Re: do you consider your amp speaker an 'instrument' ??

Keith Adams wrote:
Thats because you only play at home Jim. If you were to take your rig elsewhere you'd say" wheres my sound?". It would leave you baffled and at first can be really a mind f--k and a disappointment. A person has their own built in sound that remains the same no matter where you play. Your equipments sound changes everytime you move it. Speakers are important and a good speaker will always be able to reproduce whats going into and out of your amp but that speaker will never sound exactly the same from one place to another. Dialing in your tone is absolute BS unless you plan on parking it and your ass in one spot everytime you play.

Disregarding the fact that you apparently don't understand how to respond to a message to create thread, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

A) The fact that the speaker is a HUGE part of the tone is a CONSTANT, regardless of moving it from venue to venue. The sound at the speaker is the same, but the room obviously also has a huge impact. But the ROOM was not the subject. The subject was SPEAKERS, and whether they were a part of "the instrument."

Nothing that I said is discredited by the SECOND variable of venue, which you decided to toss in in a lame attempt to attack my message.

B) I have, in fact, played my "rig" in different places. I have never disputed the fact that things change in different locations. In fact, things change with volume levels. Things change when there's another guitar or two in the mix. Things change with a loud drummer. THINGS CHANGE.

None of that changes anything in my original message, that the speaker is a VERY IMPORTANT part of a player's "tone."

By the way... When I do play my rig in other environments, it is NEVER a disappointment. I know how to tweak tones a bit to compensate. I always have other guitarists drooling over my gear.
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