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We all start off as guitarists. On our journey we often learn new roles in addition to guitarist. Maybe you learn songwriting, or producing, or engineering, or live tech, or whatever. I think in the end though, every new role I've learned in music has made the others better.
My tone when I first started out was your typical bedroom rockstar. Tons of bass & highs and no mids, but that's what you need to hear when you're all by yourself. Then I joined a band and had to learn to make my tone fit in with other musicians so I could be heard and contribute sonically.
Then I started to dabble in recording and I had to learn where the guitar should sit in a mix and what it's sonic role is. The deeper I get into studio recording the more I realize how it's all just a sonic jigsaw puzzle.
You can do so much by adding textures or frequencies using specific instruments, amp settings, octaves, whatever it takes. If you were to listen to those tracks individually you'd think I had my head in a trash can when I recorded. They just sound like shit! But, just like this example, when it's all put together it's just where it used to be.
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