you peeps should have heard my old guitar teacher. he could pick up any guitar. no matter how shit. give him the shittest amp and if it worked and had overdrive, he could pull of crazy artificial harmonics. i need alot of gain to be able to do those with any kind of consistancy and i didnt believe it was possible on my old ?70 electric. until i was shown otherwise 8O
its amazing how far you can go if you just practice and forget all that technical stuff. you are right though jasedee when you say theres a difference. give that dude a real fender, with a nice triple rectified mesa boogie valve amp and he would totally rip. but to be honest i had more respect for the fact he was just plain good enough to flatter any guitar. imagine that! the instrument isnt flattering you anymore! you are flattering some of the instruments you play!
now thats a nice position to be in. currently alot of the people i see on production forums that blame reason's renderer for their own shit tracks - well...i dont think they have taken reason even half the distance you are capable of going with it. in many cases...especially with amateur producers like myself the limiting factor is not the software or the hardware you use. its the person using it. and even if you come to a situation where improving your hardware will make a noticeable difference to the sound you are making (i.e. for me virus was no 2 ways about it, a marked step up from vanguard) i find there are many other areas of production in which i am deficit in anyway and could do with improving.
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