Originally Posted by: TmeisterHi guys!

Well, first let me tell you that i'm a very very newbie i bought my electric guitar a couple months ago and this is my first post here.

I would like to know how to get this kind of tone ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YIWOSBX_U&t=23 ) I know it all depends on what gear you have.

My amp is for beginners ( http://www.music-world-ipswich.co.uk/products/guitar-amps/cruzer-by-crafter-cr10g-guitar-amp/ ) also i use AmpKit (http://agilepartners.com/apps/ampkit/) which have a lot of options, amps and pedals to play with.

So, any help or tips are welcome.

Regards from México.

Tone can be just as much about attack (ie - how you play the instrument) than what you are playing through.

That said, for rock/metal; when I play an amp for the first time, I zero everything out and chunk (palm mute) an open low E. I will usually dial up the Bass further than where it ends up. Next, while still chunking the low E, I dial up the Treble. Then same for the Mid. I tweak from there.

Why this order?

It just seems to grow the tone. Mid is rarely the 'highest' setting for me. As a matter of fact, too much of an actual Mid setting tends to flatten out the tone, I think. By setting the Bass and Treble first, you are somewhat building a natural Mid tone. So, the Mid tone setting is really just filling out the body of the overall tone.

Why am I and others answering with settings and not equipment? Equipment is great and all but any good guitarist learns how to make what they have work.

I did a shredder competition back in, like, 89. Everyone had to use this same infernal Ampeg amp (solid state). Not the ideal 'tone machine'. Before playing, we all had a chance to practice and work up a set up in a 'backstage' combo version. When I did my twiddling, I had a semi-room full of players come in to ask me how I go my tone on it. I had an advantage, the sponsoring store had this amp in its trial room so I'd played through it many times.

Still, most players went with my settings. Matter of fact, when I walked out to play, I just plugged in and went to it. I didn't bother to change a knob. Probably it was already at my setting. Nonetheless, I had a number of people mention how good my tone was.

There was a video of the event and when I watched some of it at that sponsoring store later, the staff mentioned the tone too and asked my what I did. I said >> "I plugged in".

So, story time over but it makes a point; don't go hunting for equipment to get your tone. Try to make your hands and whatever amp try to sound as awesome as possible. Chris and I share a moment of having a craptastic amp set up (we had a similar set up) that sounded awesome.

Once you get down how you play and get your hands to make good tone and learn how to squeeze everything out of what you have now, then all the great equipment in the world will only add to it.

Check out this article about great songs/artists with small amps.