Re: Which "sound" is "that" then?
Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 19:28
Fair point, Dave. Colin's sound did improve in 2006, but, to my ears, it improved immeasurably just a year later. I'm not saying that just to be pedantic, I genuinely believe it to be true. Phil and I heard the Rapiers' sound check in 2007, and we were both knocked out by the improvement.
It depends what you consider to be a good sound and a brilliant sound. I bet you anything that most here would say "great sound!" if they heard a good player using a MagicStomp, ESE or Q20 through an AC15. Then switch the echo to a Meazzi, and, if the listeners know what they're hearing, the superlatives will change to "incredible!" and "awesome!".
Let's go back to Happy Birthday. The EF86 valve is important in no small way to that sound, in fact it's vital, but the aspect that causes me to describe it as absolutely stunning is the Meazzi tone that I hear. I think that in the past I've described the Meazzi as the icing on the cake. The cake is nice by itself, but if you have the icing, that's all you can focus on.
J
It depends what you consider to be a good sound and a brilliant sound. I bet you anything that most here would say "great sound!" if they heard a good player using a MagicStomp, ESE or Q20 through an AC15. Then switch the echo to a Meazzi, and, if the listeners know what they're hearing, the superlatives will change to "incredible!" and "awesome!".
Let's go back to Happy Birthday. The EF86 valve is important in no small way to that sound, in fact it's vital, but the aspect that causes me to describe it as absolutely stunning is the Meazzi tone that I hear. I think that in the past I've described the Meazzi as the icing on the cake. The cake is nice by itself, but if you have the icing, that's all you can focus on.
J