The secret to tone?

I was messing around tonight and found a little tone secret! It's not the expensive for what it does Soldano amp, not the Fulltone '69 Pedal with hand selected germanium transistors, not the Lava and George L cables. It's not even the old Carvin guitar with a Badass bridge that's guaranteed to leave scars on the side of your palm!

Nope, it's the crappy bypass in the old $39 Vox V847 wah that sucks all the extra high end that the maple guitar and high gain amp make. It removes the "fizz" in a way that I have yet to accomplish using the guitar or amp's controls! I discovered this by mistake tonight. I just wanted to make some noise.

Actually, the guitar's not all that bright. The amp's more hair metal than blues, though.

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just to clarify, are you happy or distraught?

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Originally Posted by DanTheBluesMan

just to clarify, are you happy or distraught?

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Happy that it sounded great, distraught that it took putting a wah inline to get there.

I was just noting that the crappy bypass in these old pedals was part of some great player's sound and that was verified for me.

Maybe it's just a bad connection on those George L's :roflmao

Actually, I used them a lot and never had a problem. But many, many people who never used them will tell you how much they suck.

I use them. They suck pretty well for me.

George L's sucked until I learned to assemble them correctly. There's a learning curve for most of us. Some people don't make it through that. I haven't had a problem with them in years.

I've also used GeorgeL's for years, & they have failed on me before at gigs. The significant difference is that I was back up & running before a soldering iron would have been warm enough to fix a conventional cord, lol
& to be perfectly honest I haven't had them fail as many times as a regular cord has

Dad came from the military avionics engineering ilk. He instilled in me a innate mistrust of anything "crimped". It took me years before I would even try them.

By the by: The original post was perfect in it's sarcasm and wit! It brought a tear to my eye!