible.' so i turned around and confronted him about it.

he then botched a stevie ray vaughn tune while half the store snickered unkindly.


i don't care what your tastes are, so long as you don't try to shove them down my throat.

[smile_man]

[WaveForm3]

I'm not so sure I agree with you on this one, MM. I don't look at effects as icing. Effects ARE the cake for me. The melody is the icing. Effects have become the main inspiration for me. I write my parts around the effect I'm using (or synth patch, whichever you want). The only acoustic instrument I find myself able to really write on, focusing only on the melody is actually piano, even though I'm awful at playing the piano.

This.
+1111111111111

[modernage]

I definitely agree with the OP. I love Dragonforce as much as the next guy, but just because you can wank off all over your guitar doesn't make you a good musician. Scales don't automatically equal music. In fact I'm sure many of you would agree that atonality can be musical.

I'm also a tired of watching gear demos on youtube and hearing the same SRV lick over and over. You could be trying to find some clips about some new brootalz fuzz pedal, and end up with front row seats at some shredfest. I rarely find demos where the piece of gear is used in a way similar to my styles and tastes.




Also, I'd love to own a Dumble one day... I'd probably run a Geiger Counter through it and unintentionally destroy a piece of gear history though. oops.

[Blurillaz]

Wait.. You love Dragonforce?

[smile_man]

I love Dragonforce.

Fixed! No one loves Dragonforce.

[less_cunning]

make a choice: good karma ILF or bad karma HCFX.

the choice is YOURS.

[smile_man]

I was kidding. I dont like DF though.

[less_cunning]

I'm also a tired of watching gear demos on youtube and hearing the same SRV lick over and over. You could be trying to find some clips about some new brootalz fuzz pedal, and end up with front row seats at some shredfest. I rarely find demos where the piece of gear is used in a way similar to my styles and tastes.

i agree so much w/ that sentiment. i basically rely on Youtube demos to help expose & inform me about certain pedals. i've never gone to Guitar Center to demo a pedal: Youtube demos, Googling and word-of-mouth are what i rely on. the best guitar demos to me show what teh pedal actually does as opposed to what teh person demoing it can actually do with it.

if leads & shredding are a pedal's strong suits then fine. but whole notes, barre chording and & playing simple songs display more what a pedal can do IMO. if the pedal oscillates and motorboats or does other cool shit then yeah i want to see that too. but if for kicks i want to see some wankage i can drive 12 miles to guitar center and watch some washed up Jeff Beck has-been or some johnny lang looking motherfucker jack-off or whatever i can do that.

i think user demos are almost alwayz better than manufacturer & guitar shop demos though.