Getting The Ultimate Guitar Sound – Part 2 – Audio Premium

In this week’s Audio Premium content, Bobby Owsinski continues his series on getting the ultimate guitar sound. Bobby has spent a lifetime achieving just that, and the series is based on his new book, The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook.

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Getting a great guitar sound is a an almost endless journey for most guitar players, engineers and producers that requires time and too much money, to achieve a sound that may be only temporary. This series is based around my new book, The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook, where I’ll outline why acoustic and electric guitars, amplifiers, speaker cabinets and effects sound the way they do, and the best way to record and mix them after you’ve gotten the sound.

In Part 2 of the series, we’ll look at the wide variety of elements that gives an guitar amp its sound.

Many musicians, engineers, producers are hip to different types, brands and models of guitar amplifiers, but few know the differences between them, and it’s those differences that often give the amp its unique sound. The special characters of an amp and speaker cabinet have everything to do with how a guitar blends into the mix, which is why the more you know about the gear you’re using, the easier it is to get just the right sound when you need it.

So what affects the tone quality of an amp? Let’s look at all the variables.