Hollowway
Extended Ranger
I’ve been reading a lot about bass tones, because I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the sound I like. In guitar, especially ERGs, I like “tight” distortion, which is usually Latin for cutting out boomy bass tones. But in bass, they don’t really cut the lower frequencies, since that’s kind of where the bass is supposed to be. Instead, lots of guys who use distortion only distort the higher frequencies.
So I started reading about doing that for guitar, and I kept coming across stuff from 10+ years ago - especially the Quadrafuzz that Craig Anderton designed. Apparently that had some cool benefits, like getting rid of “intermodulation with the higher strings” when playing a power chord.
But it doesn’t sound like anyone is using it for guitar. Why? Cuz they’re midrange instruments and we don’t really want to keep all the low stuff anyway?
So I started reading about doing that for guitar, and I kept coming across stuff from 10+ years ago - especially the Quadrafuzz that Craig Anderton designed. Apparently that had some cool benefits, like getting rid of “intermodulation with the higher strings” when playing a power chord.
But it doesn’t sound like anyone is using it for guitar. Why? Cuz they’re midrange instruments and we don’t really want to keep all the low stuff anyway?