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As far as describing sound using regular old english words, Ryszard, I say go for it. Guitarists will know what you mean, and I don't think you can get it across any other way. I hate to disagree with Mac, but when someone tells me they want a "warm" guitar sound, I know pretty much exactly what they mean - sure, they might need to clarify a bit, but I know how to get in the ballpark. If you've been playing guitar for 40 years, you probably know too



Ah, but you SUPPORT what I said most definitely.

That last sentence says it all. You are able to interpret "warm" into the technical parts of the thing that you KNOW will translate to that, and it is due to those 40 years of experience.

Still, different guitarists will have something different to say (and do, equipment and signal-chain wise) when confronted with the "warm" request. Me, first thing is to get on the neck pickup. I have a good friend who can play "warm" on the bridge pickup, though, and that's due mostly to his abilities, which started at fast chickin' pickin' and branched out from there. I once joked to Stu that every guitar looked like a Telecaster to him. He retorted that every Tele looked like a Jazzbox to me. If you know what I mean and I think Josh do.

I turn 58 this September, darn, let's count 'em up, lessee, I was about 12 when I seriously started workin' out on the gutstring, by the end of that year I had my first electric plank. 'Twas a Sears & Roebuck Danelectro with the amp-in-the-case...


--Mac

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